Plain Virtualization

Been to many customers and have many questions on how our vSphere 6.5 Security enhancement does and how different is it from others. So to clear some of the questions and also the articles that are available below will provide more details. A good place to start is read up this VMware blog post by Mike Foley.  This post detail the new UEFI for ESXi and for VMs and on VM Encryption.  Let us break down some questions that are asked often or unclear: 1) Does all OSes support UEFI? Modern versions of OS like Microsoft Windows 2012, RedHat 5 and Suse Linux Enterprise 11 SP2 and above .  Unless we are talking about older OS that are dependent on BIOS. 2) Who provide the UEFI firmware? The hardware server vendors that allows OS or hypervisor to be installed on to be boot from.  Hypervisor or virtualization software vendor that allows running of virtual machine to boot from. 3) How can we prevent BIOs, hypervisor and OS been compromise? The use of UEFI is to en...

References Quick-start guide for deploying Office 2010 using ThinApp 4.6.1 Issues with ThinApp and Microsoft Office 2010 Office 2010 Tips 2010 I wanted to do Thinapp on Microsoft Office 2010 and realize the above information and details are pretty useful.  However its not in order and its difficult to piece up.  So here I have order them up for easy reference.  I will not go into details what each steps is all about as its already mentioned in the above references. Requirements One clean Windows XP SP3 (Thinapp does not support capture in a 64bits OS) Thinapp 4.6.1 and above Microsoft 2010 32bits setup files (MAK/KMS/Retail license) dotNet Framework 3.5 (full download here ) Procedures Run Thinapp prescan capture of the OS Install dotNet Framework 3.5 In Command Prompt, run "C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\ngen.exe executequeueditems" Edit Office 2010 installation Config.xml file to enter your MAK key: By default, the Config.xm...