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home lab
Do You Really Need a Full-Sized Rack for Your Home Lab in 2025?
In 2025, home labs are more powerful and smaller than ever, thanks to mini PCs. Mini PCs with AMD Ryzen or Intel Core Ultra processors now have up to 32 threads or more and can…
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Virtualization
Install Xenserver 6.5 in VMware Workstation 12
Just a quick write up on how to install XenServer 6.5 in VMware Workstation 12 via nested virtualization. First things first, we…
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Computers
Updating vCenter VCSA and update manager to 6.0 U1b
Recently VMware released the U1b release of vSphere products. I wanted to post some quick notes and steps used to…
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ActiveDirectory
SQL Server Cannot generate SSPI context Multiple Domains
Recently in working with a multi domain environment, I ran into an issue involving SQL connectivity from a handful of client…
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Windows Server 2016
Add SMTP Windows Server 2016
Most may not realize that there is actually a free SMTP server builtin to Windows Server all the way back…
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Windows Server 2016
Windows Server 2016 Containers Basic Setup
If you would like to lab and play around with containers, there is a really great setup script and a…
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Virtualization
VMware vSphere 6 available memory resources in the parent resource pool are insufficient
Recently, I ran into an odd issue with a VM that was configured in a three node VMware vSphere 6…
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Networking
Sophos UTM allow Internet access additional vlans
Sophos UTM has plenty of features to protect your network, home network, or lab. Most likely if you are like…
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Networking
Change an existing Windows static route to persistent
So this is not something that you will find yourself doing terribly often – having to change an existing Windows…
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Networking
Mikrotik Setup Multiple Virtual APs and VLANs
Recently, I picked up a Mikrotik RB951G-2hnd for an additional AP to play around with in the lab and to…
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Software
Fix Office 2016 won’t launch
I decided to finally take the plunge and update my Office installation to Office 2016 Professional Plus. I have been…
