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Intro (if you just want plugins, skip this section)
lazy sometimes are the most productive people you can find in IT. During my career I have seen many people employed in IT that were really inventive when it comes to understanding how to do less work. One could even say that it is one of the most important features regarding scripts eg
There are several ways how these lazy people trying to save their time -. To use the templates through scripting to well-defined processes and guides that can be delegated as a result of lower skilled IT things. These people generally tend to simplify all processes and use minimal steps to achieve maximum
I created many tools and frameworks in recent years -. Some are simply one-shot utilities and scripts, while other frames are made up of thousands or even millions of scripts (How? You can write a script to write another script that you know ). However, sometimes the smallest change that takes you only a few minutes to implement can save thousands of hours of work in the coming years. For example pinning your most frequent applications to the taskbar instead of going through the start menu
I realized that account during my recent project, I access the VM in two different ways . - Via the XenCenter console and through regular RDP connection. Sometimes I'll notice something is wrong in the XenCenter console, so I just opened the RDP connection to open the event viewer within the virtual machine.
If only we could simplify these things we do on a daily basis, right?
XenCenter and plugins
the most effective way the simplest and most often to increase your productivity is to create shortcuts for actions you perform most. One of my personal favorite ways how to achieve this is to extend the existing tools with new context menus whenever possible
Let me show you one of the lesser known features of our XenCenter console -. The ability to add custom menu items and new tabs. I did not know about this feature and we have recently discovered that it is supported.
If you want to start, head over plugins XenCenter and take a look at some examples that are included. To be honest, I just used the plugin specification document -. If you have any experiences with the dev documentation, this is all you need to know
The process is quite simple, if you want me to explain step by step, just ask in the comments and I'll write a second part of this blog
Example implementation -. RDP Login, services, event log ...
and here's the part you've been waiting - three little plugins in one package that add functionality that I was most time - ability to open remote desktop connection, remote services and event log with just a few clicks. Installation is very simple, just unzip the file into your XenCenter:
Of course, do not download until you read our full disclaimer (download at the bottom):
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