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The VMware homepage is a damn maze. Every time I reinstall an vSphere server I can never find the page to get the key I generated.

Anyway login to your vSphere account and click here: https://my.vmware.co … ree-esxi5&lp=default

A great tool for all system administrators!

@echo off

:: BatchGotAdmin
:-------------------------------------
REM  --> Check for permissions
>nul 2>&1 "%SYSTEMROOT%system32cacls.exe" "%SYSTEMROOT%system32configsystem"

REM --> If error flag set, we do not have admin.
if '%errorlevel%' NEQ '0' (
    echo Requesting administrative privileges...
    goto UACPrompt
) else ( goto gotAdmin )

:UACPrompt
    echo Set UAC = CreateObject^("Shell.Application"^) > "%temp%getadmin.vbs"
    echo UAC.ShellExecute "%~s0", "", "", "runas", 1 >> "%temp%getadmin.vbs"

    "%temp%getadmin.vbs"
    exit /B

:gotAdmin
    if exist "%temp%getadmin.vbs" ( del "%temp%getadmin.vbs" )
    pushd "%CD%"
    CD /D "%~dp0"
:--------------------------------------

<YOUR BATCH SCRIPT HERE>

Save the whole thing as install.bat
Now with WinRAR (yes go and install it), Right click install.bat and select “Add to archive…”
Under Archiving Options select: Create SFX archive
Click on the Comment tab (across the top)
Enter the following:

Path=%tmp%
SavePath
Setup=%tmp%install.bat
Silent=1
Overwrite=1

If you want to add a pretty icon etc, thats done under the Advanced tab.
Click OK and your Done!

Now your practically unstoppable, Admin Rights and an executable file - Your life just got so much easier!

Link back for the WinRAR exe
Regards to this guy for BatchGotAdmin!

How to import RSA private key into java keystore for tomcat
# You need:
# Your CA signed certificate (acme.com)
# Your private key (RSA)
# Your CA intermediate Certificate

# Import the certificates and key into a PKCS12 bundle

openssl pkcs12 -export -in certs/acme.com.crt -inkey acme.com.key -CAfile certs/DigiCertCA.crt  
-name "acme.com-2013-2014" -out acme.com.p12

(Remember the password you assigned it)

# Check if it worked:

openssl pkcs12 -in acme.com.p12  -info

# Import the PKCS12 bundle into a java keystore:

keytool -importkeystore -deststorepass YOUR-PASSWORD -destkeystore acme-keystore  -srckeystore acme.com.p12 
-srcstoretype PKCS12 -srcstorepass YOUR-PASSWORD 

Entry for alias acme.com-2013-2014 successfully imported.
Import command completed: 1 entries successfully imported, 0 entries failed or cancelled

# Check your keystore:

keytool -list -keystore acme-keystore

Output should be similar to:

Enter keystore password:  YOUR-PASSWORD

Keystore type: JKS
Keystore provider: SUN

Your keystore contains 1 entry

Alias name: acme.com-2013-2014
Creation date: Jan 3, 2013
Entry type: PrivateKeyEntry
Certificate chain length: 1
Certificate[1]:
-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----

keytool -list -keystore acme-keystore
Enter keystore password:  

Keystore type: JKS
Keystore provider: SUN

Your keystore contains 1 entry

acme.com.au-2013-2014, Jan 3, 2013, PrivateKeyEntry, 
Certificate fingerprint (SHA1): FA:A6:A3:42:95:34:15:68:26:35:40:18:8D:50:68:D4:15:C8:12:9E

# And match it against the import:

openssl x509 -fingerprint -in certs/acme.com.au.crt -noout
SHA1 Fingerprint=FA:A6:A3:42:95:34:15:68:26:35:40:18:8D:50:68:D4:15:C8:12:9E

$MailboxAlias = “YOUR-USER-NAME”
$BatchName=$MailboxAlias + “-export”
# SHARED-FOLDER-PATH requires Exchange Trusted Subsystem with NTFS modify permissions
$ExportShare = “SERVER-NAMESHARED-FOLDER-PATH”

# There is also a date parsing bug with powershell, set servers regional settings to English (America)
# before opening your powershell window.

New-MailboxExportRequest -ContentFilter {(Received -le ‘01/12/2013′) -and (Received -ge ‘12/28/2012′)} -Name $BatchName -Mailbox $MailboxAlias -FilePath “$($ExportShare)$($MailboxAlias).PST”

Often with virtualised servers you can have a slow time generating entropy for virtualised systems and you get stuck with this message:

 We need to generate a lot of random bytes. It is a good idea to perform some other action (type on
 the keyboard, move the mouse, utilize the disks) during the prime generation; this gives the 
random number generator a better chance to gain  enough entropy.
 

The quickest way in my opinion is the following command. Just make sure you have a dvd / cdrom iso mounted and connected with vmware.

 until [ 1 = 0 ]; do dd if=/dev/sr0 of=/tmp/dvd.iso; rm /tmp/dvd.iso -f; done 

and ^C when your done!