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Windows Server 2016
Windows Server Technical Preview 2 Soft Reboot
One of the highly anticipated features of the next Server OS from Microsoft is the soft reboot feature which allows for a soft reboot of services and the shell instead of having to reboot an entire server through POST, RAID adapter post,…
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Windows Server 2016
Windows Server Technical Preview 2 No GUI
For those of you like me who jumped on the opportunity to snag a copy of the new Server Technical preview which is most likely going to be Windows Server 2016 or similar, there is a noticeable departure from previous…
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Hyper-V
Installing and managing Hyper-V in VMware Workstation 11
If you want to use VMware workstation to play around with Hyper-V or create a Hyper-V lab, this is fairly easy to get up and running. Let’s take a look at installing and managing Hyper-V in VMware Workstation 11. Creating…
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Security
Sophos false positive C2/Generic-A alerts
I wanted to put this out there to you guys and see if anyone else had a round of Sophos false positive C2/Generic-A alerts yesterday or the last couple of days with Sophos Advanced Threat Protection identifying a C2/Generic-A threat. The…
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vSphere 6
Lab Deploy VCSA with Embedded Platform Services Controller
In building my most recent VMware lab inside of VMware workstation, I wanted to deploy the VCSA 6.0 with Embedded Platform Services Controller and step you guys through the process along with a few issues and gotchas along the way.…
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vSphere 6
Lightweight DNS Server for VMware Lab
For those of you who are building and working with your own VMware labs and using either physical home lab hardware or maybe using VMware workstation to setup your nested VMware lab, you most likely will be in need of…
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vSphere 6
FreeNAS Change IP Address on iSCSI target VMware ESXi 6
FreeNAS is one of the easiest and coolest virtual SAN appliances out there for use with VMware and other Hypervisor labs. If you have FreeNAS already setup and running with a VMware lab, you may at some point due to…
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Virtualization
VMTurbo Free Virtual Environment Monitoring and Operations Management
Many may be looking for free virtual environment monitoring and operations management. There is a great solution out there in VMTurbo which is a free signup and download. It provides an amazing set of functionality especially for free. Once you…
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Security
Installing MS15-034 Reboot Required
With the recent security alert concerning the “bluescreen of death” bug in Windows IIS servers from II7 and higher being affected, many are scrambling to hit maintenance windows to install the update to make sure their IIS server is secure.…
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vSphere 6
How to update an ESXi 6.0 host from commandline
The process of updating an ESXi 6.0 host from commandline is a very painless operation. Especially if you have a standalone host and don’t have access to VUM for updates, this procedure works well for me to get the latest updates, and…
