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vSphere Customization Specification and Ubuntu 17.10

Has anyone noticed issues with #vSphere Customization Specification and #Ubuntu 17.10 (GNU/Linux 4.13.0-25-generic x86_64) – Now that the network settings are located in: /etc/netplan/01-netcfg.yaml, I’m back to manually updating IP information (Server Naming still works). Although the traditional /etc/network/interfaces reflects the information provided by the customization process, the host still acquires a DHCP issued address. After some digging […]

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Cannot remediate host because it is part of HA Admission Control enabled Cluster

Recently my team and I ran into incident with and error while patching esxi servers using VMware Update Manager(VUM).  When attempting o remediate the following error message was shown: “cannot remediate host because it is part of HA Admission Control enabled Cluster” Cause: vCenter Server uses admission control to ensure that sufficient resources are available in […]

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Hyper-V Virtualization: Turning Hyper-V On and Off

I recently started using Hyper-V on my Windows 10 workstation to task advantage of using technologies such as Docker that leverages Hyper-V to run its container images.  I also run VMware Player for running virtual machines. The following commands make it a simpler task to toggle Hyper-V on and off again. To Turn Hyper-V off, […]

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Which Active Directory Group Policies are being Applied to your Accounts

Playing a bit of detective, I started reviewing Active Directory Group Policies that had been applied to workstations, in an attempt to resolve a few reported concerns regarding polices being applied successfully. Using the gpresult command I was able to output all of the polices applied. The command requires the specification of scope to be […]

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Blank Screen at Office 365 Login Page

Unsure what is going on with the Office 365 Infrastructure, however I have been having major issues all morning getting into my portal to manage resources. I’ve attempted multiple browsers without any further resolution to this issue. https://portal.office.com/adminportal/home shows only a blank page.   Down Detector is showing an increased report of users facing incidents Ref: http://downdetector.com/status/office-365 Anyone […]

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News: Canonical Releases Ubuntu Kernel Updates for Meltdown / Spectre

No need to go into the back story on this.  If you are reading this, there is a chance you’ve already read other reports on what Meltdown / Spectre and the perceived risks. Cononical made a public statement last week to provide a patch for supported Ubuntu releases against Meltdown and Spectre security vulnerabilities, and the first […]