VHD (Virtual Hard Disk) and its successor VHDx are File Format representing a virtual hard disk drive (HDD). They may contain what is found on a physical HDD, such as disk partitions and a file system, which in turn can contain files and folders. They are typically used as the hard disk of a virtual machine, are built into modern versions of Windows, and are the native file format for Microsoft's hypervisor (virtual machine system), Hyper-V.
Learn about different Microsoft Deployment tools for Windows 7. See how imaging and configuring of virtual hard drives is accomplished. www.traincanada.com/site/event/upgrading-and-deploying-windows-7/
VHD (Virtual Hard Disk) and its successor VHDx are File Format representing a virtual hard disk drive (HDD). They may contain what is found on a physical HDD, such as disk partitions and a file system, which in turn can contain files and folders. They are typically used as the hard disk of a virtual machine, are built into modern versions of Windows, and are the native file format for Microsoft's hypervisor (virtual machine system), Hyper-V.
Learn about different Microsoft Deployment tools for Windows 7. See how imaging and configuring of virtual hard drives is accomplished. www.traincanada.com/site/event/upgrading-and-deploying-windows-7/
Repair Virtual disk via VHD Recovery tool. Perform VHD data recovery from corrupt VHD file. It supports FAT, FAT16, FAT32, FAT64, NTFS, HFS+ & EXTX file systems
More details: http://www.leawo.org/tutorial/copy-dvd-movie-to-blank-dvd-disc.html
“I need to copy a DVD to another blank DVD disc, but I have only a single DVD drive. How can I accomplish this? I tried copying files to the desktop and then to another DVD. It didn’t work out.” Most people who plan to copy DVD to DVD on their computer will meet the same hassle – they have only one single DVD drive on their computer. Actually, this problem is quite common as most people have only one DVD disc drive on their computer, especially laptops. Very few desk computers get 2 disc drives installed. Obviously, computers with 2 disc drives make it easier to copy DVD to DVD, while computers with only one single disc drive may require extra operations to finish DVD to DVD copy process. If you’re looking for solutions to copy or burn DVD to DVD, you’re in luck. This post would offer you practical and easy-to-understand DVD to DVD copy solutions, no matter you get one single disc drive or 2 disc drives.
What’s Windows Storage Spaces & storage pool? How to create them in Settings & Control Panel? From Windows 10 to Windows 11, what has changed to them?
Repair Virtual disk via VHD Recovery tool. Perform VHD data recovery from corrupt VHD file. It supports FAT, FAT16, FAT32, FAT64, NTFS, HFS+ & EXTX file systems
More details: http://www.leawo.org/tutorial/copy-dvd-movie-to-blank-dvd-disc.html
“I need to copy a DVD to another blank DVD disc, but I have only a single DVD drive. How can I accomplish this? I tried copying files to the desktop and then to another DVD. It didn’t work out.” Most people who plan to copy DVD to DVD on their computer will meet the same hassle – they have only one single DVD drive on their computer. Actually, this problem is quite common as most people have only one DVD disc drive on their computer, especially laptops. Very few desk computers get 2 disc drives installed. Obviously, computers with 2 disc drives make it easier to copy DVD to DVD, while computers with only one single disc drive may require extra operations to finish DVD to DVD copy process. If you’re looking for solutions to copy or burn DVD to DVD, you’re in luck. This post would offer you practical and easy-to-understand DVD to DVD copy solutions, no matter you get one single disc drive or 2 disc drives.
What’s Windows Storage Spaces & storage pool? How to create them in Settings & Control Panel? From Windows 10 to Windows 11, what has changed to them?
You want to learn what virtualization is all about? I’ll talk about high level concepts, tips and tricks and best practices. You will learn all that and even why Azure might be an interesting choice when we talk developer virtualization. Concepts like Sysprep, Differencing drives, snapshot intrigue you? I’ll let you know all about them and more! Come join me to explore all that virtualization as to offer
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Elevating Tactical DDD Patterns Through Object CalisthenicsDorra BARTAGUIZ
After immersing yourself in the blue book and its red counterpart, attending DDD-focused conferences, and applying tactical patterns, you're left with a crucial question: How do I ensure my design is effective? Tactical patterns within Domain-Driven Design (DDD) serve as guiding principles for creating clear and manageable domain models. However, achieving success with these patterns requires additional guidance. Interestingly, we've observed that a set of constraints initially designed for training purposes remarkably aligns with effective pattern implementation, offering a more ‘mechanical’ approach. Let's explore together how Object Calisthenics can elevate the design of your tactical DDD patterns, offering concrete help for those venturing into DDD for the first time!
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
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The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
Securing your Kubernetes cluster_ a step-by-step guide to success !KatiaHIMEUR1
Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
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Generating a custom Ruby SDK for your web service or Rails API using Smithyg2nightmarescribd
Have you ever wanted a Ruby client API to communicate with your web service? Smithy is a protocol-agnostic language for defining services and SDKs. Smithy Ruby is an implementation of Smithy that generates a Ruby SDK using a Smithy model. In this talk, we will explore Smithy and Smithy Ruby to learn how to generate custom feature-rich SDKs that can communicate with any web service, such as a Rails JSON API.
2. What Will We Cover? Boot-to-VHD Windows XP Mode Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V Managing Hyper-V with System Center Virtual Machine Manager
3. Agenda Native Boot to VHD What is Native Boot? Benefits and Performance Inside look at Boot to VHD Partitions Common Scenarios Installing … OS Media or Network Boot Step By Step – Native Boot to VHD with No underlying OS Step By Step – Native Boot to VHD with Underlying OS An Inside Look at BCDEdit Limitations Guidelines, Here is the proof => Next…
4. Introduction to Native Boot to VHD What is a Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) Fixed Disks Larger (slower to deploy) Recommended for production systems Dynamic disks Grow as data is added Smaller (faster to deploy) As used with Virtual PC / Virtual Server / Hyper-V Supported Platforms Windows 7 (Enterprise, Ultimate) Windows Server 2008 R2 (Full and Core) Standard, Enterprise, Datacenter, Web Itanium-based systems Tools (See Resources for details) DiskPart,Disk Management (MMC),BCDEdit, BCDBoot, DISM, Hyper-V Manager, Sysprep, ImageX (AIK)
5. Benefits of Native Boot to VHD Possible to boot a VHD directly on hardware Can run Windows Virtualization Platform Deploy either as physical or virtual using same file Use the same management tools Support multiple boot scenarios Fast deployment for re-usable environments Parent of a differencing disk can be a fixed, dynamic, or differencing disk (differencing chain) Negligible performance difference from Native
7. System and VHD Partitions System Partition Primary Partition Bootmgr C:indows D: BCD C:agefile.sys D: C:hdindows7Dynamic.vhd D: Phy Physical Disk Virtual VHD C:indows VHD Boot Parent volume of the VHD is available after boot with a different volume letter LOOK: Watch your disk space go to maximum VHD Capacity + Physical Used
8. Common Scenarios Image management ‘Attach’ a VHD and access as a drive letter Common VHD image for both physical and virtual environments Native boot hardware with no installed OS One or multiple local VHDs within a single partition E.g. for kiosk machines, early adopters Developers, Trainers Demo, Proof of Concept Virtual Appliances Centrally stored VHDs for network deployment Copy locally and then start Network boot to VHD using WDS
9. Install From Media Or Network Boot Start Installation Format Media (if doing bare metal insall) You should be on the “Where do you want to install Windows?” screen of the installation press Shift-F10 to drop to command prompt Find installation drive (dir c:, dir d:, dir e:, etc) Diskpart Create vdisk file=e:ootDemo.vhd type=expandable maximum=40000 Attach vdisk Exit Click “Refresh” button Select “New Drive” and perform normal installation Using this method, the BCD will be updated automatically
10. BCDEdit – Windows Server 2008 R2 Running on Metal In this example, we have an OS running on Metal and a VHD Boot menu also available
11. BCDEdit – Host with NO OS Installed Natively In this example, we have only one OS and it is running in a VHD on an empty hard drive DEMO
12. Preparing for Native Boot and BCDEdit If host system is Vista SP1: Replace Bootmgr and BcdEdit.exe with Windows 7 versions Create bootable VHD file Disk Manager, Hyper-V Manager, ImageX, SCVMM, DiskPart,Etc Copy bootable VHD to a directory on the host system (e.g. ‘c:hdootWin.vhd’) Use BcdEdit to copy the existing boot entry (from administrativecmd prompt) bcdedit /copy {current} /d “Windows VHD Boot” Look at the new entry bcdedit /v Use BcdEdit to Edit the VHD system bcdedit /set {GUID} device vhd=[c:]hdootWin.vhd bcdedit /set {GUID} osdevicevhd=[c:]hdootWin.vhd bcdedit /set {GUID} detecthal on Use BCDEdit to change the description, default start item, menu order, timeout, etc. bcdedit /set {GUID} description “New Menu Description Goes Here!” bcdedit /default {GUID} bcdedit /displayorder {GUID_1} {GUID_2} bcdedit /timeout 10 If using virtualization on the system… (Make sure you cold boot after making changes) Enable Virtualization in BIOS bcdedit /set {GUID} hypervisorlaunchtype auto
13. An Inside Look at BCDEdit Let’s look at BCDEdit in some detail
14. Limitations Native Boot is only for Windows 7 and 2008 R2 Native Boot does not support Hibernation Sleep mode is supported Native Boot does not support BitLocker No Over Allocation of Disk Space No “Nested” boot to VHD Maximum size of dynamic VHD = 2TB (2048 GB) Parent of Differencing disk must be on same volume
15. VHD Boot Guidelines Native VHD boot requires Windows 7 Boot Manager (Bootmgr) and BCDEdit utility Use BCDboot.exe from attached VHD Pagefile and boot manager are outside Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) Dynamic VHD expanded during boot Plan physical disk free space accordingly Store user data outside of the OS VHD
16. Creating Differencing Disks Create the VHD’s diskpart create vdisk file="D:IN7_Diff0.vhd" parent="D:IN7.vhd“ exit This takes care of creating the VHD’s and setting up the parent – child relationship. To be able to boot to the differencing disk, the BCD store will need to be updated to reflect our intended changes. Update the BCD store. BCDEdit.exe /set {GUID} device VHD=[D:]in7_Diff0.vhd BCDEdit.exe /set {GUID} osdevice VHD=[D:]in7_Diff0.vhd
17. Thin Provisioning – Be Very Careful registry entry will prevent the disk from expanding to its full size. Open the registry editor, browse to the location that’s displayed below and alter the value to “4”. [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINEYSTEMurrentControlSetervicessDependsarameters] "VirtualDiskExpandOnMount"=dword:00000004
18. Resources How to Perform Common Tasks http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd979534(WS.10).aspx What's New for IT Pros in Windows 7 http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd349334(WS.10).aspx What's New in Virtual Hard Disks http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd440864(WS.10).aspx What's New in Deployment Tools http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd744386(WS.10).aspx Windows(R) Image to Virtual Hard Disk (WIM2VHD) Converter http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/wim2vhd
19. Tools Resources Appendix: Tools, Scripts, and APIs. The following tools are included in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2: DiskPart A command-line tool that you can use to create, attach, and detach VHDs. You can also perform more advanced tasks like compacting, expanding, and merging VHDs. For more information, see DiskPart on Microsoft TechNet (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=128458). Disk Management A Microsoft Management Console (MMC) snap-in that you can use to create, attach, and detach VHDs. BCDEdit A command-line tool that you use to manage boot configuration data (BCD) stores. For more information, see BCDEdit on Microsoft TechNet (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=128459). BCDBoot A command-line tool that you can use to manage and create new BCD stores and BCD boot entries. BCDBoot can be used to create a new boot entry when configuring a system to boot from a new VHD. For more information, see BCDBoot Command-Line Options on Microsoft TechNet (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=155166). Deployment Image Servicing and Management (DISM) A command-line tool that you use to apply updates, drivers, and language packs to a Windows image. For more information, see Deployment Image Servicing and Management Technical Reference on Microsoft TechNet (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=155029). Windows Hyper-V Manager An MMC snap-in that supports VHD image creation. You can specify the type and size of VHD and install Windows from a CD or DVD, or from an ISO Image file. The Hyper-V Manager is only available on computers that are running Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2 with the Hyper-V role installed. Sysprep A tool that enables you to remove user and computer-specific data from the operating system image. This enables you to capture the image and deploy it to other computers. For more information, see Sysprep Technical Reference on Microsoft TechNet (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=155027). The following tool are included in the Windows Automated Installation Kit (Windows AIK): ImageX A command line tool that enables you to capture, create, modify, and apply Windows images. For more information, see ImageX Technical Reference on Microsoft TechNet (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=155340).