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.

Servers

Brandon LeeJune 20, 2014
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SQL Server Firewall and performance tweaks

Everyone, I wanted to pass along a few Windows firewall tweaks that I have found useful with building a SQL server on Windows 2008 server or higher. The following simple tweaks can really help with issues you may see involving…
Software

Brandon LeeJune 17, 2014
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How to troubleshoot Dell Open Manage Essentials connecting to your servers

So recently, I decided to setup a Dell Open Manage Essentials server in an environment running many Dell devices. Most of the servers in the environment were already installed with the Open Manage Server Administrator (OMSA) software, so this made…
Windows 8

Brandon LeeMay 19, 2014
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Install .Net Framework in Windows 8 or 8.1 offline without Internet

You may have encountered an issue with installing .NET framework feature in Windows 8 or 8.1 where the installer simply fails with the error 0x800f0906 which alludes to a problem with an Internet connection however it could be WSUS related as well…
Wordpress

Brandon LeeApril 9, 2014
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Improve wordpress performance mobile devices logged in user

In working with a client on performance issues with their wordpress powered website on iPads they were using to beta test, one strange thing became apparent, there was some correlation to a user being logged into the site and the…
Linux

Brandon LeeApril 9, 2014
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Install all updates besides select few Ubuntu Server

Recently, in working on updating an Ubuntu server for a client that was running a customized version of Nginx compiled with Google Pagespeed and other mods, we wanted to install all the updates besides any that touched Nginx as we…
Mobile

Brandon LeeApril 3, 2014
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Can’t copy and paste files from Samsung Galaxy S4 to computer

I ran across a pesky issue with my Samsung Galaxy S4 the other day where I wanted to copy a few pictures and a video from my phone’s internal memory over to my computer. For the most part in times…
Cloud

Brandon LeeMarch 19, 2014
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Has cloud computing matured?

I was asked the question just the other day about cloud computing and what my thoughts were on the whole concept. It made me realize the questions revolving around cloud computing for businesses are still there. Many businesses are still…
Wordpress

Brandon LeeMarch 18, 2014
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Troubleshoot apple touch icons nginx webserver

In working with Nginx webserver and a client who wanted to have customized apple touch icons display when an end user bookmarked their page or used the “send to desktop” button within Safari to show their customized icon, we discovered…
Wordpress

Brandon LeeMarch 17, 2014
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Mass set or remove WordPress post password

Recently, in a WordPress project I have been working on, I had the need to mass set or remove the post password as it was set on various posts that were contained in a WordPress site. The way this site…
Brandon LeeMarch 15, 2014
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Using Powergui to mass edit Active Directory Object Attributes

If you have a specific attribute that you want to modify on an active directory object, you can simply open up Active Directory Users and Computers, go to the properties of the object, and go to “Attribute Editor” of the…