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Travelling with my beast friend
Read more: Travelling with my beast friendJune 27 to July 9th, I visited Austin and Dallas Texas for a long over-due vacation that wasn’t tied to work. As I often do, I brought my 10 LB 12 year old Maltipoo with me ; her name is Coffee bean. As a single guy since 2019, she means the world to me. Who…
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Citrix + 2FA 🍪fix for “you cannot logon using a smart card”
Read more: Citrix + 2FA 🍪fix for “you cannot logon using a smart card”Here’s a quick blog post on how to fix issues you might have connecting to a Citrix access layer where you’ve got 2FA via Duo/Okta/etc in place After putting in your 2FA info, you might see the following on the StoreFront page Within your browser, copy/paste in the following For EDGEedge:/settings/SiteData?Search=cookies For Chromechrome://settings/siteData?search=cookies Search for…
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Nutanix CE home lab build log
Read more: Nutanix CE home lab build logThe plan For my new job, I’m studying for the Nutanix-MCI. I can use the Nutanix cloud-based labs system, but I’m a hands-on guy, and prefer to learn by practical example. I recently re-built my 3 node vSan cluster, and it was a lot of work to juggle the VMs due to the greater complexity…
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Getting more out my home fiber internet with 10Gbe
Read more: Getting more out my home fiber internet with 10GbeIn January of 2023, I was coming to the end of a multi-year promo with Videotron (Quebec) via my legacy cable modem. My normal speeds were pretty good, but definitely some room for improvement with my upload channel ; as I primarily WFH, I’m constantly using my upload channel for video calls as well as…
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Disable persistent scratch log(s) on home lab ESXi hostss
Read more: Disable persistent scratch log(s) on home lab ESXi hostssNOTE: The following advice would NOT be for prod workloads where you may require scratch logs to be persisted between reboots should you need to send them to your hardware vendor or VMware directly Hopefully you find this blog post while searching for a solution as I did this week, I had to cobble together…
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Home lab winter 2023 update – Desktop vs server hardware decision making process
Read more: Home lab winter 2023 update – Desktop vs server hardware decision making processIt’s 2023, and time to re-visit my favorite topic: THE HOME LAB Last month, I took a new job focusing as a solutions architect implementing hypervisor / datacenter products for VMware & Nutanix. My new job is still with https://iti.ca/en/, and I’m happy to keep it in the family and not have to start over…
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TEAMS /turbo mode in 2023? Capturing memory usage with a PowerShell one-liner
Read more: TEAMS /turbo mode in 2023? Capturing memory usage with a PowerShell one-linerFor the past few years, I’ve repeated the same (somewhat lame) joke about how to optimize teams, it goes like this: Obviously, this was only half-serious. It’s easier said than done to exit Teams at this point. Like a lot of folks who can contrast the UX of Teams vs slack on a daily basis.…
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Hyper-V to VMware conversion tips and tricks
Read more: Hyper-V to VMware conversion tips and tricksAs an IT consultant , I’m asked to assist a wide variety of tasks. Last fall , I worked on a project to convert 21 Hyper-V VMs to ESXi. Normally, you’d use the VMware vSphere stand-alone converter for such a task, however, VMware pulled the tool in Feb of 2022, only to add it back…
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2x methods to list installed apps by Powershell
Read more: 2x methods to list installed apps by PowershellMicrosoft doesn’t provide a GUI native way to export the apps you see as below. Why? I don’t know, but via CMD you’ve got a few options. I often use scripts from my co-worker Jon Pitre (GitHub), so I’ve already got the PowerShell app deploy toolkit installed, so, I can just run the following code…
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The car search continues & concludes
Read more: The car search continues & concludesFrom July 2021 to August 2022, I went on an epic # of test drives , 30 in total. I ended up purchasing a lovely Subaru WRX 2011 with a manual transmission. You can read more about my criteria / experience in my original blog post HERE Some pix of the Subaru WRX . I…