Installing vSphere 7 on VMware Workstation – Part 3 – vCenter Import
How to install the vCenter Server Appliance 7 on VMware Workstation natively
The IT Rub - Getting to the Rub of the Matter
Installing vSphere 7 on VMware Workstation – Part 2 – ESXi DNS and Config
How to configure ESXi 7 on VMware Workstation, DNS and IP Settings
Installing vSphere 7 on VMware Workstation – Part 1 – ESXi Install
It’s been a very long time between drinks on my blog. I started off pretty well, with some interesting articles on things then kind of forgot about it all. Well I’m back! And I...
Checking Windows 2008 R2 Firewall Rules by Display Group
I had a need the other day to enable all the Windows firewall rules by specific set of display group names. For example enable all incoming default Windows firewall rules with the group name...
Windows 2008 R2 and the Windows Management Framework 5
Microsoft’s Desired State Configuration (DSC) overall is a very useful tool. It does, like any product, have some requirements. DSC 5 requires the Windows Management Framework (WMF) 5 be installed before configurations can be...
Microsoft Desired State Configuration – Install All Windows Update Services Patches
Wow what a mouthful of a title. I have been working with Microsoft’s Desired State Configuration (DSC) for a few months now. Version 5 seems to have most of the shortcomings of version 4...
Introduction to The IT Rub
Welcome to the IT Rub. A website for IT professionals, specifically Infrastructure related activities. The idea of the website is to generate well written and useful infrastructure related posts that really get to the...