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How to transfer files between computers
Most families own a computer this day and time. The computer is becoming a staple appliance in the home and many families are using computers to accomplish more and more tasks. Computers have become an…
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Azure Stack HCI
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…
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Windows Server 2016
Windows Server 2016 Install Remote Desktop Services
This year has been a year like none other with organizations scrambling to bolster their remote work infrastructure. It has…
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Windows Server 2019
Windows Server 2019 Core Install Active Directory
Windows Server Core has been around since Windows Server 2008. It has not been the most popular way however to…
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Windows Server 2021
Windows Server 2021 vs Windows Server 2019
***Update*** – The next version of Windows is Windows Server 2022 and not 2021. See below. Recently we took a…
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VMware
iSCSI Synology VMware Configuration step-by-step
One of the lab additions made in the past couple of weeks is a new Synology DS1621xs+ 6-bay NAS device.…
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vSphere 7
SD Card and USB boot no longer supported in ESXi easy migration to SSD
Recently there have been a few blogs and KB that have caught my attention. VMware has now deprecated SD Card…
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VMware
iSCSI Synology VMware Configuration step-by-step
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ESXi on ARM
Add iSCSI Shared Storage to VMware ESXi-Arm
One of the exciting things in the home lab as of late is the ESXi-ARM fling that I have installed…
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Horizon View
Upgrade VMware Horizon 7.x Connection Servers to Horizon 8 2111
VMware Horizon 8 2111 is hot off the press from VMware and no doubt organizations are looking at a maintenance…
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Automation
VMware Event Broker Appliance VEBA tutorial: How to create an email notification
Among the really cool projects I have stood up in the lab as of recently is the VMware Event Broker…
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Security
Patch two new Active Directory privilege escalation bugs
If Log4j wasn’t enough, Microsoft has upped the alert on two new Active Directory bugs that now have a PoC…
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Software Defined Storage
DIY fibre channel SAN with High Availability using StarWind VSAN
Many organizations have long used fibre channel as their preferred storage platform of choice. While iSCSI and other protocols have…
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Cloud
Spin.ai cloud cybersecurity and ransomware protection new features
Today, cybersecurity is crucially important for organizations and their business-critical data. In the olden days, security was an afterthought and…
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Networking
Change ESXi Management IP Address and VLAN on vSphere Distributed Switches VDS
As I have posted the last few days, I have been undertaking some home lab network redesign and moving a…
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NSX-T
VMware NSX-T 3.2 Released New Features
There is arguably not another software-defined networking solution that has had the impact of VMware NSX. It has revolutionized the…
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