Apr 12 2019
It is all about security now, and no matter how restrictive we configure our firewall rules and filters, we still got the internal users. They are the ones that click in the wrong places and install the wrong software, and when the wrong stuff get’s into our network, it can do a lot of damage.
Apr 01 2019
Until version 6, every time we wanted to change the default self-signed certificate of our vCenter server we had to SSH into the appliance and use VMware Certificate Manager to do the job. We can still do that even now, but starting with vCenter 6.5 the process has been simplified a lot for us
Mar 06 2019
A few days ago I was searching trough my blog and noticed I have articles about how to install and configure MDT and WDS, but none of those articles are showing how to configure DHCP and the ports necessary for these services to work. Yes, in a simple network where the WDS server, DHCP server, …
Jan 23 2019
Yes, you read the title right. We ca run Microsoft Windows Failover Clusters on VMware ESXi hosts, and believe it or not, a lot of companies are doing it nowadays. It’s cheap, and it does the job very well. All we need is at least one ESXi host and two Windows Server VMs that will run …
Jun 27 2018
I have been talking about Enterprise PKI and how to build a multi-tier PKI infrastructure, but never talked in depth about the Authority Information Access (AIA) and Certificate Revocation List Distribution Point (CDP) extensions. In this article I want to extend the discussion about this certificates extensions since they are very important to understand and how …
Dec 17 2017
Looks like VMware Workstation got to version 14, and starting with this version we get a new neat feature, and that’s support for the VMware vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA). Previous to this, if we wanted to run VCSA in VMware Workstation we had to import the appliance from the .OVA template, then
Nov 28 2017
When building either an Enterprise Certification Authority or a Standalone Certification Authority we have to provide some information during the configuration wizard. In this article, a short one I must say, and a completion of the two mentioned above,
Nov 21 2017
Many times, especially in a development environment you need to share your VMs with a partner company or with an external contractor but you don’t want those machines to work like forever or be modified. You will want to put some restrictions on them.
Nov 13 2017
As you probably know, in a domain environment there is a domain controller that is special compared to the others. This domain controller, besides other functions also keeps the time in sync in the entire domain/forest; meaning all the workstations, servers, and the rest of the
Oct 27 2017
Server 2016 is out for a while now, so I thought it will be a good time to write about one of the new features that Microsoft implemented in their latest server operating system for which I was really hopping for. They called it Cluster OS Rolling Upgrade.
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