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Bulk add emails to Active Directory accounts PowerShell
3 Oct 2023 · 3 min read

Bulk add emails to Active Directory accounts

Recently I had to make a lot of changes to Active Directory accounts migrated from several other forests and domains. Emails attribute needed to be created / changed to match the

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Water level IBC with Home assistant - Reload ESPHome
2 Oct 2023 · 4 min read

Water level IBC with Home assistant - Reload

In a previous blog post https://www.archy.net/waterlevelespha/ I was explaining how to monitor an IBC water reserve using ultra sound sensor and ESP32. Since I used this

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NightScout external access DT1 2/2 Nightscout
31 Jul 2023 · 4 min read

NightScout external access DT1 2/2

In this post I will explain how to secure and give an external access to your NightScout instance You can find bellow the previous blog post to setup and configure

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NightScout docker DT1 1/2 Nightscout
27 Jul 2023 · 7 min read

NightScout docker DT1 1/2

In a previous blog (https://www.archy.net/cloud-yes-but-no-thanks-there-is-some-citrix/) I described how I manage to find a solution and try to get more sleep having a baby with Diabetes Type

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Water (pool) temperature monitoring with Home Assistant Home Assistant
27 Jul 2023 · 3 min read

Water (pool) temperature monitoring with Home Assistant

Introduction The goal of this blog is to set up a cost effective solution to monitoring your pool water temperature in real time and visualize it in Home Assistant. Hardware

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Water level IBC with Home assistant Home Assistant
26 Jul 2023 · 4 min read

Water level IBC with Home assistant

Measure level water in IBC tank 1000L using ultra sound and ESP Device

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Citrix VDA uptimes vda
12 Apr 2023 · 1 min read

Citrix VDA uptimes

Today I needed to extract the uptime of a Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops site and gather the data to be able to format it present it in a report

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Netscaler backup automation with ADM ADM
6 Apr 2023 · 2 min read

Netscaler backup automation with ADM

Netscaler backup automation with ADM tips and tricks

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Citrix VDA with Windows 11 Insider Preview 23424.1000 install error Windows 11
6 Apr 2023 · 1 min read

Citrix VDA with Windows 11 Insider Preview 23424.1000 install error

Updating a Citrix VDA on Windows 11 inside preview build issue

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Netscaler native OTP Active Directory account delegation account delegation
22 Mar 2023 · 2 min read

Netscaler native OTP Active Directory account delegation

How to minimise the right given to the Active Directory service account used by the LDAP policies on Netscaler for OTP configuration ? When setting up Citrix native OTP in Netscaler

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Invalid time in the Message sent by the Peer. Please ensure time synchronization between Netscaler and the Peer Citrix
3 Mar 2023 · 1 min read

Invalid time in the Message sent by the Peer. Please ensure time synchronization between Netscaler and the Peer

I got this error while trying to connect to my Citrix gateway after an Azure AD authentication. The Netscaler were just provisioned on a SDX. The SDX was time sunchronize

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Netscaler SDX LACP on 0/1 and 0/2 (Management Interfaces) ADC
2 Mar 2023 · 1 min read

Netscaler SDX LACP on 0/1 and 0/2 (Management Interfaces)

This one is a bit tricky because it’s not documented and few post i read about that were people trying to make it work. I do have SFP port

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Create vmware service account for MCS Citrix Citrix
28 Feb 2023 · 2 min read

Create vmware service account for MCS Citrix

Creating this service account to allow certain action to be performed by the DaaS or Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops infrastructure can take a long time if you can’t

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multipathd errors in /var/log/syslog failed to get
2 Aug 2022 · 2 min read

multipathd errors in /var/log/syslog

On my linux Virtual Machines when I get into log checking i’ve been annoyed by few lines that seemed to be the same issue on every Virtual Machine hosted

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Install Zigbee2MQTT on a Raspberry Pi Zero W MQTT
8 Jul 2022 · 1 min read

Install Zigbee2MQTT on a Raspberry Pi Zero W

The installation of Zigbee2MQTT is straight forward on x86 / x64 OS but when trying to install it on a RPi Zero (ARM) the installation is not the same and not

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This is the end of an era Citrix
16 Feb 2022 · 1 min read

This is the end of an era

After 10 years being a Citrix Technology Professional (CTP), I’m no longer one, I retire. Being a CTP during all these years bring me so much memories and experience

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Kubernetese cluster use with Crypto Currency (Monero) Bitcoin
4 Jan 2022 · 9 min read

Kubernetese cluster use with Crypto Currency (Monero)

Since we set up a Kubernetes Raspberry Pi cluster with K3S, now what can we do with it ? In this blog we configured a cluster with 1 master and two

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Migrating FSMO roles Windows 2022 Server Active directory
3 Jan 2022 · 3 min read

Migrating FSMO roles Windows 2022 Server

As Microsoft Windows 2022 became (almost) available, this is time again to move the FSMO roles from Windows Server 2019 to Windows Server 2022. Before destroying everything to rebuilt, I

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