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Cloud
Runecast 4.0 Released with AWS Analysis
If like me, you have been following Runecast and the great things they have been doing from day one in VMware vSphere environments. You knew it would only be a matter of time before they took this same great tool…
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vSphere 7
VMware vSphere 7 Release Date
Update – New information below New Post here. It has been officially announced! See the post for the official release date – VMware vSphere 7 Announced New Features and Benefits There is no shortage of rumblings from the community and…
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Windows Server 2019
Windows Server 2019 vs 2016 – Which to Choose?
With the introduction of Windows Server 2016 and now 2019, many businesses are looking at upgrading their infrastructure to use the latest versions of Windows Server operating systems. If you are running a legacy version of Microsoft Windows Server like…
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vSAN
How to Install VMware vSAN
VMware vSAN is arguably the most popular software-defined storage solution available in the enterprise datacenter today. While Microsoft has made great strides with Storage Spaces Direct, it is still a bit rough around the edges, especially from a management perspective. …
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DevOps
Terraform for Azure Tutorial
Modernizing the way IT operations is able to provision, manage, and provide the needed resources for development necessitates the need to automate processes. This is especially true in cloud environments like Microsoft Azure. Terraform is gaining wide adoption as the…
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Windows Admin Center
Windows Admin Center New Active Directory Extension
Remember the Active Directory Administrative Center? If you are like me, you didn’t really see many across the enterprise make use of the “next-generation” of Active Directory management. However, there is a new Active Directory Administrative Center that I would…
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Azure
Sync On-Premises AD with Azure AD using Azure AD Connect
Microsoft has had an evolution of tools over the past few years that allows syncing on-premises Active Directory users with their Azure AD cloud directory service. This has include the legacy Forefront Identity Management product, DirSync, and others. Now, the…
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Virtualization
Free Tools to Convert VHD to VMDK and Vice Versa
There are many different hypervisors that are used out in various production environments and you may even be using more than one in your environments. Even though hypervisors generally work in very similar ways between the different hypervisor vendors, this…
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Azure
What is Azure Arc Management and Governance?
One of the major announcements coming from Microsoft’s Ignite conference was the introduction of Azure Arc. This announcement is especially interesting to those that are looking to consolidate management, governance, and security of their Windows, Linux, and Kubernetes workloads across…
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Azure
Azure VM Security Best Practices
As you migrate your workloads to a Microsoft IaaS environment, you will want to give due attention to your security posture in Microsoft Azure. There are many considerations you will want to make when looking at your Azure VM security…
