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
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
Challenge: Integrating vRO with vRA
Earlier in the year I stood up an expandable deployment of vRealize Automation (following this blog post). I’ve finally had time over the last week or so to focus on this new (to me) technology! I’m starting to play around and really enjoying myself while at the same time becoming incredibly frustrated when I can’t… Read More
vRealize Automation 7.x Directory Sync Failure
tl;dr – In the event of Directory Sync failure, check the following two files on the vRA appliance for the proper Domain and Domain Controller information: /usr/local/horizon/conf/domain_krb.properties and /usr/local/horizon/conf/states/TENANTNAME/####/config-state.json If stale records exist, remove them and restart the appliance. If you use an external vIDM, you may need to search for similar files there. Scenario… Read More