Monday, December 19, 2011

Tools and Utilities


One big App-V Tools page
http://www.app-v.info/app-v_tools.html

App-V

Useful App-V on Windows 10 page
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/application-management/app-v/appv-for-windows

The Windows 10 sequencer is obtained from the Windows 10 ADK

Windows 10 Assessment and Deployment Kit (ADK)
Online:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/get-started/adk-install
Offline:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/get-started/adk-offline-install

App-V Manifest Explorer (AVME)
http://www.tmurgent.com/appv/en/89-tools/app-v-5-tools/348-avme

App-V Configuration Editor (ACE)
http://virtualengine.co.uk/vet/ace/

App-V_Manage
http://www.tmurgent.com/AppV/en/resources/AppV_Manage/221-appv-manage-introduction

MSI

Insted It
MSI editor
http://www.instedit.com/

MSI creation tool
http://www.advancedinstaller.com

Other Tools and Utilities

Powershell editor
https://code.visualstudio.com/

PortQry v2
Network port checker for UDP and TCP
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=17148
https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/310099/description-of-the-portqry-exe-command-line-utility

Virtual Clone Drive
Virtual CD\DVD drives from disc images ISO CCD IMG UDF DVD supported.
http://www.slysoft.com/en/virtual-clonedrive.html

Rufus creates bootable USB keys
https://rufus.ie/

Procmon
Windows Process Monitor
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645

SpyStudio
http://www.nektra.com/products/

7Zip Free Zip Software
http://www.7-zip.org/

CPU Memory and Disk Load Stress
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vijaysk/2012/10/26/tools-to-simulate-cpu-memory-disk-load/

SCCM PolicySpy and other tools
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=29265

SCCM Client Center
This is Roger Zander's SCCM Client Center for Configuration Manager tool.  There is also a link to a ClickOnce version of this application here.
https://github.com/rzander/sccmclictr

.NET Framework Version Checker
http://www.asoft.be/prod_netver.html

Windows 7 SDK .NET 3.5 .iso   -   orca  windiff  etc
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=18950

Windows 7 SDK .NET 4
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=8279

WMIExplorer
https://github.com/vinaypamnani/wmie2/releases/tag/v2.0.0.2

Microsoft WMI Code Creator
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=8572

Hardware
Monitor hardware operating parameters such as voltage, power consumption, temperature

Monday, December 5, 2011

Disable Machine Password Changing

To prevent VMs with non-persistnant disks from "falling off" the domain set the following key

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Netlogon\Parameters

DisablePasswordChange <REG_DWORD> = 1

However it is still possible that domain policies may force it back to zero.