Category: Security
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The Future of VMware Updates: How to Survive the Broadcom Download Token Shift
In mid-2025, Broadcom retired VMware’s public update repositories, necessitating a shift to token-based authentication for updates via customer-specific URLs. To update VMware systems, users must obtain a Download Token from the Broadcom Support Portal and utilize a PowerShell script, ensuring all configurations are modernized for future security and functionality.
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Unlocking Secrets: A Guide to Windows Credential Manager in PowerShell
Redux of Previous Post that has been archived as I felt like I could do it more justice. Over the years I have done ton of different ways of dealing with Credentials in scripts, the whole just do Get-Credential and enter it every time I run the script but that is a great for one…
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Commvault Cleanroom Recovery
As I kid, we always thought that the boogieman was lurking in the dark and under our bed, now days we have a boogieman lurking in the cyber world. That boogeyman is just waiting to pounce on your precious data and wreak havoc on your digital world. In a serous manner we all know that…
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Using Windows Credential Manager with Powershell.
I have been having trouble for a while dealing with credentials and how to store them when using them in scripts. I have done the whole just do Get-Credential and enter it every time I run the script but that is a great for one off scripts but not for scheduled tasks. In the past…
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VMworld Announcement of AppDefense
I was completely immersed when they announced AppDefense. I had to dig and find out some more. This is an over view of what I have found thus far. AppDefense is designed to protect your virtual and cloud based applications. Traditional security is Network related. In the past VMware infrastructure, you had to run NSX…
