Tutorials
Tutorials are step-by-step on how to do something. We try to walk though in plain English with pictures (when possible) on how to accomplish or set something up.
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Setup of Nutanix AHV Virt_who for Red Hat Satellite
In this article, I intend to walk through the basics of setting up an virt-who config to be used to leverage the Nutanix API from Red Hat Satellite, thereby adding the capability to…
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Learning Ansible from the ground up.
Ansible (As defined by wikipedia) is an open-source software provisioning, configuration management, and application-deployment tool. It runs on many Unix-like systems, and can configure both Unix-like systems as well as Microsoft Windows. It…
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Setting up Windows Root CA on CentOS 6.9 Linux server
Hello and welcome. It is that time for me to add a new article to the blog. I know, I KNOW.. Its been a long time.. I’m sorry… In today’s blog post, I…
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Bulk remove non-English Management Packs from OpsMgr 2012R2
I’ve been taking some time to learn some of the System Center tools, and recently I’ve installed an Operations Manager (SCOM) instance to use for monitoring in my environment. Being the numb-skull I…
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Add or Remove E-mail Aliases in On-Premises Active Directory – Office 365
If you are synchronising your Office 365 account with your on-premises Active Directory environment, you will know that you cannot edit exchange user properties using the Office 365 administrator portal. If you try,…
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How to perform manual sync with the new Azure AD Connect.
On occasion, it may be required of you to force a sync between your local AD environment and your MS Azure / Office 365 environment. By default, this value is about 3 hours.…
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Installing VMware Tools the right way on CentOS 6.7!
For CentOS, I recommend following the VMware Tools Installation Guide for Operating System Specific Packages to get your VMware Tools instead of just running it from vSphere Client. Why you ask? Well, because…
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Enable the Server Graphic Shell on Server 2016 TP2
So back in early May 2015, (I know, like it was sooo long ago..) during the MS Ignite Conference, Microsoft released Technical Preview 2 for Server 2016. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/evaluate-windows-server-technical-preview The installation, regardless of what…
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Setting the default domain for vCenter SSO
vCenter Single Sign by default requires the user to specify the domain when they pass their username during authenticate with vCenter. For Example : MYDOMAIN\USER1 or USER1@MYDOMAIN.COM You can eliminate the need to…
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Boot into safe mode on Windows 8/Server 2012
One of the earliest steps in troubleshooting a PC/Server is to boot into safe mode. Be it Last Known Good recovery, to uninstalling a faulty driver, this has simply been achieved by pressing…