{"id":81,"date":"2008-07-28T20:39:05","date_gmt":"2008-07-28T19:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amikkelsen.com\/?p=81"},"modified":"2008-07-28T20:39:05","modified_gmt":"2008-07-28T19:39:05","slug":"virtualcenter-passthrough-authentication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amikkelsen.com\/?p=81","title":{"rendered":"VirtualCenter Passthrough Authentication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"permanent link\" href=\"http:\/\/vmprofessional.com\/2008\/06\/virtualcenter-passthrough.html\">Dominic Rivera<\/a> has documented a undocumented feature of VirtualCenter.<\/p>\n<p>A very useful, yet very undocumented feature of the Virtual Infrastructure Client is that it can be configured to automatically pass your Active Directory credentials without you typing them in. To use: create a shortcut to the Virtual Infrastructure Client, then right-click on it and edit the shortcut properties. You&#8217;ll need to pass the program two arguments when calling it like so:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.amikkelsen.com\/images\/passthru.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"369\" height=\"504\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">&#8220;C:\\Program Files\\VMware\\Infrastructure\\Virtual Infrastructure Client\\Launcher\\VpxClient.exe&#8221; -passthroughAuth -s vc.yourdomain.com<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Where &#8220;vc.yourdomain.com&#8221; is replaced with the DNS name for your VirtualCenter server. It&#8217;s extremely simple and just might hold of carpel tunnel syndrome for an extra few days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dominic Rivera has documented a undocumented feature of VirtualCenter. A very useful, yet very undocumented feature of the Virtual Infrastructure Client is that it can be configured to automatically pass your Active Directory credentials without you typing them in. To use: create a shortcut to the Virtual Infrastructure Client, then right-click on it and edit\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amikkelsen.com\/?p=81\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,13,12,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esx-i","category-tools","category-virtual-center","category-esx-x"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amikkelsen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amikkelsen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amikkelsen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amikkelsen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amikkelsen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.amikkelsen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amikkelsen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amikkelsen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amikkelsen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}