Remove duplicates in Outlook with ODIR

Mailbox corruption, synchronization errors or users that have messed up. Sometimes you just need an effective tool to find and delete duplicate emails, contacts and calendar appointments. ODIR(Outlook Duplicate Items Remover ) just does the trick and is unlike many others 100% free.

Download: http://www.vaita.com/ODIR.asp

Improve VMware Console Mouse Experience with Windows Server 2008

Did you notice that since Windows 2008, console mouse experience is really crap. Not a big deal because you need to get out of that console view ASAP anyway. But after working with some environments which I only had console access I got really frustrated and fired up Google to look for a way to improve it. Right away I found that changing the VGA driver would solve the problem, this is so simple that it makes me wonder why this alternate driver is not default?

Here how to do it:

1. Open the Device Manager and expand your Display adapters. Right click the display adapter and select Update driver software…
2. Click Browse my computer for driver software
3. Now select the driver shown in the image below. It is copied to that location upon installation of VMware tools, so they must be present. For best results ensure you are using the latest version of VMTools.
   
4. Finally, Windows will find and update the video adapters driver with the WDDM version as seen below. You will need to restart your server as is noted in the dialog box 

Source: http://vm-pro.com/improve-vmware-console-mouse-experience-with-windows-server-2008/

“Delete all” snapshot: A general system error occurred: concurrent access

When deleting multiple snapshots at the same time with the “Delete All” button I received the following error on many of my Virtual Machines: “A general system error occurred: concurrent access”

After verifying that there was no concurrent access I start googling this error but there was nothing related out there.

Just before calling VMware support I tried to delete de snapshots one by one and this didn’t generate the error and the snapshots were succesfully removed. Strange but I’m happy I could remove the snapshots.