Yet Another IT Professional Blog

I guess we all heard about the Java security breach . I don't know about you but I've heard about it and decided to take action like a good IT Professional. :)  We decided to deactivate the Java add-on on our Terminal Server which is running Windows Server 2008 R2. I realized that if I turn off the add-on manually from the Internet Explorer settings, the action is only takes effect only for the user account that your are logged in. But, what do you do for a Terminal server or on system that multiple user is using? I've found the answer on Microsoft TechNet forums and I wanted to share it with you guys because the answer wasn't easy to find at all. First, here is the forum thread that I'm talking about; http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winserverTS/thread/fe5b7fb6-bbda-42ac-87d2-a64f57f5d6a0 Here is the original article from Microsoft (even though it says Windows XP in the article, this applies to Windows 7 & Server 2008 R2 systems as wel

Recently I have created multiple virtual machines using VMWare Workstation 9. I wanted to prepare template VMs already installed, updated, patched and configured... Just ready to load and start my super clean VM lab. So after hours of work, all  my vms were ready with a nice Sysprep finish :) But when I started to use them, I realized that I could not open my vms... I was just copying the template VM folder that I created earlier into another folder and just renaming the folder for my personal use, but i never renamed the actual files of vms. I would go from my VMware Workstation and do "File", "Open" . Surprise! "Failed to lock the file. Cannot open the disk 'C:\path\vmfilename.vmdk' or one of the snapshot disks it depends on. Here is what I found. Actually, I think it will be even better if I just state the most important part of the VMWare knowledge base article # 1038189 regarding this problem. Here is the WHY? ; The error   Failed to loc