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Windows 10
Install Winget 1.0 Windows 10 and upgrade all software
Have you found yourself spending lots of time trying to keep your software on a management workstation up-to-date? If you are like me, you probably use a myriad of tools, software, utilities, tools, and many other things in your management…
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home lab
Copy VMware Workstation VM to ESXi: Home Lab
When it comes to building your first home lab, there is nothing wrong with starting out with VMware Workstation. Realistically, this may be all you need. Having a decent workstation or laptop with a good bit of RAM running VMware…
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VMware Tools
ESXi VMware Tools Update Guide
VMware tools provide a tightly integrated and fluid experience between the guest virtual machines and the VMware ESXi host. With VMware Tools, you get a much better user experience, including video and mouse configuration. Additionally, VMware Tools provides further integration…
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VMware
How to Manage VMware Snapshots: A Guide
They can be one of the best features in a VMware vSphere environment, or perhaps the worst, depending on how they are managed and the understanding of what purpose they serve. VMware snapshots provide really great functionality and capabilities for…
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Windows 10
OpenSSH Server Windows 10 Install with Public Key authentication
Remote connectivity to your Windows Servers is a prime capability that is required by administrators to be able to control, manage, and administer their environments. With Windows environments, I feel like most of us that remote command-line access is much…
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Software Defined Storage
StarWind VSAN ZFS and Linux VSA
There is no question that software-defined storage (SDS) is the way of the future. Traditional storage is not well-suited for many of the requirements of modern workloads that are needed in today’s environments. StarWind is a solution that provides organizations…
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Automation
Find Guest OS Type ID using PowerCLI
Have you needed to find the Guest OS type IDs that are used in Terraform or other automation in provisioning VMware vSphere virtual machines? There is a really easy way to find the Guest OS ID descriptions that are used…
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VMware
See which VMs were powered on before ESXi host went down
Have you been in a situation before where you had a standalone host go down, maybe a lab host, and after bringing everything back up, you are not sure which VMs were powered on before the host went down? I…
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Windows
Backup DNS Windows Server 2016 2019 and 2022
DNS or Domain Naming System is the heart of everything we do, on the LAN, and on the Internet. It is the phone book that maps names to IP addresses so we don’t have to remember the numbers that represent…
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Hyper-V
Hyper-V Critical remote code execution vulnerability in May 2021 patch Tuesday
The past few months from a security perspective have been a roller coaster of zero-day vulnerabilities and critical patches that have been needed to patch serious issues found across a wide range of Microsoft products and solutions. This has notably…
