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.

Windows

Brandon LeeMarch 13, 2015
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Blast from Past – Upgrade NT4 domain to Windows 2003

Believe it or not, there ARE still some environments out there running Windows NT domain controllers – Yes the end of life for public support from Microsoft was January 1, 2005, 10 YEARS!!! It is hard to believe, but there…
SQL

Brandon LeeMarch 13, 2015
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SQL Server local SQL authentication error logged in locally

Guys, so I have run into a really weird situation with a development SQL Server local SQL authentication error logged in locally. Local SQL authentication succeeds if you login remotely via SQL Server Management Studio. However, using SSMS, the login…
Windows

Brandon LeeMarch 6, 2015
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Add GUI file explorer to Windows PE environment

Recently, in working with a client who was using the Windows PE environment created with Windows 8.1 ADK, we had a server go down that had a corrupt Windows installation. It was decided to simply boot the server in a…
Windows

Brandon LeeFebruary 27, 2015
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How to fix BGINFO black background issue

BGINFO is a very useful utility in any server environment where you have many server desktops you may remote into at any given time. In this age of virtualized environments, oftentimes we may have literally hundreds of server desktops to…
Virtualization

Brandon LeeFebruary 16, 2015
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Create isolated test environment same ips and subnet with VMware

Recently, I had the need to setup a test/development environment that met the requirements of being able to keep the same IPs, subnet, and machine names as the production environment and still be able to get to these test machines…
Virtualization

Brandon LeeFebruary 13, 2015
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AppAssure export to free ESXi version error

For those of you out there using AppAssure as your backup and restore mechanism in your server environment, you may have ran into an issue with exporting a restore point to ESXi when it is in its free license state.…
Brandon LeeFebruary 11, 2015
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Windows Server 2012 R2 Deduplication Real World Test

Having been running Windows Server 2012 R2 in many environments for quite some time now, I still as of yet haven’t had a real world test of data deduplication to see how the storage savings would be shown after turning…
Computers

Brandon LeeFebruary 9, 2015
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Sophos UTM configuration for Obi

For those of you running the Sophos UTM appliance and who are interested in running an Obi device behind your Sophos UTM appliance, we have put together a selection of firewall rules and other configuration changes for Sophos UTM configuration…
Security

Brandon LeeFebruary 7, 2015
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How to configure Port Forwarding in Sophos UTM

There was a question in the comments on a recent blog post on how to configure port forwarding in Sophos UTM. While a little less intuitive than other UTM firewalls such as Untangle, it is still very easy to figure out.…
VMware

Brandon LeeFebruary 6, 2015
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Updating VMware Operations Manager vApp

Recently with all of the bug fixes and security updates coming out from VMware and others due to Ghost vulnerability, etc, I decided among other VMware updates to update the Operations Manager vApp. Updating VMware Operations Manager vApp is relatively…