Tools: ImgBurn without Admin Permissions

Jun 9

Posted by Ivan in ImgBurn

Recently ImgBurn was scripted to be deployed on to enterprise managed clients. Non of those clients have users as local administrators. With Nero you could install NeroRights to provide such privileges but with ImgBurn this is not possible. To solve this problem small GPO change locally or GPO in the domains can be done.

ImgBurn error

CreateFile Failed! - Device \\.\CdRom0 (D:\)
Reason: Access is denied.
Errors were encountered when trying to access a drive
This drive will not be visable in the program
You need Administrative privileges to use SPTI

ImgBurn GPO setting

Start gpedit.msc as administrator , Local Policies, Security Options and configure “Devices:Restrict CD-ROM access to locally logged on user only” to Enabled. Log in as user

ImgBurn without admin

ImgBurn found 1 drive now without local administrative permissions on Windows XP Sp3.

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Veeam: Veeam Monitor Free Edition 4.0

Jun 9

Posted by Ivan in Veeam

Veeam Monitor 4 for VMWareVeeam released latest version of their “Veeam Monitor 4.0 Free Edition for VMware” which is  free monitoring tool for ESXi hosts.

 

The Veeam Monitor Free Edition is an easy-to-use VMware monitoring solution designed to meet the day-to-day needs of VMware administrators who need real-time performance monitoring and alerting. Built from the ground up specifically for the virtual world, Veeam Monitor provides a bird’s-eye view of key performance metrics across your virtual ESXi infrastructure.

With Veeam Monitor, you can view real-time resource usage data for any virtual infrastructure object or collection of objects, as well as known infrastructure events, all on a single screen. This allows you to finally see your virtual infrastructure as a unified entity, not just a collection of isolated hosts and guests.

There are some limitations but fair enough to monitor and manage my ESXi hosts. I don’t have Virtual Center servers to manage my branch server ESXi systems and Veeam Monitor Free Edition will do all that for me know.

For more information click on the links below:

Some screenshots:

Veeam Monitor for VMWare ESX 1

Veeam Monitor for VMWare ESX 2

Veeam Monitor for VMWare ESX 3

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Windows 7 RC: Add virtual disk (.vhd) with Disk Management”

May 19

Posted by Ivan Versluis in Windows 7

The wow experience as IT pro and Windows 7 RC having VHD format integrated into the operating system.

The Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) format is a publicly available image format specification that specifies a virtual hard disk encapsulated in a single file, capable of hosting native file systems while supporting standard disk and file operations. They are commonly used as part of the Hyper-V feature of Windows Server 2008 R2, for example. For more information about VHDs, see Additional references. You can use Disk Management to create, attach, and detach virtual hard disks (VHDs). Membership in Backup Operators or Administrators, or equivalent, is the minimum required to complete these procedures.

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Create new Virtual Hard Disk and attach it as your local drive.

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The virtual hard disk is attached now. Initiate the disk and assign letter & format. I can now encrypt it with Bitlocker and password.

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How cool is that? ;-) No TrueCrypt anymore for me….

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Microsoft Outlook: how to backup my signature?

May 15

Posted by Ivan in Microsoft

One of the things I always struggled with is creating a backup of my Microsoft Outlook signatures. This is the first time I found how to create a backup of them.

The solutions is simple and easy. You could script this and automate when doing client/profile migrations.

Start –> Run and go paste this %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Signatures

That’s it. You can copy these files to whatever location you want.

Microsoft Outlook Signature location

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JeOS: Installing mutt without an Internet connection

May 11

Posted by Ivan in Uncategorized

Ubuntu LogoI needed to install mutt on my JeOS virtual appliance without having an internet connection because the machine is sitting behind firewall. Mutt is handy in scripts and you can attach your files. The files can be mysql database dumps for example.

Mutt is a small but very powerful text-based mail client for Unix operating systems. It is great for testing mail server setups and sending email messages via the command line.

  

Download the .deb files:

Install

  • dpkg -i mutt_1.5.17+20080114-1ubuntu1_i386.deb
  • dpkg -i mutt-patched_1.5.17+20080114-1ubuntu1_i386.deb

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