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VMware just released a new security announcement, VMSA-2020-0029. This affects VMware ESXi, Workstation, Fusion and Cloud Foundation. The updates address a denial of service vulnerability (CVE-2020-3999).

New VMware Security announcement released today. VMSA-2020-0028. This one for VMware Carbon Black Cloud macOS Sensor installer, the updates address file overwrite issue (CVE-2020-4008)

Today VMware released VMSA-2020-0027. This announcement affects VMware Workspace One Access, Access Connector, Identity Manager, and Identity Manager Connector. This addresses a command injection vulnerability.

A new security alert released by VMware today VMSA-2020-0026. This affects VMware ESXi, Workstation and Fusion the updates address use-after-free and privilege escalation vulnerabilities (CVE-2020-4004, CVE-2020-4005). CVSSv3 9.3

Today VMware released a new Security Announcement, VMSA-2020-0023. This affects VMware ESXi, Workstation, Fusion and NSX-T, these updates address multiple security vulnerabilities. Keep reading for more details. Updated 11/25/2020

Today VMware released a new security announcement VMSA-2020-0020. This affects VMware Workstation, Fusion and Horizon Client updates and addresses multiple security vulnerabilities *Updated 11/20/2020*

A new security announcement released today, VMSA-2020-0025. This affects VMware SD-WAN Orchestrator, the updates address multiple security vulnerabilities. Come inside for more details.

Did you know that if you have a current Production Support or Premier Services on you VMware environment you already own VMware Skyline. Read more inside on what VMware Skyline is and how to implement it for your environment.

Just recently finished upgrading my entire environment to vSphere 7 and wanted to share my experience. Overall the plan I had worked flawlessly with zero issues.

Today VMware released a new security announcement, VMSA-2020-0024. This affects VMware Horizon Server and VMware Horizon Client, the updates address multiple security vulnerabilities (CVE-2020-3997, CVE-2020-3998).

Today VMware released a new security announcement VMSA-2020-0022. This announcement affects the VMware Horizon Client and addresses a denial-of-service vulnerability (CVE-2020-3991).

Today VMWare released a new security announcement, VMSA-2020-0021. This update addresses a broken authentication vulnerability in Horizon DaaS (CVE-2020-3977)

In my daily work managing a multi-tenant cloud I found that being able to provide documentation on patch management was very important. Through this post you will see the process I use to provide that documentation.

Today VMware released VMSA-2020-0019. This advisory affects VMware App Volumes. The patches address Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability (CVE-2020-3975).

On 8/20 VMware released VMSA-2020-0018. This release affects VMware ESXi, vCenter Server, and Cloud Foundation. Updates address a partial denial of service vulnerability (CVE-2020-3976). Come inside for more details.

One of my favorite sessions from VeeamON 2020 was "vCloud Director Use Cases" and the section on integration of the Veeam Self-Service Portal with the vCloud Director Tenant. This post documents the setup process.

With everyone moving to Microsoft teams, I wanted to post my experience with getting vRealize Operations Manager alerts coming into Teams. This article documents the process I used to get this working in my environment.

While going through my alerts in vRealize Operations I noticed that I had an alert for my vCenter Appliance saying that I had a drive running out of disk space. Here is the process I use to expand the drive.

Just released today VMSA-2020-0017. This advisory is for VMware Fusion, VMware Remote Console and Horizon Client. These updates address a privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2020-3974).

Today VMware announced VMSA-2020-0016. This advisory is for VMware SD-WAN by VeloCloud, updates address SQL-injection vulnerability (CVE-2020-3973)

Today VMware released a new Critical Alert VMSA-2020-0015. This addresses several vulnerabilities in VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion. Get all the details inside.

Today VMware released VMSA-2020-0014. This affects VMware Tools for macOS addresses a denial-of-service vulnerability (CVE-2020-3972)

Today VMware released VMSA-2020-0013. This affects VMware Horizon Client for Windows. The update addresses privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2020-3961)

In doing consulting work there are a lot of times I am asked for a report on this or that. One of the most common things I am asked for is a Virtual Machine report. When this task come up I have two go to scripts.

Today VMware released VMSA-2020-0012. This affects VMware ESXi, Workstation and Fusion. The updates address out-of-bounds read vulnerability (CVE-2020-3960)

Today VMware released VMSA-2020-0011. This affects VMware ESXi, Workstation, Fusion, VMware Remote Console and Horizon Client and addresses multiple security vulnerabilities(CVE-2020-3957, CVE-2020-3958, CVE-2020-3959).

Upgrading VMware Cloud Director from 9.7 to 10.1. Sharing the process and thoughts

Today VMware released VMSA-2020-0009. This affects VMware Cloud Director and updates an address Code Injection Vulnerability. (CVE-2020-3956)

VMSA-2019-0022 - VMware ESXi and Horizon DaaS updates address OpenSLP remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2019-5544)

VMware released VMSA-2020-0009. This affects VMware vRealize Operations Manage, and the related patches address a Authentication Bypass and Directory Traversal vulnerabilities (CVE-2020-11651, CVE-2020-11652)

Today VMware released VMSA-2020-0008. This affects VMware ESXi The related patches address a Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability that was privately reported to VMware. (CVE-2020-3955)

After upgrading my domain controllers from Server 2016 to Server 2019, I wrote this script to get some basic info about my AD and do a quick health check.

VMSA-2020-0007 - VMware vRealize Log Insight addresses Cross Site Scripting (XSS) and Open Redirect vulnerabilities (CVE-2020-3953, CVE-2020-3954)

Last night VMware released VMSA-2020-006. This announcement addresses a sensitive information disclosure vulnerability in the VMware Directory Service (vmdir) in vCenter Server (CVE-2020-3952). This alert affects vCenter 6.7

Leverage Powershell/Powercli to automate the Nimble Datastore build from OneView to VMware

VMSA-2020-0005 - VMware Workstation, Fusion, VMware Remote Console and Horizon Client updates address privilege escalation and denial-of- service vulnerabilities (CVE-2020-3950, CVE-2020-3951)

VMware Security Announcement VMSA-2020-0004 was updated on 3/14 and includes CVE-2019-5543, CVE-2020-3947 , CVE-2020-3948. more details inside.

Automating the provisioning of Nimble storage LUNs and creating datastores in vCenter.

VMSA-2020-0003 - vRealize Operations for Horizon Adapter updates address multiple security vulnerabilities (CVE-2020-3943, CVE-2020-3944, CVE-2020-3945)

Leveraging Powercli to pull NUMA information from each cluster node and verify VM config. Then report the findings.

Vmware changes per-CPU license model effective April 2, 2020

Automating the volume creation process in HPE OneView and attaching to Synergy Server Profile. Then to VMware for Datastore creation.

VMSA-2020-0002 VMware Tools workaround addresses a local privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2020-3941)

vmware security announcement vmsa 2020-0001 was released to address to address Workspace One issues

Taking the recent post on the Move-CrossVC script, and creating a GUI front end for ease of use.

Moving clients into a cloud environment can be a exhausting task. Normally using VMware Converter does the trick. However Cross vCenter vMotion is an option now, here are the details on how to automate this process.

VMSA-2019-0023 VMware Workstation and Horizon View Agent updates address a DLL-hijacking issue (CVE-2019-5539)

The team I work with will be in the vmware environment doing some of the same task i do on a daily basis. So, instead of creating a folder to share these scripts, I decided to create a tool to help.

I've been asked from time to time to show the process I use to build a VM that will be used for as a SQL, Exchange, or SCCM server. I recently had to build a new SQL server, so I documented the steps.

VMware vSAN Operations Guidance is a new document on StorageHub that was developed to provide practical guidance for vSphere administrators who are looking for advice on the day-to-day operation of vSAN.

In this case, I wanted to share a script I use quite frequently. My clientbase uses the standard virtual switch, so when a new port group needs to beadded or when a new host is added it can be a lot of work to get the portgroup...

Thought I would share another script that came in handy recently. While troubleshooting an issue where a data store needed to be expanded we found that the storage would never show up on the vSphere side. On the storage side...

As a part of my job, I am constantly going through VMware infrastructure looking for ways to fine tune and check settings for best practices. One of the more common things I find when looking through Fiber Channel....

I have been using HP OneView a lot lately in my day to day. I went threw a class recently on OneView administration. The class was great, along with the usual labs giving hands on with the software, there were also a couple...

Vmware released a new update for advisory VMSA-2019-0014. See the details below along with a link to the official advisory.

Vmware released a new update for advisory VMSA-2019-0015. See the details below along with a link to the official advisory...

VMware released three new Security updates. Two are new releases, one is an update to a previously released update. VMSA-2019-0008.2, VMSA-2019-0020, and VMSA-2019-0021.