Ketan Desai

  • Enabling Copy and paste on vSphere

    Enabling Copy and paste on vSphere

    VMware introduced additional security measures in vSphere 4.1. By default, the copy and paste feature is disabled. To re-enable this feature: Note: There are two methods of achieving this, first is on VM basis and the other is system wide. Per VM 1.Log in to vSphere Client and select the virtual machine in the inventory. 2.The…

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  • PowerPoint Master Slides

    PowerPoint Master Slides

    When Creating a presentation you may need to create a master slide so they you have the same information appear on every slide you create. for example a logo. open up PowerPoint. click on the view tab at the top of the ribbon. Then select slide master.   Once you click on ‘slide master’ you…

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  • Orphaned SQL Users

    Orphaned SQL Users

    When you restore a Microsoft SQL Server database to a different Server you will get Orphaned SQL Users. First, we need to find the orphan users. This will lists the orphaned users: If you already have a user on the new server that corresponds to the database user, you can fix it by doing: If…

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  • Renaming Files Using Batch

    Renaming Files Using Batch

    i often have to change the file names of music i have imported from CD this little script allows me to remove the track number from the file name.

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  • Find Startup Items

    Find Startup Items

    A long time ago i found this VBS script to display the start-up items for a windows pc. i can not remember who is the author of the script. hopefully this will help someone.  This script is a VBS script

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  • Find Next Available Drive Letter

    Find Next Available Drive Letter

    Sometimes when i cam creating a script to install an application or set up a network share, I come across the problem that the user is using the drive letter for another mapping. So I wrote a small script to display the next usable drive letter This script is written in vbs

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