Welcome to our weekly roundup of the hottest tech updates in the worlds of Azure, VMware, and other partners. In this series, we’ll be curating a collection of must-read articles, each offering a deep dive into the latest technological advancements, news, and trends within these cutting-edge …
Continue ReadingThe latest weekly technology news from Microsoft, VMware, and other partners with a focus on End User Computing (EUC). Microsoft Azure Network Security Dashboard for Microsoft Defender for Cloud. Link Generally available: Cloud Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) by Palo Alto Networks - an Azure Native …
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 ReadingWhile upgrading a vCenter Server 6.7 to version 7 Update 3 using the vCenter Server 7 UI installer, I was not able to select a datastore for installing the new vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA). The datastore selection was blank as shown in the following image. This issue still exists in the vCenter …
Continue ReadingYesterday I wrote a blog called “Install Windows 11 as VM on VMware vSphere / Workstation without TPM 2.0 chipset“. In this blog article, I explained how to install Windows 11 without having a TPM 2.0 chipset by using a registry hack. Paul Braren from tinkertry.com created a cool video (link) about …
Continue ReadingYesterday Windows 11 is officially released. Windows 11 require a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) version 2.0 (link). . My VMware ESXi servers at home don’t have a TPM 2.0. During the installation, Windows will check for the presence of a TPM 2.0, if not available the installation will fail. There is …
Continue ReadingVMware Tools releases have been decoupled from VMware vSphere release since version 10.0. You can now standardize to the latest VMware Tools by configuring a centralized repository. This can be useful when you want to point to a new VMware Tools version when for example a security vulnerability in …
Continue ReadingLast week I tried to patch a vCenter Server High Availability (VCHA) 7 cluster environment. I read the documentation and the procedure described looks still the same as in version 6.x. First patch the witness node, then the passive node, failover the active node, and patch the passive node using the …
Continue ReadingFor a Disaster Recovery (DR) site, I designed a separate isolated VMware Horizon environment. The vCenter Server has an external (eth0) and internal (eth1) IP address. The external connection is for management and restoring production VMs to the DR environment. The internal connection is for Horizon …
Continue ReadingOn my GitHub page (link ), I uploaded a PowerShell script that identifies all the active parent VM and snapshot per VMware Horizon pool. The parent VM is also known as Golden image. With this script, you can quickly identify what parent VMs and snapshots are in use.
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