In my Azure test tenant, I forgot the password of an Azure Windows Domain Controller VM. In Azure, there is a Reset Password option available in the VM options. The password reset update failed. The password reset option uses a VM Access extension. When digging into the activity log I found the …
Continue ReadingI recently stumbled on a cool tool called “MSRD-Collect”. MSRD stands for Microsoft CSS Remote Desktop Data Collection and Diagnostic Script. MSRD-Collect is a PowerShell script with separate modules designed to collect information that will help Microsoft Customer Support Services (CSS) to …
Continue ReadingStart Menu management in Windows 11 is different than Windows 10. Microsoft recommended an MDM provider such as Microsoft Intune to manage the Windows 11 Start Menu. There are many environments (such as VDI and Azure Virtual Desktop(AVD) that don’t use an MDM provider to manage their Windows …
Continue ReadingIn OpenSSL version 3.0.0 to 3.0.6, a critical vulnerability is found (link ). A lot of vendors use these versions of OpenSSL in their products. VMware has the following statement: To date, no VMware products have been found to be critically impacted by CVE-2022-3602 or CVE-2022-3786. Regardless, …
Continue ReadingFor testing purposes, I frequently use VMware Workstation to install Operating Systems such as Windows 11. The biggest challenge with Windows 11 is that you need a TPM 2.0 device. When installing Windows 11, if your computer does not meet the hardware requirements, you will see a message stating, …
Continue ReadingSometimes you need the RDPW files when having for example remote apps listed in a central portal application integration. Here is a quick tip on how to download the Azure Virtual Desktop RDPW files for desktops and remote apps. 1. Log in using the AVD WebClient using the following URL: …
Continue ReadingWhile upgrading a vCenter Server 6.7 to version 7 Update 3 using the vCenter Server 7 UI installer, I was not able to select a datastore for installing the new vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA). The datastore selection was blank as shown in the following image. This issue still exists in the vCenter …
Continue ReadingBefore upgrading a VMware Horizon environment I want to known what VMware Horizon Client versions are in use. Just to be sure that the VMware Horizon clients are supported when upgrading to a new VMware Horizon version. Another use-case is to identify the VMware Horizon Client versions that are in …
Continue ReadingAfter deploying new Windows 10/11 images with the latest updates, Microsoft has included Search highlights. You can see if you have search highlights enabled when having a little drawing in the search bar. When clicking on the search bar it extends with graphics and more crap. So what are search …
Continue ReadingMost of the time I use Packer against a VMware vSphere and Microsoft Azure environment. But sometimes it’s useful to use VMware Workstation for local testing purposes. For building Windows 10 images with Packer and using VMware Workstation there is not much information available. In this blog post, …
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