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ESXi FREE R.I.P - End Of General Availability of the free vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi 7.x and 8.x) (2107518)

Symptoms
VMware vSphere Hypervisor (free edition) is no longer available on the VMware website

Resolution
Along with the termination of perpetual licensing, Broadcom has also decided to discontinue the Free ESXi Hypervisor, marking it as EOGA (End of General Availability).

Regrettably, there is currently no substitute product offered. For further details regarding the affected products and this change, we encourage you to review the following blog post: https://blogs.vmware.com/cloud-foundation/2024/01/22/vmware-end-of-availability-of-perpetual-licensing-and-saas-services/

https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2107518
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**Windows Terminal Server admins**
To whom it may concern:

Some websites suggest or even require passkeys for login.
Microsoft has not implemented a working webauthn forwarding in Server 2019 1809, while it works in higher versions like server 2022!
That means: if your users would like to use their passkeys in a remote server 2019 (1809) session, it will fail since the fido2 security device is not being forwarded. You will need to upgrade to server 2022. This was verified with both Win10 and 11 as client.

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Bitlocker Admins, beware: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTl4vEednkQ some Swiss techie has optimized the TPM-sniffing method so that it takesjust a few seconds to get the volume master key, when TPM-only protection is used on certain Lenovo laptop models. He even sells the attack devices and teaches others.

So think twice: would you really want to rely on TPM only? And if so: shouldn't you rather switch to the hardware-less fTPM solutions?
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https://blog.stefan-gossner.com/2024/01/11/trending-issue-http-error-500-19-cannot-read-configuration-file-because-it-exceeds-the-maximum-file-size/
There's a bug in Sharepoint 2016 that occurs after latest updates (Jan. 24) under certain circumstances. Link holds a fix! Else your central administration page will possibly get inaccessible.
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by:Walter Curtis
Good that you pointed out this issue. I ran across this error last month during regular updates. I used registry fixes based on the comments in this article:

https://blog.stefan-gossner.com/2023/11/15/november-2023-cu-for-sharepoint-server-2019-is-available-for-download/

There seem to be two approaches to this problem. Clean up the web.config file so that it does not exceed the file size limit or modify registry settings so that the maximum file size limit setting is large enough to not throw the error. I would not be surprised to see this error again this month and into the future.
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PSA:  If you are gifting Games Consoles or other computer games this week, check that everything has installed OK and any game, hardware or driver updates are fully updated in advance.

You can thank me later :)

Season's Greetings!
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helllo,
is there any possible solutions in the scenario where openssh server client  ftp were removed and unable to access websites to dowload deleted packages from internet ?  That is i can only connect to VM through local admin account thru console, network is available, i can ping other internal ips. ( Note : i already tried access using ssh tools, filezila, winscp etc but failed as ssh ftp is uninstalled ) I can restore from backup the vm but i would like to know if any other options available ?  
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Hello new EE members! Welcome to our community - we are so happy to have you here. Drop us a comment below and introduce yourself! (Start with your name and what part of the world you live in)

I'm David, the Community Advocate here at EE. I live in the beautiful Savannah, GA.
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Happy Holidays and a Prosperous New Year for 2024, and Good Health to you and your families for a fantastic year at Experts Exchange

Many Thanks for all the VMware and Virtualization questions I've answered this year on Experts Exchange, and for making EE the Number 1 Original Tech Community Online. I've really enjoyed being there for you answering your questions, and completing so many articles and videos for you which can be found listed here, and it was fantastic to see EE return to it's roots - "About Bloody Time", and fab to be invited to Core Conference 2023, and meet with other fab Experts.



In what has become Andy's EE tradition, which is becoming more difficult with the demise of Microsoft Silverlight!

I've extracted all your "EE names" and input them into http://www.tagxedo.com/app.html - we've now developed Cloud based apps now to do this very quickly! (Tagxedo is old it still supports Silverlight!), I'm not sure we will be using Tagxedo next year, we are finding it difficult to find a Silverlight enabled PC today!

if you want to see a VMware video, let me know, and we will see what we can do.

So that just leaves me to say...

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Happy Holidays!

Andy
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by:dbrunton
>>  PSA:  If you are gifting Games Consoles or other computer games this week, check that everything has installed OK and any game, hardware or driver updates are fully updated in advance.

My games console has not arrived yet.  :(

Are you sure you got my address correct?  Waiting in anticipation.
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I just discovered that Rick Fisher did indeed add 64 bit support to his Find & Replace utility!

I don't know how I missed this.   It may be that someone added it later.   Everyone at this point assumed he had passed as he has been un-responsive to any inquiry.  But I don't remember this being available when I fist got into 64 bit.

If you have an existing license, you can download a copy here:

https://www.rickworld.com/download.html

Under Find and Replace ver 9.0, look for the  64BitSP1 Version, download that, and use it to install F&R.   I am using it with the current version of Access, and so far, no issues other than an initial warning that the version is un-supported (16).  I just click through that and it works fine!

Really made my day; I don't like the current alternatives personally (guess I've been using Rick's utility too long), and it has a cross-ref ability that I find very useful at times.​
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by:Mitch Schwartz
Thanks for that, Jim. I didn't know it was available. I've been using Find & Replace for years, and was lost when I needed the 64-bit version. Other similar software doesn't work nearly as well.
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So what’s going on @vExpert #vExperts @VMware by @Broadcom have removed  3 year support options on @VMwarevSphere Support renewals!? Temporarily suspended!
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https://www.heise.de/news/Keylogger-keyboard-leaks-passwords-via-Apple-s-Find-My-location-network-9344806.html
A German IT magazine has a proof of concept ready for data exfiltration via Apple's "find my" tracking services.
Very unpleasant. In short: a keylogger can record keystrokes but its payload needs to be harvested someday and the attacker risks to be seen when harvesting. This PoC uses random IPhones of office users for this and even works on air gapped devices and needs no physical contact - in fact, the attacker does not even need to enter the building a second time. Apple has been contacted and asked for counter measures,
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by:Scott Fell
I remember reading about the potential of quantum computing 20 years ago for this type of thing. If you go back 10+ years here on EE  you can see we are trying to tell people to stop using MD5.
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Archiving with tar and VBA

The old Unix archiving and compress tool tar also comes with Windows since Windows 10, and Windows Explorer in Windows 11 will even open these archives.
This means, that Windows 11 can handle tar, tgz, and tar.gz files natively, at least from the command line.

Also, tar can extract zip files created with Windows Explorer. This means that zip folders created by normal Windows users can be unzipped from the command line without using PowerShell or any third-party tools.

So, study my third article about zipping, compressing, etc. with VBA using native Windows tools. It supplements the previous two articles covering zip and cabinet files:

Handle Archive Files and Folders With VBA the Windows Explorer Way

A special feature of tar is that in can archive a bunch of files as one file without compression. This is a useful and extremely fast method to collect video and image files already highly compressed.

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Another serious issue with vCenter Server 6.5, 6.7, 7.0, and 8.0 and interesting VMware have released patches for 6.5 and 6.7 - https://core.vmware.com/resource/vmsa-2023-0023-questions-answers#links
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I just tried the new outlook. They made it look just like the web app. I had to re-sign in to all of my accounts. It was kind of pain. It seems like everything is going to a web app in a native look. OneNote was already in that format. Slack too.

What are your thoughts?
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by:Scott Fell
You get used to it.  Change is not easy
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I'm always hanging onto the older versions, until the time comes to change, but this recent Try Now new option is painful - I'm only a user!
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https://www.wyden.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/wyden_letter_to_cisa_doj_ftc_re_2023_microsoft_breach.pdf
US Senator Ron Wyden attacks Microsoft for "negligent cybersecurity practices" and calls other politicians to action.

Keep it up, senator!
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I just found this cloudflare tool, pretty cool, I like the speed test results too.

https://radar.cloudflare.com/
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Anybody else going to threads?
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by:☠ MASQ ☠
& Guess it's only #1 as they aren't letting us have a web UI until later.
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by:Rob Knight
You can use your iPhone as a desktop or laptop using certain applications - Citrix and VMware Horizon, for example.

iPhone and VMware Horizon connected to a lapdock that includes a lightning to HDMI adapter.
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What's everybody's take on 2001: A Space Odyssey?

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by:Scott Fell
I saw the movie when it came out. I think I was 6. I remember being confused by the beginning and end but loved the middle parts. I have watch it probably once a year and pick up something different. You have to be in the mood to get into it. But it is amazing how relevant it is and the special effects knowing this was created in the late 60's.
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by:David Draper
The effects were definitely impressive. And the scoring. I must confess I fell asleep at about 50 minutes. I'll try again at some point haha.
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Gigabyte starts to roll out fix for UEFI vulnerability affecting all its recent motherboards

Gigabyte's UEFI contains code to automatically download and install firmware updates without user intervention. Unfortunately with some very weak security allowing the possibility of bad actor exploitation of the feature.

https://eclypsium.com/blog/supply-chain-risk-from-gigabyte-app-center-backdoor/

Gigabyte have responded to security researchers  Eclypsium by announcing several fixes for boards containing their four leading chipsets.

https://www.gigabyte.com/Press/News/2091

Ironically the updates will use the existing flaw to fix themselves!

The lesson here is that the UEFI environment allows manufacturers to incorporate processes that run in the background without end-user intervention (or even their knowledge) it's difficult to secure your premises when you don't know where all the doors are!
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