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Allowing Apps From Unverified Developers In Mac OS

Allowing Apps From Unverified Developers In Mac OS

Posted on October 23, 2023 by Graeme Lewis

I recently needed to download an app from a developer on the internet that I had used on other (Windows machines). However on…

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Horizon App Volume Writables Profile Not Saving Correctly

Horizon App Volume Writables Profile Not Saving Correctly

Posted on October 11, 2023 by Graeme Lewis

A customer of ours had an interesting issue the other week. They had created some restricted users to their Horizon environment based of…

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vSphere Homelab: Part 3 - Deploying Nested ESXi Hosts

vSphere Homelab: Part 3 – Deploying Nested ESXi Hosts

Posted on September 25, 2023 by Graeme Lewis

If you’ve followed my other homelab posts (Part 1 & Part 2) you should have a host that has VMware ESXi installed on…

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Upgrading VMware Tools Via PowerCLI

Upgrading VMware Tools Via PowerCLI

Posted on August 16, 2023 by Graeme Lewis

We recently needed to update many of our clients VMware tools due to a security exploit that we became aware of. Many of…

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London VMUG - July 2023

London VMUG – July 2023

Posted on July 26, 2023 by Graeme Lewis

2 weeks ago I attended the London VMware User group. Here’s a brief summary of the talks\seminars I attended:   Integrated ML Ops…

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vSphere Homelab: Part 2 - Installing & Configuring ESXi

vSphere Homelab: Part 2 – Installing & Configuring ESXi

Posted on June 28, 2023September 1, 2023 by Graeme Lewis

So now we have our hardware it’s time to start installing ESXi onto our host and adding the 3 ESXi nested hosts (software…

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London VMUG - April 2023

London VMUG – April 2023

Posted on May 3, 2023May 3, 2023 by Graeme Lewis

Last week I attended the London VMware user group (VMUG). If you’ve never been to a VMUG then its a get together of…

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TD Synnex & VMware Networking and Security Day

TD Synnex & VMware Networking and Security Day

Posted on April 26, 2023 by Graeme Lewis

On Tuesday this week, I was lucky enough to be able to attend TD Synnex’s & VMware’s networking and security day at TD…

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vSphere HomeLab: Part 1 - Hardware

vSphere HomeLab: Part 1 – Hardware

Posted on April 14, 2023September 1, 2023 by Graeme Lewis

Probably the best way to learn any I.T. related technology is to run it on a homelab. Most people I know who have…

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Determining Hard Disks In vSphere

Determining Hard Disks In vSphere

Posted on April 12, 2023 by Graeme Lewis

Sometimes it can be hard to determine which drive in Windows correlates to which hard disk in the VM’s settings, especially if you…

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Removing old vCenter plugins

Removing old vCenter plugins

Posted on March 15, 2023 by Graeme Lewis

A customer recently asked for a few old plugins be removed from vCenter. In order to do this we need to enter the vCenter…

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Exporting VMs from VMware Fusion on macOS Big Sur\Monterey

Exporting VMs from VMware Fusion on macOS Big Sur\Monterey

Posted on January 20, 2022January 20, 2022 by Graeme Lewis

If you wanted to export a virtual machine from VMware Fusion 12 to move the virtual machine to another machine\host, you’d think that…

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Powershell: Create a new local admin user

Powershell: Create a new local admin user

Posted on May 1, 2021 by Graeme Lewis

I recently needed some code to create a quick local admin user on a Windows 10 machine. Here’s the Powershell code I used…

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VMUG Advantage

VMUG Advantage

Posted on March 17, 2021May 1, 2021 by tech-e.admin

There is lots that can be learnt from attending one of VMware’s user group meetings (VMUGs). I’ve attended a few now and learnt…

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BitLocker Recovery Key Location

BitLocker Recovery Key Location

Posted on May 15, 2020May 3, 2021 by Graeme Lewis

Just recently I needed to boot a users laptop into Safe Mode so I could uninstall some drivers. However when it restarted it…

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vCenter boots into emergency mode on startup

vCenter boots into emergency mode on startup

Posted on April 13, 2020May 12, 2021 by Graeme Lewis

I started up my virtual lab today and got the following error on my vCenter server:   “Generating “/run/initramfs/rdsosreport.txt”Entering emergency mode. Exit the…

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Preventing overwriting of extra partitions in an MDT task sequence

Preventing overwriting of extra partitions in an MDT task sequence

Posted on March 9, 2020May 3, 2021 by Graeme Lewis

The other day one of our users used our MDT\WDS process to rebuild his laptop. He’d partitioned his hard drive so that he…

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