Author Archives: brian.wuchner

Using Log Insight Agent to find insecure LDAP binds

Posted on February 2, 2020 by brian.wuchner

I recently read an interesting article on the vSphere Blog: https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2020/01/microsoft-ldap-vsphere-channel-binding-signing-adv190023.html, which states Microsoft is making a change to the default behavior of LDAP servers that are part of Active Directory. This change will require secure LDAP channel binding by … Continue reading →

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Ubuntu 18.04 Grow Filesystem

Posted on January 26, 2020 by brian.wuchner

In a previous post we created an Ubuntu 18.04 template that only has a 16GB disk. The template is fairly lean, without many packages installed, but the root filesystem is already at 21% full. For many applications this will be … Continue reading →

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Deploy Ubuntu 18.04 from Template

Posted on January 26, 2020 by brian.wuchner

In a previous post we created an Ubuntu 18.04 template. When that template is deployed, we need to make a few changes to customize the VMs personality. To assist with that we’ll create a customization specification from Menu > Policies … Continue reading →

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Lab Updates: Ubuntu Server 18.04 LTS Template

Posted on January 26, 2020 by brian.wuchner

Over three years ago I created a post for creating an Ubuntu 16.04 template for use in a lab environment. I’ve been using that template, with very minor updates, ever since. Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Long Term Support) will stop receiving … Continue reading →

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PowerCLI 6.3 R1 unable to connect to vCenter after TLS change

Posted on March 6, 2017 by brian.wuchner

I recently upgraded my lab to vSphere 6.0 Update 3 and then used the vSphereTLSReconfigurator to only allow TLSv1.2 as described in this KB article https://kb.vmware.com/kb/2148819. After completing this change, I noticed that my PowerCLI 6.3 R1 machine could no … Continue reading →

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