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If you use Windows Search Server 2008 or MOSS 2007 as an enterpise search solution than you can easily use this search engine via Vista search or Windows desktop search. To integrate your enterprise search in Vista configure the policy Instant Search policy setting via local policy (gpedit.msc) or Active Directory GPO.     Or [...]

Having trouble uninstalling an application via control panel? In that case you can try the “Windows installer cleanup utility”.

You can download hotfixes from the Microsoft hotfix self-service site if you know the related KB number. Use following URL format: http://support.microsoft.com/hotfix/KBHotfix.aspx?kbnum=KBNumber&kbln=KBLanguage Example: http://support.microsoft.com/hotfix/KBHotfix.aspx?kbnum=958011&kbln=en-us

Windows Powershell delivers a shell environment where you can use a bunch of different objects (WMI, COM, .NET framework) and their methods and properties from a command prompt. The shell provides strong output formatting and redirection. Finally you won’t have to switch to Perl anymore to make use of stuff like regular expressions. As a [...]

OK, I finally uploaded the IT Forum 2006 pictures to the Gallery section… It’s about time, I know. Yet again, our yearly trip to the top event for Microsoft infrastructure professionals was a success. Lots of interesting new products and technologies are coming our way (recently released or in beta): Windows Vista Longhorn Server Sharepoint [...]

During my beta tests with Windows Vista I discovered this nice freeware CD/DVD drive emulator tool. Daemontools didn’t do the trick anymore under Vista, so I had to look for an alternative. Virtual Clonedrive is a product of SlySoft. Just mount your ISO’s and access them from a virtual drive.   Features Supports all common [...]

The problem that I described in a previous post (http://www.petroons.net/blog/?p=84) no longer occurs with the final release of IE7.

You might experience some problems offering remote assistance on Windows XP when you installed IE7 (RC). Starting remote assistance results in errors:“Remote Assistance Failed. Please try again”.“A program has stopped responding. Please restart the program and try again”. After browsing some support forums I came across following workaround: Create a shortcut with following URL: hcp://cn=microsoft corporation,l=redmond,s=washington,c=us/Remote [...]

This is a little problem I was coping with during the weekend. I created a nice Excel with an overview of digital photos and a hyperlink to these photos. When you click the hyperlink, Internet Explorer opens to show the JPEG. Each time a hyperlink is clicked a new IE instance was started. This was [...]

Përforming a ‘net use’ to a standalone computer or a computer outside your domain will cause a prompt for credentials. You’ll need to provide these credentials for each reconnect. It is possible to invoke the ‘stored user names and passwords’ feature (Windows XP) even from the command promt. For the net use command to save [...]