Since I cannot down the Sonicwall VPN Client beta version from their website due to login restriction. I just have to install the Sonicwall  Global VPN Client version 4.0.0.827 design for Vista.

I wasn’t able to get the VPN client to work on my Window 7 due to IPSec driver failed to load.

After doing some google search, I found a solution to resolve the IPSec driver issue

Below is the guide to configure the VPN client on Window 7:

1. Click on startup menu, go to accessories, right click at command prompt and select “Run as administrator”.

2.    A command prompt dialog box will pop-out as administrator role. Then you type 
      "Set DEVMGR_SHOW_NONPRESENT_DEVICES=1” and press Enter. If no error message 
      appear, you exit from the command prompt.

3.    Click on the start menu button and type “ device manager” on    
       the search box. Device manager will appear on the search list and Enter.

4.    At the device manager module, click on view at the menu and select “Show hidden devices”

5.    Look for the No-Plug and Play Drivers, expand it and double click on the SonicWALL IPsec 
       Driver.

6.     At the SonicWALL IPsec Driver Properties, select the Driver tag, set the Startup Type to
        “Automatic” and click on the Start button at the Current status. Click OK and close the  
        device manager.

7.     Activate the SonicWall Global VPN Client either on from the All Programs menu or VPN   
        shortcut at the desktop. You will be able to see the a pop-out dialog box to ask you to 
        enter the user name and password once it works.

I had done some research to solve the issue and found what the caused of the problem.

It was the Actxprxy.dll which was one of the core libraries in IE8 and not properly registered.

After re-registered the DLL and restarting my laptop, I tried using IE8 again. The result was stunning as the loading and open tag issue was resolved.

Below is the instructions:

For Window Vista /Window 7

1. Click on the start window menu, type cmd in the Star Search box.

2. Right-click the cmd short-cut that appeared at the top of the search result list.

3. Right click on the cmd short-cut and select Run as administrator.

4. A command prompt window will pop out running as administrative mode.

5. Then enter this text and press Enter:

              regsvr32 actprxy.dll

6. Once it register successfully and a pop-up will be shown.

7. Restart you computer and your IE8 will work like charm.

Due the current market, most of the company have cut their IT budget and not willing to spend money to have this setup.

Recently, my boss and I had proposed to one of our client to place their database to another server due certain reason by the other 3 party developer.

We told our client that the user will access the application server through 192.168.1.10 then it will extract the data from the database server through 10.1.1.1 to 10.1.1.2. (Figure 1)

Once our client agreed, I went to purchase a Cat 6 cross cable which support Gigabit Ethernet to 1 gigabit per second (1Gbps) at the price of S$10.00 . Plugged into the 2 gigabit network port to connect up the 2 servers and configured the application server cross connection with IP address 10.1.1.1 to the Database server with IP address 10.1.1.2. (Figure 1)

Once the connection was established and I immediately copy a 650 MB ISO to the other server. It took around 40 second to copy the ISO file over which was pretty good.

My client was happy with it as this will increase the performance of running the application to extract the data from the database server at a very low cost.

                                                     Figure 1

I received this logon message pop up show in figure 1 that disallow me from login remotely to the server.

                                                                            Figure 1

This is weird as I am not very sure why I can’t login into the server using RDC. Then one for my colleague advice me to connect to the server remotely as console session. I did come research on it and manage find the matter use to connect to the server remotely as console using Window Vista.

For Vista:

• Click on start under search, type cmd and a command prompt pop-up.
• Then from the command prompt type mstsc /? (figure 2), a pop-up showing a list of command:

                                Figure 2

• Back to the command prompt, I key in mstsc /v:server ip or server domain /admin /f and this allow me to login into the server remotely.
• After I login into the server and I found out that they are 2 user login remote session (Figure 3) is still remain inside the server as they didn’t login log off from the remote session properly.

                                    Figure 3

• In order resolve to resolve the problem, I have to contact the person and ask them to save their stuff and log off from their account.

He went to Sim Lim Square to look for the USB external adapter for SSD hard drive as he want to make it as an external hard drive. In the end, he can’t get any of it from there.

The main problem that my colleague told is the power connector which is different from the rest of the USB external adapter connector. Lucky, I managed help him to transfer the data to the spare laptop using the 3 third party tools.

My colleague and I were hoping that the  manufacture will come out with a USB external adapter for Solid-State Drive so that counter it if the problem occur again. Also people maybe can use it as an external hard drive if they want to use Solid-State Drive. Well, It is was a good experience to see and feel how the SSD liked.

Below are some photo taken on the Intel Solid State-Drive:

This is the front view of the SSD Drive.

This is the back view of the SSD.

This is the side view of the SSD.