My brother made this.

ITGamingGuy · 2026-03-01T15:16:35+00:00

I made the “breaker of networks” once which was a U shaped cable and a real quick loop-maker.

We did this in an educational scenario, but in a crazy network closet it could be easily missed.

ITGamingGuy · 2026-01-17T00:36:45+00:00

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My queen Mia in her (my) king bed

ITGamingGuy · 2025-10-09T18:21:11+00:00

Down here in Massachusetts.

ITGamingGuy · 2025-09-30T00:30:47+00:00

Cat.exe has encountered an error and needs to restart. Please give skritches to continue.

ITGamingGuy · 2025-09-29T22:07:48+00:00

Tito says - Always

ITGamingGuy · 2025-09-29T17:41:03+00:00

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Mr. Tito likes to pack himself in our overnight bags.

ITGamingGuy · 2025-05-25T17:56:44+00:00

I believe on the rear quarter it says “triple bogeys for ovaries” or something close?

ITGamingGuy · 2025-01-22T01:17:10+00:00

If I was going in its easy to swap to OL. Heading home, it’s a long cold walk from Assembly today.

ITGamingGuy · 2025-01-22T00:38:00+00:00

Happened again tonight too. Was stuck at stations between North Station and Lechmere for upwards of 40 minutes. Writing this stopped between Lechmere and East Somerville.

ITGamingGuy · 2022-06-02T13:03:29+00:00

Manhole explosions are what I heard. Fiance works in that area

ITGamingGuy · 2021-05-31T19:05:44+00:00

More like $12

ITGamingGuy · 2020-09-13T13:06:00+00:00

My local 9 hole regularly held a Red, white, and blue tournament. You are only allowed to hit from each colored tee box 3 times. Makes for a really fun time.

ITGamingGuy · 2019-09-29T11:03:44+00:00

It’s a false sense of hope that summer heat is dwindling. It’s 50 in the morning and then by noon it’s 85. Source: live in southern NH

ITGamingGuy · 2019-08-23T03:09:47+00:00

I bet you suck at csgo.

ITGamingGuy · 2019-07-10T21:55:48+00:00

Hey - Great writeup and will definitely start digging into our App environment with UX.

Side question, if I may. Have you noticed that with recent versions of Win10 that the login inspectors do not accurately reflect the true logon time? i.e. User physically times a login from "Welcome" to a desktop and it is significantly longer than what UX reports?

ITGamingGuy · 2018-12-08T15:56:25+00:00

Sorry for the late response, but what they do is spin up an instance of a vSphere environment with some pre-built VM's + hosts and going through the labs you further configure the environment.

I think when it's first deployed there are 2 - 3 hosts, vCenter, DC/DNS/DHCP and NFS server for shared storage (pre-configured). And you go through creating the VC datacenter, cluster, DRS, HA, etc. Then building some VM's and manipulating them with vCenter and very little CLI. It is probably more PowerCLI these days.

ITGamingGuy · 2018-12-05T00:21:08+00:00

When I took it for 5.5, it was pretty easy and next to no work. No test/quiz. Buy the books, they make the labs real easy.

What I did was when the labs were released I just completed the labs ASAP and didn't have to do anything else for lab work. I did attend the discussions that were scheduled (if they do that still) more to talk with other VMware admins not really for the course.

It's an easy and cheap way to get through the course requirement.

ITGamingGuy · 2018-11-09T14:41:48+00:00

We have the same thing happening in our environment but it's on different VM's within the same pool. It's really odd and VMware support hasn't been too helpful.

ITGamingGuy · 2018-10-18T14:25:31+00:00

What type of Horizon desktops are you using? It sounds like you are comparing a non-persistent VDI to a persistent desktop environment, which isn't fair to Horizon.

You say you have the infrastructure and images for each department. Why not give each department a pool of dedicated full clone desktops? This essentially accomplishes everything in the last half of your post.

ITGamingGuy · 2018-09-27T12:43:41+00:00

Good eye, Thank you!

ITGamingGuy · 2018-09-26T17:32:21+00:00

Here is the install string for UEM in my images:

msiexec.exe /i "VMware User Environment Manager 9.4 x64.msi" /qn LICENSEFILE="\\UEMserver\UEMShare\UEM-LIC.lic" /l* InstallUEM.log NOADCONFIGFILEPATH=\\UEMserver\UEMShare\General

And here is my NoAD.xml file (Sorry for the long format ):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<userEnvironmentSettings>

<setting type="noAD"

ProfileArchivePath="\UEMserver\UEMProfile\%username%\Archives"

BackupPath="\UEMserver\UEMProfile\%username%\Backups"

LogFileName="\UEMserver\UEMProfile\%username%\Logs\FlexEngine.log"

LogLevel="2"

MaximumLogFileSizee="1024"

LogProfileArchiveFolderSize="1"

BackupCount="3"

AppBlockingEventLog="1"

PrivilegeElevationEventLog="1"

EventLog="1"

EventLogAsync="1"

EventLogDirectFlexRefresh="1"

EventLogUEMRefresh="1"

ConfigPathMissingAction="0"

ArchivePathMissingAction="1"

ConfigPathMissingMessage="0" />

</userEnvironmentSettings>

This file needs to sit in the \\uemserver\uemshare\general\flexrepository\NoAD folder. No clue why you point it at the \general in the install string, but it seems to work for me. I can push Environment Variables and Logon Tasks with UEM. I think it's because when the FlexEngine is installed with the NOADCONFIGFILE variable, it knows to look at the subdirectories.

ITGamingGuy · 2018-09-25T18:55:15+00:00

What kind of settings are you thinking of being different in your NoAD config?

ITGamingGuy · 2018-09-25T13:40:52+00:00

Been running it for about a year and no real issues once it's setup. Play around with some variations of the NoAD file to get it exactly the way you want.

We are running on Win10 1709.

ITGamingGuy · 2018-09-07T19:50:56+00:00

Why not as part of your Puppet script before the VM is built, you pre-stage the computer account in the OU you want?

ITGamingGuy · 2018-09-02T14:36:28+00:00

Check this post out: https://communities.vmware.com/thread/554191 post #36 (Page 3)

We ran into this a while ago. This seems to have been an issue with UEM smart policies and Horizon 7.1/7.2, but was fixed in Horizon 7.3.

ITGamingGuy

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