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Many of my contacts have joked with me about how I need to modernize the way I provide scripts in my blog posts as I do not: #1 – Use special code boxes with proper formatting and colour coding #2 – Use GitHub to better

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Performing the Initial Setup of the Citrix FAS Administration Console fails at Authorize this service with: “Failed to Issue certificate: CR_DISP_DENIED (code 2)”

Problem You’re attempting to set up a Citrix Federated Authentication Service server to allow using Azure AD authentication with single sign-on but the configuration fails at the Authorize this service with the error: The authorization request on <CertServerFQDN><CA Name> failed: Failed to Issue certificate: CR_DISP_DENIED

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Attempting to upgrade ESXi on a Nutanix node manually fails with: “OSError: [Errno 39 Directory not empty: ‘/vmfs/volumes/e2be1277-f8844313-564e-dbe0fc3821c4/Nutanix’”

Problem You’re attempting to manually upgrade a Nutanix node from VMware ESXi, 6.5.0, 17167537 to VMware ESXi, 6.7.0, 15160138 with the ISO VMware-VMvisor-Installer-201912001-15160138.x86_64.iso then patch it to VMware ESXi, 6.7.0, 17700523 with ESXi670-202103001.zip: Upgrade ESXi, preserve VMFS datastore … but the upgrade from 6.5 to

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Skype for Business Online (SkypeOnlineConnector) PowerShell connections are blocked and Set-CsUser no longer works

Problem You’ve noticed that the following cmdlets fail with the error message indicating Skype for Business Online (SkypeOnlineConnector) PowerShell connections are blocked: Import-Module SkypeOnlineConnector $sfbSession = New-CsOnlineSession New-PSSession : [admin0b.online.lync.com] Processing data from remote server admin0b.online.lync.com failed with the following error message: Skype for Business

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