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  • What's the next topic

    Perhaps you dear readers want to know more about a specific thing? Take the poll .. and I will see what I can do 🙂

  • Group Policy Preferences & Drive Mappings

    When using GPP’s to map drives, some of you will notice that some drives are not correctly mapped on the clients. Some users will receive other network mappings (they “sort of” never heard of before) and some network connections are there, but will not be re-attached (device name is already in use).

  • "Windows Installer does not permit installation from a Remote Desktop Connection"

    When you try to install an MSI through an RDP connection you could get the “Windows Installer does not permit installation from a Remote Desktop Connection” dialog. Everyone seems to think that the \tsclient<drive> is a regular network share.. but it is not!.. it’s a software feature of Terminal Services service. However, if you find…

  • Poor man's iSCSI

    If you want to implement iSCSI it’s best to keep the normal network traffic and the iSCSI traffic apart from each other. And that usually means buying a 2nd switch capable of reaching high speeds and jumbo frames. Off course for production systems I recommend spending a few bucks.. however if you only want iSCSI…

  • How to hack Vista without bitlocker

    While browsing I stumbled upon a nice video explaining the trick the get a command prompt during the loginscreen of a user.. and that command prompt is in the system security context. They say physical access is full access and without bitlocker they are right.. take a look at the short video below.. http://www.offensive-security.com/movies/vistahack/vistahack.html

  • Did you install Exchange?

    Lots of us install Exchange (what ever version) in our infrastructure.. do you know what Exchange does to your Active Directory.. make a statement order the shirt 😉 Link

  • Windows 2008R2 features part V: DHCP Split-scope

    DHCP is the mechanism that gives most client these days the tools (ip address) for connectivity. Most companies however do not realize the importance of the DHCP service and do not cluster nor have another server as standby when the DHCP server fails. If the DHCP server fails, most clients will not receive a new…

  • Visio Stencils

    <update> The links are now actually working.. you can download them again </update> My previous studiographic.nl website was not too great.. so I moved everything over to the blog.. if you are looking for the Visio Stencils for Virtualization.. check Visio Stencils….. _R

  • Safari 4.0 beta is out

    I am one of the few people using Safari next to IE(7/8) as their standard browser during day to day internet surfing. Many try to get me into Firefox with all the new applets and plugins like password and URL sync between hosts.. but nothing beats the new Safari 4.0 is my humble opinon… finally…

  • Tunnel DMZ to Internal

    When you have servers in the DMZ that are members of your internal AD (not best practice ok.. ) .. you find yourself shooting holes in the firewall to allow RPC, SMB and other protocols. In that case perhaps an IPSEC tunnel can help you out.. when you use a tunnel between your internal and…

  • Free training?

    Organizing a free training can give your business new customers, thats probably the idea behind free trainings seminars from Twice IT; you can follow a short course in exchange for some feedback on a blog.. So out of curiosity I attended the 3 hour Powershell course, and here’s my feedback ..

  • RSS feeds

    Many of you use RSS feeds, to subscribe to a feed from this website, hoover over the category you are interested in and select RSS for the feed. If you would like to subscribe to all of the posts I’ve made, use the .All Posts Category.. or use the direct link: feed://blog.studiographic.nl/?feed=rss2 _R