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  • Viewing available options for VMware ESXi virtual machines in System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2022

    System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2022 VMware ESXi management

    Recently, Microsoft released the latest version of System Center, System Center 2022. With the new System Center release, System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2022 (SCVMM) has been released with new features that support the latest version of vSphere. Let’s look…

  • Setting permissions on the SSH private key

    Bad Owner or Permissions on SSH Config Windows 10

    Lately, I have been working a lot with SSH and Windows 10, for one transitioning away from WMI for certain things, hopefully, a blog post coming on that front soon. Setting up SSH on Windows 10 is fairly simple to…

  • Windows Rebootless Hotpatching coming to on premises environments

    Windows Rebootless Hotpatching coming to on-premises environments

    It has often felt like the bane of an IT administrator’s existence – Windows Updates. Patching Windows servers is especially challenging in many ways and can lead to long hours of patching and maintenance periods due to the downtime that…

  • What is Azure Stack HCI

    Azure Stack HCI 21H2 Released Download New Features

    Recently, at Microsoft Ignite, Microsoft announced Azure Stack HCI 21H2 Released Download New Features and detailed some really nice enhancements. Let’s detail these. What is Azure Stack HCI? In case you haven’t heard of Azure Stack HCI, it is the…

  • Mount the boot.wim file to an empty mount folder

    Create Windows 11 ISO with No TPM Check

    The last few days have been spent with a lot of Windows 11 time. Many have had issues with the TPM check since the release of Windows 11 GA. The Preview Builds did not check for a proper TPM. However,…

  • Create the BypassTPMCheck DWORD entry

    Install Windows 11 without TPM Registry Hack

    With the release of Windows 11 to the masses as the GA release has landed, many are attempting to perform upgrades and clean installs of Windows 11 GA. However, if you are like me, you ran into issues with the…

  • This PC cant run Windows 11

    This PC can’t run Windows 11 in VMware Workstation

    Well, are you all excited to run Windows 11 now that it is released a day early? Your excitement may be quickly stifled by an error message that you may receive – This PC can’t run Windows 11. After I…

  • Deploy Windows 11 with MDT

    Deploy Windows 11 with MDT Download

    In the lab environment, I have been playing around with Windows 11 deployments and have started updating a few methods I use in the lab to deploy images of Windows 11. These tools include Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT). As a…

  • Is Hyper V Server released for download

    Is Hyper-V Server 2022 Released for Download?

    If you are like me, after the official release of Windows Server 2022, you may have been wondering about the story on Hyper-V Server 2022. Where is it? Why haven’t we really heard anything about it? Is Hyper-V Server 2022…

  • Windows Deployment Services PXE Boot Configuration

    Windows Deployment Services PXE Boot Configuration

    Most organizations have the need to have an automated way to deploy Windows images to clients. Instead of walking around with a USB key that clients must be booted from, using Preboot Execution Environment (PXE) is a great way to…