Windows Server
Windows Server 2022 with Azure Network Adapter
It has been quite some time since I have written about the Azure Network Adapter. This is a feature that is exposed in Windows Admin Center managed…
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Articles
Linux Thin Client OS for remote workers with Praim Agile4Linux
In this past year and a half, organizations have been required to use new solutions to empower remote employees to communicate, collaborate, and ac…
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Articles
Install Jenkins on Ubuntu 21.04 with Self-signed SSL certificate
There are many great platforms out there that provide automation server capabilities, including making use of CI/CD pipelines. Many familiar names …
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VMware
Patch vCenter Server Critical Security Bug CVE-2021-22005 Download
Security concerns related to our VMware vSphere environments keep us up at night, and with good reason. Critical security bugs that affect your hyp…
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Windows Server
Windows Server 2022 Install with MDT
There are many ways to install Windows Server 2022 in the enterprise. However, for most, you will want to have an automated deployment of the Windo…
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Articles
StarWind Backup Appliance (BA) with NVMe Storage performance
Data backups are the most crucial part of any disaster recovery plan and are essential to recovering data to your environment after a disaster or r…
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Windows 10
Configure Windows 365 Enterprise Cloud PC step-by-step
Many organizations are looking at VDI these days. Windows 365 Enterprise may be a great fit for many organizations looking for a hosted VDI solutio…
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Windows 10
Windows Deployment Services PXE Boot Configuration
Most organizations have the need to have an automated way to deploy Windows images to clients. Instead of walking around with a USB key that client…
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Office
Office 365 Ransomware protection with SpinOne New Features
Companies are moving to the cloud in drove for housing many business-critical processes, including employee collaboration and productivity tools. T…
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Windows Server
Download and Install Windows Server 2022 GA
Well it is finally official. After months of waiting and using the Preview release of Windows Server 2022, the final GA bits have arrived. Windows S…
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Office
5 Common Office 365 Backup Mistakes and How to Solve Them
Migrating to the cloud is a topic that most businesses are in the middle of, if not already there. The pandemic has pushed businesses to find new w…
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Hyper v
Is Hyper-V Server 2022 Released for Download?
If you are like me, after the official release of Windows Server 2022, you may have been wondering about the story on Hyper-V Server 2022. Where is…
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VMware
VMware vSphere with Tanzu Kubernetes Home Lab
In my opinion, there is no better way to learn any technology than getting your “hands dirty” and playing around with it – installing, configuring, a…
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Articles
Cameyo Introduces Secure Cloud Tunneling for Remote Workers
Remote access technologies widely used today were originally built for remote access in a different time – prev-COVID, pre-ransomware, pre-security c…
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VMware
Shut down vSphere with Tanzu
As with all VMware environments with various solutions layered on top of the core vSphere infrastructure, there is an order of operations. This order…
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Articles
Vembu BDR Suite v5.0 Released for Download – New Features
The data protection space for enterprise workloads is a crowded one with many different solutions for businesses to choose from. Many of the backup s…
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Articles
Does Cloud Backup Protect Against Ransomware?
As businesses aggressively move to the cloud for housing business-critical data, the cloud is becoming a target for hackers launching ransomware …
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Office
Windows 365 Provisioning Business vs Enterprise Cloud PCs Overview
Windows 365 is a brand new offering from Microsoft that you have no doubt heard about. Microsoft is trying to capitalize on the new way employees a…
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Windows 10
PowerShell IP Geolocation based on State
I have been revisiting a few things in the lab environment, including monitoring and other alerting that I have had set for a while. I had an outsi…
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Articles
Find AWS RDS Internal IP Address with PowerShell
Amazon AWS has a wide range of services that many organizations today are making use of. One of those is Amazon RDS. Amazon provides a customized e…
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VMware
IPMI Monitoring Supermicro VMware Servers with PRTG
If you are like me, you may be a bit of a monitoring geek when it comes to your home lab and production environments. Proper monitoring can help t…
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Articles
Five Tips to Protect Backups from Ransomware
All too often we hear the breaking news of a major ransomware attack shutting down the services of a major company. Alarmingly, it is becoming even…
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Office
Pros and cost of cloud vs onprem Microsoft 365 backup
Businesses today are migrating to cloud Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offerings in droves. Businesses require moving at a rapid pace and cloud inf…
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Office
Microsoft Office 365 Retention policy vs Backup
Many organizations today have migrated their business-critical data to the Microsoft Office 365 (Microsoft 365) cloud. This past year or so has pro…
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Directory
Mobile E-Commerce (M-Commerce)
Mobile e-commerce (m-commerce) is a term that describes online sales transactions that use wireless electronic devices such as hand-held computers,…
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Directory
Near Field Communication Tag (NFC Tag)
A near field communication tag (NFC tag) is a sticker or wristband with small microchips that can be read by in range mobile devices. Information i…
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Windows 10
Connect to Windows 365 Cloud PC with RDP
Windows 365 Cloud PC is a new VDI offering from Microsoft that allows businesses to have a simple and seamless way to easily provision desktop PC f…
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VMware
ESXi Install Disk not detecting HDD
Have you been in a situation where you are installing a brand new VMware ESXi host, and when you get to the point of the installer scanning for the…
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Articles
NAKIVO Backup and Replication v10.4 GA Released for Download
Not long ago, we covered the release of NAKIVO Backup & Replication v10.4 Beta which contained great new features in the realm of cybersecurity…
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VMware
VMware Horizon Client Error Couldn’t Connect to Server
Many organizations are making use of VMware Horizon as the solution to enable a successful, effective, and efficient remote work environment. VMwar…
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Articles
Backup Microsoft Teams Chat with Afi
Since the beginning of last year, cloud adoption has surged with organizations feeling the pressure to enable remote workers with the tools and sol…
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Directory
Ubuntu Cloud
Ubuntu cloud is an online platform that is designed to allow users to create their own private or public cloud infrastructure. Ubuntu cloud users can…
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Directory
Self-Supervised Learning (SSL)
Self-supervised learning (SSL) is an approach to machine learning allows machine learning algorithms to use observed inputs to predict unknown inputs…
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Directory
Directory
Non-Fungible Token (NFT)
A non-fungible token (NFT) is a programmable unit of unique data that cannot be changed once it has been recorded in a distributed ledger . Because N…
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Directory
Distributed Cloud
Distributed cloud is a business model that extends a public cloud provider’s infrastructure and services to geographically distributed satellite lo…
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Directory
Google FLoC (Federated Learning of Cohorts)
FLoC (Federated Learning of Cohorts) is an alternative to third-party cookies that Google rolled out to a small number of Chrome users beginning in…
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Articles
Kubernetes Ubuntu 20.04 Setup: Step-by-step Cluster Configuration
You may be at the point in your learning, lab environment, or even a production environment where you are ready to setup Kubernetes. Ubuntu is arg…
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Windows 10
Windows 10 Network Ethernet 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 phy…
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Articles
PowerShell Script workaround for SeriousSAM and HiveNightmare Vulnerability
There are many who are looking at ways to automate the process to apply the currently recommended remediation using a script. With Windows, PowerSh…
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Windows Server
Download and Install Windows Server 2022 Core Features on Demand (FoD)
There are a couple of things that I think are game changers with the Windows Server Core version of Windows Server 2019 and the very soon to be GA Wi…
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Directory
Federated Identity Manager
Federated Identity Manager (FIM) is a system that assists in managing identities and providing access to resources across different security domain…
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Windows Server
Install Windows Server 2022 Core
Windows Server 2022 is the next version of the Windows Server operating system. It is in the RTM phase currently and is soon to be released as GA. …
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Directory
Universal Coded Character Set
The Universal Coded Character Set (UCS) is a character encoding standard defined by ISO/IEC 10646. It is a standard set of characters which are use…
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VMware
VMware Home Lab Network Design
Many of us run VMware home labs and these no doubt have many different architectures and hardware configurations across the entire landscape, and t…
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Directory
Unicode Transformation Format (UTF)
The Unicode Transformation Format (UTF) is a character encoding format which is able to encode all of the possible character code points in Unicode…
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Windows 10
Check Windows 10 for SeriousSAM and HiveNightmare Vulnerability Fix
Well, it has been quite a year so far in many ways. Including the fun we have had as system administrators is the seemingly record number of zero-d…
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Directory
Federated Network Identity
A federated network identity is a scheme permitting multiple digital identifications through a single login. As a type of identity architecture, a …
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VMware
vSAN Lab on VMware Workstation: Step-by-Step
Home labs comes in many shapes and sizes. One of the first types of labs that many are able to invest in is running VMware Workstation on top of a …
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Directory
Keyword Stuffing
Keyword stuffing refers to the practice of inserting many instances of particular keywords into Web content to try to get better search engine rank…
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Windows Server
DNS Conditional Forwarder Multiple Internal Domains Setup
I do a lot of work in the home lab environment and this includes building up Active Directory domains for various types of testing and building out…
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VMware
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 workst…
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Articles
Runecast Analyzer 5.1 Adds Remediation and Config Vault
As I have mentioned in numerous blog posts posted here on VHT, Runecast is arguably one of the best tools that you can have in your data center, …
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Directory
Degenerate Strategy
A degenerate strategy is a way of playing a video game that exploits an oversight in gameplay mechanics or design. Degenerate strategies apply to p…
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Articles
NAKIVO Backup and Replication v10.4 Beta Released with New Features
Malware and specifically ransomware are getting more sophisticated and crafty in locking up your data AND deleting your backups. In fact, there are…
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Articles
Kubernetes LXC Containers Configuration – Lab Setup
Building out a Kubernetes lab is a great way to learn the technology. I am a huge advocate of lab environments. Building out a Kubernetes lab can m…
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Directory
Real-Time Strategy (RTS)
Real-time strategy (RTS) refers to a time-based video game that centers around using resources to build units and defeat an opponent. Real-time str…
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VMware
[Virtual server name] could not initialize. An attempt to read or update virtual machine configuration failed
An error occurred while attempting to start the selected virtual machines after a restore operation. Symptoms Symptom 1: You may receive …
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Directory
Texture Element (Texel)
A texture element (texel) is the basic unit of texture space that is used in computer graphics. An array of texels make up a texture, lust like a p…
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Directory
Hyperconverged Infrastructure
A hyperconverged infrastructure is an infrastructure model that utilizes a software-centric architecture and has a tight integration with the stora…
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Windows 10
How to Create a Kiosk Computer Windows 10
If you have been to an airport, bank, or mall and used a special-purpose computer that allows you to do a specific task such as check-in for your…
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Directory
Superconverged Cloud Infrastructure
A superconverged cloud infrastructure, or superconvergence, is an approach to IT resources that integrates network, storage, compute, virtualizatio…
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Directory
Quality of Storage Service (QoSS)
A quality of storage service (QoSS) is a service that is geared toward accommodating disk storage by optimizing a storage system. The quality of st…
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Articles
LXC container management GUI installation and configuration
Lately, I have been playing around a lot with Kubernetes in the lab and containers in general. I have been using full Ubuntu 20.04 virtual machines…
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Directory
Kerr Effect
The Kerr effect is a phenomenon in which the refractive index of a material changes because of an applied electrical field, and the change in the r…
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Directory
Silicon photonics
Silicon photonics is the innovative study and application of photonic systems for generating, processing, manipulating and otherwise using light fo…
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Directory
Nanophotonics
Nanophotonics refers to the use of light in nanoscale projects. This field is associated with some specific breakthroughs in using light in new tec…
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Articles
Linux DevOps tools: Building Linux Infrastructure as Code Workstation
I have been doing quite a bit of DevOps work the past few months and have found myself working with Linux tools more and more. With this being sa…
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VMware
Fix vSAN Build Recommendation Alarm vSAN Release Catalog Up-to-Date
For those of you running VMware vSAN environments, have you seen a pesky error on your vSAN cluster referencing a vSAN Build Recommendation Alarm v…
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Articles
Kubernetes Dashboard Helm installation and configuration
Many are starting their journey working with Kubernetes aside from myself. I have been playing around a lot with Kubernetes in the home lab and els…
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Windows 10
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 …
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Windows Server
Install kubectl on Windows and Create Kubeconfig File
I have been working with Kubernetes quite a bit lately playing around with the lab environment and learning the ins and outs of connecting to and w…
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Articles
Cameyo Launches Artificial Intelligence AI Platform for Virtual Application Delivery
This day and age is all about the applications. The cloud-driven era has allowed businesses to move quickly and with tremendous agility. Over the…
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VMware
Avi Load Balancer VMware Standalone Install
The “software-defined” revolution has transformed just about every area of the data center in the past few years. One of the latecomers to the game…
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VMware
Kubernetes Home Lab Setup Step-by-Step
Have you wanted to get a Kubernetes Home lab setup to start learning Kubernetes? It can be an intimidating subject if you simply start Googling aro…
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Windows 10
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 plat…
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Articles
Recovering from Ransomware in 2021
Ransomware is a terrifying thought for business-critical data. It seems like new reports, television news spots, Internet ads, and others are lit…
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Windows 10
How to export to .stl and .obj in Paint 3D?
In order to export your Paint 3D project to a .stl or .obj formats that are compatible with 3D printers, you will need to download and install …
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Windows 10
How to convert OBJ to FBX using Paint 3D in Windows 10
Steps to convert a 3D model from OBJ to FBX format using the Paint 3D app in Windows 10. OBJ is a 3D file format developed by Wavefront Technolo…
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Windows 10
Fix Blue Screen on Windows 10 - FAT FILE SYSTEM (fastfat.sys)
The FAT_FILE_SYSTEM bug check has a value of 0x00000023. This indicates that a problem occurred in the FAT file system. You may see FAT FILE SYSTEM …
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Windows 10
How to enable or disable Greeting on Edge browser in Windows 10
When you open Microsoft Edge on your Windows 10 computer you’ll notice at the upper left part of the browser, depending on the time of the day, a…
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Directory
What Does Internet Exchange Point (IXP) Mean?
An internet exchange point (IXP) is a physical network access point through which major network providers connect their networks and exchange traffic…
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Directory
What Does Network Access Point (NAP) Mean?
A network access point (NAP) is a major point where internet service providers (ISPs) can connect with one another in peering arrangements. NAPs were…
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Windows Server
In-Place Upgrade Windows Server 2008 R2 to Windows Server 2022
With the upcoming release of Windows Server 2022 , many are going to be contemplating upgrading to the latest and greatest Microsoft Windows Server…
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VMware
Best Practices to backup VMware vSphere Virtual Machines
While containers and containerized workloads are certainly gaining momentum with organizations redesigning business-critical applications for the f…
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Windows 10
How To Fix Error "Can’t Connect To This Network On Windows 10"
Reasons unable to connect to WiFi networks- Incorrect IP & DNS address. WiFi services Disabled. Different types of malware attack. Network drive…
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Articles
Run Docker Containers from Visual Studio Code
Containers are becoming more relevant to what everyone is doing these days in the enterprise. Businesses are developing microservice architectures …
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Windows 10
FIX: OneDrive error code 0x8004de40
Users getting the error message connecting to OneDrive 0x8004de40 while trying to log in to their OneDrive desktop client. Solve this annoyin…
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Articles
How to use iPerf to test Internet Speed
It is important to check your Internet speed as you want to make sure you get what you pay for in terms of bandwidth. Residential connections are ge…
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Windows 10
How To Fix ” This Copy of Windows Is Not Genuine” Error
There are certain ways to make Windows 7 genuine again. Here you will see some real ways to fix this issue without using any crack like KMS Pico. T…
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