The IGEL App Portal holds a a wealth of applications that are curated and governed by IGEL centrally, for instance the Cisco Webex VDI plugin, or software like Omnissa’s Horizon Client.

I have several Cisco network devices in my homelab. In this post will showcase a first-glance/first-take on how to access such via Boundary, a PAM solution from HashiCorp.

Most big tech companies have digital suggestions boxes for their employees, partners, customers, indeed anyone. This post will enumerate some tips and the various ways of sending ideas, enhancements o...

Post-quantum Cryptography (PQC) refers to new cryptographic technology and algorithms that intends to be resistant to and thwart whatever dastardly attacks future computers and adversaries might be ca...

This post will demonstrate how to remove dangling certificates straight from the IGEL UMS’ database - embedded or otherwise.

A year after passing one’s first VMware Certified Professional - VMware Cloud Foundation (VCP-VCF) certification exam valid for VMUG Advantage licensing, a refresher exam must be taken in order to ret...

One of the iSCSI targets in my homelab began to not automatically reconnect after reboots, for unknown reason(s). This quick-tip post shows how to remedy it.

It’s conference season soon, and 2026 is promising to be the Powershell- and EUC year of the decade! This post is about events I’m either attending or that’s looking exceedingly worthwhile.

I learnt about the looming support for DNS over HTTPS (DoH) during last year’s Windows Server pre-day at Microsoft Ignite, which was bustling with exciting, security-oriented news. I’ll demonstrate ho...

Even with a signed certificate from my lab’s Certificate Authority, Horizon Client showed an untrusted, insecure Horizon connection on IGEL OS and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The same certificate was di...

Red Hat Image Mode was announced last year at Summit 2025 in Boston and is something I’ve been wanting to unpack in a blog. In this article I’ll demonstrate a truly immutable workstation that can be a...

My two Azure Local clusters on version 2510 - one local identity-based and the other using rack aware clustering - needed to be upgraded, and I figured it was sensible to do so before 2602 rolls aroun...

Certifications represent the natural culminations of having worked with a technology conscientiously. Read on to see my 2026 goals, and suggestions to develop a multi-functional skillset that behooves...

Cisco Live was held in three different cities throughout 2025 - in Amsterdam, San Diego and Australia. Here are my favorite automation/IaC presentations from the Amsterdam rendition, as I haven’t gone...

There’s a multiplicity of methods for building infrastructure and deploying VM workloads on Azure Local - through the Azure CLI, the Azure Portal, PowerShell, ARM, Bicep, Terraform or PowerShell. This...

NVIDIA releases new versions of its vGPU software stack regularly, with drivers for both the supporting virtualization stacks (host), as well as Linux and Windows guest. In this post I’ll show ways of...

With a Red Hat developer subscription (for individuals) it’s possible to get Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) licensing valid for up to 16 systems for a home lab at no cost!

Microsoft’s flagship event Ignite 2025 in San Francisco was abuzz with announcements and connection. I’ve written a retrospective of my event experience!

In this post I’m setting up a two-node Azure Local rack aware deployment, a deployment mode which is now in public preview in the 2510 release!

Azure Local in an AD-less form, called local identity with Azure Key Vault, is in public preview as of release 2510. This post demonstrates a simple lab with this configuration.

I’m going to Microsoft Ignite 2025 November 17 – 21 in San Francisco! It’s Microsoft’s largest event of the year, and it’ll be my first time since Orlando in 2018 - this time as an MVP and session sup...

I attended Omnissa ONE EMEA 2025 in Amsterdam in early October - a celebration of its first year as a standalone company! It was one of the three editions of the conference, this year held in Las Vega...

This is my travelogue from and look back at HashiConf 2025 San Francisco, HashiCorp’s global conference, that happened 24-26 September.

VMware Explore 2025 was held August 25 – 28 in Las Vegas, USA, at the Venetian Resort Las Vegas and was chock-full of private cloud goodness. This will be my retrospective on the conference, and medit...

HashiCorp’s HCP Vault Radar went gold a couple months ago. In this post I’ll show one can add custom expressions to catch Windows-related secret sprawl in the form of BitLocker recovery keys and Windo...

PowerShell Conference Europe (PSConfEU) 2025 was organized June 23-26 in Malmö this year, on the southern tip of Sweden! This is the second time I attend - last time being PSConfEU 2024 in Antwerp.

HashiDays 2025 in London was special - lots of news as well as my first HashiCorp event after becoming an inaugural HashiCorp Ambassador this year! IBM’s acquisition is also completed, and as such Has...

Having the latest compatible software for one’s NVIDIA vGPU investment should be a priority. New features are added all the time, or there may be security enhancements. In this post I’ll demonstrate a...

VMware Cloud Foundation 9 can be installed on nested ESX nodes like in previous versions. In this post I’ll go over some tips and tricks for a minimal virtual greenfield lab installation. This will no...

VMware Explore 2025 in Las Vegas August 25 – 28 is approaching fast! The content catalog opened up June 17th and there are a little over 200 sessions to look at right now. By July 15th when the Schedu...

Azure Local releases arrive monthly, and include security updates as well as new advents and improvements. In this post I’m updating Azure Local from version 2503 via 2504 to 2504 with PowerShell, in ...

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My first-ever certification was the Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) back in early 2012, while I was writing my bachelor’s thesis in my graduating year.

My first-ever certification was the Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) back in early 2012, while I was writing my bachelor’s thesis in my graduating year.

I’ve been testing out the NVIDIA A2 card I bought for vGPU and VDI purposes in my home lab with NVIDIA trial vGPU evaluation licenses. With the latest generation license system from NVIDIA there is a ...

Downloading the operating system software is one of the first steps for new deployments of Azure Local.

Windows Server Summit 2025 had a plethora of interesting talks on new advents or improvements to Windows Server 2025 that inspired me to write three new SecretManagement PowerShell module extensions, ...

A thread on the Omnissa Community forums inquired whether there was an easy way of knowing which physical endpoints had active VDI sessions going.

Some Azure Local installations may have poor Internet connectivity, e.g. sporadically limited in bandwidth or with high latency.

VMware Cloud Foundation has its own credential store used by the SDDC Manager appliance. This post is dedicated to a new extension I’ve created for the SecretManagement PowerShell module to access thi...

Omnissa Horizon 2503, an Extended Service Branch release, became available on April 15th. In this post I show an upgrade of the Connection Server from version 2406.

The Azure Arc gateway massively reduces the outbound endpoint requirements for Azure Arc Connected machines. In this blog I show how one onboards machines meant for Azure Local to Azure Arc with Arc g...

This post will show one can install the Azure Local OS over the network. Installing the OS isn’t the most lengthy of tasks, but I wanted to test this out.

We invite you to join an insightful session, where we will focus on the most successful cybercrime operation in history. As a professional in the EUC space, understanding how ransomware gangs operate,...

It’s conference season soon. This post is about events I’m either attending or want to attend in 2025!

For this year’s World Password Day (apparently the first Thursday of May) I have a post about handling secrets in PowerShell!

The Azure Arc Gateway is in public preview - a service which can help simplify (and secure) Azure Arc networking (and thus Azure Local deployments) by requiring far fewer outbound endpoints for activi...

This post provides a solution to a failing Azure Local 2504 solution update download.