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I wasted about half an hour trying to figure out an annoying feature of Outlook 2007 which prevents emails getting cleared from Inbox. So, when I delete emails from Inbox, it gets striked off(marked for deletion) but just sits there. 
But If you think that you don’t need to delete the emails from the Exchange Server or [...]

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This could happen when you use VMware Server with SMB storage or otherwise. The error message is pretty self explanatory but here is how it can happen with VMware Server. 
Consider that VMware Server is installed on a machine which mounts SMB storage location with an administrator account.  Windows doesnt allow two sessions access the shared [...]

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This applies to Citrix XenServer 4.1, 4.01 and other Xen variants. Consider we have 3 images in the storage namely Redhat, Win2k3 and Win2k and you want to know the name of the VHD files in the storage.

Xen has a convoluted way of relating to operating system files. This is how the naming goes – [...]

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Consider this.
You want to integrate Salesforce into your Outlook 2007. You went to salesforce.com and downloaded ‘Connect for Outlook’. Installed it and restarted Outlook several times but still not able to see the Salesforce Outlook buttons.
Outlook 2007 has a strange way to put the Salesforce plugin in the ‘Disabled items’ list. What you need to [...]

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Problem
After installing VMware Tools, you are still having a bad experience interacting with your Win2k8 or Vista VM.
Firstly, it could be because you have not enabled full hardware accelaration. Please check you hardware acceleration settings to confirm that you have set it to the fullest.

To check for hardware acceleration, Right click on your desktop, Goto [...]

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With so much Ga Ga over VMware and Xen, the industry overlooks the importance of dozen other players who play key roles in maintaining a thriving virtualization ecosystem.

Let me call the whole ecosystem a “jungle”. Like a jungle which contains all kinds of animals and each one playing a unique distinct role, virtualization ecosystem also [...]

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