This post was originally published on this siteIn this blog post, I am going to cover the configuration and consumption of the Tanzu Observability integration with vRealize Operations Cloud. As this is blog post is released during VMware Explore, under the announcement of the VMware Aria brand for Cloud Management tooling, these products will become […]



This post was originally published on this siteThis blog post is thanks to an internal query, that I thought should be easy enough to complete, however my usage of an ELK environment is limited, so it was a good chance to dig in and learn something new. In this blog post, I’m going to detail […]


This post was originally published on this siteWhen I check my blog, I can see the last post from February 2022. That’s a long time ago already! Time to write something, isn’t it? Back in the days when I was working as a Systems Engineer for an IT service provider, it was much easier to […]


This post was originally published on this siteThe first blog post of this two part series covered getting our vRealize Automation and SaltStack Config environments prepared, a Windows Server template prepared, and a testing a successful deployment that has the SaltStack minion installed. In this second part, we’ll now focus on setting up out state […]


This post was originally published on this siteIn this two-part blog post series, I’m going to detail what I consider a basic customer use case when deploying new Windows Servers in their environment. Deploy a Windows Server Virtual Machine Add to the Active Directory Domain Install software Configure some system settings To achieve this, I’m […]


This post was originally published on this siteUnless you’ve had your head stuck in the sand you probably have heard at this point that Microsoft has been trying numerous times to kill the Basic Authentication method for application integration into M365. While they tried and then delayed quite a few times the latest date of […]


This post was originally published on this siteThe Issue I was hitting issues when trying to use the Salt Win-Repo to install software. Below is a copy of my state file. ensure_malwarebytes_installed: pkg.installed: – pkgs: – malwarebytes It would fail with the below helpful error messages. But most importantly, I’d check the minion, to find […]
