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 LeeDecember 10, 2015
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How to enable thinprint VMware Workstation 12

Since VMware Workstation 12 has all but eliminated the problems I was having with the VMware workstation console interfacing with my VMs, I have since moved back to using the console in the dual screen mode which is nice. Before…
ActiveDirectory

Brandon LeeDecember 8, 2015
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Monitor Account Lockouts Active Directory

One of the time wasters of a system administrator can be chasing down account lockouts and why they happen. Many administrators have felt the pain of parsing through logs, etc to try and figure out what is going on with…
Virtualization

Brandon LeeDecember 2, 2015
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How to Upgrade to VMware Workstation 12 Pro

I use VMware workstation daily in my work environment for segmenting administrative traffic from Internet browsing, as well as to test new OS’es and other configuration lab work. I have been using Workstation 11 for quite some time now and…
Virtualization

Brandon LeeNovember 25, 2015
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Equallogic SAN basic initial iSCSI setup

Recently, I configured a couple of Dell Equallogic SANs for two different VMware environments and I wanted to pass along to you guys the steps required to stand up a new Equallogic environment as well as tweaks made to the…
Security

Brandon LeeNovember 23, 2015
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Secure SSH with Public Key Authentication and Two Factor with Duo

If you want the ultimate in security for your SSH enabled Linux box that is sitting in the DMZ or in a 1-to-1 NAT scenario, you can basically have 3 factor authentication setup for your SSH enabled server by using…
Powershell

Brandon LeeNovember 19, 2015
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Powershell if equals and not null

A while back, I wrote a blog post about using Powershell to email notify you if your home IP address changes if you are dynamically assigned an IP from your ISP. However, I wanted to write a quick post about…
Windows

Brandon LeeNovember 16, 2015
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Create a Windows SXS install share

If you find yourself spinning up many Windows Server VMs like I do, you may not want to sit and wait for your Windows Server 2012 R2 VM to download the .NET package that you are trying to install with…
Virtualization

Brandon LeeNovember 13, 2015
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AppAssure vCenter Permissions for Exporting Virtual Standby VMs

In working recently with AppAssure in exporting VMs for Virtual Standby purposes, I found a lack of documentation in AppAssure or on the net surrounding permissions required in vCenter to export VMs as Virtual Standbys. I wanted to share with…
Security

Brandon LeeNovember 11, 2015
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Sophos XG UTM firewall virtual appliance install and configure

So the other day I received the announcement from Sophos they had released their “next generation” firewall appliance that would be providing the way forward for current 9.x users. Sophos did mention they are keeping both code branches however and…
Virtualization

Brandon LeeNovember 5, 2015
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Can’t remove permissions from vCenter Server VCSA 6

Recently, I came across a weird issue with permissions in vCenter. A list of user permissions were displayed within vCenter server of users from a trusted domain that had permissions to the server. However, we wanted to removed those permissions…