Hi,
different language settings on your clients causes some administration issues when you are working with times (formats) or group names for example.
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cURL: Login and get a website protected by a php session
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to get the timetable, and the last changes of these, of my daughters school class I have to logon to the schools website and get the information there.
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Windows: Change your (Domain) Password in a remote Desktop Session
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short answer 🙂
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Windows: Clipboard not working
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when have opened a Remote Desktop Connection it sometimes happened that the clipboard stops working.
When you closing and reestablish the Remote Desktop Connection the clipboard functionally comes back.
But its also possible without closing the RDP Session:
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VMware vCenter: Howto add an Active Directory Domain as SSO Identity Source and using system session credentials
Attention: If plan a update to VMware vSphere/vCenter 5.1.0 Update 1. Currently this version contains a bug which prevents User from Login. VMware is working on an Fix. See KB2050941
=> Bug is solved in 5.1.0 Update 1a
Hi everybody,
since VMware vCenter 5.1 a new service SSO, the Single Sign On Service, handles the authentication for all logons. The advantage is that multiple authentication sources are possible. For example Local User and groups, OpenLDAP Directory Services and of course Microsofts Active Directory.
This post is related to vCenter Version 5.1.0b and describes how to add an Active Directory Domain as Identity source and get this running by using the “Reuse session” Authentication Type. The last one is the tricky part :-).
Let us start. Start the vSphere WebClient with a login which owns the appropriate rights, for example admin@system-domain or any other user who owsn has the SSO administrator privileges, and navigate to Administration/Sign On and Discovery/Configration. In the default configuration two identity sources are added by default. The SSO database and the user management of the local server.
To add an Active Directory as identity source the following informations are required
- The Domain fully qualified domain name
- The Domains NetBIOS Name
- At least one domain controller
- The Base DN for the users and groups
The attached powershell script GetSSOParameters.ps1 should determine this for your domain. You must start the script with the fully qualified domain name as parameter. Try it!
PS c:\>GetNetBiosDomainName.ps1 yourdomain.com
Basic Config for VMware SSO Identity source
NAME: YOURDOMAIN
Primary Server: ldap://domaincontroller1.yourdomain.com
Secondary Server: ldap://domaincontroller2.yourdomain.com
BaseDN Users: DC=yourdomain,DC=com
Domain: yourdomain.com
Domain Alias: YOURDOMAIN
BaseDN Groups: DC=yourdomain,DC=com
If you have the necessary information you can add the Identity source. See Screenshot below. First try to add by specifing a Username and a password which have the rights to query the Active Directory
Press the Test Connection Button and normally this return that the connection is successfully established. Continue reading VMware vCenter: Howto add an Active Directory Domain as SSO Identity Source and using system session credentials