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Kubernetes
Setup Kubernetes Ubuntu 20.04: Step-by-step Cluster Configuration
You may be at the point in your learning, lab environment, or even a production environment where you are ready to setup Kubernetes. Ubuntu is arguably one of the most popular and easiest Linux distributions to get started with. So,…
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Windows 10
Windows 10 Network Adapter Order Configuration
You may be in a position where you have multiple network adapters assigned to your Windows 10 workstation. You may need to connect to multiple physical network segments via Layer 2 instead of having your traffic routed. Things get tricky…
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Windows Server 2022
Download and Install Windows Server 2022 Core Features on Demand (FoD)
There are a couple of things that I think are game changers with the Windows Server Core version of Windows Server 2019 and the very soon to be GA Windows Server 2022. These are Windows Admin Center and Feature on…
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Security
PowerShell Script workaround for SeriousSAM and HiveNightmare Vulnerability
There are many who are looking at ways to automate the process to apply the currently recommended remediation using a script. With Windows, PowerShell is the obvious choice here as it is easy to use and works well on the…
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Security
Check Windows 10 for SeriousSAM and HiveNightmare Vulnerability Fix
***Update*** – Check out the link to my PowerShell remediation script below. Well, it has been quite a year so far in many ways. Including the fun we have had as system administrators is the seemingly record number of zero-day…
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Windows Server 2022
Install Windows Server 2022 Core
Windows Server 2022 is the next version of the Windows Server operating system. It is in the RTM phase currently and is soon to be released as GA. With each version of Windows Server, Microsoft has been getting closer to…
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home lab
VMware Home Lab Network Design
Many of us run VMware home labs and these no doubt have many different architectures and hardware configurations across the entire landscape, and that is great! There is no one single way to configure a home lab the “right way”…
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Windows 10
VLAN Tagging Software for Windows 10 without Proset drivers
If you are like me, you may interact with multiple network segments and VLANS configured for different purposes. However, what if you have a workstation that is not configured with an Intel ProSet card with enterprise software that allows tagging…
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home lab
vSAN Lab on VMware Workstation: Step-by-Step
Home labs comes in many shapes and sizes. One of the first types of labs that many are able to invest in is running VMware Workstation on top of a workstation PC or even a laptop. VMware Workstation is a…
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home lab
DNS Conditional Forwarder Multiple Internal Domains Setup
I do a lot of work in the home lab environment and this includes building up Active Directory domains for various types of testing and building out of test environments. If you do build out different environments for testing and…