Troubleshooting Host Profiles

A while ago I was working with host profiles to get the hosts compliant with the CIS Benchmarks (https://www.cisecurity.org/benchmark/vmware/). But for some reason, I could not remediate some of the hosts. Issue #1 The error I got was pretty generic… I started looking at log files and decided to download…

vCenter Update Manager gives error status 404 in IE 11

I was working in my home lab testing a migration of hosts from vCenter 6 (Windows) to the 6.7 VCSA. The steps outlined in the article “How to move ESXi/ESX host from one vCenter Server to another” (1004775) worked flawless but for some reason Update Manager didn’t work… I tried…

SCCM – Windows Update settings and errors

The last two weeks I was very busy deploying a specific update to several hundred servers. Besides the deployment I also spent some time answering questions about the process because some collegues didn’t understand why it took longer than expected. Because I didn’t find the answers all in one place I…