Brandon Lee

Brandon Lee is the Senior Writer, Engineer and owner at Virtualizationhowto.com, and a 7-time VMware vExpert, with over two decades of experience in Information Technology. Having worked for numerous Fortune 500 companies as well as in various industries, He has extensive experience in various IT segments and is a strong advocate for open source technologies. Brandon holds many industry certifications, loves the outdoors and spending time with family. Also, he goes through the effort of testing and troubleshooting issues, so you don't have to.

Windows 10

Brandon LeeJanuary 27, 2016
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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…
Security

Brandon LeeJanuary 25, 2016
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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…
Virtualization

Brandon LeeJanuary 21, 2016
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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…
Computers

Brandon LeeJanuary 21, 2016
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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…
ActiveDirectory

Brandon LeeJanuary 14, 2016
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SQL Server Cannot generate SSPI context Multiple Domains

Recently in working with a multi domain environment, I ran into an issue involving SQL connectivity from a handful of client computers to a certain SQL server. The errors involved SSPI context errors. In fact the exact error when trying to…
Windows Server 2016

Brandon LeeJanuary 13, 2016
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Add SMTP Windows Server 2016

Most may not realize that there is actually a free SMTP server builtin to Windows Server all the way back to Windows 2003 and is IIS 6 technology (I know, try to suppress your nausea). The SMTP server is a feature that…
Windows Server 2016

Brandon LeeJanuary 6, 2016
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Windows Server 2016 Containers Basic Setup

If you would like to lab and play around with containers, there is a really great setup script and a few easy steps you can follow to get a copy of Windows Server 2016 TP 4 setup with containers working.…
Virtualization

Brandon LeeDecember 30, 2015
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VMware vSphere 6 available memory resources in the parent resource pool are insufficient

Recently, I ran into an odd issue with a VM that was configured in a three node VMware vSphere 6 cluster. The cluster housed about 30 other VMs that were functioning properly and had no issues. After powering off one…
Networking

Brandon LeeDecember 22, 2015
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Sophos UTM allow Internet access additional vlans

Sophos UTM has plenty of features to protect your network, home network, or lab. Most likely if you are like me you are running multiple VLANs in your environment. If you want these VLANs/subnets to also have Internet access, there…
Networking

Brandon LeeDecember 18, 2015
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Change an existing Windows static route to persistent

So this is not something that you will find yourself doing terribly often – having to change an existing Windows static route to persistent. However, if you have the need to add a persistent route in Windows and you didn’t…