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.

Brandon LeeMarch 15, 2014
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Exchange 2010 SP1 address lists not displaying correctly

In working in a client’s environment with Exchange 2010 SP1 after a mostly successful migration from Exchange 2003, the client had issues with users who were showing up in particular address lists that they should not have been included in…
Wordpress

Brandon LeeFebruary 25, 2014
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MySQL trigger to update wordpress post_password in wp_posts

In working on a special project as of late, I ran into a situation where I needed to have the post password reset on posts upon an insert into a custom mysql table in the same database where wordpress was…
Wordpress

Brandon LeeFebruary 7, 2014
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How to send free text message alerts in wordpress

With many wordpress projects going on recently, I have had quite a few different requests to accomplish things as cheaply as possible (aka free) without having to involve 3rd party services. One client recently needed the ability to send text…
Networking

Brandon LeeFebruary 4, 2014
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Untangle 10 slow to apply network changes

I wanted to put this question out to you fellow admins out in the field who have experience with using both Untangle 9 and the new Untangle version 10. Do you find Untangle 10 slow to apply network changes? In…
Security

Brandon LeeJanuary 31, 2014
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How to find and block abusive BYOD devices on your network

With the ever growing popularity of smartphones and tablets and the availability and affordability of these devices, more and more people are bringing them to work. Especially in smaller to mid sized businesses, bandwidth is still a premium that most…
Web

Brandon LeeJanuary 30, 2014
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How to properly setup nginx local authentication

If you have a website running on nginx and you want to make sure the content is not viewable by anyone that isn’t authenticated, the easiest way to set this up is to setup local authentication. Let us take a…
Exchange

Brandon LeeJanuary 29, 2014
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Moving Exchange 2010 mailboxes from child domain to parent domain

Recently, working on a project that involved moving exchange 2010 mailboxes from child domain to parent domain, I wanted to document the process involved. This process was actually twofold as it involved upgrading a client’s email from Exchange 2003 to…
MySQL

Brandon LeeJanuary 28, 2014
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How to troubleshoot MySQL connectivity issues

So you have setup a wordpress or drupal site and you need to access MySQL to be able to work on your database. However, you can’t seem to connect to MySQL as you expect. Each time you try to connect…
Linux

Brandon LeeJanuary 14, 2014
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Linux redirected output not showing in file

Recently, when working with Nginx, I wanted to export out the details of my Nginx build so I could see all modules the webserver was compiled with. However, each time I tried to redirect the output of the nginx -V command, the…
Web

Brandon LeeJanuary 14, 2014
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How to add Apple icons in Genesis wordpress child theme

A really cool thing to do for your end user is add Apple icons in Genesis wordpress child theme so that if they choose to add your site to their home screen using the “add to home screen” option in Safari, their…