This is just a list of things I have that seems to get Veeam and Exchange to a point of set it and forget it. Use Hot Add or SAN, stay away from NBD Do Not use VMXnet3 use E1000E for all adapters Increase timeouts for Exchange Failover Make sure guest interaction proxy is on... Continue Reading →
TACO SR 504 C-Wire
So I decided to install a smart thermostat. My house did not have a c-wire and I have a heat only system. Some things to go over that if you don't have a background in HVAC won't make sense but once you read it does. Working IT we have the same kind of issue with... Continue Reading →
Upgrade Elasticsearch from 2.4.6 to 5.6.8 for Graylog 2.4.3
I know this is a bit messy but I wanted to get this onto somewhere before I forget. So there are some new features in Graylog 2.4 that I wanted to use so I finally broke down and decided to upgrade my elasticsearch cluster to 5.6 the latest support version for graylog. Make sure you... Continue Reading →
Upgrade Graylog 2.2 to 2.3 or 2.4
Upgrading graylog 2.2 to 2.3 adds in another step due to so changes to the way graylog connects to the elasticsearch cluster. Update - This works the same for 2.4, just replace 2.3 for 2.4 in the repo. If you are already at 2.3 and want to go to 2.4 no other changes are needed... Continue Reading →
View 7.2: No co-management availibility for the protocol
TL;DR: There is a bug in 7.2 PCoIP Gateway Server, contact support for a SecurityGateway.exe patch or wait for the next version of Horizon. Recently we began to see the error in our logs: Unable to launch from Pool for user : No co-management availability for protocol PCoIP It shows up as an Audit Failure... Continue Reading →
Horizon Logon Monitor Data Analysis
For those of you who don't know, the very useful fling for the Horizon Logon Monitor fling has now been built into the Horizon agent as of 7.1. If you are running 6.X or 7.0, I strongly urge you to install this lightweight tool. The monitor gives you fantastic insight into what is chewing away at... Continue Reading →
Horizon 7.1 and ESXi 6.5 File Lock Issue
This post today is to warn some of you about an issue you may see in an ESXi 6.5 based Linked-Clone View environment. I had built a ten host, ESXi 6.5, cluster for our VDI linked-clone VM's in order to move away from a dying blade chassis. When I was building up the View pools,... Continue Reading →
Converting PFX to PEM and Key with OpenSSL
I use the DigiCert utility to generate and complete all my SSL certificate requests. Since upon import these certificates get automatically added to the Windows keystore, and our certificate provider doesn't provide a good way to get a PEM certificate for Linux-based appliances. I always seem to forget how to do this and finally I... Continue Reading →
Windows Defender Exclusions SQL Server
These are the Powershell commands for exclusions on a Microsoft SQL Server on Windows 2016. This only includes the Database role, if you have Reporting, Analysis, Full Text Indexing or other roles there will be more. The -ExclusionPath will need to be changed to what you configured in SQL on install. Powershell must be run... Continue Reading →
VDI Resource Calculator – v1.0
This may come in handy for those of you planning to deploy a VDI environment. I built this excel "calculator" so hopefully people can get a quick idea of the amount of hosts needed based on their own desktop requirements. I also built this as my group is being looked at to help others with their own... Continue Reading →
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