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changing email address in communities profile doesnt change it in the account

c0lt — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:40:11 GMT

Dear all,

it is the 25th of November now and the feature is still not available. Any news when it will be ready?

cheers

c0lt

VMware Logins - Too Many

Dave.Mishchenko — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 07:53:36 GMT

Moved to the Communities Website Feedback forum.

Dave
VMware Communities User Moderator

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Ibm license metric tool

ibmsubcap — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:49:59 GMT

The IBM License Metric Tool began supporting many VMware server environments with the general availability of V7.2 in July 2009.

Re: ILMT V7.2 Summary With this announcement, IBM also published an updated set of FAQs: ILMT FAQs

What happened to VMWare & the website??

DSTAVERT — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:33:00 GMT

I need to stop asking you questions. Every time you give me an answer I need to go and try it. Now I'm going to waste hours looking at Opera.

Content missing

continuum — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:39:35 GMT

for me it is maybe every fourth page that does not load without a refresh

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Can no longer edit documents?

lamw — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:23:55 GMT

Hey Wil,

Not sure if you've seen my updates to both ghettoVCB & ghettoVCBg2 VMTN documents but I actually found a way to modify and save existing documents .... and boy was it a surprised when I figured out how ...through desperation of course

If you modify your document under Rich Text and don't do a preview or plain text, then you'll be able to save successfully. I initially thought this might be browser specific and tried on IE7 and then tried on chrome and actually it'll work on all 3 standard browser.

Give that a go and see if you can get it to save ... I too hope this is fixed soon, I would like stability in the platform before we introduce new features.

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Website unavailabe???

DSTAVERT — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:02:47 GMT

Is it just me or have others experienced the communities timeout quite regularly?

please display the full post while typing an answer

continuum — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:18:00 GMT

maybe same functionality could be acchieved by changing the existing REPLY button so that it pops up a new window

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When you're done . . .

continuum — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:32:20 GMT

no need to apologize - I often would have liked to draw a network-map or something like that during posting - so the idea really is nice

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What happened to forum?!!

etung — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:21:06 GMT

Just noticed. Multiple Widen clicks keep expanding it.

Right, in increments of 50 pixels. Minimum width is approximately the (current) default size.

discussions listing does not update itself

RDellimmagine — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:47:12 GMT

Investigating...

Robert Dell'Immagine, Director of VMware Communities

Please make the thread posting area wider!

etung — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:42:48 GMT

If you're using Firefox, try Re: What happened to forum?!!

User Experience Status

RDellimmagine — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:08:13 GMT

Work is currently underway to make some improvements and fixes to the user experience on VMware Communities following the recently launched new site design. Most of these improvements are in response to requests made at Communities Website Feedback, and based on those requests, we've prioritized the following list (highest priority first):

Errors when editing documents: Can no longer edit documents?
Display avatars on threads:
1. Avatars (status level, vExpert, moderator, VMware employee) will display in threads; currently they display only on community pages
Display helpful / correct answers in threads: Cannot tell what replies are marked correct or helpful.
1. Answers marked helpful / correct will display in the threads; currently they only display on community pages
IE6 errors on "All Communities" dropdowns: in IE 6 "all communities" dropdown is not clickable
Make new private messages easier to find: Notification of PMs
1. The username menu title will be bold when the user has unread private messages.
Wider view area for threads: Please make the thread posting area wider!
1. We are working on some JavaScript so that you can expand the thread view to cover the right column. This gives 30% more area to view threads while allowing us to keep the fixed width, which allows us to provide more consistency for the site across browsers and display sizes.
Truncated names: Shortened logins on forum
1. Names will still be truncated on community pages, but they will not be truncated in places where there's plenty of space to show the whole name, e.g. on user profile pages.

In addition to this, we are also working on bringing back the "My Communities" dropdown. This requires a bit more work than the other improvements above, so we will work on it after we have completed the bulk of the above list.

I'll update here as we deploy the fixes.

Thanks, Robert

My Communities link

dprabhakaran — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 07:26:46 GMT

Hi Kevin,
Thanks a lot for your quick reply. I feel that's a good feature, but that feature just tells which communities I am interested. Probably the same feature can be enhanced so that I can see the list of communities I have subscribed for email, when is the last post I have made in those communities etc.

Cheers
Diwakar

Advanced Search function now has What, Where, When but is missing Who!

WoodyZ — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 13:19:37 GMT

Before the web site was upgraded, when using Advanced Search function, one could also search by Who or Author (I can't remember now how it was labeled) and this was very handy. What are the chances of getting that feature back?

Question Status

RDellimmagine — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:40:32 GMT

This is a bug that we are working to fix. - Robert

How do you stop getting email notifications from discussions?

RDellimmagine — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:01:04 GMT

Also, if you reply to a discussion, you automatically begin to receive email notifications for that thread. However, if you go to your username dropdown and select Preferences, you can change this default behavior as well as a number of other behaviors for email notifications. Regards, Robert

Robert Dell'Immagine, Director of VMware Communities

Access denied?!?!?!

AWo — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:32:18 GMT

Problem has gone. After several tries I can access the post directly from VMTN.

AWo
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Problem with pageination and firefox

maxel — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:13:22 GMT

is it not only a FF problem..IE8 too

No longer able to view the vSphere parent and child topic discussions

temancini — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:40:23 GMT

Much better. Thank you, Robert.

Missing bookmarks in vSphere communities

RDellimmagine — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:32:15 GMT

vSphere community tabs have been fixed. They now display. Regards, Robert

Robert Dell'Immagine, Director of VMware Communities

Notification of PMs

RDellimmagine — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:28:16 GMT

I just sent you a PM with debugging info for this. Thanks, Robert

Robert Dell'Immagine, Director of VMware Communities

Shortened logins on forum

Anton V Zhbankov — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:23:17 GMT

Robert, I see such behavior on all levels - forum engine does not check if nickname fits text area, it just shortens nick to fixed amount of symbols.

The only place where it is needed - forum topics list and boxes next to comments/posts. Maybe it would be better to check required width dynamically and wrap nicknames? So we'll see
"Anton V
Zhbankov"

instead of "Anton V Zhban..." for example. Funniest thing of all is that shortened nickname in my case is exactly the same length as original one.

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how shall a new user find the Converter-forum ???

continuum — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:59:55 GMT

I like the idea of just having a single suggestions forum

Yes - I agree - this gives us at least the illusion that someone at VMware may be reading it.

When we post suggestions to the product forums they often are invisible after a few hours.

I've also moved it to http://communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn/general/product where it will get better visibility.

I seriously doubt that - I guess ....community/vmtn/suggestions would be the best place.
This shows the users "we are listening and we take your input seriously"

Ulli

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Planet V12N RSS feed is broken

JohnTroyer — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 07:19:16 GMT

It's working for me now (Weds night CA time). It did have a problem in the past few days (bad feed), and I removed that feed. That may have been what you saw.

If you have any trouble in the future, let us know.

John

in IE 6 "all communities" dropdown is not clickable

RDellimmagine — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:32:44 GMT

We're investigating this. Thanks, Robert

Robert Dell'Immagine, Director of VMware Communities

Cannot tell what replies are marked correct or helpful.

WoodyZ — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:59:12 GMT

Thanks Wil... I didn't see it as a subject title but figured it was probably already a know issue and that confirms it.

BTW even though you can't see it I did marked your reply as correct and Robert's as helpful.

What is THAT?????

RDPetruska — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:52:25 GMT

Anton V Zhbankov wrote:
So actually you have a choice - to be an engineer with VMware knowledge or become an IT engineer and be VMware guru. Nobody can help you in this case, you should choose something.

Again, true. However...
1 -- There are not many engineering jobs around. I'm finally starting to get some calls from headhunters; but all of them will require relocation. I am willing, but as of yet I still am waiting for interviews.
2 -- I'm a VMware guru on the desktop products only. Workstation, Player, Server. I have zero experience with the enterprise products. And essentially, no way of obtaining it. Therefore, I can't apply for jobs requiring VMware experience, as they all want ESX/VI/vSphere hands-on experience; not just me playing around with them inside a Workstation VM.
So, I'm stuck between a rock and a hard place, with nowhere to go.

Forum software is stupid, waht you type is NOT what you get

KillTheMomos — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:35:48 GMT

I too have this problem. Luckily this handy thread gave me the answer. I just signed up today and the formatting errors in my first post make me look bad. Why is it the default to use the broken editor for someone who is new and doesn't know how to fix this?

mis-rendered vmware.com with Snow Leopard 10.6.1 and firefox (latest)

oreeh — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:02:29 GMT

FYI: this thread has been moved to the Communities Website Feedback forum.

Oliver Reeh
VMware Communities User Moderator

Hide this message

Anton V Zhbankov — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:14:14 GMT

Thank you.

Yes, it uses too much real estate. When I press X-button I want to remove it from my screen. Completely. Not just make it a little bit smaller.

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New Layout

RDellimmagine — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:00:26 GMT

This is a bug that we're working on fixing. Thanks, Robert

please add a "code" button to any of the editors

RDellimmagine — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:20:32 GMT

Yes, you are correct. The usability for the workaround I provided is poor (although it does work well). The poor usability is why we're working on a better solution. Thanks for the feedback. - Robert

Robert Dell'Immagine, Director of VMware Communities

Twitter: Micro-blogging with VMware and Virtualization Experts

Badsah — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 01:58:07 GMT

VMware Communities FAQs

RDellimmagine — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:50:01 GMT

Moderators ... need to move thread

RDellimmagine — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:27:32 GMT

Done. - Robert

Scheduled Site Maintenance at Various Times from November 6 - 8, 2009

RDellimmagine — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:49:03 GMT

Friday, November 6, 2009 from 6:00 PM – 12:00 Midnight PST
Saturday, November 7, 2009 from 6:00 AM – 8:30 AM PST
Sunday, November 8, 2009 from 5:00 AM – 9:00 AM PST

During the above times, VMware Communities will be up; however, unauthenticated users will not be able to log into the site. If you wish to contribute to Communities during this outage period, I recommend you log in prior to this timeframe to make sure you have the proper access rights. Otherwise, the Communities pages will appear in "Guest" mode (i.e. read-only) until you can sign in once again.

In addition, VMware Communities will be offline and unavailable at the following time:

Sunday, November 8, 2009 from 7:30 PM – 9 PM PST

During the above time, no VMware Communities services will be available, and site visitors will see a site maintenance message.

Thank you for your patience. Regards, Robert

Place a text box to all VMTN forums suggest users to search "Google & VMTN" first before posting questions????

RDellimmagine — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 06:01:23 GMT

Hi Eric and others,

We did a fix on the search index, and the example you gave above now works. With the new fix, all of my test cases where search didn't work now work as expected.

I would like input from the community on their current experience with site search. Please let me know if you execute any searches that return incorrect results, or also let me know if you think VMware Communities site search is working correctly. Your feedback will help me identify if there are any issues I missed.

Thanks! - Robert

Robert Dell'Immagine, Director of VMware Communities

Download Timeout Problem

Dave.Mishchenko — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:35:05 GMT

Welcome to the VMware Community forum. Your post has been moved to the VMware.com & VMware Store Suggestions forum.

Dave
VMware Communities User Moderator

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Profile Image + Avatar Drawing Winner!

RDellimmagine — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:12:52 GMT

Yes, we have a winner for the Profile Image + Avatar Drawing!! And the winner is....

(drum roll)

TristanT

Congratulations, Tristan! I am now sending you a US$50 iTunes gift card that you can redeem for $50 of goodies from www.itunes.com. Enjoy!

A big thank you to the 140 people who have uploaded both a profile image and an avatar (and were in the drawing), as well as the additional 300+ people who have one or the other but not both (and therefore didn't qualify for the drawing -- but I thank you anyway!). I encourage every VMware Communities member to upload at least one image, so that people can learn a bit more about you.

And thanks to the Web site http://www.random.org for generating a true random number -- no pseudo-random numbers used here -- for the drawing.

Regards, Robert (see Upload a Profile Image + Avatar, and Win! for drawing details)

vmware converter download email not being sent

vml1234 — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:13:24 GMT

Sigh, this is crazy. I have been trying for 15 hours to get Player and Converter. Tried two different user accounts and a friend who's company spends $$$ on VMWare products. Looking to virtualize a system before I leave out of town on business trip.

Suggestion to vmware: If you are having email server problems,etc, until you resolve them, why not OPEN it up.

Email Notifications

PayamDamghani — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 05:36:25 GMT

What about emails for licence keys and vCenter converter. I have tried to download vCenter converter for over 3 days and no email. Plus i tried getting keys for ESXI and nothing. Seems like you are the only person at VMWARE is doing anything to address issues with there website.

Issues with the website

PayamDamghani — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 04:47:37 GMT

Seems like moving me has dont nothing. Really poor customer service. Thanks for no help.

link to Workstation 7 beta community is gone / locked

RDellimmagine — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:57:18 GMT

VMware Workstation 7 is now available.

Robert

Robert Dell'Immagine, Director of VMware Communities

support beyond the forum - how do you handle it ?

continuum — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:56:46 GMT

I don't know if this applies to anyone else ... anyway maybe we can find a way that suits all ...

What do you do if a problem can not be fixed with a short answer in a post and the user asks you if you can fix the issue via a remote-login ?

I specialize in vmdk and snapshot problems and in most of the cases this problems really require more work than a short reply.
So occasionally I agree to fix the issue via a remote-login. This happens more and more often since ESX 4 appeared.

In maybe 33 % of those cases the users are nice and keep their promise to make a donation or post a success report.
In the other cases the users make me regret having helped them at all.

Worst example so far : I spend a whole saturday night recovering data from a user-mistake on ESX 4 - the user promised to donate 1000 dollars.
When the work was done I never heard from that guy again.

Last case was yesterday night - all in all I spend maybe 2 hours on a deleted snapshot - 30 minutes via a remote-login.
The work was successful and the user promised to make a donation ... which of course never arrived.

Obviously a lot of frustration is building up ...
If it goes on like this I guess I will soon stop to invest more than 5 - 10 minutes for a users problems - just to avoid this feeling of beeing cheated.

Do you have similar experiences ? - if yes - how do you handle such cases ?

What do you do if you see a post and you know that you could fix the problem if you spend maybe a full hour on it - do you spend the time ?

Ulli

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Spam in Private Messages

RDellimmagine — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:33:03 GMT

I disabled the spammer's account. - Robert

Robert Dell'Immagine, Director of VMware Communities

[meta] How to report PM spam

RDellimmagine — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:15:11 GMT

The account that sent this has been disabled.

To report spam, please post in Communities Website Feedback or PM to RDellimmagine.

Regards, Robert

Robert Dell'Immagine, Director of VMware Communities

Current On-Line Moderators

Troy Clavell — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:57:01 GMT

I remember that as well, I believe, but it's not present in the new communities page. Oh, well.

Unable to download ESXI4.0 - Page Not Found

mouradb — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 23:45:04 GMT

+ +1

Must be on maintenance mode or their HA didn't work properly!!

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The VMware Server 2 community does not exist!

guyrleech — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 09:31:43 GMT

Looking good once more - thanks everyone.

Guy Leech
VMware vExpert 2009

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The Poor performance of this site in general

markzz — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 07:16:28 GMT

OOOPS spoke too soon..on posting and then refreshing I recieved the below.

An error occurred while processing your request.

Reference #97.4c178ec6.1256368370.360b0e41

What happened to VMWare Server forums?

Hichhiker — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 22:16:50 GMT

Yay, works now.

Thanks.

STP data analysis using STP navigator

sujsada — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:03:24 GMT

Can anyone help me to analyse the STP data using STP navigator for checkin the performance?

Upload a Profile Image + Avatar, and Win!

RDellimmagine — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:07:54 GMT

Upload a profile image and avatar into your VMware Communities profile, and you could win a $50 iTunes gift card!
It's that simple! VMware Communities has enabled both profile images and avatars, so now we want you to let other community members know what you look like! Or at least let us know what you wish you looked like.

Avatars are the small graphics that display next to all of your posts. Profile images are the large images that display on your profile page. For some good examples, let me introduce to you some people on the VMware Communities team:

How do I upload?
Go to VMware Communities, log in, then click your name at the upper right of the page.

- Avatar: Click "Change avatar" in the "Actions" box at the right.
- Profile Image: Click "Edit Communities profile" in the "Actions" box at the right.

How to Win!

Make sure you have both an avatar and a profile image uploaded into your VMware Communities profile before midnight Pacific on Wednesday, October 28. If you already have an avatar, that's great -- you don't need to upload a new one.
I will pick one VMware Communities member at random who has both an avatar and a profile image uploaded by the deadline, and I'll send that person a $50 iTunes gift card. Then I'll announce the winner here.
There's no need to tell me you've uploaded an image and avatar -- I will find them in your profile. VMware employees are not eligible to win the prize. No purchase necessary to win.

Have fun getting connected! - Robert

Search Sort by doesn't seem to work

petedr — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:35:13 GMT

Thanks Robert for the detailed update and for fixing the issue.

Pete

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Unusable slow yet again

wila — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:32:59 GMT

Still missing out on some emails, although it appears to be a bit better these days.

Just a minute ago I tried to search in the beta forum and all i got back was:

System Error

We're sorry but a serious error has occurred in the system.

Tried it 4 times, same response all the time.

Fun eh? Can't use google in this case as the Fusion preview forum is still private.

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VMTN Problems: hidden messages and email notification lost

AndreTheGiant — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:58:45 GMT

Thread is back again

Re: email notifications. This appears to be an issue, and I continue to investigate. I will update as I know more.

Thanks

Re: Site slow:

For me site speed is acceptable, only a couple of time in a day (and usual less for less than a minute) the site is unusable... But it isn't a big problem.

Andre

New Vmware account... and can't get community name moved ?

LarsLiljeroth — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:04:54 GMT

Hi

Thanks alot I can't give you points.... But you deserve them

// Lars Liljeroth

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Last Post Time Issue

RDellimmagine — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:16:57 GMT

This was fixed. - Robert

Robert Dell'Immagine, Director of VMware Communities

Can't create new Communities account

khaneric — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:59:03 GMT

Works great now... thanks everyone!

whats wrong - can't post in beta-section

continuum — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 11:44:03 GMT

yep - - sorry if you were bored after the first versions

today I can see my post as well - yesterday none of my attemps to post was visible

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Embedding YouTube videos made easy

Badsah — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 21:32:27 GMT

Hello Community Members,

Did you know that you can easily embed a YouTube video (with link to the source) in messages/threads, documents, and blog posts, on VMware Communities? Simply place the tag "youtube" within braces before and after the YouTube video link, as illustrated below:

{youtube}your_YouTube_video_link{youtube}

Therefore,

{youtube}http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7O4uMRADB8{youtube}

would give you:

{youtube}http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7O4uMRADB8{youtube}

Example within a blog: Embedding YouTube videos made easy

Example within a discussion thread: @ Developer Day Sessions: Introduction to vSphere Web Services SDK 4.0 and NewFeatures

Badsah Mukherji, VMware Web Communities Team

VMware Communities Site Error Report: Sept 15, 2009

RDellimmagine — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:08:19 GMT

An error in VMware Communities was fixed on Sept 15 at 11am Pacific, and all functions of VMware Communities are now available and the site is running with no known errors.

From Sept 14 early afternoon Pacific until Sept 15 11am Pacific, the nodes in the cluster running VMware Communities were not connected properly. During this time, different data displayed depending on which node in the cluster a user was connected to. No data is known to be lost, and once the nodes were reconnected, normal behavior returned. The cause of the problem was human error, and we are reviewing internal processes to make sure this does not happen again.

If site visitors do see any issues, please contact RDellimmagine or post to Communities Website Feedback.

Update 9/16 AM: It appears there are some data issues with threads posted before the above error was fixed. My dev team is investigating, and I'll update here when I have more information. I apologize for the problems this is causing. Regards, Robert

Update 9/16 PM: We fixed a couple of places where the above issue caused messages to point to the incorrect parent messages. Also, I believe that the threads-out-of-chronological-order issue resolved itself. This issue persisted a while after the fix was made because it took some time for the cache to catch up with the site once all nodes rejoined the cluster. Regards, Robert

VMTN is absolutely unusable - it has never been so slow

Gerrit.Lehr — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 13:39:09 GMT

No problem here either.

Kind Regards,
Gerrit Lehr

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How to follow the user response in RSS feed

AndreTheGiant — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 08:41:20 GMT

I want to follow few users like AndreTheGiant

Why you want to follow me? There are better people to follow

Andre

Somethings wrong? Kicked out of a thread.

AWo — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 08:00:46 GMT

Thanks!

AWo
VCP / VMware vEXPERT 2009

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Embedding YouTube videos made easy

Badsah — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 21:12:16 GMT

{youtube}your_YouTube_video_link{youtube}

Therefore,

{youtube}http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7O4uMRADB8{youtube}

would give you:

{youtube}http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7O4uMRADB8{youtube}

Example within a document: Meet the Engineer Series: VMware Performance Advancements

Example within a discussion thread: @ Developer Day Sessions: Introduction to vSphere Web Services SDK 4.0 and NewFeatures

Badsah Mukherji, VMware Web Communities Team

Cannot create a community ID by updating VMware Online Profile

RDellimmagine — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:33:19 GMT

Please contact me. - Robert

Robert Dell'Immagine, Director of VMware Communities

Single Sign-on Downtime, Friday, September 11, 6PM - 11:00PM PDT (GMT -7)

RDellimmagine — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 20:27:31 GMT

The VMware Account Management Portal, through which you log into VMware Store and Communities, will be unavailable due to scheduled maintenance tonight (Friday, September 11, 2009) beginning 6:00PM Pacific Daylight Time, for approximately 5 hours. During this time, VMware Communities will be up; however, unauthenticated users will not be able to log into the site. If you wish to contribute to Communities during this outage period, I recommend you log in prior to this timeframe to make sure you have the proper access rights. Otherwise, the Communities pages will appear in "Guest" mode (i.e. read-only) until you can sign in once again.

VMTN down?

Troy Clavell — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 01:08:54 GMT

Thanks Robert!

We Have Avatars

RDellimmagine — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 18:37:41 GMT

Avatars are now available. You know, the little icons that show up next to your name. It's time for something more exciting than boring guy/gal:

Here's how:

Log in
Go to http://communities.vmware.com/people/<your-username>?view=profile
Click "Change avatar" in the actions box
Upload your avatar
Select it to display

That's it! Avatars display 128 pixels x 128 pixels and 75 x 75 (depending on which page), so pick an image that is simple enough to be visible at a small size. Have fun!!

I'm starting with a computer screen, RDellimmagine, while I look for something more creative...

I'm looking forward to what ideas you all come up with.

A life savior for VMWare forums with a slow/unreliable Internet connection

birdie — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 05:05:36 GMT

it seems like this issue is being worked out, nice, thanks!

However I have one more feature request:

Please, move all supplementary content (*.css, *.js, *.gif *.png *.jpg) to a separate static website which doesn't use cookies or any form of authentication.

I'm asking this because every time when you log back to communities website all this supplementary content is loaded with ?JSESSID=UNIQ_ID identificator, thus browser thinks (quite correctly) that this is a new content and cache cannot be used.

Downloads and Trial downloads should not be so hard to get

s0m30n3 — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 03:41:29 GMT

Wrong, I just tried to get the new VMware Player update and it will not let me download the damn thing even though I'm logged in. It's forcing me to put in my name, email address and fill out other BS.

And when I did fill out that information I still cant get the download!

Google Search on VMware Communities

RDellimmagine — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:17:09 GMT

A Google search option is now available on the VMware Communities advanced search page. The Google search option uses Google's "site:communities.vmware.com" feature to limit results to the VMware Communities site, and functions as a good complement to the VMware Communities native search function.

For IE users, we fixed a bug in the VMware Communities native search. IE users who search within a large number of communities will no longer see a blank page caused by search strings exceeding IE's 2083-character URL maximum. Instead, those searches will default to a site search, which does not encounter this issue.

Thanks to all who gave feedback on search. If you have more to add, please do!

Regards, Robert

VMTN: Create preference to view thread posts in reverse order

AsherN — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:26:09 GMT

How about a button that takes you to 'first unread' like all other BBs out there?

make the "Start a discussion" link bigger and a button

RDellimmagine — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 20:59:30 GMT

I completely agree. I'm in the process of improving user experience in a couple of areas, and have added this to my list. - Robert

Robert Dell'Immagine, Director of VMware Communities

Single Sign-on Downtime, Friday, August 14, 6PM - 11:00PM PDT (GMT -7)

RDellimmagine — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 00:52:03 GMT

The Account Management Portal, through which you log into VMware Store and Communities, will be unavailable due to scheduled maintenance tonight (Friday, August 14, 2009) beginning 6:00PM Pacific Daylight Time, for approximately 5 hours. During this time, VMware Communities will be up; however, unauthenticated users will not be able to log into the site. If you wish to contribute to Communities during this outage period, I recommend you log in prior to this timeframe to make sure you have the proper access rights. Otherwise, the Communities pages will appear in "Guest" mode (i.e. read-only) until you can sign in once again.

Scheduled Maintenance, August 13, 5-5:30pm Pacific

RDellimmagine — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 18:21:49 GMT

VMware Communities will be unavailable at 5pm Pacific on August 12 for a maximum of 30 minutes.

We are upgrading the cluster software on VMware Communities for increased stability.

Thanks, Robert

Possible bug?? -- click to edit a reply and jump to Communities home page?!?!??

asatoran — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 22:45:46 GMT

The few times I've seen this has been during the auto-logout time period. If I'm unlucky to be posting when my session get's logged out, I may get dropped to the home page. If I'm just reading, I don't normally get returned to the home page. Usually just when I post.

I'm using FF 3.5.2 on a Mcbook Pro OSX 10.5.7. I haven't been posting a lot today, but I have been getting logged out a lot during just the reading I've been doing this morning for the past 3-4 hours. (Morning for me in Hawaii.) I don't remember exactly, but I believe I was logged out 3 times. Since I was not posting during any of the logouts, I was not returned to the home page at all today so far.

VMware Communities search bar addon for Firefox - where to download?

nirvy — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 10:15:41 GMT

You don't need an addon, just click the drop down of the default search box and Add VMware Communities

Shareholder Community

azn2kew — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 19:26:16 GMT

Wouldn't these be confidential discussion via shareholders wide meetings? I wouldn't want 750,000+ users be able to read what you've discuss here....maybe by secure private forum that would be appropriate.

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Regards,

Stefan Nguyen
VMware vExpert 2009
iGeek Systems Inc.
VMware, Citrix, Microsoft Consultant

Long usernames

etung — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 22:36:51 GMT

Formatting in How to disable Windows Program shortcuts (and any top-level page listing that thread) is a bit off because WhyDontYouUseAjaxToCheckIfTheUsernameIsInUse is too long, though I'm not sure what a good solution would be. I think that user may also have a gripe about the username selection process.

Help system

continuum — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 15:50:43 GMT

Yes - it will bring you fame and fortune ....

and serious ... no - the more points you have the more time you have must wasted in the past

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Cloud Computing Simply Explained - or not...

Badsah — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 22:09:04 GMT

Thanks to Geek and Poke (geekandpoke.typepad.com).

Badsah

usabilty of the VAM-section is a joke

continuum — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:02:39 GMT

Hi Robert

thanks for looking into it

Ulli

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What about a section for "vmdk and snapshot problems" ?

continuum — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 10:47:02 GMT

Today I found several completely wrong answers to posts about disk-repair or recovery.
Maybe the quality will improve if we had those questions in a single section

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Re: IE8 causes Advanced to sit on top Log out

jozsef — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 01:13:02 GMT

Thank you its working. Seems beta IE8 was the problem.

Regards

Joe

Single Sign-on Downtime, Friday, July 10, 6PM - 11:30PM PDT (GMT -7)

Badsah — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 23:18:40 GMT

Community members,

The Account Management Portal, through which you log into VMware Store and Communities, will be unavailable due to scheduled maintenance tonight (Friday, July 10, 2009) beginning 6:00PM Pacific Daylight Time, for approximately 5.5 hours. During this time, VMware Communities will be up; however, unauthenticated users will not be able to log into the site. If you wish to contribute to Communities during this outage period, I recommend you log in prior to this timeframe to make sure you have the proper access rights. Otherwise, the Communities pages will appear in "Guest" mode (i.e. read-only) until you can sign in once again.

Thank you,
Badsah Mukherji
Web Communities Team

Join the VMware Studio 2.0 Beta Program

Badsah — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 02:01:37 GMT

We are pleased to announce that the beta version of VMware Studio 2.0 has been released and is available for download. We look forward to receiving your feedback - issues, feature requests, suggestions for improvement - through the Discussions forum in the VMware Studio 2.0 Beta Program Community.

If you already have a Store account on VMware.com, register for the beta directly.
If you do not have a Store account, please create an account AND join the beta.

The VMware Team

Firefox redirect loop again

AUPhil — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:57:52 GMT

Robert,

It appears to be corrected (I am now posting with Firefox). However, the URL that looped was:

http://communities.vmware.com/post!input.jspa?communityID=2347

Thanks,

Phil

please disable upload of bitmaps for screenshots

continuum — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:10:44 GMT

Thanks Robert

Ulli

Can we have a automatically added "begging for points" line added to all posts ?

depping — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:52:09 GMT

I wish all users would just asign the points... that's what they are there for. Or even better just a simple thank you reply and letting you know they solved the problem would also be great.

Duncan
VMware Communities User Moderator | VCP | VCDX

Blogging: http://www.yellow-bricks.com
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/depping

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VMware & the World on the Internet: VMware can save your marriage...

Badsah — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 21:32:24 GMT

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(courtesy of "vmwarerocks")

Points Taken Away?

Troy Clavell — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 19:34:54 GMT

Thanks again Robert for working to get this resolved. Seems to be the missing points, from what I can see, have been restored back to all individuals affected.

Receive email notifications or RSS, both broken!

rcardona2k — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 19:24:54 GMT

The setting is sticking now but I'm waiting for my first new thread email

Thanks for getting this working.

The form has already been processed or no token was supplied, please try again.

RDellimmagine — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 19:13:28 GMT

This issue is resolved. All VMware Communities participants should be able to update documents and save their changes without errors.

As mentioned before, the problem was caused by our use of Akamai Dynamic Site Accelerator (DSA), which we resolved yesterday. Akamai DSA improves network performance by re-routing traffic via faster network connections, but in our initial configuration, this caused jsessionids to change. The VMware Communities platform requires these to stay the same across the session so that requests from an individual user route to the same server in our back-end application cluster. We've now changed the configuration to preserve jsessionids, which solves the problem and allows us to continue to get the performance improvement from Akamai DSA.

Thanks all for your patience as we worked through this issue.

Regards, Robert

Robert Dell'Immagine, Director of VMware Communities

Scheduled Maintenance, June 12 6pm - midnight Pacific

RDellimmagine — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 18:54:30 GMT

VMware will be performing a system upgrade to several VMware Web applications on June 12 – 13, 2009. Maintenance will begin on Friday, June 12th at 6 P.M. PDT. All maintenance will be completed by Saturday, June 13th at 12 A.M. PDT.

While this upgrade is in progress, you will be unable to:

- Log in to VMware Communities (if you are already logged in, all services will be available)
- Access or manage your VMware account
- Submit support requests online
- Download, purchase or register VMware products
- Manage VMware product licenses

We appreciate your patience during this maintenance period. These system upgrades are part of our commitment to continued service improvements and will help VMware better serve your needs.

Missing document diff option

etung — Thu, 28 May 2009 22:40:50 GMT

OK. I'll miss the diff functionality, it was especially useful figuring out what was changed in DirectX 3D Applications Compatibility List. Was there a post or other notification about this anywhere? Is there other functionality which you've had to turn off?

Messages that violate the Terms of Use?

RDellimmagine — Wed, 27 May 2009 17:54:43 GMT

I disabled this account.

Please report further spam by sending a private message to rdellimmagine or an email to community_mgr at vmware dot com.

Thanks, Robert

bridged network now not working-vmnet0 and noconnection drop down box appears always preventing connection to net on windows-help!

RDPetruska — Tue, 26 May 2009 16:12:23 GMT

What VMware product and version are you using, so we can move this thread to the appropriate forum?