Upgrade Ubuntu 18.04 to 20.04 LTS for Home Assistant
My Home Assistant installation is currently running on Ubuntu 18.04 on an old laptop. I leverage Docker to run various containers on it including Home Assistant. After logging…
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Empower your team with My VMware Portal delegation rights
The MY VMware portal page is pretty useful. This is where you can get your organization's licensing, software downloads, and support cases. It is also pretty finicky when…
Wink’s Crappy move to force a Subscription Plan on its existing users
Last week, Wink sent an email to all of its users to inform them that if they did not pay up $5 a month, Wink would render their…
VMware Cloud on Azure
Looks like there is a new Cloud offering available to VMware administrators. Sent over by Josiah Meurer, Microsoft has announced an Azure based VMware solution. Very similar to…
Load Balancing VMware Horizon servers – Doodle ShoutOut
If you are not following @virtualisedReal, you might be missing out on some great Doodles. Barry attends a lot of conferences and doodles up notes on the conference…
Fixing my Garadget Door Opener in Home Assistant
Recently my Garadget Garage Door opener started acting up. It turns out that there was an issue with the Username and Password functionality. The fix was pretty easy…
Microsoft Teams Pro Tip
Rajen Das sent over a great little security tip if you are running Microsoft Teams meetings. Be sure to actually END the meeting if you are the host…
Microsoft Teams Custom Backgrounds
If you are a Microsoft Teams user, you know you have been secretly jealous of all of those customized Zoom backgrounds you are able to use in your…
HelpDesk Tool: SessionInfo v1.0
Since some display information is impossible to get by normal means in remote computing sessions (e.g. Microsoft RDP, Citrix ICA/HDX), especially by non-admin users, I once threw together…