CSS Template: Pend Oreille

The inspiration for this fully W3C compliant “XHTML 1.1 strict” template was Pend Oreille county in eastern Washington State. The clean, uncluttered look of this design would make an appealing online presence for a business or even a blog.

Giant Windows Registry Hacks List

Looking to change the behavior of your Windows 7 computer? Maybe you need to enable or disable some functionality, make it run faster, lock it down from prying eyes? This post contains a pile of great registry hacks. If you have been around for a bit, you’ve probably seen a lot of these. However, there might be a… Read More »

Managing Portgroups with PowerCLI

If your VMware implementation contains more than a few hosts, managing port groups (or any multi-host settings) can be a real pain. In order to take advantage of cool things like vMotion, your port groups need to match across all hosts in the cluster. If one of them is misspelled, or has a bad VLAN tag, it’s a… Read More »

CSS Template: Yakima

Named for the beautiful Yakima valley in Washington state, this fully W3C compliant “XHTML 4.01 strict” template makes strong use of CSS to stylize basic and extended elements to provide a clean, attractive appearance for your website.

Grabbing System Date in a Batch File

Batch programming can be a powerful thing. Basically, anything you can run at a command prompt can be run in a batch file. Coupled with task scheduler, process automation nirvana can be achieved. However, one thing that is conspicuously is the presence of a date or time variable. For example, if you wanted to date or time encode… Read More »

MMS 2012:Desktop Management with System Center 2012

Supporting desktops in large organizations has become increasingly complex. Support teams that are looking to streamline support through improved, remote troubleshooting while working in the security constraints of ‘least privilege’ access need to look at how Microsoft System Center Operations Manager, Opalis and System Center Configuration Manager can be configured to work together to provide a single, easy-to-use… Read More »

MMS 2012: Day One

The first day of any conference is usually pretty hectic.  You have to travel to get there, get checked in at the conference, get checked in at the hotel, etc.  It’s mainly a travel day.  However, there are a couple of good presentations on the first of of MMS that I thought would be useful, and I was… Read More »

vicfg-rescan

Perform a rescan operation each time you reconfigure your storage setup. You can use the vicfg-rescan vSphere CLI or the vSphere Client to perform a rescan. See the ESX Configuration Guide and the ESXi Configuration Guide. The Fibre Channel SAN Configuration Guide discusses rescan on Fibre Channel storage. The iSCSI SAN Configuration Guide discusses rescan on iSCSI storage.… Read More »

vicfg-nics

Get information, set speed and duplex for ESX/ESXi physical NICs. The vicfg-nics command manages uplink adapters, that is, the Ethernet switches used by an ESX/ESXi host. You can use vicfg-nics to list the VMkernel name for the uplink adapter, its PCI ID, driver, link state, speed, duplex setting, MAC address and a short PCI description of the card.… Read More »