On Tuesday, August 27, 2024, VMware Explore will kick off at The Venetian in Las Vegas. The General Session will be broadcast live on Tuesday, August 27 from 9:00 – 10:00 AM PDT (6:00 PM CEST).
VMware Explore 2024 US Livestream
VMware Explore 2024 EMEA – Know before you go
There are still a few weeks to go until VMware Explore 2024 EMEA opens its doors in Barcelona at the Fira Gran Via. Time flies, as we all know.
As in previous years, I would like to put together a small guide. I hope this background information will be helpful, especially for first-time visitors.
As early as 2018, I put together a small survival guide for this event, which is still largely valid. Although the event is now being held for the third time under the name VMware Explore instead of the original name VMworld.
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VMware (by Broadcom) Explore 2014 will take place this year from November 4-7 in Barcelona. The pre-sale for tickets started on June 25.
The early bird discount will be valid until July 29. After that, ticket prices will increase in several stages.
VMUG Advantage Discount
If you are a member of VMUG Advantage, you can get a discount of 75 $. Look up your discount code in the VMUG portal and enter it as a voucher when ordering your ticket.
Contact to Powershell Gallery not possible
On older Windows systems, it may not be possible to contact the Powershell Gallery. An error is returned when an attempt is made.
Unable to resolve package source ‘https://www.powershellgallery.com/api/v2’
Root cause in the TLS
Transport Layer Security (TLS) is an encryption protocol for secure data transmission on the internet. Since 2021, TLS versions 1.0 and 1.1 have been considered obsolete and are therefore no longer accepted by many applications. TLS 1.2 and 1.3 have therefore become the new standard. The Powershell Gallery has also required at least TLS 1.2 since 2020 and rejects older protocols. Older Powershell versions such as Powershell 5.1 do not support this configuration.
Query current security protocol
[Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol
Powershell usually returns the value ‘SystemDefault’ as the result. This means that Powershell uses the system-wide settings for TLS.
PS > [Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol
SystemDefault
If an older TLS version is defined as the default in the system, Powershell uses this as the default.
Enforce TLS 1.2
TLS 1.2 can be enforced in Powershell with the command shown below. However, this command must be executed again in every new Powershell session.
[Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [Net.SecurityProtocolType]::Tls12
The command from the first screenshot can be executed again for testing purposes.
PS > Find-Module -Name VMware.PowerCLI
The version of the module is now returned without an error message.
Version Name Repository Description
------- ---- ---------- -----------
13.3.0.... VMware.PowerCLI PSGallery This Windows PowerShell module contains VMware.PowerCLI
Sustainable solution
Forcing the TLS 1.2 version can only be a short-term fix. In the long term, the Poweshell version in the OS should be brought up to date. Older systems that have reached their end-of-life (EoL) according to Microsoft should no longer be used. That’s easy to say, but in practice I often come across legacy systems that cannot be replaced for a variety of reasons.