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"So ... we can effectively back up the configuration of our ESXi hosts (- 10 minute changes worst case) simply by backing up the state tardisk, then if the worst happens we can restore this and have our ESXi host with complete configuration restored in a matter of minute.  Luckily PowerCLI makes this very easy for us, the below script can be run as a scheduled task and will backup the state tardisk as often as the scheduled task is run."

xNeat clipboard manager (free) is handy and very simple to use. it captures clipboard items as they are copied to the Windows Clipboard, and you can simply bring up a menu containing all (up to user-definable limit, default of 10) the previously copied items and select the item you want to paste from it using a hot key (by default, Ctrl+Shift+V).

"PresSTORE P4 Synchronize lets you replicate data to ensure high availability. Servers, RAIDs or SANs are cloned and immediately accessible as failover. With P4's browser interface, synchronization is set up within minutes. Its also includes (X)San and FSEvents support for optimized workflows."

If multi-day calendar items show up via ActiveSync to iPhone or iPad devices, apply Exchange 2010 SP2 and Update Rollup 1 on top of that to fix the known issue.

Free (up to 250MB) or paid online dashboard that lets you transfer/view/modify files across many Cloud platforms (DropBox, Box.com, Amazon S3, FTP, SkyDrive, Google Drive, etc.)

"AD Tidy is a completely free tool that I created to help other IT Pros out. It can be used to identify when user/computer accounts last logged on to the network and can tidy up these accounts in various different ways."

How to set up a Windows RADIUS server to authenticate network client devices.

"GCalToolkit removes duplicates from your Google Calendars and clean up failed imports & syncs in a few clicks."

"Look no further. I've created a collaboration of, yet again, FREE TOOLS for virtual machines within your VMware environment. All of the tools in this package were pooled together for performing advanced tasks to optimize performance, reclaim lost space, and clean up your virtual machine. The goal of this project was to mount the ISO to your VM and run the scripts or tools that are packaged. Of course not all of these tools will run from a VM, but most can."

"Beyond the previous post of general complaints of slowness and sluggishness in Outlook and Exchange, the other complaint I hear frequently these days is specific to Calendaring.  Part of it is calendaring performance (where it might take 20-30 seconds to open up somebody else's calendar to view their calendar) which all of the points I note in the other blog post referenced above will apply to performance issues in calendaring."

Turn old Evo into media device

"The problem has to do with organizations having calendar appointments and meeting requests "disappear", get corrupt, meeting delegates (boss/assistant) having challenges with appointments showing up, disappearing, reappearing, etc." Link courtesy of Ed Buford

"Solving Exchange Outlook Calendaring Delegation Lost Meeting Problems"