Entries by Robin Plomp

RES Software Partner Focus 2012 recap

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16th February I’ve attended the RES Software Partner Focus event at the Verkade Fabriek in Oeteldonk (Den Bosch). Attending this sort of events always feels like a reunion. You meet past and present colleagues and business partners. The event was opened by channel manager Wilfred Noordman. He introduced the new channel team and thanked the […]

Restoring the Default Domain Policy

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It’s a best practice not to alter the Default Domain Policy. The default settings in this policy are intended for all users and computers within the domain. By altering this the environment becomes unstable and unpredictable. Recently I was troubleshooting a new environment.  There where all sorts of strange policy behavior. While I was browsing […]

How to install Google Chrome on a Terminal Server?

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A customer is migrating his mail environment form Lotus Notes to Google Apps. Google Apps is a paid version of GMail. The people from Google, that are advising us during this transition, advised us to use Google Chrome. We will use Google Chrome only for Google Apps, as it is not compatible with other web […]

2011 Dakar PreProloog with PepperDakarBike

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Today (6-11-2011) was the “PreProloog” for the Dakar Rally at EuroCircuit in Valkenswaard. Hans-Jos Liefhebber rides again on the PepperDakarBike. He did a great job during the heats, remaining his number 1 position. At 13:00 the motor finals are launched. Hans-Jos wins the race with a time of: 2:37:309. I had a great time at […]

Automated Backup from SQL 2005 Express server

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On a customers site we moved an application database from the central SQL server to the same server that also hosts this application back-end. The application vendor suggested this step due to performance issues we are experiencing during the data import process. The customer did not have enough SQL licenses to support a second full […]

On which TS server (Windows 2003) does the user have a session?

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On a customer site with Windows 2003 R2 servers with terminal services and no extra  administration tooling we have the the following problem. When the helpdesk wants to find out on which TS server a user session is located he/she can find this out by opening the tsadmin.exe tool and lookup the username. When you […]

Why is it so hard to find unread messages in Outlook 2010?

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In many past versions of Microsoft Outlook there was a simple list of message views available and one of the choices was ‘Unread Messages’. It’s a popular option because many people use the Read/Unread status to mark messages that need action (eg reply, forwarding etc). Robin PlompWas once an enthusiastic PepperByte employee but is now […]

Moving the ISTG role to another domain controller

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On a customer site we have multiple Windows 2003 domain controllers in an single AD site. One of the domain controllers has connection problems this causes authentication problems because the troubled server has the Inter-Site Topology Generator (ISTG) role. The server with the ISTG role is responsible for managing the inbound replication connection objects for […]

Changing the date on a XenServer

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I’ve installed Citrix XenServer 5.6 FP1 on a old server for testing. After booting the server after some down time I’ve received a message in the console that the system time and date have been chanced. To troubleshoot this issue I’ve logged on in the Local Command Shell. I’ve entered the commando ‘date’, the response […]

Update on Linkedin Outlook Connector

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Robin blogged about the Linkedin Outlook Connector (https://peppercrew.nl/?p=1514) Now the 64Bits connector is available at http://bit.ly/gF2jEj Robin PlompWas once an enthusiastic PepperByte employee but is now working at Ivanti. His blogs are still valuable to us and we hope to you too.