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  • How To Install Pi-Hole on Hyper-V with Debian

    Can you run Pi-Hole on your Hyper-V server? Let’s see how you an get up and running with Pi-Hole running in a Hyper-V Debian virtual machine. What is Pi-Hole? Pi-Hole is a network ad blocker. What this means is it…

  • Hyper-V Web Client download for Free

    Hyper-V is a great virtualization platform allowing organizations to run virtual machines, including Windows Server and Linux, and experience the benefit of containerized workloads with Hyper-V isolated Docker containers. Managing Hyper-V has always been a challenge with the legacy tools…

  • Windows Subsystem for Linux has no installed distributions

    Windows Subsystem for Linux is a great environment for working with Linux tools, applications, utilities, bash command prompt shell, etc., from a Windows environment, as long as you don’t run into “Windows Subsystem for Linux has no installed distributions”. Windows…

  • Issuing the wsl version command on a Microsoft Store installation of WSL

    Windows Subsystem for Linux Microsoft Store GA and now default WSL

    If you are a user of Windows Subsystem for Linux and have been using WSL for some time now, no doubt, like me, WSL provides a valuable environment in your production and home lab use. I regularly use WSL for…

  • Azure stack hci vs hyper v

    Azure stack HCI vs Hyper-V

    Unquestionably, enterprise virtualization host technologies have changed over the past decade. The big virtualization vendors, such as VMware, Microsoft, and others have released new features and offerings to continue to help meet the challenges found in the enterprise data center.…

  • Checking the Windows 11 22H2 build number

    Windows 11 22H2 Download ISO and install

    Many of you may have heard the rumblings lately about Windows 11 22H2 and the new features it will bring to Windows 11. The release is set to drop in October 2022 so just a few months away. However, you…

  • Windows 11 Development Environment

    Download Windows 11 Prebuilt Developer Appliance for VMware Hyper-V and VirtualBox

    Do you need a quick and easy installation of Windows 11 that comes with developer tools already installed and features and applications ready to go out of the box, like Windows Subsystem for Linux? I want to give you guys…

  • Installation is completed successfully for StarWind SAN NAS

    Hyper-V Cluster iSCSI Storage Using StarWind Free SAN & NAS

    Creating a Hyper-V Cluster iSCSI storage is one of the ways you can have traditional shared storage for a Hyper-V cluster in your environment. I want to introduce you to a free solution that you can use for your Hyper-V…

  • Viewing available options for VMware ESXi virtual machines in System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2022

    System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2022 VMware ESXi management

    Recently, Microsoft released the latest version of System Center, System Center 2022. With the new System Center release, System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2022 (SCVMM) has been released with new features that support the latest version of vSphere. Let’s look…

  • Setting permissions on the SSH private key

    Bad Owner or Permissions on SSH Config Windows 10

    Lately, I have been working a lot with SSH and Windows 10, for one transitioning away from WMI for certain things, hopefully, a blog post coming on that front soon. Setting up SSH on Windows 10 is fairly simple to…