Kent J. Chen's WebLog

For those who like to collect technical posters, here are a list of them from TechNet blog. Worth checking and saving, or even printing out ant putting them on the wall in your office. At least, I had done it before.

• Windows Server 2008 R2: Hyper-V Component Architecture http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=5567b22a-8c47-4840-a88d-23146fd93151
• Windows Server 2008 Component Posters. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=64a5cc28-f8a1-4b30-a4a2-455c65bda8d7&displaylang=en
• Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Transport Server Role Architecture Diagrams:http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=6EB8C09A-6EA4-442A-9FAA-DE33265CEB84&displaylang=en
• This poster highlights the architecture and feature set of Microsoft Exchange Server 2007.http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=FDCDF6E5-DE47-4B58-8086-282101BCDDE9&displaylang=en
• Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Transport Server Role Architecture Diagrams:http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=612f811d-2953-4c08-945e-833c17150083&displaylang=en&tm
• SharePoint 2010 Technical Diagrams:http://blogs.technet.com/b/schadinio/archive/2010/08/18/sharepoint-2010-technical-diagrams.aspx

Enjoy.

Well, ever since I upgraded my iPhone 3G to iOS 4, I have been suffering the sluggish on almost all apps I am using on the phone. While Apple is aware of this and is currently investing this issue at the moment, both my colleague and neowin mentioned an easy fix that would quickly solve this issue. And the best part is, it actually works.

To remedy the sluggish performance (or at least one cause of it) go to “Settings->General->Home Button->Spotlight Search-> deselect every option”. What it does is to stop all background indexing on…

With the new Google Sync that supports email push via Exchange ActiveSync and multiple Exchange account available on iOS4, I reset up all my email account on my iPhone with all of them push enabled. However, after a short while of enjoyment, I turned Push off because if I didn’t I would need basically to buy a battery extender to re-juice my iPhone on the road.

As it’s mentioned on Google Sync,

As with any service using push technology, Google Sync may cause increased usage of your devices’ battery.

It happens the same when using Microsoft…

VPN has been widely used in all kinds organizations since it’s invented. I personally have been using this technology for almost 10 years but to be honest, I still haven’t touched some of areas in this technology. And it seems to get advanced quite a bit as time goes.

Thanks to Technically Personal for coming up an awesome post that not only explains how VPN works in a simple diagram but also lists number of types VPNs existed and what they are.

Here are the 7 types of VPN listed, some of which you may have…

• Microsoft Touts 64-bit Adoption of Windows 7 – almost half of the windows 7 installed are 64-bit. Way to go.
• Windows 7 SP1 beta available, the final release available in 2011 – they are moving too fast.
• 41% of IT pros abusing admin privileges – to bad, that includes me.
• Windows 8 rumors
• Webmatrix beta released for easy building website

FreeTextBox used to be my favorite and I use it without second thought every time when I need it but not anymore because it doesn’t play nicely once you place it inside the <update> panel for Ajax. Without doing it, I can’t use the modern modal popup for data update form.

Luckily, ASP.net Ajax control toolkit already includes a HTMLEditor for you to use.  However, from the testing I have done, it doesn’t seem to be working properly in Chrome. Besides that, its lack of paragraph style format also made me not to use it at the…

The world cup is finally over so it’s time for me to back to work, mainly spiritually. But before I do and let it go, I have to get all my own feelings about this most popular event out first with my own top 5s.

Top 5 my favorite teams

1. Spain – what can I say? It’s simply the best team on earth.
2. Germany – a team that represents the future.
3. Argentina – no one knows Football better than Maradona.
4. Uruguay – all because of Forlan and Suarez. A team surprised me the most.

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Let me know if you still do after you read this story.

One of my colleagues came to me yesterday asking if I know anyplace that can do the data restoring because he’s got loose connection on his Samsung 500G portable hard drive and he’s worried about all the photos he’s saved on it. I asked him to bring it over so I can take a quick look at it to see if I can help him.

Sure enough, the USB port which is the only connection on the case was so loose that I couldn’t make it firmly connected…

• The VMware guy’s guide to Hyper-V
• VMware vSphere’s built-in performance monitoring tools
• Windows 8 release date projected to late 2010
• A first peak of Windows 8
• Top 5 Windows desktop security tips of 2010, so far

We had a couple of power outages lately which finally knocked my Drobo Pro box down badly. When the ESX servers booted up, they didn’t see those target LUNs they used to see. So no VMs that are stored on that box got booted up. More, they didn’t even show up in ESX.

I eventually got the replacement for the dead Drobo from the vendor and successfully brought all data back. But after I connected it back to network and got recognized in ESX, I got warning message telling me it’s going to destroy the storage when I was trying…