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skydrive for iphone logo o Microsoft launch SkyDrive app for iPhone and Window phoneMicrosoft just announced their new iPhone Apps for their Cloud Storage – SkyDrive. Now you have 1 more alternative besides iCloud, Box and Dropbox. SkyDrive apps worked similar with other competitor product which you can access all your files and folders from anywhere at anytime. Besides accessing your documents, music, videos and pictures, can share them easily with other people.

 

The major advantage for SkyDrive compare to other product is the storage size. For those who are familiar with SkyDrive, you should know that Microsoft actually offer 25GB of free storage if compare to Dropbox who offer 2GB, whereas Box is actually offer 5GB of storage.

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Watch the SkyDrive app for iPhone

 

Watch the SkyDrive app for Windows phone

 

Click here to download SkyDrive for iPhone

Click here to download SkyDrive for Window Phone




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One feature of Linux that you may have liked that is you can switch between different virtual desktops. You can do so for Windows by using a free program named ‘Desktops’. Desktops from SysInternals, creates 4 virtual desktops. Plus you can switch between them very easily and fast.

 

The Sysinternals set of utilities and web site was created in 1996 by Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell to host their advanced system utilities and technical information.

Desktops Create multiple virtual desktops in Windows with Sysinternals Desktops

Windows Sysinternals develops some very useful and good applications for windows. Whether you are an IT Pro or a general Windows user, you can use many of Sysinternals utilities. You don’t need to install the application as it is a stand-alone application.

 

With Desktops you can create virtual desktops; it actually creates three additional desktops, to the one you are running. It is very tiny being just a 60 KB download.

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You can make the application auto-start with your Windows. The application doesn’t get minimized to taskbar; it is just minimizes to the Notification Area. You can specify the hotkeys so that you can switch between virtual desktops very easily. If you forget on which desktop you were working, you can see its icon in the system tray. The icon will indicate which desktop you are working on. The interface of the program is very user-friendly. There isn’t much on interface – no menus, no more buttons – except “OK” and “Cancel”, etc.

desktops system tray Create multiple virtual desktops in Windows with Sysinternals Desktops

You can minimize it to system tray after you are done with your settings and clicking on OK. Do remember to check the check-box which says “Run automatically at logon” so that at every logon you don’t need to open the application.

 

You can download it for Windows by visiting SysInternals.

 

 

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Enabled telnet service in Window 7

By on September 21, 2011

By default, window 7, Window Server 2008 R2, Window Vista and Window Server 2008 come with telnet service disabled. They do that is to hardern the operating system as well as to save the resources as most of the common user will never use this service at all.

 

To use this features, you must manually enabled it. Just following the following simple step to enabled it:

  • Start
  • Control Panel
  • Programs And Features
  • Turn Windows features on or off
  • Check Telnet Client
  • Hit OK

After that you can start Telnet via Command Prompt.

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Today, I found out that the default setting for the Visult studio 2008 is not enable the line number, in order for easy debuging purpose, I have to turn it on.

 

To turn on the line number for Visual studio 2008 you need to do 2 things:

To turn on the status bar
tools –> Options –> Environment –> General –> Show Status Bar

 

To turn on the line number for all language
tools –> Options –> Text Editor –> All Language –> Tick the Line Number check box

 

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Recently running some security checking of one of my web site and found out that getting the alert of deprecated SSLv2.0 protocol still enabled on my server. This is also one of the requirement from Payment Card Industry Data Security Standrad (PCI-DSS) v1.2.

So I spend sometime to Google it and go through some forum + blog, finally found out the solution to turn it off, but microsoft not providing the UI way to do that, have to manually go to registry and edit it by our self. How to check is my server are enable the SSLv2?

There are many way to check the configuration including using the Open SSL (I’m not too familiar with the OpenSSL so i use the alternative way – web). You may go to Serversniff.net, enter your web domain or IP address of your server which enabled the port 443 or you may edit the port number if you not using the standard SSL port of 443. After all, just click on SSL-Check.

How to disabled the SSL2.0 in window server 2003?

  1.  Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK.
  2. In Registry Editor, locate the following registry key/folder: HKey_Local_Machine/System/CurrentControlSet/Control/SecurityProviders/SCHANNEL/Protocols/SSL 2.0
  3. Right-click on the SSL 2.0 folder and select New and then click Key. Name the new folder Server.
  4. Inside the Server folder, click the Edit menu, select New, and click DWORD (32-bit) Value.
  5. Enter Enabled as the name and hit Enter.
  6. Ensure that it shows 0×00000000 (0) under the Data column (it should by default). If it doesn’t, right-click and select Modify and enter 0 as the Value data.
  7. Restart the computer.
  8. Verify that no SSL 2.0 ciphers are available at Serversniff.net or the Public SSL Server Database

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Registry key location which you may need to touch on

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Control/SecurityProviders/SCHANNEL/Ciphers/DES 56/56] "Enabled"=dword:00000000 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Control/SecurityProviders/SCHANNEL/Ciphers/NULL] "Enabled"=dword:00000000 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Control/SecurityProviders/SCHANNEL/Ciphers/RC2 40/128] "Enabled"=dword:00000000 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Control/SecurityProviders/SCHANNEL/Ciphers/RC2 56/128] "Enabled"=dword:00000000 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Control/SecurityProviders/SCHANNEL/Ciphers/RC4 40/128] "Enabled"=dword:00000000 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Control/SecurityProviders/SCHANNEL/Ciphers/RC4 56/128] "Enabled"=dword:00000000 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Control/SecurityProviders/SCHANNEL/Ciphers/RC4 64/128] "Enabled"=dword:00000000 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Control/SecurityProviders/SCHANNEL/Protocols/PCT 1.0/Server] "Enabled"=dword:00000000 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Control/SecurityProviders/SCHANNEL/Protocols/SSL 2.0/Server] "Enabled"=dword:00000000

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Our computer are very smart and it will help us to enhance the user experience by creating some temporary file and store it in somewhere in your harddisk. So after sometime the un-used files, old temporary files, temporary Internet files, and any log file may use up a lot of space in your harddisk, in addition, those unwanted file may also slow down your computer performance. Keeping your harddisk clean and tiny is a way to mainteance your computer performance at the top.


This task seem easy but very time consuming as we may need to find out what files are useless for our computer and safe to delete without affecting our computer. Microsoft Window XP/2003 did provide a very user friendly tools for us to done the task call ‘Disk Cleanup Manager’.


You can get the tools at Start –> All Program –> Accessories –> System Tools –> Disk Cleanup.


But to using this tools, it need the human interaction which response to it on the spot in order to accomplish the job. Why not we make it run automatically at the time that the computer is free or idle without any response needed by the user.


To do so just following the following step:

  1. Click Start Menu > Run, then type cleanmgr /sageset:1
  2. Click OK.
Disk Cleanup opens with a list of the possible files to be deleted. Select a file type to display a description. Check the boxes for the files you want removed, and click OK.
Disk cleanMgr 1 How to schedule disk cleanup manager to run in Window XP/Server 2003?
Next, you need to schedule Disk Cleanup to run when you want it to.
  1. Open Control Panel, double-click Scheduled Tasks Disk cleanMgr 2 How to schedule disk cleanup manager to run in Window XP/Server 2003?
  2. Double-click Add Scheduled Task
  3. On the Scheduled Task Wizard dialog, click Next.Disk cleanMgr 2 1 How to schedule disk cleanup manager to run in Window XP/Server 2003?
  4. In the list of applications you want Windows to run, click Disk Cleanup, and then click Next.Disk cleanMgr 3 How to schedule disk cleanup manager to run in Window XP/Server 2003?

  5. Select a frequency for the task (once per week is usually enough) and click Next.Disk cleanMgr 4 How to schedule disk cleanup manager to run in Window XP/Server 2003?

  6. Select a day of the week and time for the task to run.Disk cleanMgr 5 How to schedule disk cleanup manager to run in Window XP/Server 2003?

  7. Enter the name and password of a user.Disk cleanMgr 7 How to schedule disk cleanup manager to run in Window XP/Server 2003?
  8. Check the box to open Advanced Settings when you’re done.Disk cleanMgr 8 How to schedule disk cleanup manager to run in Window XP/Server 2003?
  9. In the Run box, add the following to the end of the path: /sagerun: 1 and then click OK.Disk cleanMgr 9 How to schedule disk cleanup manager to run in Window XP/Server 2003?
  10. Task Scheduler will automatically run Disk Cleanup with the settings you selected at the time you selected.
  11. Done

Done.

There are something you need to attention on which is the first command and switch you enter in the command prompt are difference with the extra command and switch you enter on the scheduler. The command enter in command prompt is /sageset but in the scheduler is /sagerun.


Syntax
CLEANMGR option
Options
/d driveletter: – Select the drive that you want Disk Cleanup to clean.
/sageset:n      - Display the Disk Cleanup Settings dialog box and create a registry key to store the settings you select.
The n value is stored in the registry and allows you to specify different tasks for Disk Cleanup to run.
n can be any integer from 0 to 65535. Specify the %systemroot% drive to see all the available options.
/sagerun:n       – Run task ‘n’
All drives in the computer will be enumerated, and the
selected profile will be run against each drive.
Only one of the 3 options above can be run at a time

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We store a lot of important information in Excel file which we don’t want other to grant any access to that information. By using Microsoft Excel 2007 you may do so by protect your whole workbook.

 

In order to do that, click on File –> Save As.On the file-save pop up window, select the location where you which to store your file and type in the file name, after all, click on the tools at the bottom of the window and select General Options. A small window will pop up to ask you to enter the password to open as well as password to modify.

 

Pop up save as window How to secure your Microsoft Excel 2007 with password

Pop up saved as window

General option from the drop down tools menu How to secure your Microsoft Excel 2007 with password

Select general option from the drop down tools menu

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Enter the password for view and modify your excel file


By enter these 2 passwords, Microsoft will protect your entire workbook and prevent anyone else to open and view your contents. Make sure you will remember your password that you enter as if you lost that password, it’s not an easy job to get back your content in your excel file.

 

 

password require on viewing file How to secure your Microsoft Excel 2007 with password

The password will be require whenever you try to open the excel file





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Google for long time regarding how to hide the HTTP header for IIS in order to mask the server identity and finally found out this tools call URLScan.
Basically URLScan is an ISAPI filter that allows Web site administrators to restrict the kind of HTTP requests that the server will process. By blocking specific HTTP requests, the URLScan filter prevents potentially harmful requests from reaching the server and causing damage.
Actually most of the features that provided by URLScan are included in IIS but not the Remove Server Header features as microsfot find out that this is not an important issue that that’s no real security benefit of include in IIS. But that’s some marketing purposes why microsoft not encourage web master to hide the identity.

How to hide the IIS identity:

  1. download the URL scan
  2. Install the URL scan in your server.
  3. go to the URLScan config file at C:\WINDOWS\system32\inetsrv\urlscan\UrlScan.ini
  4. Change RemoveServerHeader=1 (by default is 0)
  5. Save the file
  6. Restart your IIS
  7. Check on your header (http://www.rexswain.com/httpview.html)
For more detail on the URLScan and the features, you may easily get a lot of information by Google on URLScan



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By  default, window server 2003 only come with the 2 Remote client access, unless you bought the CAL license. (But not many of the company will buy). So only 2 active or disconnected session are allow in the sames time.


So when the 3th user would like to connect into the same server, he/she will get the error message of “The terminal server has exceeded the maximum number of allowed connection”


After googleing, found this solution:

  1. Go to Command Prompt
  2. Type mstsc /v:xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx /f -console (replace xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx with the remote IP)
  3. Login with the administrator account


This command will log you in with the 3th remote connection to your server, you should use this account to kick out the rest of the 2 account before you continue your job.


To delete the existing connection you may go to task Manager -> users -> select the user and log them off.


The alternative for this solution is you can configure the settings on terminal server to manage the connections in a variety of ways. You do that through Start > Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Terminal Services Configuration. Select the Connections folder from the left panel.


In the right panel you should see the available connection types. Most likely there will be an entry for RDP-Tcp (Microsoft RDP 5.2). Right-click on that entry and select Properties. Select the Sessions tab and you will see a number of options related to sessions. All of my drop downs were set to Never, which explained why they never timed-out. To solve our problem, you may check the ‘Override user settings‘ option and set ‘End a disconnected session’ and ‘Idle session limit’ to 15 minutes. I left the ‘Active session limit’ at Never since as long as you are actively using the connection.


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Terminal Server has exceeded maximum number of allowed connection error message


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Terminal services configuration window


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Submit your site to Bing.com

By on June 20, 2009

bing icon Submit your site to Bing.comAfter few years of search engine being monopoly by Google, Microsoft has announced their new counter weapons toward Google – called Bing.com


This is just a begining for the search engine war. Now come to another part of the new search engine where all the webmaster or the blog owner should do – get your site to index by the new search engine and gain the traffic from Bing


Click here to submit your website to Bing and get’s index by Bing, so that your website can be found.


Besides that, Bing also has the webmaster tools like the Google webmaster tools. Click here to create a web master center account to submit your site and get index and explore to the search engine faster



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Bing home page

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