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TeamViewer is a deadly simple application for remote support

March 10, 2011January 24, 2023 Kent ChenMicrosoft

I was on the market looking for a remote support solution that is simple, reliable, and not expensive. I had considered GotoMyPC, WebEx, GotoMeeting, LogMeIn, etc. and found they are pretty much in the same way in terms of how to make it work, even the cost is pretty much in the same range. When I came across TeamViewer, I […]

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Tips on how to avoid IP address conflicts

February 8, 2011January 24, 2023 Kent ChenMicrosoft

I recently had this error happened on a laptop that caused a user who used that laptop as the presentation in a meeting to present some of the ideas on the internet. The conflict also took our phone system down because that phone system had the same IP address as the laptop got from DHCP server. It’s a very rare […]

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Virtualizing a Windows 2000 machine

January 18, 2011January 24, 2023 Kent ChenMicrosoft

You think you will never need to deal with such an old thing like Windows 2000 computers because we are already in 2011. But in reality, you may still have to without many choices. For example, I just recently had to move 2 ancient Windows 2000 machines to vSphere server. Not as easy as you do it on any recent […]

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The first glimpse of IE 9 beta

September 15, 2010January 24, 2023 Kent ChenInternet, Microsoft

After the long period of wait with 4 releases of Platform Preview in between, Microsoft finally decided to open the door and unlock the beauty of the web by its first beta of IE 9. Unlike the last 2 releases on 7 and 8, this time, it looks promising. Even after 10 minutes of use, I am already impressed, in […]

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How to offline join Windows 7 to Windows Server domain

December 18, 2009January 24, 2023 Kent ChenMicrosoft

The new combination of Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008 R2 makes a lot of new things that are impossible to do in the previous versions possible. Offline domain join is one of them. It becomes possible because of the new command tool, djoin.exe, that comes with the system. Actually, what makes more interesting is that it doesn’t require Windows […]

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Email failed to deliver to certain domains with an SMTP protocol error occurred message

December 13, 2009January 24, 2023 Kent ChenMicrosoft

It happened lately in my office that emails sent to certain domains first got delayed and then failed with a SMTP error code 4.4.7 in the final NDR. Error code 4.4.7 usually indicates that the message in the queue has expired and usually the problem is on the receiving server. However, that is obviously not the case this time. Also […]

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How to remove duplicate records from a table in SQL database

December 10, 2009January 24, 2023 Kent ChenMicrosoft

Scenario 1, one record is completely identical to another Meaning that there is no way of identifying them who is who. Usually, it happens when the table doesn’t have a unique id field due to the poor database design. Because of that, there is no way in SQL to delete one of these duplications without deleting them all first. You […]

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The first glimpse of Internet Explorer 8

April 16, 2009January 24, 2023 Kent ChenInternet, Microsoft

We heard the good reviews of this new version of IE, and we also saw bad words of it as well, just like all other new things.  Unless you try it out yourself you can never tell who is right and who is wrong, or they could be all wrong. So I went ahead and downloaded the package and installed […]

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