View Auditing Portal

View Auditing Portal is a fling that web portal that serves as an extension to Horizon View Administrator.  It offers additional information such as showing parent virtual machines of linked clone desktop pools and descendant snapshots in a tree view.

https://labs.vmware.com/flings/view-auditing-portal

How to open online help within PowerShell

To open a web page with documentation on a particular cmdlet or command within PowerShell, use the format Get-Help cmdlet –Online.  The default web browser should open to the online documentation for the cmdlet in question.

Microsoft Azure Cost Estimator Tool

Microsoft Azure Cost Estimator Tool is an installable tool to profile existing on-premises infrastructure and then estimates the cost of running apps and services in the Microsoft Azure Cloud. The tool supports virtualization solutions Hyper-V, System Center Virtual Machine Manager, vCenter, and ESXi and supports Windows and Linux physical machines.

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=43376&WT.mc_id=rss_alldownloads_all

OSSEC

OSSEC is an Open Source Host-based Intrusion Detection System that performs log analysis, file integrity checking, policy monitoring, rootkit detection, real-time alerting and active response.

http://www.ossec.net/

NetAdapter Repair

NetAdapter Repair is an All In One program that allows a user to effectively troubleshoot and repair common problems with networking adapters within Windows.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/netadapter/

Intercepter-NG

Intercepter-NG is a multifunctional network toolkit for various types of IT specialists.  The main purpose is to recover *interesting* data from the network stream and perform different kinds of MiTM attacks.

http://intercepter.nerf.ru/

PowerActions

PowerActions integrates the vSphere Web Client and PowerCLI to provide complex automation solutions from within the standard vSphere management client.  PowerActions is deployed as a plugin for the vSphere Web Client and will allow you to execute PowerCLI commands and scripts in a vSphere Web Client integrated Powershell console.

https://labs.vmware.com/flings/poweractions-for-vsphere-web-client

ZAProxy

ZAProxy or OWASP Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP) is an easy to use integrated penetration testing tool for finding vulnerabilities in web applications.

https://code.google.com/p/zaproxy/

VMware I/O Analyzer

VMware I/O Analyzer is an integrated framework designed to measure storage performance in a virtual environment and to help diagnose storage performance concerns. I/O Analyzer, supplied as an easy-to-deploy virtual appliance, automates storage performance analysis through a unified interface that can be used to configure and deploy storage tests and view graphical results for those tests.

https://labs.vmware.com/flings/io-analyzer

Create a text file of installed updates and hotfixes within Windows

To obtain a text file that contains a list of installed updates and hotfixes from within Windows, launch an elevated command prompt and use the following command:

wmic qfe list brief /format:texttablewsys > list.txt