Entries by Robin Plomp

Connecting with LinkedIn connections thru MS Outlook

Social Networks are getting more and more important for doing business. Within Microsoft Outlook you can create a ‘Link’ between your Outlook Contacts and your friends/connections in LinkedIn and/or Facebook. When you open an email in Outlook 2010 you will see the following at the bottom the email: Robin PlompWas once an enthusiastic PepperByte employee […]

Exchange 2010 Mailboxsize List with PowerShell

PowerShell is an very powerful script engine that can help you to manage Microsoft platforms, but also VMware and Citrix Products. Today we are going to use PowerShell to create an list of all the mailboxes in our Exchange 2010 organization. The extra information we want is the number of items in the mailbox and […]

How to run a program elevated in Windows 7

If you want to start an Command Prompt or Notepad elevated in Windows Vista or Windows 7 you have right click the application from the start menu and select ‘Run as administrator’. Although this works fine, there has to be an easier way to do this! Robin PlompWas once an enthusiastic PepperByte employee but is […]

Publishing a website on a Juniper Firewall

Today we are going to publish an internal website to the world wide web thru an Juniper SSG-350M device. 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.

Installing KB 968802 for Microsoft Office Communication Server 2007 R2

Installing updates voor Microsoft Office Communication Server 2007 R2 has been made easy. When downloading KB968802 you are presented with a long list of updates but also with a installer called ServerUpdateInstaller.exe. This installer automatically updates your server, it investigates which updates your installation needs and then installs them. Robin PlompWas once an enthusiastic PepperByte […]

Searching the users SID

There are probably more ways to find this information, but I just found out an easy way with DameWare NT Utility. If you open the registry from an Terminal Server in DameWare NT Utilities and you click on HKey_Users, you get an list of the SID’s of the users that have logged on to this […]

How to customize the Windows 7 Start Menu

This is the new Start Menu under Windows 7. De left side contains the last programs you started or just installed. This side of the Start Menu can be customized to ‘pin’ an application to the Start Menu. Robin PlompWas once an enthusiastic PepperByte employee but is now working at Ivanti. His blogs are still […]

Iets voor de PSU van de PepperCrew?

  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.

Download older versions of the Citrix ICA Client

The current version of the Citrix ICA client (Online Plugin 12.0) no longer supports the Program Neighborhood, as my colleague Jeroen Tielen has wrote in the following article https://peppercrew.nl/?p=563 Some customers are still using implementations that will need the Program Neighborhood client. One customer was using an old version of the ICA client to connect […]

ISCSI Locks on OpenFiler with ESX 4.x

This blog describes the problem and solution for ISCI Locks on OpenFiler with ESX 4.X Symptoms: VM appears to be down. The whole environment responses slow. LS command on /vmfs/volumes takes a long time to complete. When the LS command completes one or more Luns are shaded red. Robin PlompWas once an enthusiastic PepperByte employee […]