Run Flash Sites in 2021

What? You need to administer vCenter 6.5 in 2021, but the HTML5 UI only has partial functionality, and for some reason you can’t upgrade? Ignoring the fact you’ve been warned for almost two years about the retirement of flash… Here’s the “Fix” to run flash apps after end of life in 2021.

Monitor File or Directory Changes with PowerShell and Email Changes

I had a need to monitor a file/directory for changes, or more specifically entries into an error log by an application. I wanted a trigger on file change using a PowerShell or some other script, since the application didn’t have alerting capabilities built in. I wanted a script to check read the log file and… Continue reading Monitor File or Directory Changes with PowerShell and Email Changes

Get Recursive Group Membership of Distribution Group (PowerShell)

I spent part of the day yesterday looking for a good way to dump members/users of a Distribution group. No big deal except this situation has many levels of nested groups. There’s a Quest (Dell) PowerShell snapin that will do this, but why install anything else on  a production server that doesn’t need to be there?… Continue reading Get Recursive Group Membership of Distribution Group (PowerShell)

Create VDI Larger than 2TB XenApp 5.6 SP2 (5.6.102)

I’ve been setting up a new XenServer with a Mirrored 250GB volume, and a RAID 5 volume with three 2TB disks. The mirror is holding the virtual servers, and the Raid5 is to be used for snapshots and the file storage. I’ve looked for a few days now trying to find a solution to exceed… Continue reading Create VDI Larger than 2TB XenApp 5.6 SP2 (5.6.102)

True Aero Firefox – Make it transparent!

It’s all pretty easy… Just edit your userChrome.css file found under %appdata%\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\<your profile>\chrome to include the below. Of Course I have the All-in-One Side bar (which is awesome), and a few other add-ons which I will list later, but here you go, or download it HERE:

Run Windows Applications In Elevated Mode (UAC Prompt) sudo for Windows 7

So how do you get a batch file to run as an elevated user? For example, I have a batch file that will copy the contents of an XP user’s profile to a Windows 7 user’s profile. The only catch is that the Windows 7 user profile structure is different, and the batch file must… Continue reading Run Windows Applications In Elevated Mode (UAC Prompt) sudo for Windows 7

Fix PDF Viewer on Windows 7 x64 with Outlook 2007

Followed directions from: http://www pretentiousname com/adobe_pdf_x64_fix/index.html (LINK REMOVED) This fixes the PDF Preview Viewer integration with Outlook. This prevents you from having to open the PDF and you can now view it like other office documents. Bug with x64 bit versions of Windows and Adobe. Download it here: adobe_pdf_x64_fix