VMware

After playing around with several beta’s of vmware workstation 7, I decided to upgrade from 6.5 to 7.0 the minute it became available. Luckily enough vmware provided all beta testers with a discount code for 25% so that helped a little bit :-)

On my company issued notebook I was already running Microsoft Windows 7 Enterprise and after installing vmware workstation I’ve pinned the program to the taskbar (available shortcut on the desktop), and that’s where the irritation begins :-(

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Microsoft VMware

A collaegue of mine rang me last week in order to solve a problem with user profiles not being cleaned up on virtualized Citrix servers (based on VMware Infrastructure 3.x). My first reaction was that it had nothing to do with VMware, but after some discussion through the phone I proved myself wrong.’This problem was caused by the VMware tools…

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vpc

Last week a colleague of mine struggled with pinning the icon of virtual pc to his taskbar in Windows 7 (RC). The problem is caused by the fact that virtual pc doesn’t have a console anymore as in previous versions. If you click the icon in the start menu it opens the folder containing your virtual machines and therefore if you want to pin the icon to your taskbar it gets pinned under explorer :-( . Luckily enough he solved it in the evening. How?

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vista_logo

April 28th the Microsoft Windows Vista team announced the Release to Manufacturing of Service Pack 2 for Windows Vista & Windows Server 2008 on their blog. If you want to know what has been changed, check out the notable changes document on TechNet.

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office 2007

 

In older versions of Microsoft Office you could update the installation files of Microsoft Office by patching these files. As of version 2007 this has changed a bit, but it’s still quite simple to do.

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