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Author: Brandon Lee

Brandon Lee is the Senior Writer, Engineer and owner at Virtualizationhowto.com, and a 7-time VMware vExpert, with over two decades of experience in Information Technology. Having worked for numerous Fortune 500 companies as well as in various industries, He has extensive experience in various IT segments and is a strong advocate for open source technologies. Brandon holds many industry certifications, loves the outdoors and spending time with family. Also, he goes through the effort of testing and troubleshooting issues, so you don't have to.
Enable Windows Server 2016 Active Directory Recycle Bin
Windows Server 2016

Enable Windows Server 2016 Active Directory Recycle Bin

In our last post, we talked about the Active Directory Administrative Center in Windows Server 2016.  ADAC is a great way to interface with Active Directory with a task oriented…

by Brandon LeeMarch 6, 2017April 2, 2024
Windows Server 2016 Active Directory Administrative Center
Windows Server 2016

Windows Server 2016 Active Directory Administrative Center

A lesser known feature in Windows Server beginning with Windows Server 2008 R2 is the Active Directory Administrative Center that allows administrators what basically looks like Server Manager to administer…

by Brandon LeeMarch 3, 2017March 15, 2024
SQL Server 2016 Upgrade Error Valid Database compatibility level
SQL

SQL Server 2016 Upgrade Error Valid Database compatibility level

In updating a few SQL Server 2014 servers recently, I ran into an error with a new SQL Server 2014 Server running the upgrade to SQL Server 2016.  It was…

by Brandon LeeMarch 2, 2017January 11, 2021
How to Upgrade SQL Server 2014 to SQL Server 2016
SQL

How to Upgrade SQL Server 2014 to SQL Server 2016

With SQL Server 2016 currently at SP1 as well as a CU1 under its belt, many may be thinking of upgrading existing SQL Server 2014 installations to SQL Server 2016.…

by Brandon LeeMarch 1, 2017January 11, 2021
Failed to prepare guest Veeam Guest Agent is not started
Backup Software

Failed to prepare guest Veeam Guest Agent is not started

If you run into the error in Veeam “Failed to prepare guest Veeam Guest AGent is not started”, often there is an issue with the VMware Tools service.  If VMware…

by Brandon LeeFebruary 28, 2017August 25, 2024
How to Signup for VMUG Advantage EVALExperience
home lab

How to Signup for VMUG Advantage EVALExperience

VMUG EVALExperience is a great way to have access to the core VMware vSphere technologies as well as licensing and many other benefits for a very reasonable price.  If you…

by Brandon LeeFebruary 27, 2017January 11, 2021
Install Veeam 9.5 Backup and Replication Remote Console with PowerShell Snapin
Backup Software

Install Veeam 9.5 Backup and Replication Remote Console with PowerShell Snapin

Installing Veeam Backup & Replication Console remotely is a great way to have the Veeam Console tools available on an administrative workstation where one does not have to login to…

by Brandon LeeFebruary 24, 2017January 11, 2021
Vembu BDR Suite 3.7 Quick Overview of New Features
Backup Software

Vembu BDR Suite 3.7 Quick Overview of New Features

Vembu Technologies recently released their flagship offering, Vembu BDR Suite v3.7 which provides many enhancements over the previous versions.  Vembu BDR Suite v3.7 is an all encompassing product that allows…

by Brandon LeeFebruary 23, 2017January 11, 2021
VMware vSphere 6.5 Change vmkernel MTU size
vSphere 6.5

VMware vSphere 6.5 Change vmkernel MTU size

When dealing with VMkernel ports in vSphere 6.5 for most use cases for performance, we want to enable jumbo frames on the vmkernel ports to allow for less fragmentation of…

by Brandon LeeFebruary 21, 2017January 11, 2021
Automatically add corresponding Veeam backup copy and replication jobs with Powershell
Powershell

Automatically add corresponding Veeam backup copy and replication jobs with Powershell

I had written just a few days ago about a PowerShell script to compare Veeam copy or replication jobs to the regular backup jobs you have setup and see which…

by Brandon LeeFebruary 17, 2017January 11, 2021

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