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OSDBuilder offline servicing updates

Prepare the updated Windows ISO's for the homelab usecase

Posted on June 1, 2022

There are plenty of places where the overall process is described, the knowledge is available in other places, here it’s being shown in context of the virtual workplace, home lab, regardless whether it is Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops, Remote Desktop Services or Parallels RAS. The core infrastructure and your... [Read More]

Tags: HomeLab Windows OSD Imaging

Azure tenant and Intune integration

How to onboard Windows Desktop to Intune

Posted on May 31, 2022

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... [Read More]

Tags: HomeLab XCP-ng Windows

How to compile OpenSSL from sources

OpenSSL 1.1.1 will receive updates until September 2023

Posted on May 18, 2022

Once the OpenSSL library is installed, you can make use of it, for preparing self signed certificates, chain certificates within each other, removing secrets from private keys, with the available API and all the blessing comming with that library. Sometimes it is just more convinient to perform it outside of... [Read More]

Tags: HomeLab Certificates SSL Rocky

XCP-ng initial configuration

XCP-ng left much to be desired, though it's a great solution for home lab

Posted on May 10, 2022

There are at least few hypervisors on the market which would be a good fit, though in this case as it is Citrix oriented lab, the XCP-ng was the choice. Hyper-V server core, would do the trick, esxi as well, though both of them will be missing the integration of... [Read More]

Tags: HomeLab XCP-ng

Advise for newcommers in VirtualWorkplace area

Virtual Workplace aka EUC is not always a bread and butter

Posted on May 1, 2022

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... [Read More]

Tags: ReadmeFirst HomeLab Citrix CVAD RDS

EUC valueable online content

Bunch of online links with valuable content to expand knowledge in EUC area

Posted on April 30, 2022

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... [Read More]

Tags: ReadmeFirst HomeLab EUC Books Tools

EUC books and toolset

Bunch of usefull books and tools

Posted on April 29, 2022

Still it’s worth spending money on books, which brings you non-scattered content, which can be supplemented with the latest updates comming from the great documentation from the venrods, or not. Thank you Carl and Bas Van Kaam. [Read More]

Tags: ReadmeFirst HomeLab EUC Books Tools

Channels I value

There is a load of good content spread around

Posted on April 28, 2022

Good content for your home labbing experience, mainly blogs and Youtube. [Read More]

Tags: ReadmeFirst HomeLab

How to configure FreshTomato as OpenVPN client

Paired with FreshTomato it is based on TLS1.3, Mikrotik - TLS1.2

Posted on April 21, 2022

This example is divided into three pieces. First describes the configuration for the tunnel between two FreshTomato flashed devices, next two sections combines FreshTomato client and Mikrotik Server, Router OS 7 and Router OS 6. It bases on lastest available releases of the software at the time of writing this... [Read More]

Tags: HomeLab Networking FreshTomato OpenVPN

How to configure FreshTomato OpenVPN server - TLS 1.3

Certificate complemented with UserName and Password

Posted on April 20, 2022

This post describe how to setup OpenVPN server on Freshtomato. There are so many versions, that new commers may feel overwhelmed, and there are plenty traps during configuration. I’m not an expert by any means in those areas, using this in my homelab and actually this is the sole purpose... [Read More]

Tags: HomeLab Networking OpenVPN FreshTomato

How to configure Desktop OS as OpenVPN client

OpenVPN tunnel between your desktop Operating system and OpenVPN server

Posted on April 19, 2022

In this example the OpenVPN tunnel is set up between the Mikrotik OpenVPN server and the OpenVPN client installed on Linux or Windows Desktop Operating system. It’s the protocol which should match, it does not matter on top of what compute layer it operates on unless both ends can talk... [Read More]

Tags: HomeLab Networking OpenVPN

Supermicro IPMI self signed certificates

OpenSSL will bring some grip, here and there

Posted on April 18, 2022

As of 2022.04.16 - draft [Read More]

Tags: HomeLab Certificates SSL IPMI Supermicro

How to configure Mikrotik OpenVPN Server - ROS 7.X - UDP

Router OS 7.3.1

Posted on April 17, 2022

This is an updated version of previous blog post which was describing how to configure OpenVPN server on ROS 6.X, which brings the updates towards ROS 7.X. Please read this post before applying those settings, unless you can ammend current configuration accordingly to suit your needs. [Read More]

Tags: HomeLab Networking Mikrotik OpenVPN

How to configure Mikrotik OpenVPN client - ROS 7.X - UDP

Router OS 7.3.1

Posted on April 17, 2022

This blog post is a follow-up of another blog post which was describing how to configure Mikrotik OpenVPN client on ROS 6.X [Read More]

Tags: HomeLab Networking Mikrotik OpenVPN

How to configure Mikrotik OpenVPN Server - ROS 6.X - TCP

Router OS 6.48.6

Posted on April 15, 2022

Setting up another virtual interface on Mikrotik is not that difficult provided you know how to do it. OpenSSL installed on your Desktop can be handy to remove the password protection from key in case you are making use of it on the FreshTomato client or you don’t want your... [Read More]

Tags: HomeLab Networking Mikrotik OpenVPN