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Virtualization
Deploy Dell Virtual Storage Manager 4.5.2 in vCenter
For those of you who don’t know or haven’t seen the Dell Virtual Storage Manager (VSM) appliance, it is a virtual appliance provided by Dell which extends the functionality of vCenter to have better control and functionality over their EqualLogic environment. Including…
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Virtualization
VMware create and restore group snapshots multiple VMs at once
If you have a lab environment or other “application stack” specific multiple VMs, there can arise the need to create and restore snapshots in unison or in a “group” fashion. This is easily accomplished with PowerCLI. Also, in playing around…
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Networking
Force the primary outgoing IP address Windows Server 2012 R2
In working recently with a web server that also has a basic SMTP engine loaded as well, I ran into an issue with the mail server outbound mail queue stacking up after making a reverse DNS change with the ISP.…
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Security
Install and configure EMET 5.5 Windows 10
Recently, Microsoft released the official support version of Enhanced Mitigation and Experience Tookit or EMET version 5.5. Per Microsoft: “The Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) helps raise the bar against attackers gaining access to computer systems. EMET anticipates the most…
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Software
Make Outlook 2016 unread messages easier to see
After recently upgrading to Office 2016, one of the first products that I wanted to test drive was Outlook 2016 as email is a crucial part of the day, every day. In general I like Outlook 2016 and some of…
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Networking
Meraki MS220-8P unboxing and initial setup
Recently, I was excited to get my hands on a new Meraki MS220-8P cloud switch. So I wanted to go through some of the unboxing highlights as well as some of the initial setup and configuration steps to get the…
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Windows 10
Windows 10 Networking Powershell commandlets
With Windows 10 we have all the goodness of powershell baked into the operating system and with that, there are several really great powershell commandlets that can be used to take control of the networking components of your Windows 10…
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Security
Sophos UTM setup public key authentication for root
A quick how to post on how to setup public key authentication for root in Sophos UTM 9.x. If you want to enable root to have SSH access inside of Sophos UTM, you are required to setup public key authentication…
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Virtualization
Install Xenserver 6.5 in VMware Workstation 12
Just a quick write up on how to install XenServer 6.5 in VMware Workstation 12 via nested virtualization. First things first, we have to setup our nested virtual machine that will house the Xenserver 6.5 hypervisor in VMware Workstation. For the Guest…
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Computers
Updating vCenter VCSA and update manager to 6.0 U1b
Recently VMware released the U1b release of vSphere products. I wanted to post some quick notes and steps used to update a vCenter 6.0 U1a release to U1b revision level. What is contained in this release? A few of the…
