While creating my Powershell framework for Isilon I’m quite confident that I found a bug in Powershell. The affected cmdlet is “Invoke-RestMethod” and the bug is still valid for version 3 and 4. I also reported the bug on Microsoft Connect and it was reproduced by at least 2 independent people. […]
If you are trying to create an AD User, and set its password, as an Advanced Service (vCenter Orchestrator Workflow) in vCAC you might get following error: Unable to create a new user: InternalError: Failed to create user account… [LDAP: error code 53 – 0000001F: SvcErr: DSID-031A12D2, problem 5003 (WILL_NOT_PERFORM), […]
After successfully deploying and configuring vCAC (6.0.1) appliance and Identity Server in my lab, I started installing the IAAS server. Reading the prerequisite that currently only Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2012 are supported, no Windows Server 2012 R2, I started installing a copy of Windows Server 2012. […]
This is the second post of a few loosely coupled posts to install and test a nfs4 environment with EMC Isilon. In the first post I covered the steps to install a Windows 2012 R2 active directory server and this post will present the steps to prepare the active directory […]
This post is demonstrating the required powershell commands to install and configure Windows Server 2012 R2 (including “core”) with active directory domain services. It is more of a reference to quickly install a domain server in your lab and furthermore the first of a few loosely coupled posts to install […]
To prepare a Windows Server 2012 R2 for my Isilon lab I used Powershell v4 to configure the required DNS zone delegation. It turned out to be very easy and saved quite a few “clicks”. Therefore I think it is worth mentioning it in this short post: For the example […]
