SloWUG–2011.03–Freeware tools for administration
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
Email Archiving and Backup for private users
This week quite few Google mail customers lost their online mail archive. About 136.000 users are thought to be affected.
If you want to protect yourself from this kind of trouble you should check: MailStore Home.
It’s free for all private users and can do central archiving of:
– Internet mailboxes such as Gmail or Yahoo Mail
– Any mailboxes using POP3 or IMAP
– Microsoft Outlook 2000, XP, 2003, 2007, 2010
– Microsoft Outlook Express and Windows Mail
– Microsoft Exchange Server and Hosted Exchange
– Mozilla Thunderbird and SeaMonkey
– .EML and other email files
You can even do it on the road with MailStore Home Portable (Beta) 
.
Getting Started: Office 2010
Articles, interactive guides and guidance to help you be more productive with Office 2010 more quickly.
Definitely worth checking out – even for me:
SloWUG 2010.02 – Kako povečati varnost omrežja s Forefront TMG
My last presentation on SloWUG in February 2011.
Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 with SP1 on Windows 7
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)
Coexistence of two Microsoft Office Word versions
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 🙂
"c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office12\WINWORD.EXE" /a
– 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).
– Word 2007 and Word 2003 Coexisting at Word 2007 Bible Blog
– Tips Tricks Coll Edition at Scribd
Gmail Increases Maximum Attachment Size to 25 MB
"With Gmail, you can send and receive messages up to 25 megabytes (MB) in size. Please note that you may not be able to send larger attachments to contacts who use other email services with smaller attachment limits. If your attachment bounces, you should invite them to Gmail," suggests Google.
For some reason, Gmail’s Flash uploader doesn’t allow me to upload files that are larger than 10 MB. The error message is "attachment failed" and Google’s suggestions aren’t very helpful. Switching to the basic uploader in the settings solves the problem, but it’s more tedious to upload multiple files.
Remove Drivers of Non-Present Devices
Often I was having problems with old drivers, which were still present somewhere in the system but not in use for a long time. I was trying to figure out how to remove those drivers and usually I ended up doing it manually with help from my good friend google (now www.bing.com). This used to be long and unrewarding process – not anymore.
Solution I’ve found is also available to you at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315539.
What you have to do is to add new Environment Variable (it can be User or System) devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices with value 1.
Than you can go and open Device Manager. In the View menu select “Show hidden devices”. If you look around your Device Manager you will see some translucent devices – this devices are not present in your system at the moment. By right clicking on any of them and selecting Uninstall you can remove unused drivers for that device.
Thrive
NTK 2009
Last week I was attending NTK (NT konferenca 2009) in Portorož. I was presenting two topics one of which was also a workshop. You can find my presentations on the left side in Public Folder category (Javne mape).
Going down the IT rabbit hole 