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If you’ve tried upgrading Windows Vista Enterprise to Windows 7 Enterprise you may have already discovered that Windows 7 will tell you that you cannot upgrade to Windows 7 Enterprise. Windows 7 Enterprise Upgrade will tell you that only a fresh install is possible which will not take your current Vista Enterprise settings with. However there is a way to trick Windows 7 in to thinking you are running Windows Vista Business which is able to upgrade to Windows 7 Enterprise. The trick is to change two registry settings in Hkey Local Machine\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\Current Version You need to change the Edition ID and Product Name key. Change the word Enterprise to Business and then rerun the Windows 7 Enterprise setup. This time you can upgrade Windows Vista Enterprise to Windows 7 Enterprise.
I’m experiementing with using Wordpress blogs vs static html websites to see if they work as well. I’m hoping they do because once setup, I can update a blog alot easier than a regular website. I like websites for the way you can arrange pictures but blogs are so easy to update that I can crank out content much faster. Lately i’ve been doing a mix of adding blogs to my existing websites but I recently started a new blog only site about the City Of Minnetonka where i’ll write about restaurants, shopping, government and anything else of interest. I have high hopes because with a blog like this you can just tour the city writing about what you see and experience. If successful it will certainly become a model for how I grow my business. The risk is small, just time to get it started and time to wait for results.
This is the version 10 Aventail VPN Client for Windows, it’s a 32 bit version that works on Windows XP , Windows Vista and Windows 7.
First download and install the latest BlackBerry Desktop Manager software. You can get it from Here
Install the software so you are up to date on your PC.
Next drill into c:\program files\common files\research in motion\apploader and rename vendor.xml to vendor.old
Next download and install JL Commander on your PC. This will install the application to C:\Program Files\JL_Cmder where you can run JL_Cmder.cmd to start the application. Be sure your Blackberry is plugged in when running JL Commander.
Use JL Commander to wipe the blackberry.
To reinstall the OS on the BlackBerry, connect it to the PC with BlackBerry Desktop Manager installed and you can use the Applications part of the software to update the BlackBerry Software.
If you are deploying RSA Soft Tokens to iPhone users you will need to use the RSA Token Converter to convert the RSA Seedfile to a url that the iPhone can use to import the seedfile into the iPhone RSA Token app. RSA provides a Token Converter that you can use to convert the seedfile to a text file containing a weird url that you would email to your iPhone user. Outlook however mangles the url and creates a headache for those deploying RSA iPhone Tokens. I found an offline script that converts the text file to an html file that you can then email to your user on their iPhone. They then open the html file and click the link which imports the token. The original script was created by:
Designed by Geoff Todd
At http://www.iphonedownloadworld.com
Thanks to Geoff Todd for putting that out.
I found however that my own use required some modification to the original script. I tweaked it a bit and figured i’d post it in case it helps anyone else.
My version of their script makes the following changes.
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It allows you to store the seedfiles in a remote location, it reaches into the central location and doesn’t require you store the seedfile in the same directory as the converter.
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It creates individualized text and html files based on the name of the seedfile processed by the script.
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It deposits the text and html files in the directory that the script runs in and allows you to retain the various files vs overwriting the same file over and over.
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It also checks to see if a previous file already exists and deletes it prior to creating new text and html files. This ensures you are always dealing with fresh files.
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It also tells you step by step what the script did in case you were curious.
If sending the HTML file to someone using Goodlink on the iPhone you may find the link in the HTML file is not clickable. Simply sent them the .txt file or cut and past the line from the .txt file into the body of the email. Your user can then cut and paste that into a browser to import the token. The link to the RSA Token HTML converter script is shown below.
I decided to return to a hobby site, something fun and something that i’ve wanted to improve for a long time. I started a website years ago about Sportster Pictures that just featured pictures of Harley Davidson Sportster motorcycles. I encouraged visitors to send me pictures of their own bikes and lots have sent in some great pictures. The problem is that I rarely have time to post the pictures in a timely manner. I decided to add a blog to the site to make putting up the submissions easier and i’m very pleased with the results. The blog looks alot better than the website and I can post the photo’s quickly and visitors can comment and ask questions. I have a ton of backlogged photos to post so i’m hoping that my visitors find the blog and participate.
If you have reset your Dell 3000cn or Dell 3100cn printer back to the factory defaults by clearning the NVRAM you will find that the username and password used to authenticate the web admin tool has also been set to the factory default. The default username used by the Dell printers is admin and the default password is password. After logging in using the default password you should immediately change the password for admin so that your printer cannot be managed by unauthorized persons.
When printing in Outlook 2007 you may receive the following error Unable to save the printer settings. Make sure the file c:\windows\outlprnt is not missing or write protected. This can be very frustrating, it recently happened to one of my executive customers. What we did to fix this error in Outlook 2007 was to browse to the c:\documents and settings\username\application data\microsoft\outlook folder, (replace username with the user profile of your user.) then we created a word document called Outlprnt.doc and left it blank just saved it so there was a file that existed. Then we closed Outlook 2007 and reopened and could print without seeing the ERROR Unable to save the printer settings. Make sure the file c:\windows\outlprnt is not missing or write protected.
If this does not work try opening the Outlprnt.doc file and put an x in it and save then close Outlook 2007 and try printing again.
RSA has done a great job of coming out with RSA Soft Tokens for many platforms. You can now run RSA Tokens aon Windows of all flavors, BlackBerry, Nokia and even run the RSA Token on your iphone. Unlike many of the RSA Soft Tokens, for iphone you need to use the RSA Token Converter to change your seedfile into a format that your RSA Token for iphone understands and will import. RSA provides the Token Converter free of charge at their website but you may also want to look into a couple other sites that help with utilizing the converted token data to easily get it imported on your iphone. The most secure i’ve seen is a html based tool that can be used offline. The offline RSA Token Converter lets you run a script that generates an html file you can email to yourself on your RSA Token enabled iphone. Corey Gilmore offers a web based tool that will generate html links you can email to yourself on yoru iphone to import the seedfile code into your iphone RSA token. In either case it all begins with the RSA Token Converter making importing a seedfile into your iphone RSA token easy.
If you have a SecureID RSA Token but would like to use something less easy to lose you might consider a RSA Soft Token that runs on your BlackBerry. The RSA Token For BlackBerry is easy to install and then just runs as another application on your BlackBerry phone. You will need to import a seedfile which is generated by the RSA Admin tool. The seedfile can be emailed to you on your BlackBerry and then imported or you can setup your BlackBerry server to push RSA seedfiles to BlackBerry devices. The first step however is to download and install the RSA token software on your BlackBerry device. RSA has provided the BlackBerry software on their website for a free download.