DIY Ambilight – part 2

7 maart 2019 DIY
A while back I started with an Ambilight project based on a Raspberry PI and Hyperion. All the parts were delivered so I could finish the installation. The last part was to cut the LED strip into 5 pieces and solder them back together so they could be mounted on…

DIY Ambilight

19 januari 2019 DIY
And now for something completely different… A DIY ambilight system. After our move to a new house (at least for us it was new), my wife spoke the famous words “maybe we need a bigger tv”. So the next day I got a new 55″ Samsung that replaced our old…

Cannot import Puppet Learning OVA in ESX: 47:7:VALUE_ILLEGAL

15 januari 2019 VMware
A couple of weeks ago I was asked to import a Puppet learning OVA in ESX. Sounded pretty easy… But it wasn’t… When I started the import I got an error: Issues detected with selected template. Details: – 47:7:VALUE_ILLEGAL: Value “PIIX4” of ResourceSubType element not found in []. -56:7:VALUE_ILLEGAL: Value…

New accounts cannot log in to vRealize Automation

12 januari 2019 Solutions VMware
In my current position I manage a vRealize Automation environment which is also connected to a vRealize Orchestrator server. The vRO server is using vRA as the Identity Provider. For some reason new accounts were not able to log in to the vRO client. So the first thing we checked…

vMotion fails at 72%

18 december 2018 VMware
This week I had a strange issue with vMotion. I tried to put a host in maintenance mode and it failed. There were some VM’s that didn’t want to be moved to another host. The error I saw was this: Hmm. Why was this happening to only a couple of…

VMworld 2018 – Barcelona

13 november 2018 AnyLinq VMware
This year I had the opportunity to go to VMworld 2018 in Barcelona! Thanks Anylinq! What an event! Packed with interesting sessions but limited time so I had to choose carefully. The first day I did a workshop on Horizon but basically it was a walkthrough of a hands-on-lab. After…

Resetting expired Software Updates to normal

17 april 2018 ConfigMgr SCCM
I was experimenting with WSUS settings related to MDT and tried to use the underlying WSUS server that was used within SCCM. Not a good idea!!! The main reason is that when you decline an update in the WSUS console the update becomes expired in the SCCM console. How that…

Everyday is Patch Tuesday

9 april 2018 ConfigMgr SCCM System Center
With the release of Configuration Manager 1802 you can choose your own day as Patch Tuesday. In some countries Patch Tuesday actually falls on Wednesday because of the time difference. Configuring this in an Automatic Deployment Rule was almost impossible. In some environments I choose to run the ADR on the…