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Computers
Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V Versions
Microsoft’s Hyper-V hypervisor has definitely seen an uptick in adoption with more enterprise ready features with each version. Windows Server 2016 is the most capable and fully featured release to date and it certainly has matured from the early days…
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vSphere 6.5
Update VMware ESXi 6.0 to 6.5 with PowerCLI
There are a number of different ways to get your VMware ESXi 6.0 hosts upgraded to ESXi 6.5. We have covered some of them in previous articles. However, let’s take a quick look at utilizing PowerCLI for this task with…
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Cloud Software
Spinbackup G Suite Backup and Security Configuration
Cloud security is on everyone’s minds these days. As we covered in the first part of our two-part post, Spinbackup is a phenomenal product that protects organizations running Google G Suite in their environment. Just to review, it is a…
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Powershell
Use Git with Visual Studio Code
Visual Studio Code is a great PowerShell development platform and since moving off of PowerShell ISE, I can say that I haven’t really looked back since making the move. Visual Studio Code provides tight integration with Git so it is…
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vSphere Integrated Containers
Installing VMware vSphere Integrated Containers Part 1
For those used to working with VMware vSphere virtual machines in the enterprise datacenter, VMware makes the same tooling and interface experience available working with Docker containers in vSphere Integrated Containers or VIC. The really cool thing is that vSphere…
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VMware
Runecast Analyzer VMware Best Practices new REST API Integration
As we have covered before, Runcast Analyzer for VMware vSphere is a tremendously powerful product to ensure the health and to automate best practices discovery for your environment. Runecast continues to show they are forward thinking with the inclusion of…
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Cloud Software
Spinbackup G Suite Security and Backup Installation
In today’s world, most organizations are utilizing the public cloud for at least some aspect of their infrastructure. Cloud resources allow organizations to be more agile and move quickly without the limits of procuring and provisioning hardware, network, and other…
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VMware
What is VMware Photon OS?
Today most vendors are putting a lot of emphasis on “cloud native” applications. Cloud native applications are geared toward containers and containerized applications. This makes possible running microservices inside containers with the ability to function in cloud computing environments and…
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Azure
Configure Meraki to Azure Site to Site VPN
Lately, I have been playing around a lot with Azure as there is a lot of momentum, development, and enthusiasm around the platform. Since I run the Meraki MX security device at home, I wanted to play around with the…
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VDI
Powerful remote PC and thin client management with Praim ThinMan
In our previous post looking at how to automate and repurpose old PCs into Thin Client VDI devices, we looked at both Praim ThinOX4PC and ThinMan. In that post, we took a high-level view of Praim ThinMan and its capabilities. …
