As part of some internal lab work, I had to move the user objects with their passwords to a new forest. It was key to migrate the passwords to ensure that disruption to the users was minimized. To migrate the users, I used the Microsoft Active Direction Migration Tool (ADMT + documentation) alongside the Password … Continue reading Migrating User and Password Objects between Active Directory Forests
Below is a quick Powershell command I use to convert passwords to secure strings and output to an XML file, I can encrypt that XML file locally on the machine where any scripts need to run from, and call it in another Powershell script. $secpasswd = ConvertTo-SecureString “VMware1!” -AsPlainText -Force #The logic used here between … Continue reading Powershell snippet – text to secure string and output to XML file
Recently I’ve been using the fantastic resources to start learning Kubernetes (it’s the next big thing don’t you know). The course I’ve been following; Kubernetes Essentials by Will Boyd When running the command below, I lost connectivity to my master, which means I missed the print out of my join command to run on my … Continue reading Kubernetes basics – kubeadm token create –print-join-command
A few months back, I setup a Horizon Environment running in our VMC environment used for lab purposes. Since then, I’ve been asked by several people to go through the setup. So, I’ve also decided to create a blog post on the matter. This blog post will cover the considerations for running VMware Horizon on … Continue reading Horizon on VMC – Considerations and setting up a lab environment
As we find ourselves on reduced or zero travel thanks to the outbreak of COVID-19, we also find ourselves with reduced human interaction. Sometimes that can be a good thing (less chance to contract the virus in question), sometimes it cannot. Whilst chatting to a few of my team members last week, I decided to … Continue reading Introducing the VMware UK&I TAM Spotify playlist