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.

Virtualization

Brandon LeeAugust 28, 2014
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Apply Latest Patches to standalone Dell Customized ESXi 5.5 host

In spinning up a new environment recently for a client, we wanted to get the hosts to the latest patch level. We didn’t have local VUM in place or even vCenter for that matter. All three hosts were running the…
Security

Brandon LeeJuly 29, 2014
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The safer way to lock your Windows computer

How many times have all of us walked away from our workstations thinking that the CTRL+ALT+DELETE and then ENTER keystrokes we entered successfully locked our workstations only to come back and find that we were too fast for Windows and…
Software

Brandon LeeJuly 22, 2014
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Use WinSCP commandline to copy from Windows to Linux

WinSCP is a great Windows GUI utility to copy files to and from Linux boxes, but many don’t know about the powerful WinSCP commandline functionality that are extremely useful to setup jobs to periodically copy files from Windows over to…
Windows 8

Brandon LeeJuly 16, 2014
3 11,767

MySQL Workbench won’t launch Windows 8.1

I ran into a pesky issue the other day using MySQL workbench where the program itself simply would not launch. I could see the process running in Task manager in Windows, however, nothing would ever display, no errors, etc. It…
Windows 8

Brandon LeeJuly 2, 2014
5 4,163

Make TSADMIN.MSC work in Windows 8.1

So if you are an admin and have migrated your administrator workstation over to Windows 8 or Windows 8.1 lately, you may run into a frustration if you are used to managing your Remote Desktop Services from your administrative workstation…
Windows 8

Brandon LeeJuly 1, 2014
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Makewinpemedia Diskpart Format ErrorLevel -2147212243

In working with Windows 8.1 WADK in a client environment recently, the need arose to create a USB key to boot from for PE environment on a workstation. There is a new command in the WADK Deployment and Imaging Tools environment…
SQL

Brandon LeeJune 24, 2014
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SQL Windows Authentication can’t login to SSMS locally

Recently, a client was experiencing a really weird issue where they could connect to a recently built SQL server using SQL Server Management Studio loaded on remote workstations, however, they could not login to the console of the server or…
Servers

Brandon LeeJune 20, 2014
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SQL Server Firewall and performance tweaks

Everyone, I wanted to pass along a few Windows firewall tweaks that I have found useful with building a SQL server on Windows 2008 server or higher. The following simple tweaks can really help with issues you may see involving…
Software

Brandon LeeJune 17, 2014
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How to troubleshoot Dell Open Manage Essentials connecting to your servers

So recently, I decided to setup a Dell Open Manage Essentials server in an environment running many Dell devices. Most of the servers in the environment were already installed with the Open Manage Server Administrator (OMSA) software, so this made…
Windows 8

Brandon LeeMay 19, 2014
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Install .Net Framework in Windows 8 or 8.1 offline without Internet

You may have encountered an issue with installing .NET framework feature in Windows 8 or 8.1 where the installer simply fails with the error 0x800f0906 which alludes to a problem with an Internet connection however it could be WSUS related as well…

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