vCenter Single Sign by default requires the user to specify the domain during authentication with vCenter. Example: JERMSMIT\admin or admin@JERMSMIT.LAB. You can eliminate the need to insert the domain in the username by following the following steps. Log in to the vSphere Web Client as administrator@vsphere.local or as another user with vCenter Single Sign-On administrator […]
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Of of my visitors wrote me asking how to uninstall Windows 10. I provided the steps in my response so I am sharing them here. Please *note* that these steps only apply to those upgrade installations of Windows 10. Open up Settings via the Start menu Click Update & Security and then Recovery Under the Go […]
What is vCenter Single Sign-On? vCenter Single Sign-On is a feature of VMware vCenter 5, 6 and future vCenter implementations that is an authentication broker which also creates security tokens providing a secure way of accessing your environments. This token exchange mechanism is far superior than the former requirement of each component authenticating separately with a directory service such […]
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Tech Short Q&A: What is a Hypervisor?
It’s interesting that this classification isn’t new. In fact it was classified by Gerald J. Popek back in 1974 in the article “Formal Requirements for Virtualizable Third Generation Architectures” So to answer the question: A hypervisor is a hardware virtualization technique which allows multiple guest operating systems to run on a single host system hardware […]
Here is a way we can be consistent with our setup of VPN connections on computers. Using PowerShell this is made simple with a small script on a USB stick, network share or whatever method you choose to get the to the client machine The following is a one line PowerShell command: Add-VpnConnection -Name “VPN Connection Name” […]
You want to get a list of users who exist as members of a AD (Active Directory) security group. Here are some quick steps on accomplishing this task. Lets begin: Open PowerShell or PowerShell ISE Type Import-Module ActiveDirectory Followed by Get-ADGroupMember -identity “Group Name” | select name | Out-GridView Import-Module ActiveDirectory Get-ADGroupMember -identity “Name of Group” | select name […]