Turn Windows 7 into a Wireless Hotspot

Situation: 4 techs walk into a conference room with only 1 ethernet jack. No switch, no problem if someone has Windows 7. with Connectify you can turn one persons machine into a virtual wireless router and setup a WPA2 hotspot for access. This gives anyone who connects a fully routed internet connection and network access.

Bits Request Filtering in IIS 7.0

I had an issue today deploying applications for a client from SCCM. The packages had a number of files using file extensions and directories that are blocked in IIS 7.0 by default. Took awhile but I found how to fix this from a bunch of sites. What you want to look for is in the IIS W3v log files in C:\inetpub\logs\LogFiles\W3SVC1 look for 404 7, 404 8, or 404 11 (search for 404). If you see these you are being “request filtered”

This is a post describing what I was seeing
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/configmgrswdist/thread/e3c06b14-d0b8-4b4c-9a52-7f920de06f8e

Following links I fixed some of the errors by editing the applicationhost.config file but it was painful. I found this link which shows you how to run appcmd statements to do this automatically
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc754791(WS.10).aspx

The commands are
appcmd set config /section:requestfiltering /fileExtensions.applyToWebDAV:false
appcmd set config /section:requestfiltering /allowdoubleescaping:true
appcmd set config /section:requestfiltering /hiddensegments.applyToWebDAV:false
Then run iisreset and you should be good. I also had issues getting the packages repushed out to machines once the bit.tmp files showed up so instead of troubleshooting I just reimaged.

VMware View 4.0.1 Released.

VMWare has released v4.0.1 of View. This maintenance release brings Virtual Printing support to PCoIP.

Click here to view the release notes.

EMC Simulator for Navisphere

For anyone that has a current Powerlink ID the direct link to the downloads can be found here

http://education.emc.com/main/internal/resources/res_int_prod_sim.htm

Its very basic in functions but very nice to study with and give you some basic "hands on" experience.

Bill

VMware View 4 PCoIP Resizing issues

View 4 has given me troubles in the past where it will not let me resize the desktop if I am connected via PCoIP. After doing some digging on google, I found a blogpost from thatsmyview.net which has a pretty slick walkthrough for making PCoIP work well.Click here to read the Thatsmyview Post

Additionally, I found that I have had to change the video memory of the base VM in order to make this work, posts from vmware communities suggested changing to 128mb, but I think that can be lessened with experimentation.