Virtualization, Cloud, Infrastructure and all that stuff in-between
My ramblings on the stuff that holds it all together
Installing a PowerShell IDE on Windows Server 2008 R2
Posted by on April 21, 2012
I’m sitting Thomas Lee’s PowerCamp espresso-powered PowerShell course this weekend – highly recommended, see my previous post. I didn’t know this, being a POSH newbue, but there is a free, built-in PowerShell IDE, editor that ships with Windows Server 2008 R2, so for my labs I tend to install PowerGUI to bodge together some scripts. [...]
iTunes Match and the 380GBP data bill
Posted by on February 24, 2012
Be careful out there, I have an iPhone 4s with a UK carrier (Tesco Mobile) and a 1GB data bundle on a pay-monthly contract. I recently upgraded to iOS5 and iTunes Match – which is actually great and makes my music collection much more accessible from my devices, I found this setting the other day [...]
How to set a Virtual Machine to a date in the past and make it stay there
Posted by on February 23, 2012
From time to time you may have a requirement to set the time and date of a virtual machine to a date in the past, to replicate a time-sensitive production issue or to work around expiry of a temporary license key. WARNING: DO NOT DO THIS WITH A MACHINE WITH ANY SORT OF CONNECTIVITY TO [...]
Install Telnet client on Windows 2008 R2
Posted by on February 22, 2012
Windows 2008 R2 doesn’t ship with Telnet installed by default, so if you want to check connectivity on a specific port to rule out a firewall issue you’ll need to install it manually. You can quickly do this from the command line with the command (you don’t need access to media etc. as it’s [...]
Microsoft UK TechDays
Posted by on February 2, 2012
Microsoft are once again running their TechDays series in the UK, a series of full-day FREE hands-on sessions on training around the UK. I’ve attended these in the past and can highly recommend them. There look to be some excellent sessions, you can sign up here I am attending the private cloud session and look [...]
LonVMUG Best Community Presentation of 2011 Awards
Posted by on January 30, 2012
If you are a London VMware User Group attendee, you’ll already be aware of the fantastic quality of presenters we have had from the community over the last few years. As such, we wanted a way to reward those that have spent many hours of their own personal time honing their content. I know from [...]
PowerCamp–weekend PowerShell Training Course
Posted by on January 23, 2012
I came across this today on my Twitter feed, Thomas Lee is running a weekend course in PowerShell in London this April, the agenda is as follows.. What is A PowerShell PowerCamp? This fast paced weekend event covers all the key aspects of Windows PowerShell – from the command line and writing production-oriented scripts. We [...]
London VMware User Group Jan 26th 2012
Posted by on December 14, 2011
We (the steering committee) are pleased to announce that the agenda for the next London VMware User Group is now online and registration is open. The full agenda is available in this handy PDF file and you can register using this link We have a great agenda lined up with hands-on labs from Embotics (who [...]
16Gb RAM upgrade for MacBook Pro
Posted by on December 13, 2011
I have a 2011 13” MacBook Pro (Thunderbolt model) which is my main workhorse machine, I wanted a highly specified machines that was very portable and this absolutely fitted the bill (if it was VERY expensive) – buy the best, or buy twice as someone I know always says, and I’ve come round to his [...]
This blog is not dead. but it is a little bit quiet
Posted by on December 8, 2011
Apologies for the lack of posting, this is another one of those I’ve been too busy to blog busy excuse posts. I have a ton of stuff I am working on – including the next London VMware User Group meeting on Jan 26th and vTARDIS 5 posts as well as a very challenging customer project. [...]
