Makeitcloudy blog http://www.makeitcloudy.pl/ How to onboard Windows Desktop to Intune - 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... Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.makeitcloudy.pl/azure-intune-initial-configuration/ http://www.makeitcloudy.pl/azure-intune-initial-configuration/ Setup SQL Server with PowerShell and Desired State Configuration - This post is about setting up SQL Server by making use of Powershell and Desired State Configuration, for home lab purposes. Note: XCPng-scenario-HomeLab.md - contains the code used to provision the VM’s on the hypervisor layer The VM clipboard does not work over the XCP-ng console. Goals: ToDo: Links PlagueHO... Fri, 24 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.makeitcloudy.pl/windows-server-sql/ http://www.makeitcloudy.pl/windows-server-sql/ Setup Windows File Server Member with PowerShell and Desired State Configuration - This post is about setting up Windows File Server Member by making use of Powershell and Desired State Configuration, for home lab purposes. Note: XCPng-scenario-HomeLab.md - contains the code used to provision the VM’s on the hypervisor layer The VM clipboard does not work over the XCP-ng console. Goals: ToDo:... Thu, 23 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.makeitcloudy.pl/windows-role-fileServer-member/ http://www.makeitcloudy.pl/windows-role-fileServer-member/ Setup Windows iSCSI File Server with PowerShell and Desired State Configuration - This post is about setting up Windows iSCSI Target File Server by making use of Powershell and Desired State Configuration, for home lab purposes. Note: XCPng-scenario-HomeLab.md - contains the code used to provision the VM’s on the hypervisor layer The VM clipboard does not work over the XCP-ng console. Goals:... Wed, 22 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.makeitcloudy.pl/windows-role-fileServer-iSCSI-target/ http://www.makeitcloudy.pl/windows-role-fileServer-iSCSI-target/ Setup Windows DHCP with PowerShell and Desired State Configuration - This post is about setting up Windows DHCP Server by making use of Powershell and Desired State Configuration, for home lab purposes. Note: XCPng-scenario-HomeLab.md - contains the code used to provision the VM’s on the hypervisor layer The VM clipboard does not work over the XCP-ng console. Goals: ToDo: 1.3.... Tue, 21 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.makeitcloudy.pl/windows-role-dhcp/ http://www.makeitcloudy.pl/windows-role-dhcp/ Setup Active Directory Certificate Services with PowerShell and Desired State Configuration - This post is about setting up End User Computing infrastructure prerequisites, like ADCS, DHCP, File Services, SQL, by making use of PowerShell and Desired State Configuration, for home lab purposes. Links XCPng-scenario-HomeLab.md - contains the code used to provision the VM’s on the hypervisor layer Building Webster’s Lab V1 -... Mon, 20 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.makeitcloudy.pl/windows-role-active-directory-certificate-services/ http://www.makeitcloudy.pl/windows-role-active-directory-certificate-services/ Setup Windows Active Directory Domain Services with PowerShell and Desired State Configuration - This post is about setting up Windows iSCSI Target File Server by making use of Powershell and Desired State Configuration, for home lab purposes. Note: XCPng-scenario-HomeLab.md - contains the code used to provision the VM’s on the hypervisor layer The VM clipboard does not work over the XCP-ng console. Goals:... Fri, 17 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.makeitcloudy.pl/windows-role-active-directory/ http://www.makeitcloudy.pl/windows-role-active-directory/ Container with details for the subsequent blog posts, focused on automated EUC oriented lab setup - This post is a container with references to subsequent blog posts, which depicts the automated process of prerequisites installation for the EUC oriented home lab deployment. Note: XCPng-scenario-HomeLab.md - contains the code used to provision the VM’s on the hypervisor layer The VM clipboard does not work over the XCP-ng... Thu, 16 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.makeitcloudy.pl/windows-euc-lab-blog-post-series/ http://www.makeitcloudy.pl/windows-euc-lab-blog-post-series/ Setup Active Directory with PowerShell and Desired State Configuration - This post is about setting up Active Directory by making use of Powershell and Desired State Configuration, for home lab purposes. Note: DEPRECATED - it was replaced by Active Directory Domain Services Setup The VM clipboard does not work over the XCP-ng console. The subnet where the node have the... Fri, 20 May 2022 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.makeitcloudy.pl/windows-role-active-directory/ http://www.makeitcloudy.pl/windows-role-active-directory/ Prepare the updated Windows ISO's for the homelab usecase - If you decide to follow along, you will end up with updated ISO images, which will install in unattended way. Links Volume License keys - thewindowsactivator.com Unattended.xml generator modern management youtube modern management blog makeitcloudy github manelrodero github getvpro blog getvpro github rufus Windows Server 2022 - download 180 day... Wed, 18 May 2022 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.makeitcloudy.pl/windows-offline-servicing-updates-OSDBuilder/ http://www.makeitcloudy.pl/windows-offline-servicing-updates-OSDBuilder/ Service images with Segura OSD - This VM is used for Servicing the ISO files. ImageFactory - OSDBuilder Nodes Goals: Eval images are updated by making use of Segura’s OSDBuilder No need for the winRM connectivity (unless it is needed for the loopback execution of the Desired State Configuration) Initial Configuration orchestrated by making use of... Tue, 17 May 2022 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.makeitcloudy.pl/windows-vm-osd/ http://www.makeitcloudy.pl/windows-vm-osd/ Setup Desired State Configuration Authoring box - This Windows 10 VM is used for authoring the Desired State Configuration configurations. Authoring Node - w10_authoring node Here the Desired state configuration is prepared and invoked. The IP address of this node should be included 0. Prerequisites PowerShell 5.x PowerShell 7.x Visual Studio Code Git Desired State Configuration Resources... Mon, 16 May 2022 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.makeitcloudy.pl/2022-05-16-windows-vm-authoring/ http://www.makeitcloudy.pl/2022-05-16-windows-vm-authoring/ Initial Desired State Configuration setup management VM - 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. there is no Active Directory yet AD... Sat, 14 May 2022 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.makeitcloudy.pl/windows-DSC/ http://www.makeitcloudy.pl/windows-DSC/ Semi-manual prerequisites preparation on management VM - 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. there is no Active... Fri, 13 May 2022 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.makeitcloudy.pl/windows-preparation/ http://www.makeitcloudy.pl/windows-preparation/ OpenSSL 3.0.9 FIPS and 1.1.1 - 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 Background Debian 12 youtube -... Thu, 12 May 2022 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.makeitcloudy.pl/compile-openssl-from-sources/ http://www.makeitcloudy.pl/compile-openssl-from-sources/ Rocky 9.4 NFS and Samba setup - ISO repository for XCP-ng - Here are the steps how to set up Rocky 9.4 as Samba and NFS share for XCP-ng and it’s VMs. Links How To Create a New Sudo-enabled User on Rocky Linux 8 [Quickstart] How to Install Samba Server on Rocky Linux 9 / AlmaLinux 9 0. Assumptions bash scripts: copied... Wed, 11 May 2022 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.makeitcloudy.pl/rocky-nfs-samba-configuration/ http://www.makeitcloudy.pl/rocky-nfs-samba-configuration/ XO Community edition to orchestra your XCP-ng on debian 12.5 - The hypervisor of choice for this lab is XCP-ng. Links Xen Orchestra - installation from sources Storage If you pair xcp-ng with the Freenas, then on your dataset you create separate the network for the storage from the vm traffic, in case of pairing with Truenas, this can be done... Fri, 06 May 2022 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.makeitcloudy.pl/xenorchestra-community-edition-compile-from-sources/ http://www.makeitcloudy.pl/xenorchestra-community-edition-compile-from-sources/ First XCPng VM for XenOrchestra compiled from sources - 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. Assumptions fresh installation of XCP-ng - storage, network, ISO SR configured scripts in /opt/scripts folder Prerequisites Before... Wed, 04 May 2022 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.makeitcloudy.pl/xcpng-firstVM-from-CLI/ http://www.makeitcloudy.pl/xcpng-firstVM-from-CLI/ Virtual Workplace aka EUC is not always a bread and butter - 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... Sun, 01 May 2022 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.makeitcloudy.pl/advise-for-newcommers-in-virtualworkplace-area/ http://www.makeitcloudy.pl/advise-for-newcommers-in-virtualworkplace-area/ Bunch of online links with valuable content to expand knowledge in EUC area - 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... Sat, 30 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.makeitcloudy.pl/euc-valueable-online-content/ http://www.makeitcloudy.pl/euc-valueable-online-content/