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  • Uncheck the automatic metric checkbox

    Windows 10 Network Adapter Order Configuration

    You may be in a position where you have multiple network adapters assigned to your Windows 10 workstation. You may need to connect to multiple physical network segments via Layer 2 instead of having your traffic routed. Things get tricky…

  • Adding a new VMswitch and network adapter using the Hyper V PowerShell cmdlets

    VLAN Tagging Software for Windows 10 without Proset drivers

    If you are like me, you may interact with multiple network segments and VLANS configured for different purposes. However, what if you have a workstation that is not configured with an Intel ProSet card with enterprise software that allows tagging…

  • New windows 11 startup logo

    Windows 11 Install in VMware vSphere

    So as most of you have heard the rumblings over the past few days, Microsoft has now officially announced Windows 11 at the special Windows event that happened today. There really was no speculation leading up to the event with…

  • Interacting with a running container in wsl 2 via docker desktop

    Install Docker on Windows Subsystem for Linux WSL 2 Windows 10

    Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is a great tool to have access to all your NIX tools and even run more Linux native solutions on the Windows platform. WSL 2 is the updated version of WSL with more features and…

  • Winget 1.0 upgrade command showing all available upgrades

    Install Winget 1.0 Windows 10 and upgrade all software

    Have you found yourself spending lots of time trying to keep your software on a management workstation up-to-date? If you are like me, you probably use a myriad of tools, software, utilities, tools, and many other things in your management…

  • The openssh server installation completes

    OpenSSH Server Windows 10 Install with Public Key authentication

    Remote connectivity to your Windows Servers is a prime capability that is required by administrators to be able to control, manage, and administer their environments. With Windows environments, I feel like most of us that remote command-line access is much…

  • Viewing the replication properties of a dns zone running in windows server

    Backup DNS Windows Server 2016 2019 and 2022

    DNS or Domain Naming System is the heart of everything we do, on the LAN, and on the Internet. It is the phone book that maps names to IP addresses so we don’t have to remember the numbers that represent…

  • Using powershell to patch hyper v critical remote code vulnerability

    Hyper-V Critical remote code execution vulnerability in May 2021 patch Tuesday

    The past few months from a security perspective have been a roller coaster of zero-day vulnerabilities and critical patches that have been needed to patch serious issues found across a wide range of Microsoft products and solutions. This has notably…

  • Windows server dhcp vlan scopes configured allocating ip addresses

    Windows Server DHCP VLAN Configuration: Detailed Guide

    Network segmentation is a great way to compartmentalize the various networks you need to run in your environment. This provides many benefits from both a management and security perspective. When segmenting your networks, one of the things that you have…

  • Ubuntu server cli cheat sheet

    Ubuntu Server CLI Cheat Sheet

    One of the beautiful things about Linux is the power of the Linux CLI. This is what draws many to Linux to begin with. Granted, Windows has come a long way since the introduction of PowerShell, and now especially with…