VM-Aware

I know everybody loves Dilbert, but two of my favourites of recent times are below:

Also this little beauty from last week:

I’ve been on a bit of a mission of late to find articles that make the sometimes complex seem more simple.

I don’t know about you, but I find navigating around the Sharepoint licensing model a complete and utter nightmare. So how pleased was I when I found Lady Licensing. Simple diagrams covering the following scenarios:

• Intranet Portal
• Intranet/Extranet
• Internet

Brilliant! It even comes with pictures. Need I say more? I thought not, check it out here.

Sanbarrow has released a masterpiece for all administrators out there. The MOA LiveCD is a fine example of what true dedication can bring you.

3 years in the making the LiveCD allows you to boot into BartPE style environment with VMware related applications installed. The idea being that you can attach a physical disk for forensic/repair purposes etc.

Other useful applications include RoboCopy to get your important files off before the hard drive fails for good. Registry backup tools, VMware Converter and a multitude of others.

It comes in at 500mb, but you can run it from a USB key (if you have a degree of dedication) or CD.

Download it here, read all about it here.

I’m sure that most people are either aware of these documents already or would have stumbled across them at some point.

For those of you that are interested in PowerShell to the point that you’d be curious as a possible release date then Jeffrey Snover may be your man.

A blog post of his indicates that v2 is feature complete and although he cannot explicitly mention a release date he intimates that mid 2009 is a good guess.

I think PowerShell is the best thing that Microsoft have done for many a year so I’m pretty excited by a big feature update.

I think I have stumbled across the best free SQL Server tools list in the world ever…!

The guys at sqlteam have compiled a list so comprehensive that I don’t know where to begin:

• SMSS Add-Ons
• Analysis Tools
• Performance Monitors
• Upgrades & Migration
• Code Formatting

You’ll have loads of fun with this page for a long time, I know I did. Check it out here.