Synology Active Backup For Business – VMware Lab Protection

I have a Synology NAS at home which is used for both my home lab and general NAS purposes (file shares, Plex, etc). I recently setup the ‘Active Backup For Business’ (ABfB) package on my Synology as I wanted to try out the backup function for my VMware lab. Excitingly for me the ABfB package … Read more

VMware TestDrive

I recently received an e-mail as part of my VMware User Group Advantage (VMUG) membership informing me about a new VMware service named ‘TestDrive’. I will provide information below taken from the e-mail invitation and from the website itself – https://portal.vmtestdrive.com/ TestDrive provides VMware customers, partners, employees, and VMUG Advantage members the opportunity to explore … Read more

vSAN host cannot be moved to the destination cluster: vSAN cluster UUID mismatch

This is a very quick post regarding the error message received below when attempting to add a VMware ESXi host with an existing vSAN partition to a new vCenter. The vSAN host cannot be moved to the destination cluster: vSAN cluster UUID mismatch In my case the complete error is as follows – Add hostStatus: … Read more

pfSense Routing Loop Fun

I recently upgraded my pfSense appliance to the latest code release (currently 2.4.4-RELEASE (amd64)) and since doing so I’ve had a few strange occasions where my devices are unable to access the Internet or more precisely certain ports are working while others do not. Let me explain further and then explain what I’ve done which … Read more

TechUG October 2018

For those who attended my TechUG presentation – thank you. Below you will find links to the presentations along with reference documents and URLs that will assist in further reading. Please note the slides are meant as talking points and do not necessarily include all topics or information discussed as part of the ‘live’ presentation. … Read more

TechUG September 2018

For those who attended my TechUG presentation – thank you. Below you will find links to the presentations along with reference documents and URLs that will assist in further reading. Please note the slides are meant as talking points and do not necessarily include all topics or information discussed as part of the ‘live’ presentation. … Read more

VMware VMUG – Hello From My Home Lab Goes International – Episode 5

Well I might as well link this here seeing as it’s on Twitter and various other places! I had the pleasure of doing a web session with Lindy from VMware for the ‘Hello From My Home Lab’ series and it’s been up on YouTube and I think showing at VMworld 2018. I’ve been meaning to … Read more

Specified operation failed with LDAP error: 00000005: SecErr: DSID-03152612, problem 4003 (INSUFF_ACCESS_RIGHTS)

I’ve been working with Dsacls (Directory Services Access Control Lists) recently as part of a project to enabled permissions on a custom app which will synchronise an HR system with Active Directory. To ensure safe testing we cloned a DC and the application server which will run the code into an isolated network which could … Read more

Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection Manager

I was speaking to somebody recently about how they connect to many remote Windows systems – in this instance they were opening up multiple MSTSC.exe windows and connecting that way. This is something I had done in the past till I came across the Remote Desktop Connection Manager software from Microsoft. It’s a great tool … Read more