HPE iLO (Hewlett Packard Enterprise Integrated Lights-Out) is a wonderful tool when your servers are remote. It’s important to keep it up to date as if not properly secured it could be a risk of compromise to your environment. In this post, I’ll show step-by-step how to update the HPE iLO firmware on your server.…
New Teams is a UWP (Universal Windows Platform) app and that presents its own challenges when it comes to system-wide mass installs. If you download the MSIX directly and install it, it actually tricks you into thinking it’s installed for all users but in reality, it is only installed for the user that downloaded and…
I’m a fan of doing as much as possible with CLI. It always feels more complete and can sometimes be automated. In this post, I will detail step-by-step how to upgrade the firmware image on an Aruba AP (Access Point) with CLI. ArubaOS is also called Aruba Instant and has nothing to do with Aruba…
In this post I will show you how to upgrade your switch running Onyx (MLNX-OS). I will detail how to do it via command line and via the web interface. The best way to make sure your upgrade is a success is to plan your upgrade path. I recommend following the upgrade paths as sometimes…
Duo Authentication for Windows Logon and RDP is great tool that I like to use to add MFA to Windows systems specifically servers, as it could help prevent lateral movement in the network. When you only have a few systems running Duo Authentication for Windows Logon and RDP upgrading it is short and painless. When…
Recently I’ve ran into an issue with Microsoft Teams where the user sees a blocking message that says “Teams needs an update”. The user needs to action it before they can use Microsoft Teams again. Typically the user can just click on Update Teams which will take them to a download page for Microsoft Teams,…
You can upgrade your ESXi very easily with vCenter but if you don’t have that well then here is how you can do it manually. With VMware the depot files contain the VIBs and image profiles (basically everything you need). You can read more about it here.
Here is how to update VCSA (vCenter Server Appliance specifically version 7) with the web UI Make sure you have a backup of your VCSA. I like to have a backup and a snapshot to be extra safe. Click on you VCSA server Click on the Update tab In Update Planner select the update you…
There have been a lot of critical exploits over the last few months. Really the best way to deal with that is Windows Updates. Now I can hear you complaining that Windows Updates left untamed will just reboot your servers randomly or I don’t want to build WSUS or my RMM doesn’t patch well and…
