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SSL Sniffing – How Safe Is Your Information?

Some firewalls now have a new feature (or not so new), unbeknownst to most web users:  The little lock in your browser that shows that you are using a secure connection is not what it used to be.
When you make a secure connection to a web site, your bank for example, and you see the [...]

VMware Tools Fail During Upgrade / Uninstall

As I’ve upgraded my lab environment to vSphere over the weekend, I’ve been running across the occasional VM that fails to allow me to upgrade it’s VMware Tools.  This seems to be predominantly happening with my Windows Server 2008 VMs. 
I’ve received various error messages including ‘can’t find vmware tools.msi’ looking at c:\windows\installers, and messages [...]

Get the vSphere Client Running on Windows 7

I found an article in the VMware forums that had these steps so I decided to document them a little better and blog about it so that I have it.  Until VMware releases the officially supported Windows 7 version of the VI Client, I guess this hack will have to do.
Make sure you have the [...]