Backup Personal Certificate Store
Posted by Victor Tong in Windows Infrastructure on January 27th, 2010
Platform: Windows XP
Personal Certificate Store is stored in user profile instead of registry.
Location:
%userprofile%\Application Data\Microsoft\SystemCertificates\My\Certificates
Reference:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc787544(WS.10).aspx
Certutil.exe – Check Personal Certificate Store
Posted by Victor Tong in Windows Infrastructure on January 27th, 2010
Certutil.exe can be found in Windows Server 2003 or Windows Server 2003 Administration Pack.
Following command and parameters can let you to query certificates stored in Personal Certificate Store.
That is very useful if you want to verify if user certificate deployed to user computer or not.
certutil -store -user My
Other Certificate Store reference information:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc787544(WS.10).aspx
Reviews: Windows 7 Utlimate
Posted by Victor Tong in Uncategorized on January 16th, 2010
Before installing Windows 7, a lot of friends commented that. It is faster that Windows Vista and it has a lot of improvement that Windows Vista.
When my first touch to Windows 7, my feeling is “It is a Vista”.
After navigating it, it is a Vista. Not much different !!
For my Vista box, I have done a large amount of performance tuning to it. It includes Network and system tuning.
So, I cannot feel a big improvement when I use Windows 7.
I do not have an exciting feeling to Windows 7 as when I used Windows 2000 and Windows XP.
In Windows 2000 and Windows XP, it showed a lot of improvement for me. E.g. Kerbose, Windows Firewall, Remote Desktop.
In Windows 7, it seems facing bottleneck.
Overall comments:
1. If I can have choice, I will stay with WinXP
2. Win7 is an improved Window Vista. I don’t think it is a new version.
Reviews: Windows 7 – Virtual PC and WinXP Mode Comments
Posted by Victor Tong in Product Review, Windows Infrastructure on January 16th, 2010
Just have time to re-install my Vista box to Windows 7.
My initial planning is using Windows 7 Virtual PC for my PoC Lab testing.
After I have installed Win7 and configured the Virtual PC. I found that it is only support Win32 Virtual Machine.
I am very disappeared to it.
And the so-called killer feature “WinXP Mode”. My comment is “that is a marketing word”.
It is a monster for pushing customer moving to Win7.
The cost is very high to maintain 2 OSs for every users.
Overall comments:
1. The interface of Virtual PC for Windows 7 is not good
2. It does not support 64bit platform OS.
3. Monster “WinXP mode” sound attractive. But actually, it is quite difficult to maintain it.
Review: Hyundai ID-22FHD
Posted by Victor Tong in Product Review on December 31st, 2009
Hyundai ID-22FHD
Comments
1. Unstable, when I switch between different input sources, screen will be blanked occasionally. I need to power off and on it to resume the operation.
2. Incorrect resolution detection by using VGA D-Sub connector to connect computer.
3. On screen display menu is quite nice.
4. Built-in speak sound quality not good.
5. Price is very attractive.
6. Not include monitor driver for computer connection use.
Overall comments: Not good
Review: 3ware 9650SE-2LP
Posted by Victor Tong in Linux, Product Review on November 18th, 2009
Review: 3ware 9650SE-2LP
I just bought 3ware 9650SE-2LP for my Linux box.
I have tested CentOS 5.3 (x64) and Fedora 8 (x64). Both Linux default kernel included driver already.
It is very easy to use and configure.
My comments:
1. Easy to install for Linux
2. CLI for Linux is good
3. Performance is good
4. Firmware upgrade is easy
Overall comment is very good for Linux.
Reference:
http://www.3ware.com/products/serial_ata2-9650.asp
Linux: Disable check disk at start up
Posted by Victor Tong in Linux on October 17th, 2009
E.g. Disable check disk for /dev/sda1
tune2fs -c 0 -i 0 /dev/sda1
Edit /etc/fstab and modify last field to 0 instead of 1 or 2
/dev/sda2 / ext3 defaults 1 0 /dev/sda1 /boot ext3 defaults 1 0
VMware cannot use NAS for datastore
Posted by Victor Tong in VMware on October 3rd, 2009
If you are facing an error that you cannot use NAS (CIFS) for VMware Server datastore, you can change the service “VMwareServerWebAccess” Log On as from “Local System” to a local computer user account that have access right to your NAS.
VMware Server cannot run file larger than 2GB on NAS
Posted by Victor Tong in VMware on October 3rd, 2009
If you put VMware guest file on NAS, you may face a problem “File is too large”.
You can put the following option in vmx file to skip file size checking.
diskLib.sparseMaxFileSizeCheck= "false"
QNAP TS-419P (My new toy)
Posted by Victor Tong in Uncategorized on October 1st, 2009
I just bought QNAP TS-419P for storing my Lab files
My new Toys
1. QNAP TS-419P
2. Hitachi 1TB HDD x 4
Setup Screens:
My Comment:
1. Network file copy performance is very good.
2. It contains a lot of features.
3. iSCSI performance is very good too (~60 MB/sec)
Read text file for bulk folders creation
Posted by Victor Tong in Windows Infrastructure on September 27th, 2009
Text file name:
folders.txt : Content
folder_a folder_b folder_c
CreateFolders.bat
FOR /F "tokens=1 delims=" %%i IN (folders.txt) DO ( md %%1 ) pause
CreateFolders.bat will read file folders.txt and create folder_a,folder_b and folder_c for you.
Outlook: Hong Kong Holidays 2010
Posted by Victor Tong in MS Office, Uncategorized on September 20th, 2009
Hong Kong Holidays 2009 for Outlook 2007
Reference:
http://www.gov.hk/en/about/abouthk/holiday/2010.htm
Hong Kong Holidays 2010 for Outlook:
HK2010 Holidays Outlook
Installation:
1. Download Holidays file
2. Double-click the holidays file
3. Click OK
4. Click OK
5. Open Outlook Calendar, Holidays information imported.
Outlook: Hong Kong Holidays 2009
Posted by Victor Tong in MS Office, Uncategorized on September 20th, 2009
Hong Kong Holidays 2009 for Outlook 2007
Reference:
http://www.gov.hk/en/about/abouthk/holiday/2009.htm
Hong Kong Holidays 2009 for Outlook:
HK2009_Holidays
Deploy Trusted Root CA Certificate (command line)
Posted by Victor Tong in Windows Infrastructure on September 20th, 2009
In Windows XP, local computer certificates are stored in registry
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\SystemCertificates\
Trusted Root CA certificates
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\SystemCertificates\Root\
Intermediate CA certificates
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\SystemCertificates\CA\
Before install trusted Root CA certificate
Root CA cert registry
After install Root CA certificate, one more entry created (D0836D774C16xxxxxx..)
Root CA cert registry 02
For the Root CA certificate deployment, you can export this registry and import this registry to target deployment machine by using the following command with local administrator right.
Command line deployment example:
regedit /s root_cert.reg
Modify Outlook 2007 View by using vbscript (vbs)
Posted by Victor Tong in Exchange Server, MS Office on September 20th, 2009
Currently I am checking how to modify Outlook 2007 default view by using vbs.
Following is my working vbs. You can download and test it.
MSDN reference:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb177050.aspx
VBS code example
Const ForReading = 1
Const olFolderInbox = 6
Const olColorRed = 10
Set olApp = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")
Set objName = olApp.GetNameSpace("MAPI")
Set objTableView = objName.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderInbox).CurrentView
objTableView.ColumnFont.Size = 10
objTableView.ColumnFont.Name = "Arial"
objTableView.RowFont.Size = 10
objTableView.RowFont.Name = "Arial"
objTableView.AutoPreviewFont.Name = "Arial"
objTableView.AutoPreviewFont.Size = 10
' Save the table view.
objTableView.Save
objTableView.Apply
Set objView = objName.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderInbox).CurrentView
For Each objRule In objView.AutoFormatRules
If Not objRule.Name = "Unread group headers" Then
'MsgBox objRule.Name
'MsgBox objRule.Font.Color
objRule.Font.Color = olColorRed
End If
objRule.Font.Size = 10
objRule.Font.Name = "Arial"
Next
objView.Save
objView.Apply
wscript.echo "Completed"
Outlook 2007 default view
Outlook 2007 default view
After running vbs, it makes the following change
1. Font changed from Segoe to Arial
2. Font size changed to 10pt
3. Unread mail changed from black to red
After running vbs, modified Outlook view
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