I don’t get chance to use ThinApp (Thinstall) as much as I used to, but I’ve had a couple of conversations where people have asked me for the real benefits and downsides.
I’m not one for re-inventing the wheel, so here are links to the excellent articles written by 4sysops.
Advantages of Application Virtualisation
Disadvantages of Application Virtualisation
Outlines [...]
Using a few different articles I managed to add a security banner at the request of a customer recently. The first article discusses which files to customise, the second article is the Message of the Day editor tool how to and finally Jase McCarty’s post that covered the whole process from start to finish.
Nice.
Duncan Epping of yellowbricks has written many excellent articles in his time, but I have recently needed to check the free disk space of VMFS volumes at regular intervals and Duncan came to the rescue.
Check this article for a script that will check the disk space of all VMFS volumes and format the results into [...]
Blocks & Files, an excellent storage related blog, has started a multi-part blog post about IBMs forthcoming storage range – XIV.
I implement IBM storage on a fairly regular basis and have mostly excellent experiences, but some of the ranges are either getting long in the tooth, or are just not as feature rich as they [...]
The Desktop Virtualization blog have posted a handy article on how to change the root password if you have forgotten/lost/mislaid it.
Check it out here.
I’ve found a multitude of blogs that point out that significant performance enhancements can be attained by disabling the File Last Access Time Check registry key in Windows Server 200x& XP.
I tried it and it does indeed make a difference, but don’t just take my word for it as Microsoft have disabled it by default [...]
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