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Last Updated: 30-May-2023 Welcome to Edition #16 of the What's New for VMware Validated Solutions, today we announced the following updates: New Solution - Cloud-Based Network Visibility for VMware Cloud Foundation Added support for VMware Cloud Foundation 4.5.1 Added enhancements to Intelligent Logging and Analytics for VMware Cloud Foundation Added enhancements to Health Reporting and …
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Last Updated: 25-Apr-2023 Welcome to Edition #15 of the What's New for VMware Validated Solutions, today we announced the following updates: Update to Cloud-Based Intelligent Logging for VMware Cloud Foundation Release of the PowerShell Module for VMware Cloud Foundation Password Management Updated release of PowerShell Module for VMware Cloud Foundation APIs Updated release of PowerShell …
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Background In January 2023 through the VMware Validated Solution programme we released both documentation and PowerShell cmdlets to help with the configuration of password policies across the VMware Cloud Foundation platform, enabling our customers to report and configure the password expiration, password complexity, and account lockout policies at scale. The positive feedback received to date …
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This week we released a new VMware Fling, VMware Cloud Foundation Configuration File Generator which is a containerized web application developed to replace the Deployment Parameter Workbook used for performing the VMware Cloud Foundation Bring-up of the Management Domain. VMware Cloud Builder supports providing either the Deployment Parameter Workbook an Excel workbook which is then …
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In a recent blog (see here) I provided an overview of Password Policy Configuration for VMware Cloud Foundation, in this blog we will take a deep dive on using Start-PasswordPolicyConfig which actually performs the configuration of all password policies across the VMware Cloud Foundation instance. The Start-PasswordPolicyConfig cmdlet is part of the PowerShell Module for …
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Last Updated: 28-Mar-2023 Welcome to Edition #14 of the What's New for VMware Validated Solutions, today we announced the following updates: New Solution - Health Reporting and Monitoring for VMware Cloud Foundation New Solution - Cloud-Based Intelligent Logging for VMware Cloud Foundation Release of PowerValidatedSolutions v2.1.0, our PowerShell module developed to ensure robustness, consistency, and …
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Last Updated: 28-Feb-2023 Welcome to Edition #13 of the What's New for VMware Validated Solutions, today we announced the following updates: Added enhancements to Cloud-Based Intelligent Operations for VMware Cloud Foundation Added enhancements to Cloud-Based Automation for VMware Cloud Foundation Cloud-Based Intelligent Operations for VMware Cloud Foundation Detailed Design Updates to the following design decisions: …
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Last Updated: 25-Apr-2023 In a recent blog (see here) I provided an overview of Password Policy Configuration for VMware Cloud Foundation, in this blog we will take a deep dive on using Invoke-PasswordPolicyManager to generate the password policy reports. The Invoke-PasswordPolicyManager cmdlet is part of the PowerShell Module for VMware Cloud Foundation Password Management and …
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Last Updated: 25-Apr-2023 Password Policy Configuration may not be that important to some but for security teams it’s critical for ensuring their organization is protected. If you have ever looked deep into this area when it comes to VMware Cloud Foundation and the components involved you will quickly realize that unfortunately VMware today does not …
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Last Updated: 31-Jan-2023 Welcome to Edition #12 of the What's New for VMware Validated Solutions, today we announced the following updates: New Solution - Cloud-Based Intelligent Operations for VMware Cloud Foundation Enhancements to Password Policy Configuration within Identity and Access Management for VMware Cloud Foundation Release of PowerValidatedSolutions v2.0.0, our PowerShell module developed to ensure …
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