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.

Networking

Brandon LeeApril 14, 2015
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Good VMware Home Lab Switch

Recently, I was looking to snag a really good VMware home lab switch for a couple of hosts and shared storage to replace an aging run of the mill HP switch I had been using for years. I wanted something that…
SQL

Brandon LeeApril 9, 2015
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Windows Server 2012 Failover Cluster SQL 2012 SSL configuration

A project recently had me working on Windows Server 2012 Failover Cluster SQL 2012 SSL configuration for an international company who had recently provisioned this new Windows cluster to replace an aging cluster already in place. There are a lot of…
Computers

Brandon LeeMarch 30, 2015
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Monitor LSI Megaraid RAID controller in VMware

Last week in working with a “whitebox” ESXi server running a VMware lab that was running on an LSI 9280-16i4E controller, the need arose to monitor LSI Megaraid storage controller in VMware and see an initialization process that was running as…
Disaster Recovery

Brandon LeeMarch 27, 2015
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Tape vs Disk vs Cloud backup what solutions are you using?

I wanted to shoot a post out there to you guys visiting the site to see which solutions for backup you are using in your enterprise environment. In doing consulting work like I do, there are still environments utilizing tapes…
Security

Brandon LeeMarch 24, 2015
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Receive alerts when user connects or disconnects from RDP

If you administer a forward facing terminal server or even if you have an RDP connection setup on your home Internet connection for quick access to your home network, then it serves as extra piece of mind to have a…
VMware

Brandon LeeMarch 20, 2015
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Installing ESXi 6.0 in VMware workstation 11

So with eager excitement all VMware admins out there have been looking to get their hands on ESXi 6.0. I am no exception to that rule. VMware is a product that continually gets better and better with every release. I…
Windows

Brandon LeeMarch 13, 2015
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Blast from Past – Upgrade NT4 domain to Windows 2003

Believe it or not, there ARE still some environments out there running Windows NT domain controllers – Yes the end of life for public support from Microsoft was January 1, 2005, 10 YEARS!!! It is hard to believe, but there…
SQL

Brandon LeeMarch 13, 2015
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SQL Server local SQL authentication error logged in locally

Guys, so I have run into a really weird situation with a development SQL Server local SQL authentication error logged in locally. Local SQL authentication succeeds if you login remotely via SQL Server Management Studio. However, using SSMS, the login…
Windows

Brandon LeeMarch 6, 2015
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Add GUI file explorer to Windows PE environment

Recently, in working with a client who was using the Windows PE environment created with Windows 8.1 ADK, we had a server go down that had a corrupt Windows installation. It was decided to simply boot the server in a…
Windows

Brandon LeeFebruary 27, 2015
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How to fix BGINFO black background issue

BGINFO is a very useful utility in any server environment where you have many server desktops you may remote into at any given time. In this age of virtualized environments, oftentimes we may have literally hundreds of server desktops to…