Bits, Bytes, & Radio Waves

A quiet journey through discovery and understanding.

  • 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…

  • MSSQL SSL/TLS Certificate Chain Fix

    I was configuring VMware App Volumes and ran into an issue where the installer reported a MS SQL security alert. Since I am trying to get this to work in a production-like environment, I did not want to just “Trust server certificate” and move along. I wanted this to be installed appropriately. A couple minutes…

Notes from practice

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Aaron Rombaut

Technologist & Writer