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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
How to enable thinprint VMware Workstation 12
Since VMware Workstation 12 has all but eliminated the problems I was having with the VMware workstation console interfacing with…
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ActiveDirectory
Monitor Account Lockouts Active Directory
One of the time wasters of a system administrator can be chasing down account lockouts and why they happen. Many…
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Virtualization
How to Upgrade to VMware Workstation 12 Pro
I use VMware workstation daily in my work environment for segmenting administrative traffic from Internet browsing, as well as to…
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Virtualization
Equallogic SAN basic initial iSCSI setup
Recently, I configured a couple of Dell Equallogic SANs for two different VMware environments and I wanted to pass along…
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Security
Secure SSH with Public Key Authentication and Two Factor with Duo
If you want the ultimate in security for your SSH enabled Linux box that is sitting in the DMZ or…
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Powershell
Powershell if equals and not null
A while back, I wrote a blog post about using Powershell to email notify you if your home IP address…
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Windows
Create a Windows SXS install share
If you find yourself spinning up many Windows Server VMs like I do, you may not want to sit and…
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Virtualization
AppAssure vCenter Permissions for Exporting Virtual Standby VMs
In working recently with AppAssure in exporting VMs for Virtual Standby purposes, I found a lack of documentation in AppAssure…
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Security
Sophos XG UTM firewall virtual appliance install and configure
So the other day I received the announcement from Sophos they had released their “next generation” firewall appliance that would…
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Virtualization
Can’t remove permissions from vCenter Server VCSA 6
Recently, I came across a weird issue with permissions in vCenter. A list of user permissions were displayed within vCenter…
