VMware vCenter and LDAP Connection to Microsoft AD
Update (2/6/2020): On February 4, 2020 Microsoft changed their guidance for the March 2020 Windows Updates to indicate that the defaults will NOT be changing in that update. https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/ADV190023 Microsoft will release new patches here properly in the 2nd half of 2020 thru Windows Update, that will disable simple authentication connection to domain controller over LDAP,…
VMware PSC in HA script
VMware has released a script, that makes it a lot easier to configure the Platform Services Controller (PSC) in High Available (HA) configuration. These scripts can be used for both the vCSA (Appliance) and Windows version. You can find the scripts here: https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/details?downloadGroup=PSCHA600&productId=491 There is a white paper on how to configure this using the scripts, you can…
VMware vSphere vCenter 5.5 Update 1c
VMware has just released a new Build of VMware vCenter 5.5 Update 1c, This release fixes some issues with compability between VMware vCloud Automation Center 6.0.x and VMware vCenter Single Sign-On, There are also other problems that's fixed, so it's an important fix. For a full list of fixes read the release notes: Release notes