PepperByte

13/07/2021

It’s always nice to have a general error getting thrown in your face. It gives you absolutely no indication as of where something went wrong. I’ve had this pleasure in the past week. I was just minding my own business moving some VM’s around, when suddenly vCenter said “A general system error occurred” and my VM stayed on the old host as if nobody ever asked him to move....

It’s always nice to have a general error getting thrown in your face. It gives you absolutely no indication as of where something went wrong. I’ve had this pleasure in the past week. I was just min…

01/02/2021

If you would like to find out on how to install LoadGen Load/Performance, I created a video on how to do this:

If you would like to find out on how to install LoadGen Load/Performance, I created a video on how to do this:

17/12/2020

Have you ever wondered why you still need to install Docker, when you already installed the Windows Container Feature? I have. Because I’m new to containerization everything is interesting and cool, but not everything is described into detail, and most courses and information just give you the need-to-know knowledge of working with containers. Unfortunately for me, one of my habits is that I like to know the why and how of things....

Have you ever wondered why you still need to install Docker, when you already installed the Windows Container Feature? I have. Because I’m new to containerization everything is interesting and cool…

10/12/2020

We had an issue where suddenly the whole Managed Play Store on our Android Enterprise phones would be completely empty. We went long ways to fix this issue without any success. The solution was apparently a lot easier. The problem exists because in XenMobile Apps we had two apps which were NOT approved in the Managed Play Store. This will cause the whole Managed Play Store to stop working (no apps visible)....

10/12/2020

We treid upgrading to XenMobile 10.13: which resulted in our LDAP configuration to stop working. After hours of troubleshooting and checking all ports, certs and IP's of our domain controllers, Citrix support admitted there is a port bug in XenMobile 10.13. The warning we received in the console looks like this: In short, don't upgrade to 10.13, yet! We had to revert our VM snapshot in order to get XenMobile working again...

We treid upgrading to XenMobile 10.13: which resulted in our LDAP configuration to stop working. After hours of troubleshooting and checking all ports, certs and IP’s of our domain controller…

27/10/2020

After upgrading our Build Automation machine to Windows 10 20H2 I had an issue running signtool.exe. The error which was returned by our Azure DevOps Agent was: [ 328 more words ]

12/10/2020

Upgrade Windows 10 using Automation and MDT

02/10/2020

I use Windows 10 Sandbox a lot, it's really convenient for many things. Since I have upgraded my laptop to the 2004 version I had an issue when starting some applications which are using SQL. I found the following logging when starting a specific application which was no longer working: Could not load file or assembly 'System.Data.SqlXml, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089' or one of its dependencies. [ 248 more words ]

30/09/2020

According to the official documentation in Microsoft, you can recover emails in Exchange Online by creating an eDiscovery search query and then exporting the emails to a .PST file. However, this has a disadvantage that downloading and uploading a .PST file can causes a overloaded internet connection and the PST file can be intercepted by unauthorized users. To prevent this, I found a way to make e-mails in Exchange Online available via Outlook web. [ 191 more words ]

29/09/2020

Since Microsoft has now officially launched Edge Chromium we have to maintain yet another browser in our environment. This means another browser has to be working with Single Sign-On and although Edge is 'made' by Microsoft, the SSO integration is far from the same as with IE. Until now when a new site had to be working with SSO, the policy for both Google Chrome and Mozilla would be changed in the Ivanti Workspace Console. [ 408 more words ]

28/09/2020

During loadtesting with LoadGen Load and Performance ( I was making screenshots of the VMware vCenter host CPU % utilisation. Doing so, required a person to be active during the loadtest and capture screenshots. Requirments:1. VMware PowerCLI installed: 2. LoadGen - Load and Performance installed3. VMware host where the VDI's are available To automate this proces the power of LoadGen custom start actions and Powershell+VMware PowerCLI was used. [ 270 more words ]

24/09/2020

When upgrading the Windows Server OS on Storefront servers the best way is probably to just build new VM's alongside the production servers. This allows for a seamless migration. Citrix provides a few PowerShell lines which will make you able to migrate the whole Storefront configuration with Import and Export commandlets in PowerShell. This proces is very easy and works good in my own experiences. [ 289 more words ]