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Prepare macOS Catalina for Desktop Anywhere
Air Force Reserve Command (AFRC) has been at the forefront of many projects before “Big Blue”. The Desktop Anywhere service not only enables Reserve Air Force Airmen, but more recently enabled “Big Blue” to increase productivity and raise its awareness and use of the service. Update: I am now retired from the Air Force, but…
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DoD Certificates on macOS Catalina
For those of you having trouble with DoD certificates for accessing the Air Force Reserve Command (AFRC) Desktop Anywhere (DA) service offering. A few other things to note: Delete old and expired certificates from Keychain Access Sync your Keychain password and your login password so that you do not continuously receive a Login prompt window…
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VMware ESXi SSL Certificate Signing Request (CSR)
Need to replace the certificates with a custom certificate from a commercial or corporate Certificate Authority (CA)? You are going to need a Certificate Signing Request (CSR). I use the certificate-manager tool (see below) included with vCenter to generate all of my requests. I found recently that you can skip this altogether if you can…
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Section 1 – Install and Configure Horizon Server Components
Objective 1.1 – Describe techniques to prepare environment for Horizon This is a very odd objective to work through. I think the word “techniques” is what is throwing me off. To me, the word should be “requirements” and is asking the test taker what is required to prepare the environment for the installation of VMware…
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Dell EMC Avamar and VMware 6.5 Snapshot Quiescing Error
During a rebuild of a Dell EMC Avamar backup solution, we ran into an issue where VMware was logging, “An error occurred while quiescing the virtual machine. See the virtual machine’s event log for details.” for a few virtual machine backups. While testing, we noticed that it was not occurring on all backups. On a…
Bits, Bytes, & Radio Waves
A Journey Through Discovery
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!
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Aaron Rombaut
Writer & Technologist