I wanted to blog about this because I couldn't find any info about it on the internet.

Against the advice of everyone, I installed Proxmox on a USB thumbdrive. And, as predicted by everyone who gave that advice, the thumbdrive failed after a couple months.

So I rebuilt my server with a new 1TB SSD disk and a backup of …

Recently, while exploring Chef's platform for "Compliance as Code" called InSpec, I ran into an issue when executing VMware's DISA STIG profile against a VMware host.

Sorry, we are unable to detect your platform Train::PlatformDetectionFailed

After connecting to my test vCenter server, I quickly realized …

Two of my SQL Servers stopped working after an unexpected power outage. When I attempted to start them, they gave me an Access Denied error. These are two totally different machines (diff Win & diff SQL version) that both, after years of working, just stopped in their tracks with an Access Denied.

This isn't an …

I'm not super familiar with ThinApping, but converted portions of this VMware login script at the request of a consultant.

I tried to automate the script a bit more than the one from VMware's blog. Their script required that you put in the path to each EXE. This script will find all exes within a directory and register …

Next in the series of replacing vSphere related SSL scripts is the VMware Site Recovery manager script.

This script generates the SSL certificates based off of the WebServer Certificate Template and runs a batch file to perform the actual replacement. …

Next in the series of replacing vSphere related SSL scripts is the VMware View Composer script. This one is rather simple, and uses certutil and certreq to generate the certificates, as opposed to OpenSSL.

It also generates a batch script which calls SviConfig.exe. You just gotta put in a few variables, run the script …