Citrix Receiver for Windows Mobile 11.0

Citrix released a Citrix client for the Windows Mobile Based devices. Supported Windows Mobiles versions are 6.0, 6.1 and 6.5.

Apparently Citrix starts off with version 11, guess they had like 10 internal versions before they released this one. I am an Apple iPhone user myself and I like the Citrix Receiver for iPhone since it’s (full) support for (all) Citrix Access Gateway Editions.

http://www.citrix.com/English/ss/downloads/details.asp?downloadId=1858162&productId=186&c1=sot2755

Henny Louwers

Microsoft Beta Exam 71-685 Pro: Windows® 7, Enterprise Desktop Support Technician

Ok, so I attended this exam yesterday and think I did all right. I do not want to violate Microsoft’s Non Disclosure Agreement so if I’m telling you guys too much you will let me know right?

The exam consisted of 70 questions in which I think I had to guess about 22 of them. I like the number of questions on a Microsoft Beta exams. With Citrix Beta Exams can take up to 250 (!) questions. As if anyone knows what he/she is answering after question number 120. If there are that many questions on a beta exam, that means you can toss the last 150 questions out the window for sure.

Anyway, for this exam know all the new features of Microsoft Windows 7 like BitLocker, BranchCache, DirectAccess, AppLocker, Internet Explorer 8. This information and more on this exam can be found here.

I have scheduled Microsoft Beta Exam 71-686 Pro: Windows® 7, Enterprise Desktop Administrator on October 14th.

Henny Louwers

Open With …

Hieronder kun je een tool downloaden om te zorgen dat applicaties voorkomen in de “Open With …” dialoog venster.

Grappig is dat deze tool gebruikt maakt van een bug in Windows, wanneer je ‘Hide’ and ‘Access’ Local Drives via GPO ge-disabled hebt kun je alsnog de lokale drives via deze app benaderen. Vooral in Terminal Server omgeving is dit een zeer handige tool voor bijvoorbeeld de Helpdesk medewerkers.

Zet deze app dus ‘even’ op de gebruikers home drive en creeer de betreffende “Open With …” optie, verwijder daarna de betreffende tool.

Daarna zal de applicatie in het betreffende dialoogvenster voorkomen. De tool is gemaakt door MVP Ramesh Srinivasan.

http://windowsxp.mvps.org/openwithadd.htm

Henny Louwers

Subscribe to Beta Exams RSS Feed

Voor degene die er altijd te laat achter komen dat er Beta examens zijn/waren kunnen zich nu abboneren op deze RSS feed. Wanneer er een nieuwe (public) beta examen komt wordt deze hier gepost.

http://blogs.technet.com/betaexams/rss.xml

http://blogs.technet.com/betaexams/

Henny Louwers

Passed: TS Microsoft Forefront Client and Server, Configuration

Fairly easy exam. Having some knowledge of MOM/SCOM has some advantage because it works on top of this product. Know how Microsoft Forefront installs/acts on Microsoft Sharepoint, Microsoft Exchange and how it interoperates with Microsoft WSUS Server.

More information on exam 70-557: http://www.microsoft.com/learning/exams/70-557.mspx

Henny Louwers

Passed: TS Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007, Configuring

Microsoft really dropped the ball on this one, with some experience with Microsoft MOM 2005, logic thinking, common sense and a twist of lemon you are able to pass this exam.

Next exam: TS: Microsoft Forefront Client and Server, Configuration, I think this will be a nice add-on to my Microsoft Exchange 2007 and Security specialization.

Henny Louwers

Free Microsoft Press E-Book Offer!

If you are interested in the Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 products, there is an offer on the Microsoft Learning site for free E-books on LINQ, ASP.NET AJAX and SilverLight.

I’m Dutch so we are always in for free stuff, even if we don’t do anything with it, I’m sorry, it’s a cultural thing. I’m sure you’ll understand.

Henny Louwers

Passed Microsoft Beta Exams 71-646 and 71-647!

I took these exams on the same day, yes it was a nice certification day, January 10th. Although I can not recommend doing such a thing because it requires to stay focused for a considerably long time, beta exams often consists of a lot of questions. Unfortunately I did not have the the time (luxury) to plan 2 days for these exams, so … All is well, a pass is a pass, as they say.

So that just totally made my day! Don’t you just love Microsoft products?

So by passing these exams I can add two more certifications to my list:
-Microsoft Certified IT Professional (MCITP): Server Administrator
-Microsoft Certified IT Professional (MCITP): Enterprise Administrator

My appreciated colleague Kay Sellenrode also passed both of these exams so we will be well represented by within our company Platani regarding Windows 2008 certifications.

Henny Louwers

Passed TS:MS Internet Security & Acceleration Server 2006,Configuring

60 questions / 2 hours of ISA 2006 pain . No, just kidding, exam can easily be done if you work extensively with this product. Although during the exam I thought it would barely be a pass but I passed with a sweet 907.

When you implement Microsoft Infrastructures ,like we do, you are bound to come across the Microsoft ISA Server 2006 product line. This exam covers a lot of stuff that you actually come across when implementing ISA Server.

On to the next exam: TS: Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007, Configuring, scheduled on march 28th.

Henny Louwers

The Server Unleashed – Windows Server 2008

Check out this cool SilverLight (of course) site from Microsoft about Windows Server 2008 Unleashed! Especially the cool screensavers, I’m soo easily amused!

Henny Louwers