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Hi everyone, welcome to this week's VMware TAM Newsletter. In a few weeks time VMworld will descend on Barcelona. If you are planning on attending this great event like so many others you will get front row seats to this amazing event. I suggest that you make sure that your vmworld.com registration is up to date and that your TAM is aware of your travel to this event and is working to ensure that you have a fantastic event. Of course the VMware TAM program will make sure that all of our customers are well taken care of during this event. We will also try and cover as much as we can from the event in the weekly newsletter so make sure that you are receiving yours and checking it out each week.
I wish you all a fantastic week ahead.
Virtually Yours
Brisbane TAM Team
TAM TWEETS OF THE WEEK (Editor: Daniel Mizrahi)
- Great job @SMFulton3 on http://thenewstack.io/vmware-integrated-containers-may-introduce-docker-enterprise/ …. One of the clearest write ups I've yet seen on VIC
- Learn all about leveraging @vRealizeAuto with an API, CLI or build tools come see me @VMworld Europe http://www.vmworld.com/eucatalog.jspa?search=[DEVOP7674…] #DEVOPS7674
- Amanda Blevins @AmandaBlev Sep 23: VMware Commits to Achieve Carbon Neutral Emissions by 2020 http://www.vmware.com/radius/vmware-commits-carbon-neutral-emissions-2020/… via @VMwarenews #Sustainability
TAM BLOG (Editor: Kelly Dare)
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Certificates for Dummies – Part One: VCSA and PSC Certificates’ Overview and Configuring PSC with Intermediate VMware Certificate Authority (VMCA)
By Jean Oliveira
My name is Jean Oliveira, and I’m a Technical Account Manager in Brazil. In this role, I am often asked to assist in areas where I am not an expert, which involves research. For example, I have a customer who planned to replace VMware vCenter Server and VMware vSphere hosts’ self-signed certificates with internal signed certificates. To complete this task, he wanted to use the VMware Certificate Authority service as an Intermediate CA. My goal for this post is to help others work through this same issue in their environments.
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NEWS AND DEVELOPMENTS FROM VMWARE
GENERAL NEWS
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Sep 20, 2016 9:58:00 AM
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Sep 19, 2016 7:01:32 PM
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Sep 23, 2016 8:08:21 PM
Drive the Success of Public/Hybrid Clouds with vCloud Air Network Edge!
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Sep 23, 2016 5:30:26 PM
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Sep 22, 2016 4:00:10 PM
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Sep 22, 2016 1:54:49 AM
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Sep 21, 2016 7:30:02 AM
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Sep 20, 2016 5:56:10 PM
Multi-site with Cross-VC NSX and Palo Alto Networks Security
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Sep 20, 2016 4:05:04 PM
END USER COMPUTING
Top Mobile News: Apple-McLaren Rumors, Nike Power Laces & MacOS Sierra
The ever-hungry Apple rumor mill churns on—this time about possible McLaren takeover. Rumors abounded this week about Apple’s takeover talks with McLaren. Read all about it here . The luxury car company, particularly its McLaren Applied Technologies division, could be a nice addition for Apple’s ...
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Free Report: The Aragon Research Globe for Social Software, 2016
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Sep 23, 2016 1:00:29 PM
Top 5 Tech Priorities & Concerns for Retail IT Leaders
With 62 days to Black Friday and 65 days to Cyber Monday, retail IT leaders shared their top five end-user computing priorities at VMworld U.S. 2016. “Be Tomorrow.” For some industries, thinking too much about the future is distracting. Not for retailers. Retail brands always look ahead—to the ne...
Sep 23, 2016 12:59:26 PM
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Sep 22, 2016 9:25:18 PM
[SlideShare] ‘Mobile’ Is Not a Smartphone
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Sep 22, 2016 12:00:18 PM
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Sep 21, 2016 1:29:14 PM
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VMware Workspace ONE Reference Architecture: Validated Integration Design White Paper
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Sep 19, 2016 9:04:19 PM
Network Ports in Horizon 7: Diagram Updated
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ANZ Bank Reimagines Banking with iPads and Mobility
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