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Broadcom have now disabled the old update URL's in vCenter. None of the old update url's work anymore, and you have to generate a new access token. As such, you will not receive updates until the URLS are updated. You will need to generate an access...
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Windows Remote Desktop has a login backdoor
Remote Desktop has a login backdoor by design that should be thought about. Researchers have discovered a significant security vulnerability in Microsoft's Remote Desktop Protocol. Known as Terminal Services, RDP appears to be designed to always to...
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No matter what type of business you are in, we are here to support your IT needs As an ambitious business, you may already juggle multiple cloud and IT suppliers, which can be a minefield. Blue Sky Systems can help cut through the noise, manage...
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ESXi Offline Bundle Upgrade CLI
Upgrading ESXi with an offline bundle and CLI is sometimes needed. 1) First of all, we need to find out the bundle profile name: 2) This will produce an output as below: In this example, LVO_8.0.3-LVO.803.12.2 is the profile name. 3) We now need to run...
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In their infinite wisdom, Broadcom has repeatedly changed their product codes again and again..... This is an updated list for 2025 superseding here. Going into 2025, Broadcom has changed the product lineup again, which we can only imagine is due to...
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Knowing the channels and the most efficient configurations is something that not many people know about. Trying to remember this information all the time is not easy, so we wanted to put this into a graphical representation for each main band. We have...
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Microsoft has ended Windows Update Service in favour of Azure Update Manager. Windows Server 2025 and onwards will no longer be available as a function. Although Server 2022 will stop receiving security updates 14/10/2031 you have plenty of time to...
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Using physical desktops seems simple and cheap, but are they? Physical machines take a lot of IT resources: Windows Updates Security management and disk encryption Hardware failures Users FOMO & Asset tracking Cost of management software All this on...
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Blue Sky Systems is celebrating ten years of trading!! We can’t believe it. Time has flown by In that decade, outside of IT, we have seen some significant events: We are now on our sixth Prime Minister BREXIT (wasn’t that a contentious one) Russia...
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Multiple vCenter in single SSO with one broken
If you have multiple vCenters in a single SSO domain, you may have one broken due to snapshot rollback etc. Some of us have been there. You have rolled back a snapshot on a Center, or for whatever reason, the SSO is no longer working. You will be able...
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Change a VMware VM memory allocation script
A script to change a virtual machine's memory is helpful if you need to shut down the power. We have found that sometimes we need to change the memory allocation to a virtual machine on the VM we are accessing the platform from. As such, you can run...
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Export Users ProxyAddressess with PowerShell
If you want to view all user's email addresses, this information is held in AD under proxyAddresses. This script will allow you to export proxyAddresses with their Name, UserPrincipalName, proxyAddresses and mail fields. This will allow you to view all...
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Did you know that cybercrime and fraud account for over half of all reported crimes in the UK? Cybercrime is a criminal activity using digital technology to carry out attacks. This might include stealing and selling data, blackmailing businesses or...
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How-To Resize a linux LVM partition
This task is much easier than some might think. However, you have to resize the LVM and then the partition. Most Linux distros, such as Ubuntu and Debian, prefer LVM. LVM is Logical Volume Manager that provides a method of allocating and managing space...
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Deploy VM from VMware market place
How to creating a machine from VMware market place. The VMware marketplace is growing with VM templates to help you get going. From here, you can create and deploy machines. 1) Login to Cloud Connect Can open up the content hub 2) Go to catalogs and...
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Creating a virtual machine is straightforward from an ISO, Template or import. Full console access to cloud VM's allows you to create machines with no OS and install them from an ISO. We have found, in several circumstances, this to be useful. 1) Login...
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Veeam Copy Job for Cloud Connect
This is an excellent how-to if you have a backup job and want to copy that data to the cloud. Copy jobs will do as it says... It will copy the backup to another location. It doesn't take a new backup of the systems. Based on your settings, it will...
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This will show you how to set up Veeam to connect to ourselves. Veeam Cloud Connect is very useful to get your backups offsite. It has built-in remote health checking and remote transforms to mention a few functions. The connection is via SSL to...
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We love template VMs. They reduce deployment time and save time when installing VMware tools and Windows Updates. However, the critical point was Windows updates. There is a limited point in deploying from templates if they are not up-to-date with MS...
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Clean WINSXS folder on Remote machines
After machines have been running for some time without a reimage, the WINSXS can fill up due to many updates that need cleaning out. The WINSXS folder is a repository for updates that have been installed to allow for removal. However, cumulative...