Bits, Bytes, & Radio Waves

A Journey Through Discovery

  • Installing VMware Horizon Connection Server

    Certificate Requirements When you install VMware Horizon Connection Server, a self-signed certificate will be installed into the Personal certificate store. You should use a Certificate Authority (CA) signed certificate for the computer account and store it in the Personal certificate store before installing VMware Horizon Connection server. During the installation, if a machine certificate is…

  • Adding Active Directory Computer Accounts to Microsoft SQL Server

    Launch Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) with an administrative account. Type the fully qualified domain name in the Server name: textbox. Change the Authentication method from the drop-down box. Click the Connect button. Right-click the Security folder > choose New > click Login… ​Provide the computer name in the Login name textbox. A computer name consists of a domain name, backslash, followed by a host…

  • Creating an App Volumes Database

    Launch Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) with an administrative account. Type the fully qualified domain name in the Server name: textbox. Change the Authentication method from the drop-down box. Click the Connect button. Right-click the Databases folder > click New Database… Type the name of the new database to create in the Database name:…

  • Configuring VMware App Volumes Manager

    Prerequisites At least one App Volumes Manager should be installed before following this page. Here is the page for Installing VMware App Volumes Manager. Ensure Domain Name System (DNS) records exist for forward and reverse look up of all servers in the infrastructure. Certificate Requirements Certificates for App Volumes Managers are in Privacy Enhanced Mail…

  • Installing VMware App Volumes Manager

    Certificate Requirements Each App Volumes Manager server needs a machine certificate. If there is going to be a load balancer in front, add the load balanced fully qualified domain name to the Common Name (CN) attribute and each server’s fully qualified domain name to the Subject Alternative Name (SAN) attribute of the certificate. Microsoft SQL…

  • Securing Microsoft SQL Server with Transport Layer Security (TLS) Certificates

    Certificate Requirements If using a single server, the fully qualified domain name is only needed for the Common Name (CN) attribute. If using Always On High Availability, the fully qualified domain name of the individual SQL server needs to be in the CN attribute and the Availability Group Listener fully qualified domain name needs to…

This is how it all started…

I started this site with the intent to aggregate as much information as possible in one place. I use this to record lessons learned or frustrating configurations I have experienced on the job or just tinkering (learning) and just couldn’t find a better resource available. I have tried to be as thorough and accurate as possible, but technology is rapidly evolving and every environment is different. I may miss things along the way and my setup most likely differs compared to yours.

I hope you find this site has some value to you.

Welcome to Bits, Bytes, and Radio Waves! 

If you have any questions or comments (or just want to give me a shout-out), please feel free to contact me!

Aaron Rombaut

Writer & Technologist