It's been coming for a while: The requirement to deploy VMs with a TPM module... Today I'll be showing you the easiest and quickest way to create and deploy Virtual Machines with vTPM on VMware vSphere ESXi! As most of you know, Windows 11 has a requirement for Secureboot as well as a TPM module. It's with no doubt that… Read More
We all know that vMotion is awesome, but what is even more awesome? Optimizing VMware vMotion to make it redundant and faster! vMotion allows us to migrate live Virtual Machines from one ESXi host to another without any downtime. This allows us to perform physical maintenance on the ESXi hosts, update and restart the hosts, and also load balance VMs… Read More
When performing a VMware vMotion on a Virtual Machine with an NVIDIA vGPU attached to it, the VM may freeze during migration. Additionally, when performing a vMotion on a VM without a vGPU, the VM does not freeze during migration. So why is it that adding a vGPU to a VM causes it to become frozen during vMotion? This is… Read More
Whether deploying VDI for the first time or troubleshooting existing Azure AD SSO issues for an existing environment, special consideration must be made for Microsoft Azure AD SSO and VDI. When you implement and use Microsoft 365 and Office 365 in a VDI environment, you should have your environment configured to handle Azure AD SSO for a seamless user experience,… Read More
We're all used to updating our Windows Server operating systems with the Windows Update GUI, but did you know that you can update your server using command prompt and "sconfig"? The past few years I've been managing quite a few Windows Server Core Instances that as we all know, do not have a GUI. In order to update those instances,… Read More
Welcome to Episode 04 of The Tech Journal Vlog at www.StephenWagner.com https://youtu.be/HR3SFzgDpSc The Tech Journal Vlog Episode 04 In this episode Updates VMware Horizon Apache Log4j Mitigation with VMware Products Homelab Update HPE MSA 2040 vs Synology DS1621+ Migrating from MSA 2040 to a Synology DS1621+ Synology Benchmarking NVME Cache DST Root CA X3 Expiration End of Life Operating Systems… Read More
As I'm watching the Synology: 2022 AND BEYOND event live I wanted to write this post to share with you some of my favorite parts. For those of you wanting to tune in (while live) or watch the replay you can view it below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umEQhrpAHNs You can also visit: https://event.synology.com/en-us/annual_event to watch the stream (or replay) and find out more… Read More
In a VMware Horizon environment with DUO MFA configured via RADIUS on the VMware Horizon Connection Server, you may notice authentication issues when logging in through a UAG (Unified Access Gateway) after upgrading to VMware Horizon 8 Version 2111. During this condition, you can still login and use the connection server directly with MFA working, however all UAG connections will… Read More
Today we're going to discuss and deploy Active Directory Certificate Services on a Windows Server 2022 Server. Additionally, we'll also be generating a domain certificate request inside of IIS and then assign the resultant certificate to a WSUS Server. This video will demonstrate and explain the process of deploying a Windows Server 2022 Certification Authority with AD CS. Check it… Read More
In this post, I wanted to go over some Backup and Restore tips and tricks when it comes to VMware vCSA Updates and Upgrades. We've almost all been there, performing an update or upgrade of the VMware vCenter Server Appliance when it fails, and we must restore from a backup. There's also times where the update or upgrade has been… Read More