Want to set an alarm but don’t want the standard (annoying) alarm tones on Android?

Try this:

1. Plug your phone into your computer and mount it as a Disk drive.
2. Once it’s mounted, browse to the SD card on your Laptop (On mine it appears as E:)
3. Browse to E:\Media\audio\
4. Add a new folder called: alarms
5. Add your mp3 or wav files into the alarms folder.
6. Disconnect your phone

You can now choose your custom, personal, alarm sounds when setting an alarm

Yet another “not entirely obvious” VMware thing

If you want to use the VMware vCenter Converter from within the vSphere Client you need to:

1. Install vCenter Converter on the vSphere vCenter Server (It’s an option on the vSphere vCenter installer)
   
2. Now log onto your vSphere Client and go to:
   1. Plugins > Manage Plugins > Install vCenter Converter Client
3. Once installed, right click on any ESX host, or ESX Cluster and choose “Import Machine…” from the bottom of the context menu.
   
4. That’s it. The vCenter Converter wizard will then pop up

Note: This is tested and working on VMware vSphere 4.1. Let us know how you get on with other versions of vSphere!

This guide will run through how to remotely turn on and activate TPM in the BIOS on a Dell PC using the Dell Client Configuration ToolKit

Setup

First we need to install the Dell Client Configuration Toolkit (CCTK) on the target system.

To do this:

1. Log onto the target system via RDP
2. Grab the CCTK MSI file
3. Install the CCTK onto the target system

Making Configuration Changes

On the target system:

1. Log onto the target system via RDP
2. Open up a Command Prompt
3. Navigate to: C:\Program Files\Dell\CCTK\
   1. If you’re running 32-bit OS, go into X86 folder
   2. If you’re running 64-bit OS go into X86_64 folder
   3. From here, run the relevant command…
   4. To enable and activate TPM on the target system:
      1. cctk --tpm=on
      2. cctk --tpmactivation=activate
   5. Reboot, and TPM will be enabled

Bootnote

This process was tested and confirmed working on a Dell Latitude E6410 running Windows 7 32-bit. Let us know in the comments if it works for you too!

More Resources

There’s a page from Dell which covers more background here: http://www.delltechcenter.com/page/Dell+Client+Configuration+Toolkit

If you need to Deploy the Outlook Social Connector via GPSI, you’ll need to get your hands on the MSI files.

To do so, follow these instructions…

1. Download the OSC file from Microsoft
2. Run the following command from a command prompt: outlooksocialconnector-x86-en-us.exe /extract:C:\osc\
3. This will extract the msi files to c:\osc\
4. You can then use the MSI file to deploy OSC!

If you want to integrate the MSP Patch files are well, just do this:

Then you’ll be deploying the MSI fully patched

Earlier today, I was trying  to set up a Remote Verification Server on NetApp SnapManager for Exchange 6.0, but came across this error when the remote verification server tried to mount the snapshot:

[SnapDrive Error]:VDS volume object for the LUN s/n ‘<serial>’ has not been found

The error shows up in the Report that SME generates when it runs a snapshot/backup job.

To get around this error, install the latest (apparently not-quite-released-yet) SnapDrive on to your Verification Server. You can get it here: http://now.netapp.com/NOW/download/software/snapdrive_win/6.2P1/

This problem appears to happen on Server 2008 R2 servers, and I can confirm that installing the download above fixed the issues for me.

For the record, this is our configuration:

Exchange 2007 SP2 running on a Server 2008 SP2 box, with a Server 2008 R2 box set up for Remote Verification

The full thread discussing this is here: http://communities.netapp.com/message/24568?tstart=-1