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I love this feature in VMware Workstation, you can run your application on a guest OS and use it same as native application on your host machine. You can switch virtual machines that have Windows XP or later guest operating systems to Unity mode to display applications directly on the host system desktop. In Unity mode, virtual machine applications appear on the host system desktop, you can use the virtual machine Start or Applications menu from the host system, and the virtual machine console view is hidden. Items for open virtual machine applications appear on the host system taskbar in the same way as open host applications. On host system and virtual machine applications that are displayed in Unity mode, you can use keyboard shortcuts to copy, cut, and paste images, plain text, formatted text, and email attachments between applications. You can also drag and drop and copy and paste files between the host system and the guest operating system. If you save a file or attempt to open a file from an application in Unity mode, the file system you see is the file system inside the virtual machine. You cannot open a file from the host operating system...

AS you may know, you can connect to OA (HP Onboard Administrator) or iLO via SSH. This is a good solution to upgrade iLO firmware without logging on to OA or iLO. So just you needs to access to OA or iLO and you must have administrator role on the consoles. Download proper iLO images from HP site for each of iLO version and put it on a web server, then open a SSH console and run the following commands: First iLO: cd map1/firmware1 load -source http://webserver/ilox_x.bin After running the commands you have to wait for some minutes and iLO will reset. You may see the below results: status=1 status_tag=COMMAND SPAWNED Attempting to load iLOX firmware image. status=0 status_tag=COMMAND COMPLETED Resetting iLO.   I got no error when I was upgrading iLO via iLO SSH console but if you face with any error, share it with me. Now OA: update ilo <all/device bay number> http://webserver/ilox_x.bin If you want to upgrade all iLO firmwares in OA, you should use ALL otherwise you should use device bay number. I got some errors during iLO upgrade via OA SSH console: An error occurred while executing the script on iLO. Please review the RIBCL...

Some ESXi CLI commands have no alternative in PowerCLI and you have to run the commands on ESXi via SSH or locally. But there is another easier way to run batch commands and get result. You can use PLINK on this regard. Plink is one of Putty components, so you need to have plink.exe on your local drive or any location which to be accessed. Change the below script parameters and run your commands as you like: $User = <User> $Pswd = <Host Password> $hostName = <Host> $plink = <PLink Path> “\plink.exe” $plinkoptions = ” -v -pw $Pswd” $cmd1 = ‘ esxcli vm process list’ $remoteCommand = ‘”‘ + $cmd1 + ‘”‘ $command = “Echo Yes| “+$plink + ” ” + $plinkoptions + ” ” + $User + “@” + $hostName + ” ” + $remoteCommand $result = Invoke-Expression -command $command $result [quotes_and_tips]

If you are going to deploy VDI for your users and you have to install Microsoft Office for the users, you need to keep 1GB free space for the software installation cache files on the virtual machine’s C drive. One gigabyte space is important when you have plan to deploy the VMs as Linked-Clone VMs and it can reduce your storage cost and you can create more VMs. Now, what is solution to remove the files without any impact: At first step, install Office components as you want and take a backup from this folder “C:\MSOCache” on a network shared folder our another drive. Remove the folder from the VM’s C drive. Make an ISO file from the backup folder. You can also rename the folder, it doesn’t matter. Create a symbolic link by MKLINK command and make a “Directory Junction” on C drive, for example: MKLINK /J C:\MSOCahce E:\MSOCache E: is your CD-ROM drive your VM. Then, if you need to modify Office components, you can mount the ISO file and do your modification. Of course, you can make the symbolic link when you need to this. There is another solution but it’s very difficult, you have to change...

When you are working on a remote computer and you want shutdown it or you want to shut down it remotely. May be you face with this error when you are trying run shutdown command: A system shutdown is in progress.(1115) First, you need to try to stopping winlogon.exe process remotely, you can use PSKILL tool to kill the process and allow the computer to continue shutdown process. pskill \Computer-Name winlogon Sometimes, the issue is related to “Windows Modules Installer” service. When you open services.msc, the service is in stopping status. You can run the below command: pskill \Computer-Name TrustedInstaller I hope, this post help you to resolve same issues on your servers or remote computers.