[Aside] How to quickly get ESXi logs from a web browser (without SSH, vSphere...
This post made my work easy yesterday – https://www.vladan.fr/check-esxi-logs-from-web-browser/ tl;dr version: go to https://IP_of_Your_ESXi/host.
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Reading about Kurt Gödel the other day. Intentionally Googled for him actually. He fascinates me ever since I (half-)read “Godel, Escher, Bach”. A genius. Especially his Incompleteness Theorem. I...
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Came across an old Bollywood song on radio today. Well not thaaaat old :) but old as in from my school/ college days. “Badi Mushkil Hai” by Abhijeet from the movie “Anjaam”. Whenever I think of my...
View Article[Aside] https://127.0.0.1 Citrix Store SSL discovery error
Due to a goof up on my part in my test lab, I was encountering this error. Found this forum post which helped me fix it; after which I realized the error was happening coz of a configuration error on...
View ArticleToggl, Todoist, Trello, Workflowy, KanbanFlow, etc.
Just a quick shout out to Toggl. It’s a time tracking app that I used to use a while back and have started using again now. I am an IT person. So why would I need to track my time? It’s not that I...
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Notes on DNS servers & NetScaler
I must begin with a link to this forum post where someone explains the various DNS types on a NetScaler. A must-read. Now on to a bunch of screenshots and notes from me as I was just looking around...
View Article[Aside] NetScaler SSL
Just putting in these links as bookmarks to myself for future. I kinda followed them while I was trying to change my NetScaler certs (kinda followed, coz I didn’t find these links when I Googled...
View ArticleNetScaler/ Exchange RPC – TCP syn sent, reset received
At work one of my colleagues is setting up NetScalers as load balancers for our new Exchange environment. He is replicating the existing setup but found that the RPC 60001 & 60002 Service Groups on...
View Article[Aside] NetScaler newnslog files
Some links to myself on the newnslog files (these are binary log files; high precision; need a tool called nsconmsg to view them). NetScaler Master Class of April 2017...
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Citrix breaks after removing the root zone from your DNS server?
Two years ago I had removed the root zone on our DNS servers at work. Coz who needs root zones if your DC is only answering internal queries, i.e. for zone sit has. Right? Well, that change broke our...
View ArticleIron Fist
I want to wrote opinions of stuff I watch, read, or listen. But I am not good at writing verbosely on such stuff – describing, showering praises or finding faults – so I usually refrain. Nevertheless I...
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You know you are getting fatter when…
… when you put your phone in the left pocket and the Bluetooth music streaming starts to stutter. At least that’s what happened to me just now. I don’t recollect having any issue with the phone in my...
View ArticlexXx: The Return of Xander Cage
The latest xXx movie is a throwback to olden times. And while I usually enjoy such movies (e.g. The Expendables, and most Schwarzenegger movies) I found this one a bit over the top. I get it – Xander...
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The Man in the High Castle (book)
Wow, the book is so different from the TV show! Damn. Can’t even compare the two. And because I saw the TV show first (and that’s more fast paced) I kept waiting for the book too to pick up pace. And...
View ArticleGet-WindowsUpdateLog SymSrv.dll error
Starting with Windows 10 and Server 2016 Microsoft isn’t providing a WindowsUpdate.log file any more. Instead we have to run a cmdlet to generate it manually. On my Server 2016 the cmdlet gave the...
View ArticleQuickly move DHCP scopes between servers
Wish I had known this earlier. If you want to migrate DHCP servers and have got the two servers setup, run the following on the source server: netsh dhcp server v4 export c:\dhcpdb all And the...
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PVS Console XenDesktop Setup Wizard crash and timeout
If you get the following error when running the “XenDesktop Setup Wizard” from PVS console (and a catalog is created with no machines): Or you get the following error (and again a catalog is created...
View ArticleScanning for MS17-010
Was reading about the WannaCrypt attacks. If you have the MS17-010 bulletin patches installed in your estate, you are safe. I wanted to quickly scan our estate to see if the servers are patches with...
View ArticleBrief notes on NetScaler and Citrix StoreFront
I spent the last two days intermittently trying to set up NetScaler and Citrix StoreFront in my home lab. It was a mixed bag partly due to my nature of just jumping into something and figuring it out...
View ArticleChanging Delivery Controller addresses on VDA
This weekend the NetScaler gateway on one of our offices failed, rendering the office users unable to connect to their resources. I wanted to repoint all those users to the Delivery Controllers of a...
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