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The vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA), like all software, receives updates. The VCSA makes it drop-dead simple to update. Before you start, the first thing to do is to back up the VCSA. After you have a backup, you can continue with the update.
Updated 31-Dec-2019 to show ten days of Scheduled Backups.
Updated 23-Dec-2019 to show the results of the Scheduled Backup job.
It is important to have a backup of all important data, servers, and Virtual Machines, whether in a lab or production environment. Before making major changes to the vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA), it is important to make a backup first. This article covers backing up the VCSA using NFS.
One of the questions asked when I am either doing Active Directory (AD) remediation work or preparing a customer for an AD migration is “what domain accounts are used by what services and on what computers?”
That question is what this script is designed to answer.
I do a lot of Active Directory Health Check and Remediation projects. Going all the way back to my first conference presentation, 95% of Active Directory (AD) issues trace their roots to DNS. One of the DNS culprits is not having DNS Aging and Scavenging configured correctly. This new script will configure the DNS scavenging server for every Active Directory-integrated Forward and Reverse Lookup Zone.
