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November 26, 2018
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Nutanix AOS 5.10 & Prism Central 5.10 released

Nutanix has released AOS 5.10 and PC 5.10, which includes a redesigned Prism Central and more…

Troy
September 18, 2018
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Nest VMware ESXi on Nutanix AHV

I recently worked on an issue where I needed access to both ESXi and AHV. I didn’t have enough resources available to me to have both setup and I didn’t want to blow away my lab to make it happen. So, I decided to deploy an ESXi VM on my AHV cluster. In order for […]

Troy
August 15, 2018
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Nutanix Calm – AWS Setup & Example App Deployment

Hello there! One of the most powerful aspects of Nutanix Calm is the ability to deploy to many different clouds. Today, I’m going to show you how to setup AWS by creating an IAM user, a key pair, register an AMI and finally deploy a pre-made blueprint to EC2. Let’s get started…

Troy
June 7, 2018
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Nutanix: Add Unprotected VMs to Protection Domain

One line of goodness….

Troy
May 1, 2017
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A general system error occured: Connection Refused when starting VM

Just ran into this problem while spinning up a Windows Server 2016 VM from a template. After a little digging, the quick and easy fix is as follows. Login to the vCenter server via SSH Enable the Shell Start the service

shell.set --enabled true

shell

service-control --start vmware-vpx-workflow

The VM now starts up. VMware KB 2109887

Troy
April 25, 2017
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Disable, Move or Delete stale/stagnant/unused computer objects from Active Directory

Hi everybody. I haven’t posted in quite some time (2+ years), but I’m going to post this nugget here today! Back in december 2015, we had a need to disable, move and delete unused computer objects after a certain amount of days. 21 to disable and 28 to remove. This has been in production since […]

Troy
January 3, 2014
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Get all Exchange SMTP addresses and export to CSV

Heyo and Happy New Year! A new year brings even more acquisitions and as such, the ongoing desire to automate as many of these tasks as possible. Our latest one is nice because they are a decent sized company, running Microsoft products, namely Exchange. As with nearly all acquisitions, these companies have multiple aliases for […]

Troy
December 20, 2013
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Activate Office 2010 against Server 2012 R2 KMS

If you have recently upgraded/moved to Server 2012 R2 for your KMS host, and you still have Office 2010 clients within your org, you are in for a real treat. Office 2010 KMS is not supported on Server 2012 R2! Warning: This is probably not supported, and you should use this at your own risk. […]

Troy
June 6, 2013
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User Termination (Part 2)

In this 2 part series I will show you how to build an automated and audit-friendly user termination process. In Part 1, I showed you how to get the users into a centralized location and execute basic user termination actions. For Part 2, we will fully automate the process of the user being deleted from […]

Troy
May 30, 2013
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User Termination (Part 1)

In this 2 part series I will show you how to build an automated and audit friendly user termination process. Part 1 will cover the user interaction phase (receiving the termination request and entering the user), while part 2 will cover the actual archival/removal of the terminated user. You can find part 2 here. Scenario […]