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This year's posts

• 10 Feb - Exam Experience - AZ-500 Microsoft Azure Security Technologies (Microsoft Certified Azure Security Engineer Associate)

2019

• 28 Oct - Get-Module AZ fails because Azure=Azerbaijan
• 11 Aug - Exam Experience - AZ-103 Microsoft Azure Administrator
• 26 Jun - Build a Docker container with a standard deployment environment
• 12 Jun - Troubleshooting Azure VM Extension Installation Failures
• 10 May - Azure Instance Metadata Service Usage Examples
• 28 Mar - Exam Experience - AZ-302 Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Certification Transition

2018

• 22 Oct - OMS Agent Syslogs Not Collecting
• 22 Oct - Building an Azure lab environment via ARM templates - Part3 Saving Money with Auto Shutdown
• 18 Oct - Building an Azure lab environment via ARM templates - Part2 Adding a VM to your network
• 17 Oct - Building an Azure lab environment via ARM templates - Part1 ARM Templates 101
• 17 Aug - Book Review - The Second Machine Age
• 30 Jul - Fixing Layout issues after forcing HTTPS on GitHub Pages for a Jekyll based site
• 16 Jul - Using the Azure Load Balancer in reverse to funnel all outgoing traffic via a single IP
• 05 Mar - Exam Experience - 70-533 Implementing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions - (Post Jan 2018 Updates)

2017

• 16 Oct - Gotcha when importing client certificates for Azure P2S VPN
• 14 Mar - Leveraging Keepass via Powershell-Part 2
• 06 Feb - Leveraging Keepass via Powershell to Keep Passwords Out of Scripts

2016

• 21 Nov - VCIX-NV Exam Experience
• 07 Nov - PowerCLI running in a Docker Container on Photon OS in under 10 minutes
• 10 Jun - ssh to Cygwin fails after Computer joins domain
• 21 May - Newly created vsphere.local SSO user gets username/password error
• 18 Apr - Reasons to upgrade NSX 6.0/6.1 to 6.2

2015

• 20 Dec - vSphere vApps unaffected by Back to 28 Vulnerability (CVE-2015-8370)
• 13 Dec - ESXi and AD Part 2 Joining a Domain without Domain Admin Privileges
• 30 Nov - ESXi and AD Part 1 - Integration Checklist
• 11 Oct - VMworld Europe Schedule and New things to do this time
• 06 Oct - I am not a N00b! - Telling vCenter to stop showing you getting started pages!
• 05 Oct - All hail the PSC - Long Live the appliance!
• 16 Aug - VCP-NV=EZ
• 11 Aug - The iSCSI Mystery (+Death to e1000s)
• 21 Jul - New Domain, Github Hosted, Jekyll built!
• 06 Jul - Upgrading your HomeLab to Windows 10 + VMware Workstation ??
• 30 Jun - Devops/Agile/Webscale....too many terms too little time- DevOPs Tools and Terms Cheat Sheet
• 08 Apr - Training Resource Review - Pluralsight + Jason Nash's NSX Courses
• 13 Mar - VMware News Roundup - Announcement-ageddon!!!
• 11 Feb - 32Gb vSphere Homelab stumbling block - Licensing dilemma
• 22 Jan - VCAP-DCA510 Failing to pass doesn't mean failing to learn
• 12 Jan - Host Profiles to the Rescue!
• 09 Jan - My Real-World VCAP Scenario to test scripting
• 05 Jan - Google doesn't answer Forums/Communities posts.....YOU do!
• 04 Jan - My vSphere HomeLab
• 02 Jan - Best VCAP Study Aid is another person's time & help

2014

• 15 Oct - Networking - North-South, East-West. Don't be embarrassed to ask
• 12 Oct - VMworld - Finally at the Frontier!
• 07 Oct - vExpert - Why go for it?
• 22 Sep - vSphere VM Hotplug functionality confuses AD GPO and locks out non system drives
• 14 Aug - Getting Back on the Horse! (Destination VCAP5-DCA)
• 28 Jul - UCS Manager Security Hardening (or not) in a vBlock
• 25 Jul - ESXi/vCenter hardening (inventory service issue)
• 25 Jun - VCP5 Passed - Grasp The Nettle! (VCAP next)
• 12 Jun - Allowing automated installs of newer VMtools than the host version (Caveat for Trend Deep Security)
• 09 Jun - Watchlist - Mobile app to monitor hosts and VMS in vSphere
• 08 Jun - VCP5 Lab Tweak - vApp/HA for one?
• 08 Jun - VCP5 - NPIV, why? Because you can!
• 03 Jun - VCP5 Study. Pay it forward - An unexpected source of revision/practice
• 03 Jun - VCP5 Revision WWTWCD - What Would The Web Client Do?!
• 26 May - VCP5 - Ditching Auto-Deploy!
• 20 May - VCP 5 - Objective 1.2 - Host/Configuration Tab (in essence!)
• 20 May - Sometimes Windows is just better - Configuring RHLES OS updates with mrepo/RHN
• 19 May - Answered-Can you Daisy Chain VMware Update Manager Download Service?
• 15 May - VCP5 Auto Deploy - Much more than just an automated ESXi install
• 14 May - VCP5 Objective 1.2 “Quickly” Deploying Using AutoDeploy - Take 2
• 12 May - VCP5 - Objective 1.2 "Quickly" Deploying Using AutoDeploy (3hrs later!!! ;-)
• 11 May - VCP5 - Fixing SSL Cert on newly deployed vCenter Server Appliance after changing IP
• 10 May - VCP5- My Lab Components
• 10 May - VCP5 - Me and my virtual history
• 10 May - VCP 5 - The Journey Begins

2013

• 28 Apr - Nasty Nas Behaviour

2012

• 07 Aug - How to get XP for free

2011

• 15 Aug - VTSP - VMWare Certification and Accreditation...not mutually exclusive!
• 21 Jul - The evils of snapshots!
• 01 Jun - Sync/Backups - There is such a thing as a free lunch! (SyncToy)
• 30 May - Time waits for no man, or member server - The Importance of Time Synchronisation in Windows 2008 Domains
• 26 Apr - ESXi Whitebox Configuration
• 21 Apr - Supply and Demand : The Crazy Price of NICs
• 21 Apr - FIX-No DEFAULT or UI configuration directive found!
• 12 Apr - Free Alternatives to Popular Software Programs
• 11 Apr - Comparison of Free Online Sync Providers