Published at: 10:05 pm - Monday May 26 2014
windows server 2012 introduces a failover architecture for DHCP so recently i was looking into migrating off of our 2008 core DHCP server to 2012 r2 core. i did the migration about 2 weeks ago and it was simple and mostly painless except for one unforeseen hiccup (that was difficult to troubleshoot). first, i needed […]
Published at: 11:05 am - Thursday May 22 2014
in this instance dell one identity cloud access manager… powershell script: import-module MSOnline $msolcred = get-credential connect-msolservice -credential $msolcred Set-MsolDomainAuthentication ` -Authentication federated ` -DomainName federated.mydomain.com ` -ActiveLogOnUri https://proxy.campoc.mydomain.com/CloudAccessManager/RPSTS/WSTrust/Service.svc/trust ` -FederationBrandName “Cloud Access Manager” ` -IssuerUri urn:proxy.campoc.mydomain.com/CloudAccessManager/RPSTS ` -LogOffUri https://proxy.campoc.mydomain.com/CloudAccessManager/RPSTS/WSFed/Default.aspx ` -MetadataExchangeUri https://proxy.campoc.mydomain.com/CloudAccessManager/RPSTS/WSTrust/Service.svc/mex ` -NextSigningCertificate “” ` -PassiveLogOnUri https://proxy.campoc.mydomain.com/CloudAccessManager/RPSTS/WSFed/Default.aspx ` -SigningCertificate “<cert data>” ^note: the signingcertificate […]
Published at: 09:05 pm - Monday May 19 2014
i received this error message for the very first time today after importing a vendor’s vm files in vcenter. a quick google shed some light on the subject. the error indicates that the vmdk file is in a vmware workstation format that is incompatible with vsphere. to get around this the vmdk file must be […]
Published at: 05:05 pm - Monday May 12 2014
it’s useful to change the default virtual hardware version for new vms because most people probably don’t want version 10 yet. also if you’re on vsphere 5.5 you probably don’t want a new vm starting at version 7 and then going through the process of updating it to version 8 then version 9. the setting can […]