How to Find Windows Computers or Servers With a Reboot Pending

Lets say you have a couple hundred servers to look over and after a “patch Tuesday” you know your WSUS server has already sent out the updates and each computer has installed it. Now you need to know who has Continue reading How to Find Windows Computers or Servers With a Reboot Pending

How to Patch VMWare ESXi 5.5 from Command Line

*Note* Patches can be found by going to the Patch Portal. http://www.vmware.com/patchmgr/findPatch.portalĀ  Recently after upgrading from VMWare 4.1 to VMWare ESXi 5.5 I ran into an issue with a Windows 2008 VPN server getting the following error message. PPTP VPN Continue reading How to Patch VMWare ESXi 5.5 from Command Line

Restart VMware Tools on Window’s Virtual Machines

  I keep running into an issue where VMTools will display a status of “not running” after rebooting some machines too fast, say after a Windows Update or just because they feel like it. One fix is to simply reboot Continue reading Restart VMware Tools on Window’s Virtual Machines