The Red Planet

MSTeams Powershell for Linux  Not long ago, MS have released powershell package for Linux which means we, Linux users, can now natively manage MS services from our terminal. That's great news as now we don't separate Windows VMs or RDP Servers just for this reason. This article will describe the setup for ZorinOS (Ubuntu-based distribution) but setup should be similar across all supported distros, namely Debian, Alpine and RedHat. Here is a link from current powershell releases Here we donwload .deb package   Installation is like every other package:  sudo dpkg -i powershell_7.3.4-1.deb_amd64.deb Once installed we need to start powershell using the command  pwsh  Next we need to import MicrosoftTeams module using the command Install-Module -Name MicrosoftTeams  We can now use MSTeams commands to check or configure our Teams tenant, for example   Get-CsOnlinePSTNGateway Identity : connect.XXXXXXX InboundTeamsNumberTranslatio...

VyOS Quick Start This article is intended to provide very basic configuration to get us started with VyOS. Our VyOS is installed in vSphere, specs below:   After VyOS is installed needs to be configured. It comes pretty blank so everything needs to be configured from scratch. This includes: User creation Remote access via ssh Basic firewall settings to allow remote access via ssh and respond to icmp echo requests  Interface configuration Before we begin we need to understand how VyOS works at a very fundamental level and learn few commands first. Vyos has two modes: Operational mode Configuration mode  Operational mode is the one where you usually display things and use show commands, similar to IOS. Operational mode is indicated by the $ at command prompt. Note, to descend back to operational mode from configuration mode use the exit command: Configuration mode is the one where you usually configure the router. All commands following th...

ESXi on KVM with Nested support. Installing ESXi on KVM is fairly easy task. Maybe because it belongs there? :) There are only few important things that have to be done right, rest is next next deploy. In this article we used ESXi 6.5 image. At the time of writing that is the latest and greatest ESXi version available. It comes with the WebClient naturally. In fact the WebClient has been officially around since 6.2 (optionally available since 5.5 & 6.0). Let me tell you however, it is still full of bugs. I am a Linux user, hence I couldn't test IE (all MS must die! :) but having a go with Epiphany, Firefox and Chromium  can confirm that Firefox works better than the rest most of the time. Chrome/Chromium often gets into "unexpected error - reload?" which most of the time cannot be even solved bu thrashing cache and history but requires more extreme measures such as deleting preferences or even reinstalling the browser. It is a lame provided the vmware corp...

Simple guide for creating a VM using oVIRT In this step by step guide we will create a VM using oVirt and highlight the differences between oVirt and vCenter as necessary to help admins migrate vSphere skills to oVirt with ease Here is discussed the whole process from transferring files to running a VM for the first time. On each step we elaborate below: STEP1: Downloading and uploading your ISO. First we make a decision on what VM we want to install. In this scenario we will grab Server 2012 as we already have license for one. Once the ISO is downloaded from Microsoft or elsewhere we need to upload the ISO to oVirt. This is plain file transfer between two machines, feel free to use SFTP, SCP, FTP as suitable. In our scenario SCP is used as the transfer is between to Linux client and SCP is built in CLI package to move files across.- - Check we have the ISO in our Documents directory - Upload the file to the ovirt server in then ISOs directory - Login to the...