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…

Updating Windows Server 2016 Defender with SCCM

16 januari 2018 SCCM System Center
Recently I had to create a VMware deployment template for Windows Server 2016. I started with a vanilla installation but I also had to include a SCCM client. Using the installation guidelines from a collegue for Windows Server 2012 R2 I installed the SCCM client with ccmsetup.exe and then waited…

Recover your Office 365 admin account

20 juli 2017 Azure Solutions
While studying for the 70-533 exam (which I passed) I purchased an Office 365 subscription and connected it to my Azure AD.  I added the domain name to Azure AD and also to Office 365. After the exam I decided to clean up my Azure subscription and accidently deleted my…

Frequent, continuous releases coming for System Center

22 juni 2017 System Center
Microsoft recently added a blog post about the update frequency for System Center. However, the update frequency for SCCM is not changed: System Center Configuration Manager will continue to offer three releases a year to give you the latest updates for managing servers, PCs, and mobile devices.

SCCM – Duplicate Device Records

6 juni 2017 ConfigMgr Powershell SCCM Script
A few days back I was investigating duplicate device records in SCCM. Basically, there are two major reasons for duplicate device records: Reinstalling a device Active Directory delta discovery For the first reason SCCM has some built-in solutions. In the Hierarchy Settings there’s an option for conflicting client records. This…