Thursday, October 08, 2009 by Guy Leech | 1938 views | 4 comments
This is an update to two previous utilities that have now been merged - "Launching an unkillable process" and "Replacement shell for repurposing a Windows client" - and also adds a few new features. Note that it also allows launching of console based programs without them showing a window at all.
Thursday, September 24, 2009 by Guy Leech | 6550 views | 3 comments
Ever have the need to pause a process so that you can come back to it later – maybe something that is resource hungry, difficult to get back to the same point in if you quit it or possibly doesn’t work when away from the corporate network? Then this is the utility for you – via a simple user interface it allows you to pause and resume any of your running applications/processes.
Tuesday, September 08, 2009 by Guy Leech | 969 views | 0 comments
As of 1st September 2009, Microsoft is including an App-V (formerly SoftGrid) licence within the Client Access Licence (CAL) for Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2, meaning that a separate App-V licence is no longer required.
Wednesday, September 02, 2009 by Guy Leech | 2657 views | 6 comments
Have a Windows client that you want to just use as a thin client? If so, take a look at this utility that is a drop in shell replacement which will just run the given program, with arguments, and relaunch it when it exits.
Wednesday, August 26, 2009 by Guy Leech | 1333 views | 1 comments
Need to launch processes that your users cannot terminate and/or hide windows for applications or scripts?
Tuesday, August 18, 2009 by Guy Leech | 979 views | 0 comments
Frustrated by explorer giving you an access denied error when you want to explore a folder? If so then read on.
Saturday, March 07, 2009 by Guy Leech | 451 views | 0 comments
If you snapshot a running VM and then just copy the base disk away then you lose the running information and may corrupt a VM restored from this disk particularly if the VM is stateful like a database server. The method below will work to allow you to take a snapshot of a live machine, copy away the files and create a cloned VM that can be resumed from the exact point of the snapshot. This technique can be used for backup and restore purposes and is obviously scriptable. The reason we do this is because the disk files of a running VM are locked and therefore cannot be copied, particularly on Linux hosts where there is no VSS functionality. Note that the disk files in use after the snapshot are called *-000001.vmdk where there may be more than one depending on how many disks you have and whether they are split into 2GB chunks or not. The .vmdk disk files that are not named *-000001.vmdk are the base, original disks, and are no longer locked after a snapshot since they are read-only.
Saturday, December 20, 2008 by Guy Leech | 416 views | 0 comments
The default host-only networking in Server 2.0 and Workstation allows the guests to talk to each other and also to the host itself. What you may want or need to do is to have host-only networking where the guests can talk to teach other but not to the host and vice versa. This is actually very easy to setup. I would suggest that you create a new host-only network adapter for this so that you can also have "traditional" host-only networking available too.