I’ve been mulling about this post for some time trying to find the right way to convey the thoughts in my head. Hopefully, I do so adequately. Some background: At work, I’ve been taking several different AWS trainings as the company continues to drive its Cloud-first vision. There are a great many people who like… Read More
Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 in 2019 – A Troubleshooting Story
tl;dr Just in case you’re not interested in the narrative and want only facts. vRA Software Component won’t properly install IIS Found older Windows version uses Add-WindowsFeature, not Install-WindowsFeature Had to test if-statement for automation Learned that Powershell 2.0 no longer supported Installed WMF 5.0 to get Powershell 5.0 Guest Customization now broken – need C++… Read More
Replacing Expired PSC and VCSA Certificates
Task at hand: Replace the now-expired Machine SSL Certificates of the (still) external PSC and VCSA. By now, there are several different blog posts about how to replace the Machine SSL Certificate using the built-in Certificate Manager tool for the PSC and VCSA. I originally performed this operation after migrating from vSphere 5.5 to vSphere… Read More
vRA 7.5 Software Components – “Failure executing script “10_installsoftware.bat”
Yet another post that’s ahead of finishing my AppDefense Series… but worth sharing nonetheless. I went down a rabbit hole for quite a while on this issue and wanted to detail what I’d found. The Background / Setup In my environment there is a requirement to support a wide range of different operating systems. In an… Read More
Installing and Configuring the AppDefense Appliance
***UPDATE – 11/2/18: AppDefense 2.0 has been released as part of the vSphere Platinum. The overall functionality will be very similar. AppDefense 2.0 is implemented with the vCenter Plug-In and offers two new modes of use: Online and Offline mode. This blog series will continue to be about the AppDefense SaaS offering. More about other versions… Read More