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.

Virtualization

Brandon LeeSeptember 19, 2011
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VMware vMotion problems on ESX 3.5 servers after upgrade to vCenter 4.1

If you have run into a problem with VMware vMotion after upgrading your vCenter server to 4.1, it is most likely due to licensing issues and differences between 3.5 and 4.1. In working with a client recently who had this…
ActiveDirectory

Brandon LeeSeptember 15, 2011
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Transferring a FSMO Role using NTDSUTIL

There are a wealth of things you can do with the NTDSUTIL utility and it is one of the most powerful command line utilities a system administrator can have in his/her bag of tricks when working with Active Directory. We…
ActiveDirectory

Brandon LeeSeptember 15, 2011
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Installing a Read Only Domain Controller in a Windows 2008 R2 environment

Read Only domain controllers provide a really nice option for administrators who may want to place a domain controller in a remote site, particularly one that may not have a secure location for the server as such. The RODC may…
ActiveDirectory

Brandon LeeSeptember 8, 2011
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Installing Active Directory Certificate Services

Active Directory Certificate Services Role allows you to install a certificate authority in your Active Directory environment which allows you to issue self signed certificates for a variety of purposes and uses. We want to step through this process on…
Mobile

Brandon LeeSeptember 6, 2011
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Manage Active Directory with Android

As IT professionals we are always looking for ways to be able to manage systems anytime, anyplace, and anywhere. Mobile Smartphones have completely changed the world in which we live and made possible things that were only dreamed of some…
Group Policy

Brandon LeeAugust 29, 2011
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Preventing a user from receiving group policy settings

Let’s say you have a group policy object that you are applying to a group of users. Maybe you have one user that is a member of this group that you would like to filter from receiving those group policy…
Troubleshooting

Brandon LeeAugust 24, 2011
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Dell laptop nVidia display Windows 7 driver issue

Recently in working with a client we ran into a driver issue with a set of Dell D820 laptops. The laptops had recently been installed with Windows 7 Enterprise 32 bit. The display driver worked, however, the driver that was…
ActiveDirectory

Brandon LeeAugust 22, 2011
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Using DSQUERY to find users and groups

docker volume configuration
Brandon LeeAugust 18, 2011
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Exchange 2010 SP1 Restricting Address Lists in Outlook

ceph configuration in proxmox
Troubleshooting

Brandon LeeAugust 17, 2011
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Access Denied when running shutdown command for a remote machine

There have been multiple blog posts about an “access denied” error message when running the command line shutdown command pointed to a remote workstation. Example of Shutdown command: shutdown /m \\SOMECOMPUTER /t 5 /y /c “Your machine is about to…