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Plug-ins and Tomcat

I have another post coming up regarding 2rd party plug-ins - explaining a few things I have learned over the past two days - regarding SSL and getting that to work with your properly in the vSphere …

  • Tools
  • Management
  • vSphere
  • Administration
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Updating pictures for Users in AD - pt. 2

The last sentence in my previous post on Updating Pictures for Users in AD was: Now the only part hat needs to be taken care of - is getting a proper image from HR in the correct size. Maybe we will …

  • Active Directory
  • Tools
  • Scripting
  • Powershell
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Get-AllDomainControllers Function

Sometimes you would like to run a query against all DC’s in your forest. For example today – I was looking a specific error on the System Event Logs. Here is a quick way to get all the DC’s in …

  • Active Directory
  • Tools
  • Scripting
  • Powershell
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VMware Tools Icon Changed – Did you notice?

While installing VMware tools on a virtual machine this week on VMware Workstation 7.1 (build-261024) I noticed that the small icon that appears to show that VMware tools are installed looked …

  • Tools
  • Workstation
  • VMware
  • ESX
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VMware Player 3.1 - New Release

VMware Workstation 7.1 was released yesterday. With it - was the release of it’s baby brother/sister - VMware Player 3.1 What’s New? This release provides support for the following host …

  • Tools
  • Workstation
  • VMware
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ESXi Deployment Solution - Part 4

So today we will deal with how to get the scripts into the an ESXi installation. On Part 3 we dealt with what the scripts were and how to to use them So how do we get the script to run on startup? The …

  • Tools
  • Management
  • vSphere
  • Administration
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Set a Time Limit on Group Membership

One of the most surprising things that Microsoft have not yet provided in Active Directory management - is allowing you to set a time limit on assigning membership of a user to a group. Let me explain …

  • Active Directory
  • Tools
  • Security
  • Scripting
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ESXi Deployment Solution - Part 3

Today we will deal with the client and server scripts, and before we start I would like to get the definitions straight. Client Script: The script that is executed on the ESXi machine (Python) Server …

  • Tools
  • Management
  • vSphere
  • Administration
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ESXi Deployment Solution - Part 2

Today we will be dealing with some details of the parts involved. In my previous post - I explained the rationale behind the whole process. So let us get into the schematics. An ESX server can be …

  • Tools
  • Management
  • vSphere
  • Scripting
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ESXi Deployment Solution - the beginning

I posted a small preview about a new ESXi Deployment Solution. First question I would like to answer is why? Why is a Deployment solution needed for ESXi? Why is it any different to Deploying the full …

  • Tools
  • Scripting
  • Administration
  • VMware