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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.
Godaddy EV UCC SSL certificate nonexistent
Security

Godaddy EV UCC SSL certificate nonexistent

Recently working with a client, we needed to have the ability to have an extended validation multiple domain certificate to secure a website answering to multiple domain names with the…

by Brandon LeeOctober 3, 2014January 11, 2021
Updating vCenter Server 5.5 to update 2
Virtualization

Updating vCenter Server 5.5 to update 2

With the recent release of the Update 2 revision of vSphere 5.5, many admins may be looking to update their environments to this release level to have all the latest…

by Brandon LeeOctober 2, 2014January 11, 2021
Installing Windows 10 Enterprise Technical Preview
Windows

Installing Windows 10 Enterprise Technical Preview

With Microsoft’s recent announcement of Windows 10 and the availability of the technical preview for download, the buzz is surrounding Microsoft’s latest and great OS coming down the pipeline.  With…

by Brandon LeeOctober 2, 2014January 11, 2021
Bare Metal Restore VM using AppAssure
Software

Bare Metal Restore VM using AppAssure

Using AppAssure, there are a couple of different ways that a VM can potentially be restored.  You can use both the Restore method or the Export process within the software to successfully bare metal…

by Brandon LeeSeptember 29, 2014January 11, 2021
How to allow remote desktop connection Windows 8.1
Windows

How to allow remote desktop connection Windows 8.1

Remote desktop is a great way to connect to a workstation either in the same location or remotely anywhere on the Internet (with proper firewall allowances in place of course).…

by Brandon LeeSeptember 26, 2014January 11, 2021
AppAssure Network error during transfer of data from volumes
Troubleshooting

AppAssure Network error during transfer of data from volumes

Recently, in working with a development SQL server that had been added to AppAssure, an error was being seen on incremental snapshots after a successful base image.  The AppAssure error…

by Brandon LeeSeptember 24, 2014January 11, 2021
Monitor Home IP Address Using Powershell with email Notify
Powershell

Monitor Home IP Address Using Powershell with email Notify

Many of you may need to monitor your home IP address due to services you are running or simply to know your WAN IP address in order to RDP into…

by Brandon LeeSeptember 18, 2014November 22, 2023
Apply Latest Patches to standalone Dell Customized ESXi 5.5 host
Virtualization

Apply Latest Patches to standalone Dell Customized ESXi 5.5 host

In spinning up a new environment recently for a client, we wanted to get the hosts to the latest patch level.  We didn’t have local VUM in place or even…

by Brandon LeeAugust 28, 2014January 11, 2021
The safer way to lock your Windows computer
Security

The safer way to lock your Windows computer

How many times have all of us walked away from our workstations thinking that the CTRL+ALT+DELETE and then ENTER keystrokes we entered successfully locked our workstations only to come back…

by Brandon LeeJuly 29, 2014January 11, 2021
Use WinSCP commandline to copy from Windows to Linux
Software

Use WinSCP commandline to copy from Windows to Linux

WinSCP is a great Windows GUI utility to copy files to and from Linux boxes, but many don’t know about the powerful WinSCP commandline functionality that are extremely useful to…

by Brandon LeeJuly 22, 2014January 11, 2021

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