Changing Setting for New-Icon in SharePoint 2010

The amount of time the “New” icon is shown in SharePoint 2010 can be changed at the Web Application level using PowerShell.

Below are examples to get or change settings for the icon:

Get  the current Duration of  New-Icon

$webApp = Get-SPWebApplication "http://webAppURL/"
$webApp.DaysToShowNewIndicator

Change the duration of Displaying New-Icon

# Set to 1 Day
$webApp = Get-SPWebApplication "http://webAppURL/"
$webApp.DaysToShowNewIndicator = 1
$webApp.Update()

Prevent the New-Icon from Display

# Essentially, just set the display duration to 0 days.

$webApp = Get-SPWebApplication "http://webAppURL/"

$webApp.DaysToShowNewIndicator = 0

$webApp.Update()

Convert Vhd to Vmdk

You can use WinImage to convert any *.vhd file to * .vmdk

You can downlowd WinImage from here.

After you installed WinImage. Go to following Steps to convert you File to vmdk.

1. Open winImage and go to Disk:

2. Select the *.vhd file and choose the file that you want to convert.
3. Select the option for Fixed Size or Dynamically Expanding size of your target disk.
4. Choose "*.VMDK" under the file type field. and give the path and name of destination file and click "Save"