Yearly Archives: 2012


Lync 2013 Features – Topology

In designing our Lync 2010 environment, I was a bit beside myself at the scale of the number of required servers to deploy a simple, yet redundant, environment.  Even cutting a few corners, we ended up with 13 servers for our Lync pilot.  Using the same design in Lync 2013, […]


vCenter Converter Standalone 5.0.1 Now Available

If you’re having trouble using VMware vCenter Converter 5.0 to migrate VM’s with a 5.1 host or vCenter, you’re in luck.  vCenter Converter 5.0.1 has been released with support for vCenter/ESXi 5.1.  Unfortunately, VMware has not yet decide to support this application fully, as explained in the release notes. What’s […]


Replacing vCenter Certificate

Depending on organizational or technical requirements, you may have a need to replace the default certificates for vCenter or ESXi.  This is easily accomplished once you understand the process. Create a private key Create a certificate request Obtain the certificate from a certificate authority Convert the certificate to PFX format […]