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Bypass SBS 2008 Memory Requirements

For anyone looking to work with SBS 2008 in a dev environment but unable to provision VM’s with 4gb of ram you may be interested in this little reg key.. I see lots of posts around the net asking for ways to bypass the memory requirements but not many with answers. I stumbled upon this [...]

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mRemote

Just a quick post for anyone looking for mRemote downloads and/or source code as the latest wasn’t easily found on their page. mRemote as their website says is “a full-featured, multi-tab remote connections manager”. I use it for accessing RDP/VNC/SSH services on a variety of hosts so that I can keep it all neat and [...]

PHP WMI Library for Linux

I’ve just released a WMI/PHP library which will allow you to easily WMI query Windows machines from your Linux server via PHP. It is somewhat of an extension of the CactiWMI project as it used that code base as a reference for the query and processing of the returned data. Whilst there are a number [...]

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Automated VirtualBox + LVM Snapshot VM Provisioning

Just a quick follow-up to my previous post about using LVM to clone logical volumes to create new VM’s. I’ve written up a quick script to help automate the process which allows you to rapidly deploy a fleet of test VM’s without having to mess about. The script is attached below and requires PHP. Configure [...]

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0.0.6 Release of CactiWMI

I posted this on the forums some time ago and realised I had not posted here. This is the latest version, the mini change log is below. Update templates to suit new input method Backwards compatibility for old argument input method Overhaul how arguments are passed to wmi.php Debug mode via console option Add support [...]

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