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 LeeFebruary 4, 2016
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Force the primary outgoing IP address Windows Server 2012 R2

In working recently with a web server that also has a basic SMTP engine loaded as well, I ran into an issue with the mail server outbound mail queue stacking up after making a reverse DNS change with the ISP.…
Security

Brandon LeeFebruary 3, 2016
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Install and configure EMET 5.5 Windows 10

Recently, Microsoft released the official support version of Enhanced Mitigation and Experience Tookit or EMET version 5.5. Per Microsoft: “The Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) helps raise the bar against attackers gaining access to computer systems. EMET anticipates the most…
Software

Brandon LeeJanuary 29, 2016
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Make Outlook 2016 unread messages easier to see

After recently upgrading to Office 2016, one of the first products that I wanted to test drive was Outlook 2016 as email is a crucial part of the day, every day. In general I like Outlook 2016 and some of…
Networking

Brandon LeeJanuary 28, 2016
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Meraki MS220-8P unboxing and initial setup

Recently, I was excited to get my hands on a new Meraki MS220-8P cloud switch. So I wanted to go through some of the unboxing highlights as well as some of the initial setup and configuration steps to get the…
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…