Oppergod just goes on and on and on and on and ….

I tried a few portable application platforms, but since i use Liberkey, i don’t use any of the other ones.

Main advantages of Liberkey:

• Automatic updates (for the platform and the installed applications)
• (Temporarily) usage of file associations for the portable applications you’ve installed.
• A lot of pre-packaged portable freeware applications
• Easy adding and removing of applications
• Easy adding and removing for you own portable applications
• Choice between a pre-configured suite or start of with your own empty Liberkey.

URL: http://www.liberkey.com

If you frequently update computers like i do, you don’t want to wait for windows update to check which updates are available for the computer, choose which ones you want to install. Finally Windows Update has to download them and then after a long wait they are finally installed.

Now you can use WSUS Offline Update, for downloading all the updates for the platforms/languages you select and put them on a USB key/DVD/CD, so you can use it on all the computers you have to patch. Just run it again if you want to update your directories/ISO’s and it updates them with all the new updates and you’re good to go with the latest patches on your USB key/DVD/CD.

Check out the latest version of the lights-out WHS Add-in, which now has the possibility to check for CPU load and Network Activity. With the lights-out client utility it is possible to automatically wake the WHS when you need it, so it isn’t turned on all of the time.

By forwarding UDP port 9 to your WHS on your router it is even possible to wake the server automatically remotely!

Forum: http://forum.wegotserved.com/index.php?/forum/89-lightsout/
More Info: http://addins.home-server-blog.de/verwaltung/lightsout/#en

Today while re-assigning the ip addresses for an ESX environment I ran into the problem that I couldn’t deploy machines from templates because it stopped at failed to connect to host while cloning the template to a virtual machine.

Solution:
- Put host in maintenance mode
- Disconnect host
- Remove host from cluster
- Remove /etc/opt/vmware/vpxa/vpxa.conf
- Add host back to cluster

Annoyed by having to call microsoft to get a hotfix that is not available via the website. Now there's hotfixr. Here you give the KB you want to have the download for and you're e-mail address and within a day the hotfix will be mailed to you!