Keepin' it Cloudy

Azure tenant and Intune integration

How to onboard Windows Desktop to Intune

Posted on May 31, 2022

There is no need to buy Intune licenses in order to perform tests in home lab. There is automated lab provisioning way available from Microsoft which is designed to be working on the hyper-v. It contains few virtual switches which grants the machines access to the internet, plus a bunch... [Read More]
Tags:
- HomeLab
- XCP-ng
- Windows
DSC - Active Directory setup

Setup Active Directory with Desired State Configuration

Posted on May 20, 2022

This post is about setting up Active Directory by making use of Desired State Configuration, for home lab purposes. [Read More]
Tags:
- HomeLab
- Microsoft
- DSC
OSDBuilder offline servicing updates

Prepare the updated Windows ISO's for the homelab usecase

Posted on May 18, 2022

If you decide to follow along, you will end up with updated ISO images, which will install in unattended way. [Read More]
Tags:
- HomeLab
- Windows
- OSD
- Imaging
OSD Image Factory VM

Service images with Segura OSD

Posted on May 17, 2022

This VM is used for Servicing the ISO files. [Read More]
Tags:
- HomeLab
- Microsoft
Windows DSC authoring VM

Setup Desired State Configuration Authoring box

Posted on May 16, 2022

This Windows 10 VM is used for authoring the Desired State Configuration configurations. [Read More]
Tags:
- HomeLab
- Microsoft
Windows management VM - DSC

Initial Desired State Configuration setup management VM

Posted on May 14, 2022

This Windows based VM is used as a starting point, acting as management node for the MS landscape. Only initial DSC configuration is held here, once the Active Directory domain is in place, the whole DSC work is aranged on dedicated authoring VM. [Read More]
Tags:
- HomeLab
- Microsoft
- DSC
Windows management VM - Preparation

Semi-manual prerequisites preparation on management VM

Posted on May 13, 2022

This Windows VM (desktop or server OS) is used as a starting point, acting as management node for the MS landscape. Only initial DSC configuration is held here, once the Active Directory domain is in place, the whole DSC work is aranged on dedicated authoring VM. [Read More]
Tags:
- HomeLab
- Microsoft
- DSC
Compile OpenSSL from sources

OpenSSL 3.0.9 FIPS and 1.1.1

Posted on May 12, 2022

OpenSSL library is used for: self signed certificates, chainining certificates within each other, removing secrets from private keys, etc. it is just more convinient to perform it outside of the Mikrotik or NetScaler box, especially for one who is not doing this in regular basis [Read More]
Tags:
- HomeLab
- Certificates
- SSL
- Rocky
- Debian
Rocky 9.4 NFS and Samba configuration

Rocky 9.4 NFS and Samba setup - ISO repository for XCP-ng

Posted on May 11, 2022

Here are the steps how to set up Rocky 9.4 as Samba and NFS share for XCP-ng and it’s VMs. [Read More]
Tags:
- HomeLab
- Rocky
- XCP-ng
Xen Orchestra Community Edition - compile from sources

XO Community edition to orchestra your XCP-ng on debian 12.5

Posted on May 6, 2022

The hypervisor of choice for this lab is XCP-ng. [Read More]
Tags:
- HomeLab
- Debian
- XCP-ng
XCPng first VM from CLI

First XCPng VM for XenOrchestra compiled from sources

Posted on May 4, 2022

The hypervisor of choice is XCP-ng. This guide has not been invented by me, it is a written version of the material available on YouTube - XCP-ng CLI creating a VM by HomeTinyLab. [Read More]
Tags:
- HomeLab
- Debian
- XCP-ng
Advise for newcommers in VirtualWorkplace area

Virtual Workplace aka EUC is not always a bread and butter

Posted on May 1, 2022

Those advises are not mine, but supporting them very much. I wish I knew them earlier. Those come from the End User Computing Veteran (hat’s off) Carl Webster, supported by community members, who are spreading and sharing their knowledge and experience. Carl had created his very well detailed guide Building... [Read More]
Tags:
- ReadmeFirst
- HomeLab
- Citrix
- CVAD
- RDS
EUC valueable online content

Bunch of online links with valuable content to expand knowledge in EUC area

Posted on April 30, 2022

There is plenty of valuable content on the internet, which is created by the community, here are some of them which are worth following or watching. Keep calm and do puzzles. It’s impossible to list all names of great people who produce the valuable content and link it in one... [Read More]
Tags:
- ReadmeFirst
- HomeLab
- EUC
- Books
- Tools
EUC books and toolset

Bunch of usefull books and tools

Posted on April 28, 2022

Still it’s worth spending money on books, which brings you non-scattered content, which can be supplemented with the latest updates comming from the great documentation from the venrods, or not. Thank you Carl and Bas Van Kaam. [Read More]
Tags:
- ReadmeFirst
- HomeLab
- EUC
- Books
- Tools
Channels I value

There is a load of good content spread around

Posted on April 27, 2022

Good content for your home labbing experience, mainly blogs and Youtube. [Read More]
Tags:
- ReadmeFirst
- HomeLab