Bits, Bytes, & Radio Waves

A quiet journey through discovery and understanding.

Author: Aaron Rombaut

  • Configuring Microsoft SQL Server for VMware Horizon View

    Software being used: Microsoft SQL Server 2016 Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio 18.4 VMware Horizon 7.12.0 Configure Microsoft SQL Server After installing Microsoft SQL Server, a few things need to be configured: 1. Ensure TCP port 1433 is open on any firewall software running on the server. 2. Add a machine certificate to local machine…

  • Deploy VMware Unified Access Gateway with PowerShell

    Each version of the Unified Access Gateway will also have PowerShell scripts available in a .zip file. For this post, I am using Unified Access Gateway 20.09. The components can be downloaded from https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/downloads/info/slug/desktop_end_user_computing/vmware_unified_access_gateway/20_09. You will want to the appliance itself as well as the PowerShell scripts. For this post, I am going to use…

  • Update vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA)

    I wanted to update vCenter Server Appliance update 1 (vCenter Appliance 6.7 U1 (6.7.0.20000)) to the most current patch level which at the time of this post is Update 3k. I navigated to VMware’s patch repository, https://my.vmware.com/group/vmware/patch#search, and selected VC and 6.7.0. I already have the appliance, so I downloaded the Appliance-Patch file as highlighted…