Month: March 2011

XenDesktop USB Filtering the easy way!

In XenDesktop 5.0 you can configure HDX policies to block or allow certain types of USB devices. For example, you could block flash drives but allow USB printers or webcams. Unfortunately, Citrix doesn't give you an easy to to discover class IDs, vendor IDs, or other identifiers that can be...

Building a Sandy Bridge ESX Server

A few months ago I posted the parts list for sub-$1000 ESX server. At that time Intel had not released their Sandy Bridge CPUs or chipset. Now that manufacturers are shipping chipsets without the SATA bugs, I thought I'd post an updated list of components for a screaming home ESX...

Hashes to Ashes – Root your domain in seconds

Protecting privileged passwords is always extremely important, and you may think just because you use a very long password that is highly complex that it may take a hacker days, weeks, or even years to break into your system. Or you may also think that giving regular users local admin rights...