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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]