patches
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Security
Automate CurveBall Crypt32.dll Patching
With the recent developments with CurveBall Crypt32.dll, everyone is no doubt thinking about patching their Windows environments and doing this quickly. Even if you have WSUS in play, you may want to do something a little more proactive on your…
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Automation
Use Ansible AWX to Automate Linux Updates and Patches
Let’s face it, keeping your VMs and environments updated is a necessary evil that we all realize we need to do for security, stability, and enhancements. Especially from a security perspective, updates are essential. We often hear focus on Windows…
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vSphere 6.5
Install VMware VCSA vCenter Appliance Photon OS Security Patches
As we have detailed on previous posts, VMware is committed to using Photon OS in just about all the appliances that are being deployed with various products now. The new vCenter Server appliance is a case in point to that. …
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vSphere 6
Upgrade VMware vCenter VCSA appliance to 6.0 U3b
Even though many may look at their next update/upgrade of VMware VCSA appliance as going to 6.5, some may still choose to remain on the 6.0 level for now until 6.5 gets a bit more maturity, etc. Let’s take a…
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Virtualization
Apply Latest Patches to standalone Dell Customized ESXi 5.5 host
In spinning up a new environment recently for a client, we wanted to get the hosts to the latest patch level. We didn’t have local VUM in place or even vCenter for that matter. All three hosts were running the…
