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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.
Force the primary outgoing IP address Windows Server 2012 R2
Networking

Force the primary outgoing IP address Windows Server 2012 R2

In working recently with a web server that also has a basic SMTP engine loaded as well, I ran into an issue with the mail server outbound mail queue stacking…

by Brandon LeeFebruary 4, 2016February 15, 2024
Install and configure EMET 5.5 Windows 10
Security

Install and configure EMET 5.5 Windows 10

Recently, Microsoft released the official support version of Enhanced Mitigation and Experience Tookit or EMET version 5.5.  Per Microsoft: “The Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) helps raise the bar against…

by Brandon LeeFebruary 3, 2016January 11, 2021
Make Outlook 2016 unread messages easier to see
Software

Make Outlook 2016 unread messages easier to see

After recently upgrading to Office 2016, one of the first products that I wanted to test drive was Outlook 2016 as email is a crucial part of the day, every…

by Brandon LeeJanuary 29, 2016January 11, 2021
Meraki MS220-8P unboxing and initial setup
Networking

Meraki MS220-8P unboxing and initial setup

Recently, I was excited to get my hands on a new Meraki MS220-8P cloud switch.  So I wanted to go through some of the unboxing highlights as well as some…

by Brandon LeeJanuary 28, 2016January 11, 2021
Windows 10 Networking Powershell commandlets
Windows 10

Windows 10 Networking Powershell commandlets

With Windows 10 we have all the goodness of powershell baked into the operating system and with that, there are several really great powershell commandlets that can be used to…

by Brandon LeeJanuary 27, 2016January 11, 2021
Sophos UTM setup public key authentication for root
Security

Sophos UTM setup public key authentication for root

A quick how to post on how to setup public key authentication for root in Sophos UTM 9.x.  If you want to enable root to have SSH access inside of…

by Brandon LeeJanuary 25, 2016January 11, 2021
Install Xenserver 6.5 in VMware Workstation 12
Virtualization

Install Xenserver 6.5 in VMware Workstation 12

Just a quick write up on how to install XenServer 6.5 in VMware Workstation 12 via nested virtualization.  First things first, we have to setup our nested virtual machine that will house…

by Brandon LeeJanuary 21, 2016January 11, 2021
Updating vCenter VCSA and update manager to 6.0 U1b
Computers

Updating vCenter VCSA and update manager to 6.0 U1b

Recently VMware released the U1b release of vSphere products.  I wanted to post some quick notes and steps used to update a vCenter 6.0 U1a release to U1b revision level.…

by Brandon LeeJanuary 21, 2016January 11, 2021
SQL Server Cannot generate SSPI context Multiple Domains
ActiveDirectory

SQL Server Cannot generate SSPI context Multiple Domains

Recently in working with a multi domain environment, I ran into an issue involving SQL connectivity from a handful of client computers to a certain SQL server.  The errors involved SSPI…

by Brandon LeeJanuary 14, 2016January 11, 2021
Add SMTP Windows Server 2016
Windows Server 2016

Add SMTP Windows Server 2016

Most may not realize that there is actually a free SMTP server builtin to Windows Server all the way back to Windows 2003 and is IIS 6 technology (I know,…

by Brandon LeeJanuary 13, 2016January 11, 2021

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