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Convert NT4 physical to VM on ESXi 6.0
I needed to do a physical to virtual conversion of a Windows NT 4 system into an ESXi 6.0 environment.Readily available conversion tools will not work. I was able to convert the system using the steps...
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Office (Word/Excel/Outlook) 2010/2013 Freezes and Hangs in VDI
In a VDI environment users may experience delays, hangs, freezes and pauses when using the Microsoft Office suite of applications such as Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint.I've also heard this...
View ArticleHorizon View vCenter Role Permissions PowerCLI Script
As a consultant I perform a lot of VMware Horizon View implementations and I find several of the implementation tasks repetitive. One of those tasks is the creation of a role within vCenter to give the...
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VMware Adobe Flash Optimizer IE Addon - Enable/Disable via GPO
The VMware View Agent which is installed in all virtual desktops (and RDS hosts) managed by Horizon View, includes the VMware Adobe Flash Optimizer internet explorer add-on.This IE add-on is provided...
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Mouse Cursor Disappears on a Windows 8.1 View Desktop Following Update
Following an update within Windows 8.1 Update 1 the mouse cursor within a VMware View desktop my occasionally disappear.When locking the desktop (ctrl+alt+del) and subsequently unlocking the desktop,...
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vSphere Transparent Page Sharing (TPS) in Horizon View 6.1
As you may already know, VMware have disabled the popular memory management and memory saving feature; Transparent Page Sharing (TPS) in later releases of ESXi by default.ESXi 5.1U3 and future Update...
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App-V 5.x Writing to the native registry
Occasionally you may come across a requirement for an App-V application to write to the native registry (i.e. that of the desktop which the App-V client is installed on). By default all App-V...
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Visiontek USB 3.0 Pocket SSD review: Convenient form factor, fast reads, slow...
This USB 3.0 thumb drive rivals Samsung's T1 in read speed, but writes barely faster than a hard drive. USB flash drives have become the almost universal method of sneakernetting small amounts of...
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How To Run Parse Server on Ubuntu 14.04
Parse is a Mobile Backend as a Service platform, owned by Facebook since 2013. In January of 2016, Parse announced that its hosted services would shut down in January of 2017.In order to help its users...
View ArticleHow to Set Up Let’s Encrypt Certificates for Multiple Apache Virtual Hosts on...
SSL certificates are used within web servers to encrypt the traffic between server and client, providing extra security for users accessing your application. Let’s Encrypt provides an easy way to...
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Change vmnic order on ESXi
Ever had an accident when out and about? Trip or fall at work? Or a problem with your vmnics on your ESXi server not ordering correctly?Anyone that has built enough ESXi servers has come across this....
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Russian cyberspy group uses simple yet effective Linux Trojan
The Fysbis Trojan runs without root and has an extensible, modular architecture.A cyberespionage group of Russian origin known as Pawn Storm is infecting Linux systems with a simple but effective...
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The surprising truth about Facebook's Internet.org
Motorists in Mumbai, India, ride past a billboard displaying Facebook's Free Basics initiative on Dec. 30, 2015. India has become a battleground over the right to unrestricted Internet access.No,...
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Malware targets all Android phones -- except those in Russia
The MazarBOT appears aimed at compromising online bank accounts.A malware program for Android seen advertised on Russian underground forums in the last few months appears to have made its first big...
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How to Change FC Storage Path from Fixed to Round Robin in VMware ESXi
The default pathing policy for a LUN can be changed (for example from Fixed to Round Robin). This can be a LUN on an iSCSI or FC array (or FCoE for that matter). When I refer to pathing policy I'm...
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VCP6-DTM Objective 2.3 – Configure PCoIP/RDP Protocol Settings
In this post we will cover some protocol settings, GPOs, Flash and 3D rendering etc. VCP6-DTM Objective 2.3 – Configure PCoIP/RDP Protocol Settings, is another chapter, another objective towards the...
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VCP6-DTM Objective 3.2 – Configure Automated Pools using full clones
In this article we’ll configure full clones driven by automated pools. In this particular case we won’t use VMware Composer, reducing a bit the complexity of View, but on the other hand growing the...
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ADManager Plus – Free, Standard and Professional editions
ADManager Plus is an utility which easy-to-use software destined to manage Windows Active Directory. It allows managing and reporting and there is also free version. Note that the tool installs itself...
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This car travels 300 miles on just 85oz of (hydrogen) gas
A European start-up has announced a hydrogen fuel cell car with just 18 moving parts and a range of 300 miles that is now being tested on public roadways. The Rasa hydrogen fuel cell car from...
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Free Fault Tolerant Load Balancing using Citrix NetScaler Express (Part 1)
In this article we will describe the set-up and configuration of the NetScaler VPX including High Availability/Fault Tolerance.If you would like to read the other parts of this article series please go...
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