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Windows
Access local drives in an RDP session
I see many admins and developers struggling with the RDP environment trying to copy files to a location where they have access to the files in the RDP session and their host workstation. Â Many even create shares and exceptions in…
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Windows
Windows 10 Security concerns already
The story broke before the weekend as reported among others by the Hacker News about Windows 10 Preview having a keylogger to spy on your activities.  It seems that Microsoft may be taking its technical preview to the next level of…
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Virtualization
Installing vSphere Update Manager 5.5 update 2 and configuration
Maintaining and deploying patches and updates throughout any environment can take a lot of heavy lifting by administrators. Â VMware environments need to be patched and updated along with other OS environments in any enterprise environment. Â While updates can be manually…
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Security
Install Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit EMET for better security
In this day and age of high profile exploits in the news involving businesses that we all know and use, digital security is more on the minds of everyone now than ever before. Â While there isn’t anything we as consumers…
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Computers
Performance Tweaks VMware Workstation 10
For those of you who use VMware workstation 10 in running VMs on your desktop or laptop computer, you may have noticed that in certain situations or conditions things may get a bit sluggish when your workstation is under load…
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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 green bar showing on all names. Â The company had all…
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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 and greatest functionality in their VMware environment. Â Below we will…
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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. Â With a welcomed focus back on the desktop OS and the…
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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 restore a VMware VM back to the environment.  The first…
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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). Â If you have setup a workstation at home or at…
