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Upgrade to XenDesktop LTSR

Published by blog on 17 November 2019

This guide is base on a customer that has a XenDesktop 7.13 and has needed to stabilised his deployment to the latest LTSR . This is the right way to that time and while you need to have support from Citrix but you don’t want to ump to the latest technology (Workspace). First of all …

Azure blob as a backup destination with Synology Cloud Sync

Published by blog on 26 September 2019

In my enviroment I have a share where a deduplication backup software writes its backups. To avoid using tapes drives as the media to move data to an external site, I choose an Azure storage blob to move the share (5Tb) . Now see how. Select “ADD” Now , under “resource group” create a new …

VCSA password reset 5.5 and 6.0 …

Published by blog on 4 July 2019

If you have a 5.5, 6.0… otherwise https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2147144 shutdown the VCSA Now, press the bar to stop auto boot and press P to enter the GRUB Password. From vmware KB: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2069041 If the vCenter Server appliance is deployed without editing the root password in the Virtual Appliance Management Interface (VAMI), the default GRUB password is …

Upgrade from VCSA 5.5 – 6.0 to VCSA 6.5 U2G or more!

Published by blog on 13 June 2019

This is our VCSA version. We need to upgrade the VCSA from 6.0 to 6.5. VMware does not carry an in-place upgrade and for this reason it will be necessary to go through two stages. This guide also applies if you want to migrate from 5.5 to 6.5 and I also think of 6.7 .. …

How to replace a broken or “warning” hdd on a Synology NAS

Published by blog on 7 June 2019

Open storage manager and select HDD/SSD section Select Action and then, Deactivate. If you don’t know which is the slot where the disk is , select “Swich Drive Indicator Status” to find it.. Flag the warning and select OK… now ww can replace the drive…. At this point the array starts to rebuild… We need …

Decommissioning Exchange 2010 server in a Hybrid environments – The fastest way..

Published by blog on 16 May 2019

This guide considers the fastest way to decommission an Exchange server in Hybrid deployment so i consider some point as implied. So first we need to move al obbjects to the cloud …Take in mind that all must have the “onmicorosoft.com” domain. Go to Address rule polices and add it Now our objects has the …

Setting a right time synchronisation in a Microsoft Windows Domain

Published by blog on 2 May 2019

In this guide we are involved on the right configuration of time-sync in a Windows domain eviroment . Our goal is force clients time syncing with the PDC and set the PDC to sync to an external public NTP server. So, open the command prompt and issue this command to see the situation on a …

Hpe Aruba and loop-protect

Published by blog on 11 April 2019

this is a simple guide to enable the loop-protect feature on your Hpe/Aruba switch. Connect to your cli and issue this command : Show loop-protect As you can see it’s disabled. Now we can enable it per port or per vlan basic… anyway , the way that i prefer is per VLAN and, after that …

How to show meeting details of a Room mailbox

Published by blog on 18 March 2019

In our environments, we have a Room Mailbox called “Sala riunioni”. now get its details with this command: Get-MailboxFolderPermission -Identity “Sala riunioni:\calendar” |fl At this point we need to add to default users the rights to read the “limiteddetails” . With this settings, anyone can read who has created the appointment and the subject. this …

The smart cards nightmare with Citrix Xendesktop / Virtual Apps and Desktops

Published by blog on 19 February 2019

Everyone that use Citrix XenDesktop know the great problem of using it with usb devices to digitally sign documents. For this reasons, after the latest “ nightmare” with the last one USB key, the CNS, I’ve decided to write down a simple guide to help people like me with this problems. This is my last …