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Splunk Agent for Non-Persistent Desktops

June 26, 2023 Faisal Rahman Comments 0 Comment

To install the Splunk agent on a non-persistent VDI desktop running Windows, you can only perform the installation using the command line. To install the Splunk Universal Forwarder without launching the service immediately, you need to use the “LAUNCHSPLUNK=0” parameter and value. Here’s an example command for the installation: One installation is done, please check windows services and make sure the service is not running. If your Windows image requires additional tasks, you may set the service startup type to…

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Assigning Drive Letter to AppStacks and Writable Volumes Doesn’t Work

March 20, 2018 Faisal Rahman Comments 1 comment

Assigning drive letter to the AppStack/s or Writable volume fix few of the known issues. As example, assiging drive letter to Writable Volume fix the issue for Chrome extension. It also fix the issue with Microsoft OneDrive Syncing folder creation issue. The registry tweak VMware provided for the drive letter is not just assiging letters but also for hide those. The registry setting in HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\svdriver\Parameters, the parameter is called “DriveLetterSettings”. It’s a REG_DWORD key. By default this parameter is not…

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“Your OneDrive folder can’t be created in the location you selected” with VMware App Volumes Writable Volume

March 5, 2018 Faisal Rahman Comments 1 comment

In non-persistent environment with VMware App Volumes Writable Volume (or similar product), OneDrive fails to get configure Sync folder and through an error says “Your OneDrive folder can’t be created in the location you selected”. There are few ways to fix the issue. The first one is to assign a drive letter to the Writable Volume to fix it. But this is not the solution that everybody prefers due to security reasons. The end user can explore the drive, even…

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Full Update/ Patch vCenter Appliance (VCSA) Using .ISO

February 5, 2018 Faisal Rahman Comments 0 Comment

There are numbers of way to full patch/ update vCenter Appliance (VCSA). Most of those are using the repository from network/ internet and the easiest one is to utilise the .iso file ready to use with CDRom drive (my prefered option for updating HA or standalone vCenter). To utilising the .iso file to fully patch the VCSA, the file required to download from my.vmware.com portal. The URL for all patch is https://my.vmware.com/group/vmware/patch. Once on the page, select VC from the…

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Cannot log in to the ESXi 6.0 host using Active Directory domain credentials

July 12, 2016 Faisal Rahman Comments 0 Comment

After an ESXi v6 host is added to the domain and add domain security group to the ESXi permissions, users might not able to login to ESXi host using domain credential. There can be many reason for this. One of the reasons is that the ldap cache is not big enough to catch require ladp data. /var/log/syslog.log file will have a entry lwsmd: encoded packet size too big (4612 > 4096)To fix the issue, /etc/likewise/openldap/ldap.conf needs to configure. The default…

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