Dashboard for powershell scripts

Ever wanted to desplay your powershell as a dashboard? Well some people do, here is a free tool that might help you out http://www.codeplex.com/Poshboard might be more useful for the VI Toolkit from vmware to show off your ESX and VM stats to managment.

Windows Logon Message

Windows Logon Message for systems connecting to a Active Directory Domain.

Error: “The system cannot log you on now because the domain <name> is not available”

Cause: This is caused by low system memory or pagefile is full.

Fix: a reboot should fix the connection, then the memory leak needs to be fixed or space problem need attention.

Rocket dock

Looking for a extra dock or like the dock for mac but have windows well rocket dock might be what your looking for.

http://rocketdock.com/

VM Power on Error in ESX

ERROR: a general system error occurred: internal error

Error is from ESX 3.5 U2 (update2) where the product expires Aug 12 2008.

/var/log/vmware/hostd.log,
Aug 12 10:40:10.792: vmx| http://msg.License.product.expired This product has expired.
Aug 12 10:40:10.792: vmx| Be sure that your host machine’s date and time are set correctly.
Aug 12 10:40:10.792: vmx| There is a more recent version available at the VMware Web site: http://www.vmware.com/info?id=4.

Effects VM power on’s and supended systems.

The work-around:

Turn off NTP (if you’re using it), and then manually set the date of all ESX 3.5U2 hosts back to 10th of August. This can be done either through the VI Client (Host -> Configuration -> Time Configuration) or by typing date -s “08/10/2008″ at the Service Console command line on the ESX hosts.

Warring: If you have application or databases that have the VMware tools installed you need to uncheck that option so that you dont have the time on the VM messed up, if they use system time in a critical way.

iPhoney

http://www.marketcircle.com/iphoney/

iPhoney a free open source iPhone web simulator for developers.

SyncToy v2.0 Released

Nice free sync tool for windows, you can get in in 32bit or 64bit.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=c26efa36-98e0-4ee9-a7c5-98d0592d8c52&displaylang=en&tm#filelist

Updated NIC binding for Vista

I have added Vista bind order settings to my old post about how to configure them on Windows.

http://theregime.wordpress.com/2008/03/04/how-to-setview…der-in-windowshow-to-setview-the-nic-bind-order-in-windows/

Making a EXE from a RAR file

Found a great link that tells how to create a EXE from a RAR file. That is converting your archive to a SFX in winRAR. You can also find good information about more commands in the help file of winrar under self-extracting modules.

http://thehobbylounge.com/forum/index.php?topic=1241.0

Going Green

There is a nice free PDF printer that is opensource called PDFCreator at pdfforge http://www.pdfforge.org

And here is a nice Image to support your green side that you can add to your HTML Signature.

Speed Up Windows 2003

Warning: Perform a system backup before making changes to your registry

There is a registry setting that is enabled for 2003 that is now disabled in 2008/Vista. This updates the last-accessed time of a file when applications open, read, or write to the file. This plays a part on Virtualized servers do to a increase in Disk I/O and CPU load.

http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/sysperf/Perf_tun_srv.mspx is a whitepaper from microsoft about this setting

HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem\NTFSDisableLastAccessUpdate