Specific SSO errors and fixes covered: Invalid SAML Assertion (13), Untrusted Issuer (24) Single-Sign On allows users to access web based applications with their domain credentials, thus eschewing the need for unique user names and passwords. WebEx does have a… Read More ›
Microsoft
Mass Installing VMware Horizon Desktop Agents with Microsoft SCCM
I’m just going to cut to the chase here and give the answer to this problem with a Persistent/Full Clone desktop pool: What do you do when you can’t mass install VMware View 7 desktop agents successfully enough to confidentially… Read More ›
Replace RDM Disks with iSCSI on Microsoft Clusters
The days of VMware RDM(s) are over. That’s what the interweb tells me anyway, and I’m cool with that. I’m really cool with it after I discovered that RDM mappings on a VMware host slows its boot time by about three minutes… Read More ›
iSCSI Setup on Dell Compellent Array
In my efforts to get the hell away from RDM disks in VMware, using the Dell Compellent for iSCSI connections became a necessity.There’s good blog post here that runs through most of this. I’ve added some things from my own… Read More ›
Recovering From a Massive Microsoft DFSR Failure Quickly
Hi everyone. Heard this one? Three engineers were riding in a car: a mechanical engineer, a chemical engineer, and a Microsoft software engineer. The car stalled, so they rolled it to the side of the road and got out to… Read More ›
Microsoft Office 365 Migration Considerations
A few weeks ago I visited a Gartner conference on Microsoft Office 365. We were considering trying it out until the notes below were passed around. We’re going to wait a while to see how all this shakes out. For… Read More ›
Using Storage vMotion with a SQL 2012 MSCS Cluster
These notes are based on the limitations of RDM disks in a SQL 2012 cluster in conjunction with Microsoft’s Cluster Services (MSCS). If you are lucky enough to be using (READ: afford) the newer features in SQL 2012 with vSphere… Read More ›
