vCenter Content Libraries – Great for keeping templates consistent
Content Libaries for keeping vSphere templates consistent accross a large environment.
November 8, 2020
Tagged: vmware
Windows 2008 End of Support – VM report
So hopefully everyone has already long dealt with the upcoming end of support date for Windows 2008 as detailed by MS here right? Paying for extended support might be an option at this late stage but good to know exactly what you are dealing with. I have used the following powercli code to query all vCenters for a report on 2008/2008r2 VMs to identify any stragglers or virtual servers that app owners have been too busy to update or mitigate. Change the variables to suit your environment and comment out the filter (highlighted lines below) if you want to use...
October 30, 2019
Managing ESXi Hosts with AD Credentials
As part of a security hardening exercise or indeed just because, it may be desirable to change the root account of your ESXi hosts to a complex password, bung it in a safe and let you admins connect via their AD credentials. To start with, join your ESXi hosts to your AD domain. I have pre-created computer objects in my test environment. I have also created an ESX Admins AD security group which by default allows its members admin access to an ESXi host once it has been joined to the domain. To join the domain run the following powercli...
July 24, 2019
Blocking AD Logon Scripts
When starting a PoC or new VDI deployment, in terms of group policy, I want to isolate the new environment as much as possible. I don’t want any existing user and computer settings applying. Often, the project will involve optimization in this area (in this case the introduction of User Management products such as Citrix WEM or VMware UPM). I will block policy at the VDI OU level and create a loopback policy (REPLACE) so only settings from one place are applying. I may well have to tackle enforced policy here too. However, this does not take login scripts defined...
