Bits, Bytes, & Radio Waves

A quiet journey through discovery and understanding.

  • Adding Single Sign-On (SSO) Web Apps to WS1 Access Catalog

    When logging on to Workspace ONE Access and viewing the catalog, the links that are presented can be just bookmarks, or they can be bookmarks that also sign you in to the service you are navigating to. One such case is trying to log onto other vRealize products. Unfortunately, I am not aware of an…

  • vRealize Operations – Unlock Photon OS root Account

    vRealize Operations Manager Version: 8.4Photon OS Version: 3.0 (build 11dd065) VMware References: How to reset the root password in vRealize Operations (2001476) (https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2001476) Upgrade to vRealize Operations Manager 8.x fails due to the admin or root account password (75195) (https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/75195) About the vRealize Operations Administration Interface Overview I deployed three new appliances and when I…

  • VMware Blast Extreme Group Policy Settings

    The policy files required are vdm_blast.admx and vdm_blast.adml. They are downloaded as part of the VMware-Horizon-Extras-Bundle. In a typical environment, the admx policy files go into \\<domain name>\SYSVOL\<domain name>\Policies\PolicyDefinitions. The adml files go into the language folder, in my case, en-US. If the Group Policy Editor was already open, close and reopen for the changes…

Notes from practice

I use this site to document systems, configurations, and lessons learned as I work through real problems—both professionally and through personal experimentation. The goal is clarity: understand how something works, explain why it behaves the way it does, and make it reliable and repeatable.

These notes are written primarily for myself, but shared openly in case they help someone else avoid a dead end or reduce frustration. If you’d like to learn more, visit the About page.

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Aaron Rombaut

Technologist & Writer