Quick Powershell tip - Remote Windows Management
Something that I do every now and again (almost every day - many times per day) is to connect to the Event Viewer / Computer Management / Services console of a Remote Windows machine for …
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Subscribe via RSS →vCenter on Windows 2008 R2 - not the best idea
Ladies and Gentlemen!!! Because I have seen two such posts in almost as many days here and here - dealing with installation of vCenter Server on Windows 2008 R2 (which of course is 64-bit only) I feel …
A bit of housekeeping – Powershell
I have been busy with using Powershell in these past few days. I would like to share with you two of the scripts that I used lately. They were both used because of a password change that was made on a …
Updating a User attribute in the Enterprise
I was asked to update an attribute of the EmployeeNumber for each and every user in the Enterprise for a new Application that will be using the newly populated attribute for a Global Database …
Patching your ESXi Host – Without vCenter
VMware Update Manager is the Enterprise tool for Patching your ESX Hosts and for some also the tool used to patch your Windows / Linux Guests as well. This is all fine and dandy, but what is you do …
vSphere Client for Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2
VMware have released an official KB regarding the problem that we have all known about for ummm… how long is it already :) ? Cannot launch vSphere Client after installing in Windows 7 or …
How VMware helps combat Viruses
I am not talking about a new Anti-virus solution or a new product, even though VMware does offer VMsafe for this exact purpose. Today I was hit with a very clever phishing attack. Details can be found …
How to create an exe package in Windows
A colleague (thanks Natan) of mine reminded me of a simple but not very well know feature that exists in Windows. We all download software from the Internet or install applications off a CD or some …
Windows 2000 - R.I.P.
From this this post on Technet - we can finally say that if you have a Windows 2000 Server in your enviroment - GET RID OF IT!!!!!! (or at least before July 13, 2010) Another small thing to note - …
ESXi patches - My Response to Jeff Woolsey
Jeff Woolsey posted a comparison of disk footprint of ESXi and Windows 2008 Hyper-V server. Not getting into what I think of it yet, just a few facts and misconceptions before I start. Since then …