Here’s the weekly latest technology news from Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD), Windows 365, and VMware. The main focus is based on Cloud and End User Computing (EUC) technology. Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) Nerdio Modeler for Azure Virtual Desktop. Modeler prompts for a handful …
Continue ReadingTo generate quickly an overview of all the Virtual Machines (VMs) in an Azure subscription I made a PowerShell script that uses the Azure Az PowerShell module. This script will do an inventory of all VMs in a subscription. The following VM information is displayed per subscription: Name PowerState …
Continue ReadingI see a lot of vCenter Servers that have expired root certificates. In the vCenter Server Appliance Administration section under Certificate Management, you can see the expired certificates. Cleaning up expired root certificates from the vCenter Server can be done by using the “vecs-cli” …
Continue ReadingWith Terraform you can easily create new VMs in an existing Azure environment in a couple of minutes. For example, when I want to test an application, I create a new VM and install the application. When I finish testing I remove the VM with a single command. The VM creation only takes a couple of …
Continue ReadingOn a new Windows Server 2022 VM I tried to install a fresh copy of VMware.PowerCLI (13.0.0) with the following PowerShell command: Install-Module VMware.PowerCLI -Scope CurrentUser The following error occurred: PackageManagement\Install-Package : The module ‘VMware.VimAutomation.License’ …
Continue ReadingIn my Azure test tenant, I forgot the password of an Azure Windows Domain Controller VM. In Azure, there is a Reset Password option available in the VM options. The password reset update failed. The password reset option uses a VM Access extension. When digging into the activity log I found the …
Continue ReadingI recently stumbled on a cool tool called “MSRD-Collect”. MSRD stands for Microsoft CSS Remote Desktop Data Collection and Diagnostic Script. MSRD-Collect is a PowerShell script with separate modules designed to collect information that will help Microsoft Customer Support Services (CSS) to …
Continue ReadingStart Menu management in Windows 11 is different than Windows 10. Microsoft recommended an MDM provider such as Microsoft Intune to manage the Windows 11 Start Menu. There are many environments (such as VDI and Azure Virtual Desktop(AVD) that don’t use an MDM provider to manage their Windows …
Continue ReadingIn OpenSSL version 3.0.0 to 3.0.6, a critical vulnerability is found (link ). A lot of vendors use these versions of OpenSSL in their products. VMware has the following statement: To date, no VMware products have been found to be critically impacted by CVE-2022-3602 or CVE-2022-3786. Regardless, …
Continue ReadingFor testing purposes, I frequently use VMware Workstation to install Operating Systems such as Windows 11. The biggest challenge with Windows 11 is that you need a TPM 2.0 device. When installing Windows 11, if your computer does not meet the hardware requirements, you will see a message stating, …
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