ožujak 2009 - Posts

• Windows Server 2008 Virtual Hard Disks

  I just saw this great post at Virtual PC Guy’s WebLog. If you are looking for Windows Server 2008 virtual hard disks for your testing environment, you can download them from Microsoft’s web page. Here is the list of Hyper-V based Windows Server 2008 virtual machines with an evaluation period of 60 days, but if [...] Posted ožu 27 2009, 02:31 by anonymous Filed under: hyper-v, virtualization, windows server 2008, virtual pc, microsoft

• What do you expect from Windows Server 2008 Foundation edition?

  I see many visitors of this blog came here searching for information about Windows Server 2008 Foundation edition. In my post Windows Server Foundation edition, I wrote something about this version. As I said, it is going to be used on low-cost servers, for those companies that don’t need full Windows Server 2008 installation and [...] Posted ožu 25 2009, 06:00 by anonymous Filed under: windows server, windows server 2008, microsoft, foundation edition, opinion, dns

• How to enable Automatic updates in Windows Server 2008 Core?

  In my previous post about Windows Server Core, I wrote how to change the IP address of server running Windows Server Core. In this post I’m going to describe the process of enabling automatic updates in Windows Server 2008 Core. The whole process is quite simple, you have few commands to enable/disable automatic, install an [...] Posted ožu 19 2009, 08:09 by anonymous Filed under: tutorial, windows server 2008, security, core

• Apple sales are going down

  By the records of the company NPD, number of sales of Apple computers dropped in February 2009 by 16% comparing to February 2008. In the same time, number of sold Windows computers increased by 36%. Is it because customers are not “buying” Apple’s story about “so cool” OS, or is it because customers do not [...] Posted ožu 18 2009, 06:00 by anonymous Filed under: microsoft, apple, opinion, windows

• Changing the IP address in Windows Server 2008 Core

  In my previous two posts Windows Server 2008 Core option and Why should anyone use Server Core option? I wrote something about Windows Server 2008 Core. As one of disadvantages I mentioned that there is no GUI, and administration tasks must be done in command prompt. It requires some extra learning, but it is not [...] Posted ožu 16 2009, 03:14 by anonymous Filed under: tutorial, windows server 2008, core

• Using NewSID to change SID

  As part of MCITP Self-paced Training Kit: Windows Server 2008 Server Administrator, which was given to me by Microsoft Croatia for learning for MCITP exams, I got 2 Windows Server 2008 installation disks (one is x86, other is x64). I need them for practice tests, and I will use them as virtual machines in Microsoft [...] Posted ožu 15 2009, 02:16 by anonymous Filed under: virtualization, tutorial, virtual pc, certification, tools

• Virtual Windows XP SP2 won’t start

  I’m using Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 for managing my virtual machines. Few days ago, while I was giving my presentation about Windows Server 2008 security technologies at Student technology day, I forgot to plug in my laptop to power source, and at the end of the presentation my battery went dead. I thought it is [...] Posted ožu 14 2009, 03:52 by anonymous Filed under: virtualization, virtual pc

• Student Technology Day was great!

  Yesterday we had first Croatian Student Technology Day organized by Microsoft Student Partners at my college FESB. We had day filled up with great lectures about tehnology, and the speakers were Tomislav Tipuric from Microsoft Croatia, Microsoft MVPs Ivan Saskor and Vladan Strigo, Marko Matijevic from Cygnus, Ivan Macek, MSP and me. At keynote, Tomislav introduced [...] Posted ožu 11 2009, 02:48 by anonymous Filed under: student partner, mscommunity, events, personal, blog, msp, conference, fesb

• Student Technology Day

  On Tuesday, March 10th, Microsoft Student Partners from my college are organizing first Student Technology Day in Croatia. The purpose of this event is to present newest technologies to students, and show them how they work. This is first Student Technology Day in Croatia ever, and as project manager I hope it is going to [...] Posted ožu 04 2009, 11:31 by anonymous Filed under: student partner, events, msp

• MSP Croatia team building

  This weekend, Microsoft Student Partners from Croatia had team building in Stubicke toplice resort. I was also one of student partners who was there, and I have to say it was the best team building I ever had. I went there with four other student partners from Split, and together with around 30 other MSPs [...] Posted ožu 03 2009, 10:51 by anonymous Filed under: student partner, personal, blog, msp

• Welcome IE, goodbye Firefox

  I’ve been thinking to move from Firefox to Internet Explorer 8 RC1 for the last few months, and today I decided to do IT . I’ve been using IE 8 beta as secondary browser since it was made public, and I think it is great and STABLE browser. I often had problems with Firefox [...] Posted ožu 02 2009, 03:24 by anonymous Filed under: personal, blog, firefox, ie8