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Apple just released four new ads focused on the Mac. The ads are teeming with emotion, showing earnest people doing creative things behind their Mac computers. Unfortunately, the series is dubbed 'Behind the Mac' at a time when many worry that Apple has lost the plot causing the Mac to fall behind the competition. Each YouTube video links out to Apple's Mac page, a page that's headlined by the $5,000 iMac Pro. However, as noted by Quentin Carnicelli over at Rogue Amoeba, the iMac Pro is the only macOS computer to get an update in the last year . The computers featured in Apple's new ads are all MacBooks. Right now, Apple's Mac computers are plagued by a series of concerns. Off the top of my head: The MacBook Pro is a not a computer made... Continue reading… via The Verge - Tech Posts https://ift.tt/2MvwLmi

Like other platforms and websites, Steam recently rolled out policy and product changes to comply with the EU's General Data Protection Regulation ( GDPR) . As part of those updates, it has also launched a new portal that puts all your data in one place -- and yes, it includes a list of all your games, including the ones you blindly purchased during sales that still sit unplayed and untouched in your library. It shows your subscriptions, the fund sources you used, tournament registrations and even the profiles you've reported over the years. You can also see your and your friends' activity feeds, your inventory, trades, uploaded content, broadcasts and chat messages. Obviously, most of the information you'll find in the new page are data you can already access if you look around your account and dig through your history. It's not a life-changin

It's late in the evening and: oh boy, did we have fun troubleshooting UEFI **** again. This time it's related to ESXi scripted install with UEFI Secure Boot turned on. Chances are, if you stumbled over this post, you're running into the same issue. via Latest imported feed items on VMware Blogs https://ift.tt/2leoI0R If New feed item from https://blogs.vmware.com/feed , then send me an email at kr

Now that the VMworld session acceptance and rejection notices are out, it may be time to sign up for a vBrownBag TechTalk. If your session was not accepted, then you are welcome to present the condensed core on the vBrownBag stage in the VMTN community area of VMworld, just fill in this google form. Keep Read more about vBrownBag TechTalks at VMworld, supported by Dell EMC […] via Latest imported feed items on VMware Blogs https://ift.tt/2MqHUEZ If New feed item from https://blogs.vmware.com/feed , then send me an email at kr

Got expertise? The 2018 slate of vSAN vExperts certainly do! This year's top-notch lineup of vExperts includes authors, community leaders, bloggers, VMUG leaders, tool builders, speakers and all-around vSAN enthusiasts. Their passion, interest and enthusiasm expand far beyond technology – to be crowned a vExpert, applicants had to demonstrate significant activity, knowledge and fervor around vSAN. The The post Celebrating the 2018 Class of vSAN vExperts appeared first on Virtual Blocks . via Latest imported feed items on VMware Blogs https://ift.tt/2JRsz1M If New feed item from https://blogs.vmware.com/feed , then send me an email at kr

It's official! VMware Horizon Cloud now supports Windows 10 VDI on Microsoft Azure. When we launched Horizon Cloud on Microsoft Azure in late 2017, we offered RDS-based desktops and applications with graphics support.  The interest we received was phenomenal and given VMware's leadership in desktop virtualization, it wasn't long before we received a large number […] The post Horizon Cloud on Microsoft Azure now supports Windows 10 VDI! appeared first on VMware End-User Computing Blog . via Latest imported feed items on VMware Blogs https://ift.tt/2l7tHjM If New feed item from https://blogs.vmware.com/feed , then send me an email at kr

As a VCI, I am often asked about certification, and for most people it's fairly straight forward . However for people who's certification is about to expire, perhaps it's not that straight forward. Thankfully Karl Childs of VMware has produced a couple of Blogs on the VMware Education Blog that are extremely useful. The first one is  New "Bridge" Upgrade Path for Current VCPs, which explains that, any VCP who is two versions behind the most current available version in the same solution track can upgrade to the latest by only taking one exam. The second one is Certification Insights: Mind the Gap! Your Upgrade Paths Across Tracks, this introduces the new policy: Crossing certification tracks rule: This policy allows active certification holders to upgrade to a different certification track, as long as the current certification is within two product versions. via L

This is a new announce from Vembu Technology. Their product Vembu BDR 3.9.1 Update 1 is now supporting vSphere 6.7. It has been not so long time ago when we wrote about their latest release 3.9.1 which brought in the "Standard" release for SMB customers as well as many new features as well. Today, the Vembu BDR […] Read the full post Vembu BDR 3.9.1 Update 1 Supports vSphere 6.7 at ESX Virtualization . via Latest imported feed items on VMware Blogs https://ift.tt/2yjpfbc If New feed item from https://blogs.vmware.com/feed , then send me an email at kr

As a VCI, I am often asked about certification, and for most people it's fairly straight forward . However for people who's certification is about to expire, perhaps it's not that straight forward. Thankfully Karl Childs of VMware has produced a couple of Blogs on the VMware Education Blog that are extremely useful. The first one is  New "Bridge" Upgrade Path for Current VCPs, which explains that, any VCP who is two versions behind the most current available version in the same solution track can upgrade to the latest by only taking one exam. The second one is Certification Insights: Mind the Gap! Your Upgrade Paths Across Tracks, this introduces the new policy: Crossing certification tracks rule: This policy allows active certification holders to upgrade to a different certification track, as long as the current certification is within two product versions. via L

I created the video below that features a very detailed walk-through of an imaging process that seems to work quite well for me. I tested this heavily when tinkering with various vSphere 6.5 and 6.7 versions in my home lab. While the use of such an tool isn't suited for production server use because it's completely unsupported by VMware, I have found it to be invaluable for lab testing purposes, giving me complete peace of mind that I can avoid long troubleshooting sessions by merely restoring from a complete backup image, much like I do with my Windows and Linux PCs and VMs. Why? It only takes a few minutes to install ESXi from scratch , but it's the configuration afterward that takes longer, including networking. You can back up the entire configuration of your ESXi server using VMware's official way in KB 2042141 , but that doesn't grab your ESXi boot files and any

I created the video below that features a very detailed walk-through of an imaging process that seems to work quite well for me. I tested this heavily when tinkering with various vSphere 6.5 and 6.7 versions in my home lab. While the use of such an tool isn't suited for production server use because it's completely unsupported by VMware, I have found it to be invaluable for lab testing purposes, giving me complete peace of mind that I can avoid long troubleshooting sessions by merely restoring from a complete backup image, much like I do with my Windows and Linux PCs and VMs. Why? It only takes a few minutes to install ESXi from scratch , but it's the configuration afterward that takes longer, including networking. You can back up the entire configuration of your ESXi server using VMware's official way in KB 2042141 , but that doesn't grab your ESXi boot files and any