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How to run vCheck – to get you started

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: December 17, 2020

vCheck is a community project started few years back by Alan Renouf. Since then it has been enhanced and updated several times, with the latest version 6 of the script recently enhanced and shared now at GitHub where the collaborative environment can be leveraged for further improvements. So How to run vCheck? There is possibility […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: PowerCLI, vCheck as scheduled task

Free and Simple Installable Tool for Imaging Desktops

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 17, 2017

I’ve been looking recently to image a desktop computer. Yes, physical desktop. The need I had was to do a master image which can be restored when the machine gets too “dirty” from too many applications or virus etc. The tool I’ll show you today is free, and simple installable tool for imaging desktops. The software […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff

Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit 4.0 (EMET) – what’s it useful for?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 5, 2020

Microsoft has released a final version of free utility called Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit 4.0 (EMET). A mitigation technology is protection against attackers, where a malicious code cannot be executed to infect Windows systems. EMET can act at different levels. At system level, at process level, or at the application level. There were always some kind of […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit

VDI Calculator Tool as a free offline utility – now available

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: December 17, 2020

VDI calculator allows is used for VDI projects for sizing and calculating VDI environments. This tool which was previously Flash based online tool, can be now executed offline, without internet connection. VDI Calculator, as we can see from the screenshot, has been sponsored by few VDI partners, like Atlantis Ilio, which is a name that […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: VDI calculator

Windows 8 task manager for Windows 7 – A Cool Portable App

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: May 26, 2013

Pretty much very large majority of Windows users is waiting for Windows 8.1, which should bring back a start menu. Cool features like the redesigned task manager running under W8 are nice, but may just not be enough for a migration. As for now. After the release of Windows 8.1 in June, which will be […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: Free Tools

Foglight for Virtualization – New Free Tool from Dell for Multi Hypervisors Environments

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 17, 2017

Foglight for Virtualization - Snapshot Explorer

Dell has just released updated free tool for virtual infrastructure called Foglight for Virtualization. It’s a known tool to my readers previously called vOps Server Explorer and which contains already 5 different Free utilities to give you an overview of overall activity of your virtual environment, eventual bottlenecks etc. In addition to vSphere 5.1 and Hyper-V 3.0, the RHEV 3.1 is […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: Foglight for Virtualization

Securing a virtual DMZ environment using vCloud Networking and Security – Free PDF from VMware

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 26, 2025

New technical PDF from VMware which helps with a design of a DMZ by using software protection that comes with VMware vSphere. By using the vCloud Networking and Security (vCNS). The vCNS is a product bundled with VMware vSphere (from Essentials Plus and higher) and vCloud Suite, and it’s destined to secure VMware vSphere environments. vCNS […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: vCloud Networking and Security

Top 5 VM performance problems and how to solve them

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: January 29, 2014

We could discuss Top 5 VM Performance Problems during long hours, but most important problems are usually storage array performance problems and not enough memory in your infrastructure. So when your hosts starts to “fight” for memory and starts to use one of the 4 memory reclamation techniques that VMware uses, then there might be time […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: Top 5 performance problems in Virtual Environement

View 5.2 Best Practices PDF – Optimizing W7 and W8 guests plus more

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: May 17, 2013

There is a new paper released by VMware, for VMware View 5.2, called View 5.2 Best Practices, or I should rather say Horizon View 5.2. The latest release from VMware has introduced many new features like sVGA or sparse efficient disks. Feature about which you could already read in my detailed post here – VMware Horizon Workspace – […]

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NTFS Permissions Reporter to quickly check directory permissions on file servers

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 21, 2020

Another cool tool from Chris Wright called NTFS Permissions Reporter which allows you to create reports on directory permissions on file servers. The reporting is very fast, and allows you to see which users and groups have access to which directories. Chris also programmed another tool which I’ve reported on called AD Tidy and which allows […]

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