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DevOps
Terraform for Azure Tutorial
Modernizing the way IT operations is able to provision, manage, and provide the needed resources for development necessitates the need to automate processes. This is especially true in cloud environments like Microsoft Azure. Terraform is gaining wide adoption as the…
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Windows Admin Center
Windows Admin Center New Active Directory Extension
Remember the Active Directory Administrative Center? If you are like me, you didn’t really see many across the enterprise make use of the “next-generation” of Active Directory management. However, there is a new Active Directory Administrative Center that I would…
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Azure
Sync On-Premises AD with Azure AD using Azure AD Connect
Microsoft has had an evolution of tools over the past few years that allows syncing on-premises Active Directory users with their Azure AD cloud directory service. This has include the legacy Forefront Identity Management product, DirSync, and others. Now, the…
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Virtualization
Free Tools to Convert VHD to VMDK and Vice Versa
There are many different hypervisors that are used out in various production environments and you may even be using more than one in your environments. Even though hypervisors generally work in very similar ways between the different hypervisor vendors, this…
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Azure
What is Azure Arc Management and Governance?
One of the major announcements coming from Microsoft’s Ignite conference was the introduction of Azure Arc. This announcement is especially interesting to those that are looking to consolidate management, governance, and security of their Windows, Linux, and Kubernetes workloads across…
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Azure
Azure VM Security Best Practices
As you migrate your workloads to a Microsoft IaaS environment, you will want to give due attention to your security posture in Microsoft Azure. There are many considerations you will want to make when looking at your Azure VM security…
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VMware
ESXi 6.7 Free Limitations and Features
One of the great options provide by VMware with the ESXi hypervisor today is the ability to download a free version of ESXi. There are many great things this allows you to do as a customer, an individual, a business,…
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Cloud
Backup OneDrive for Business with Vembu v2.0
As more and more businesses migrate their data to the cloud and cloud Software-as-a-Service solutions, cloud backups are becoming increasingly important. In fact, as soon as your data lands in the cloud environment, you need to have a means to…
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Security
Hypervisor Security Best Practices
When it comes to today’s modern infrastructures, most if not all are running some type of hypervisor powered virtual environment in some part of their organization. Virtualization has opened many possibilities for new features and capabilities when it comes to…
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Azure
Azure Stack HCI Deployment with New Cluster Creation Extension
Microsoft is certainly serious about Windows Admin Center. With Windows Admin Center 1910, there have been many great new features introduced as part of the newest version of the WAC tool. Part of what Microsoft is trying to achieve with…
