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.
  • Webnginx01

    Nginx configuration, security, and other information

    Nginx is rapidly gaining popularity in the WebHosting world, especially since performance, speed, and scaling are becoming ever more important. ย Nginx is capable of handling a large amount of concurrent connections with a fair amount of ease. It is used…

  • Cool Stuffhackertyper01

    Hacker Typer – code like a hacker

    If you are ever needlessly bored or you have the desire to become a super hacker able to blast out lines of code in an instant and impress your friends or visitors, HackerTyper.net is your friend! I cranked out the…

  • Networkingtcp_tools03

    Viewing and killing TCP IP connections Windows

    Many time inย troubleshooting or needing to view network traffic information or connection information, seeing your TCP/IP connections in Windows can provide valuable insight into problems or issues that may be going on in Windows with connectivity. ย Also, viewing connection information…

  • Newsuntangle11

    Untangle 11.0 new features and changes

    Untangle has announced and released a new version of their ever popular UTM device the NG Firewall which is used by an ever growing number of customers. ย The simplicity and all-in-one nature of the product appeals to many as one…

  • Webnginx_ps01

    Installing a LEMP server with WordPress and Google Pagespeed

    If you are looking to host a webserver and want a really reliable, stable platform that has excellent performance, a LEMP server using the latest flavor of Ubuntu – 14.04 along with Nginx and Google Pagespeed is hard to beat.…

  • WindowsRDP_drives03

    Access local drives in an RDP session

    I see many admins and developers struggling with the RDP environment trying to copy files to a location where they have access to the files in the RDP session and their host workstation. ย Many even create shares and exceptions in…

  • Windowswindows10_licensing1

    Windows 10 Security concerns already

    The story broke before the weekendย as reported among others by the Hacker News about Windows 10 Preview having a keylogger to spy on your activities. ย It seems that Microsoft may be taking its technical preview to the next level of…

  • Virtualizationumanager1

    Installing vSphere Update Manager 5.5 update 2 and configuration

    Maintaining and deploying patches and updates throughout any environment can take a lot of heavy lifting by administrators. ย VMware environments need to be patched and updated along with other OS environments in any enterprise environment. ย While updates can be manually…

  • Securityemet5

    Install Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit EMET for better security

    In this day and age of high profile exploits in the news involving businesses that we all know and use, digital security is more on the minds of everyone now than ever before. ย While there isn’t anything we as consumers…

  • Computersswitchable02

    Performance Tweaks VMware Workstation 10

    For those of you who use VMware workstation 10 in running VMs on your desktop or laptop computer, you may have noticed that in certain situations or conditions things may get a bit sluggish when your workstation is under load…