A couple of weeks ago I contacted Rob, the man behind RVTools, and asked him if he could add an export or copy+past functionality to his amazing tool “RVTools”. This amazing tool checks the VMware tools version and gives you the option to update them all at once. Rob updated his tool today:
Version 1.1
Changes: May 10, […]

One of my readers just emailed me the following, again thanks for this info which might me useful to any of you guys out there playing with VCB:
Today with the help of VMware Support I solved a strange problem.
With all my Solaris10-32Bit VM’ s I was getting an error, when I tried to backup them […]

Arne blogged about a cool feature of BGInfo yesterday, but his post is in dutch so it’s not on the Planet V12 RSS feed which is  a shame cause it’s definitely usefull info.
In short: BGInfo is a handy little SysInternals tool which sets a desktop wallpaper with pre-defined info like total memory, disk info, ip […]

Rob de Veij created a cool tool for checking the status of VMware Tools and easily upgrading to the latest version of the tools by just selecting the appropriate VM.
RVTools is a small .NET 2.0 application which uses the VI SDK to display the version of the installed VMware tools.It […]

For anyone using the good old Winscp client, it was just updated to 4.0.7. Same goes for mRemote, it has just been updated to version 1.35. Pick it up, and while your at it visit VM4All. Eric keeps track of all VMware related tools!

For anyone doing regular checks of Microsoft AD this tool is a must have:
With the Active Directory Topology Diagrammer tool, you can read your Active Directory structure through Microsoft ActiveX® Data Objects (ADO). The Active Directory Topology Diagrammer tool automates Microft Office Visio to draw a diagram of the Active Directory Domain topology, your Active […]

mRemote has just released version 1.0. For those who never heard of mRemote, it allows you to manage all your remote connections in a single place. It currently supports the RDP, VNC, SSH, Telnet, RAW, Rlogin, ICA and HTTP/S protocols. Pick it up at sourceforge.net.

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