Earlier this week I attended the VMWare vForum in London. I’d missed last years, but it was good to return to Wembley Stadium- especially on the eve of the World Cup.
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Some PowerShell to find all the VMs in an ESX environment which are powered on and running Windows XP or Server 2003.
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Our office just had a pile of these in for disposal and as part of our process we remove the Hard Drives.
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A quick maths challenge for a Wednesday morning.
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If, like me, you use your email archive as a record of what’s happened and if, like mine, this means your email box is approaching capacity, here’s a trick that might free up some space.
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When using VMware PowerCLI to communicate with an uncertified vSphere server a number of warning messages appear upon connection.
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In a large organisation it’s commonplace to have a large IT organisation with staff taking on specific roles in the infrastructure to deliver part of the IT service. However, it’s often the case where a colleague outside of IT will always go to their nearest IT person regardless
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Here’s a snapshot of my current office desktop:
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Our Lifecycle Management of desktop hardware sometimes turns up some gems, today we had a venerable Dell Optiplex GX620 ultra small form factor desktop PC returned for recycling.
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When using Outlook 2013, the Calendar conveniently displays the current weather and temperature at the top of the pane. The location can be switched using the drop down on the weather itself (for some reason my English-UK Office setup decided that I was most likely a New Yorker following installation) but changing from …

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