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SloWUG–2011.03–Freeware tools for administration
March 10, 2011
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Yesterday I was presenting at SloWUG. Attached to this post is my presentation. In it you can hopefully find some useful resources that will help you do the things you do a little faster.
Brezplacna orodja in administracija.pptx
Update1: I have no idea how I overlooked this yesterday:
Microsoft Security Compliance Manager
Microsoft Security Compliance Manager v2
Categories: Microsoft, Presentations, SloWUG
Getting Started: Office 2010
March 3, 2011
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Articles, interactive guides and guidance to help you be more productive with Office 2010 more quickly.
Definitely worth checking out – even for me:
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SloWUG 2010.02 – Kako povečati varnost omrežja s Forefront TMG
March 3, 2011
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My last presentation on SloWUG in February 2011.
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Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 with SP1 on Windows 7
December 11, 2009
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If you are MCT like me than chances are you already had problems running LAB Launcher on one of your MOC’s. This particular problem appeared with MS Virtual Server 2005 and MS Windows 7. Officially this is not supported configuration but for me this is the only acceptable configuration.
You would ask why… Well, I work at training center and part of my work is to present MOC courses – the other part is administration and engineering of MS technologies. As system engineer I always try to implement new technologies into production. Usually that means my coworkers I are first test dummies. The same goes for all new technologies – not just MS stuff but also network, hardware…
Can you imagine coming on MOC training for Windows 7 and when you enter the classroom there are only Windows XP or Windows Vista systems? What would usually be your first question? Mine would be: Where are all the Windows 7 computers I came to see and work on? And the answer would typically be: “You will be working on Windows 7 systems which are virtualized with MS Virtual Server 2005”. My next logical question would then be: How can you be so self-confident and talk about something if you do not use it by yourself and/or in your environment?
What I’m trying to say is that in our environment I want to have Windows 7 as our main system and when it comes to some particular MOC courses that can be like shooting yourself in your leg and hope for the best. The problem comes with all MOC courses which use Microsoft LAB Launcher. LAB launcher only works with MS Virtual Server 2005 which is not supported on Windows 7. So, do we continue to use pre-Windows 7 systems or we try to find some kind of solution? In my case the answer is: go and find some acceptable solution. So what we need is a workaround for installation and usage of MS Virtual Server 2005 on Windows 7. I’ve tried few different approaches (even some of my own) and the easiest one I was able to find and implement is available in this graphical step-by-step guide.
You can find it at: How to Install Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 with SP1 on Windows 7 (Graphical Step-by-Step)
Can you imagine coming on MOC training for Windows 7 and when you enter the classroom there are only Windows XP or Windows Vista systems? What would usually be your first question? Mine would be: Where are all the Windows 7 computers I came to see and work on? And the answer would typically be: “You will be working on Windows 7 systems which are virtualized with MS Virtual Server 2005”. My next logical question would then be: How can you be so self-confident and talk about something if you do not use it by yourself and/or in your environment?
What I’m trying to say is that in our environment I want to have Windows 7 as our main system and when it comes to some particular MOC courses that can be like shooting yourself in your leg and hope for the best. The problem comes with all MOC courses which use Microsoft LAB Launcher. LAB launcher only works with MS Virtual Server 2005 which is not supported on Windows 7. So, do we continue to use pre-Windows 7 systems or we try to find some kind of solution? In my case the answer is: go and find some acceptable solution. So what we need is a workaround for installation and usage of MS Virtual Server 2005 on Windows 7. I’ve tried few different approaches (even some of my own) and the easiest one I was able to find and implement is available in this graphical step-by-step guide.
You can find it at: How to Install Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 with SP1 on Windows 7 (Graphical Step-by-Step)
Source:
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Coexistence of two Microsoft Office Word versions
July 16, 2009
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Yesterday I received an invitation to Microsoft® Office 2010 Technical Preview Program. 
Really great piece of software so far – it brings us some interesting improvements like ribbon in Outlook and Visio, new Office menu,…
Really great piece of software so far – it brings us some interesting improvements like ribbon in Outlook and Visio, new Office menu,…
At first I was really happy to join this program but after only one day I already encountered few problems. And I solved them all 🙂
The biggest and most irritating was when Outlook didn’t display Reading Pane – it was showing folders and I was able to select them but there was no list of folder content and no Reading Pane. The only working solution was to fully uninstall and then install Office 2010 (tried Reinstall with no success). I have no idea why this has happened – it could be because of some extension for Outlook 2007 or something completely different (I Installed Office 2010 on my system where there was already Office 2007 and I didn’t upgrade or uninstall it – same goes for all extensions for Office apps).
And here we come to the second problem – coexistence of two Microsoft Office Word versions. If you had at any point in past on your system two Word versions you have surly encountered this problem. When you use one of them and then you run the other one you always have to wait for that annoying window to close (something like "Please wait while Word is configuring") – but no more! The solution I’m going to tell you about is pretty simple. Actually I’m going to show you two different solutions with the same effect 🙂 And none of them involves any kind of virtual system.
The first one is really easy: all you have to do is to run the other Word (the one you don’t use often) with /a switch. You can create new shortcut with target value of something like:
"c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office12\WINWORD.EXE" /a
"c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office12\WINWORD.EXE" /a
or you can add /a switch to your existing shortcut in Start menu.
This switch is intended to start Word and prevent add-ins and global templates (including the Normal template) from being loaded automatically. The /a switch also locks the setting files; that is, the setting files cannot be read or modified if you use this switch. You can find more useful switches in KB 210565.
The second solution is for those who like to edit registry. You have to create new DWORD (32-bit) value named NoRereg with value data equal to 1 at:
– HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Word\Options (Word 2007),
– HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Word\Options (Word 2003),
– HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\10.0\Word\Options (Word 2002) or
– HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\9.0\Word\Options (Word 2000).
– HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Word\Options (Word 2007),
– HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Word\Options (Word 2003),
– HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\10.0\Word\Options (Word 2002) or
– HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\9.0\Word\Options (Word 2000).
Second solution is better because it doesn’t limit your daily work in any way. (More info in KB 928091)
Source:
– Word 2007 and Word 2003 Coexisting at Word 2007 Bible Blog
– Tips Tricks Coll Edition at Scribd
– Word 2007 and Word 2003 Coexisting at Word 2007 Bible Blog
– Tips Tricks Coll Edition at Scribd
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Thrive
June 3, 2009
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Today I’ve found one new and interesting RSS feed: Thrive Offers from Microsoft. Last post looks quite promising:
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Going down the IT rabbit hole 