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- Automating My Home Lab Part 2 - Sysprep Specialised Script, Puppet Bolt, and VMware guestinfo settings Following my success deploying a flat build Windows Server 2019 VM using Puppet Bolt and the OVFtool installed locally on my standalone ESXi free licence hosts (See Automating My Home Lab Part 1 for more details), I decided to revisit how I tailor my installs.
- Citrix ADC – “Cannot Complete You Request” StoreFront Error - Citrix ADC – “Cannot Complete You Request” StoreFront Error I recently deployed an ADC in to my lab environment and ran in to the dreaded “cannot complete your request” error when trying to logon. After chasing my tail for a few days and going through all the articles under the sun to troubleshoot StoreFront and … Continue reading Citrix ADC – “Cannot Complete You Request” StoreFront Error
- Puppet and Windows Package Names RTFM Moment - Puppet and Windows Package Names RTFM Moment After writing the article on how to install Citrix Provisioning Services Server 1912 CU1 using Puppet last month I promptly powered off the VM as it wasn’t needed for my lab environment at that time. Fast forward a month or so and I needed it to work out … Continue reading Puppet and Windows Package Names RTFM Moment
- pfSense Floating Rules Fun - pfSense Floating Rules Fun Following my work starting to automate my Lab deployments I spent a bit of time creating the firewall for it. I took the opportunity to try and simplify the configuration like making it the NTP server and DNS Resolver for the lab but also to collapse some rules in to floating … Continue reading pfSense Floating Rules Fun
- Automating My Home Lab Part 1 - ESXi, Puppet Bolt, and the OVFTool In a moment of quiet I started to think about how to improve my home lab VM deployment strategy although strategy is a strong word for it ! Currently I use basic server build ESXi virtual machines for 2K12 R2, 2K16, and 2K19 that have been sysprep’d and perform … Continue reading Automating My Home Lab Part 1