Church IT Roundtable

Free/Open Source project management portal. Located via http://churchit.com/teamlab-a-free-project-management-portal/.

"How to create a Multiboot USB Flash Drive that you can use to Boot Multiple ISO Files from USB."

"I have seen number of posts on this topic with people having trouble setting the default zoom on incoming email (Outlook 2007 seems to remember the zoom setting for composing mail, but not for reading mail). The following macro will set the zoom every time an email is opened."

"Concerto is a free, Web-based broadcast medium for digital announcements that just works. Using Concerto, it's easy to engage large communities of people with graphical and text-based flyers, alerts, and other messages."

Free tools like Xirrus Wi-Fi Inspector and the Xirrus Wi-Fi Monitor Gadget for Windows 7 with links to other third-party systems/network admin tools. Very cool!

"F.lux...it makes the color of your computer's display adapt to the time of day, warm at night and like sunlight during the day."

"David Mikhail, one of Fairfax County Public Schools' top Windows engineers had put together a master list of software to blacklist via GPO.  This gives us the flexibility to allow users local admin right with some comfort that known bad software can't be installed."

Lockdown for workstations to prevent changes or remove them at will. Similar to DeepFreeze and Windows SteadyState. Optional central control. Commercial product.

"Create groups from your members and send messages to them in one simple step." Text messaging and group communication tool.

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

Ultimate-P2V (fix-vmscsi) is a free plug-in that allows you to clone a physical machine to virtual machine - and perform the neccessary "system reconfiguration" required to make it bootable. Without this tool or a commerical P2V tool the virtual machine would just give a "blue screen of death"

"I'll show you another procedure to reset the Windows password by replacing the Sticky Keys application. This program allows you to use the function keys SHIFT, CTRL, ALT, or the Windows key by typing one key after the other instead of pressing them simultaneously with the second key. The main advantage of this password reset method is that you don't need third-party software; another plus is that it is easy to carry out because no Registry hack is required, as when you offline enable the built-in administrator."

"A physical server needs drivers to talk to it's hardware. A virtualized server, in essence, does the same thing. VMware presents new hardware to allow the virtual machine to talk to it's hypervisor. Think of the driver issue in a P2V migration like removing a video card and installing a new one. The drivers and hidden hardware are still there just in case you feel like popping the video card back in. A P2V will still have all of the old hardware in the virtual machine. Don't forget about services that physical servers used, namely HP server management services."

"Prey lets you keep track of your phone or laptop at all times, and will help you find it if it ever gets lost or stolen. It's lightweight, open source software, and free for anyone to use. And it just works."

List of default passwords for network equipment by manufacturer.

"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."