By default, being able to copy and paste items from your machine through the console of a VM is disabled. This makes sense, there are security implications here. However, if you're in an environment where you trust your users and you're constantly moving files or managing VMs, having the ability to copy and paste is huge. So here's how to enable it: To enable Copy & Paste on one machine Log in to a vCenter Server system using the vSphere Client and power off the virtual machine. … [Read more...] about Adding Copy and Paste Functions to vSphere VMs or in vCenter
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VMware Horizon View – Enable Servers in Desktop Mode
With Horizon View, if you want to publish servers in desktop mode, such as publishing Server 2008 R2 as a desktop, you'll have to make some changes within ADSI Edit. The change is fairly straightforward. Here's a quick tutorial on how to get it done. To start, open up ADSI Edit on your VMware Connection server, or any server on the domain with access to your domain controller: From there, choose More Actions over on the right and choose Connect To. Enter the … [Read more...] about VMware Horizon View – Enable Servers in Desktop Mode
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VMware's Community Forum and website has always been super helpful in providing technology resources and information quickly and easier. The lagging side has consistently been the tough to find downloads that you need in order to upgrade or install new products. VMware Tools can be downloaded quickly and easily using a web browser to review the file structure, instead of heading to the website and navigating through the links. Here's the site: http://packages.vmware.com/tools VMware calls … [Read more...] about VMware Tools Download
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