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Brandon Lee wrote a new post, ManageEngine OpManager: Comprehensive monitoring for on-prem, cloud, and containers 4 days, 8 hours ago
ManageEngine OpManager provides a comprehensive solution to monitor on-prem servers, networking, storage, cloud, virtualization, containers, and more.
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Brandon Lee wrote a new post, Install K3s, a lightweight, production-grade Kubernetes distro 1 week ago
K3s is a lightweight, production-grade Kubernetes distro that provides high availability. See how to install K3s using the K3sup utility.
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Brandon Lee wrote a new post, VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer: Installation and configuration 2 weeks, 3 days ago
VMware’s NSX Advanced Load Balancer is a rebrand of the Avi Networks load balancer, as VMware purchased Avi Networks in 2019. The NSX Advanced Load Balancer is one of the central technologies in the current VMware software-defined networking stack. It provides modern software-defined load-balancing capabilities for VMware NSX, Tanzu Kubernetes, and traditional web applications.
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Brandon Lee wrote a new post, NetCrunch 13: Real-time network monitoring, traffic analysis, alerts, and performance reporting 2 weeks, 6 days ago
NetCrunch 13 is the latest release of AdRem Software’s flagship monitoring software, containing many new features and enhancements. The monitoring solution can monitor various physical, virtual, and network infrastructures. It provides real-time network monitoring, traffic analysis, alerts, and performance reporting.
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Brandon Lee wrote a new post, Microk8s: An easy-to-use Kubernetes distribution 3 weeks, 5 days ago
Microk8s is a production-grade, easy-to-use Kubernetes distribution from the Ubuntu maker Canonical that provides quick time to value for development and production use cases. Microk8s aims to alleviate many of the challenges of working with Kubernetes clusters.
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Brandon Lee wrote a new post, Factory reset of Windows 10 and 11 without a password 1 month ago
Windows 10 and 11 come with a factory reset feature. However, maybe you lost your password and want to reset your PC. How can Windows be reset without a password?
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Brandon Lee wrote a new post, Manage and secure your endpoints in hybrid environments with ManageEngine Endpoint Central 1 month, 1 week ago
Learn how ManageEngine Endpoint Central (formerly ManageEngine Desktop Central) provides the tools and automation needed for managing endpoints, patching, deploying software, and installing operating systems in today’s hybrid remote work environments.
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Brandon Lee wrote a new post, NAKIVO Backup & Replication v10.8 with new cloud and MSP features 1 month, 1 week ago
NAKIVO Backup & Replication v10.8 delivers excellent new cloud and managed service provider (MSP) features, allowing businesses to meet modern data protection challenges.
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Brandon Lee wrote a new post, Local password manager with Bitwarden unified 1 month, 2 weeks ago
The Bitwarden unified self-hosted deployment is an excellent local password manager. In this post, I will explain the difference between Bitwarden unified and Bitwarden standard, outline the installation of Bitwarden unified, and show you how to configure your new local password manager.
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Brandon Lee wrote a new post, Prepare AD synchronization with Azure Active Directory using IdFix 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Many organizations are migrating their on-premises email to Microsoft 365. One of the necessary steps is synchronizing your local directory with Azure Active Directory. The IdFix tool from Microsoft is meant to help correct issues before synchronizing your directory.
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Brandon Lee wrote a new post, Manage Windows security and optimization features with Microsoft's free PC Manager 2 months ago
Applications such as CCleaner and other utilities have been popular for years as a quick and easy way for users to scan for and clear out temporary files, caches, logs, and other files to boost performance. Microsoft has released a new utility called PC Manager, which provides interesting features, including performance and security apps, in one location for Windows 10 and 11 PCs.
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Brandon Lee wrote a new post, IIS and Exchange Server security with Windows Extended Protection (WEP) 2 months, 1 week ago
A little-known extension helps to increase the security of Windows Authentication to prevent credential relay or “man in the middle” attacks in Exchange Server and Internet Information Server (IIS). Microsoft is using Windows Extended Protection with modern security updates to enhance the built-in authentication capabilities found in Windows Server.
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Brandon Lee wrote a new post, Remove an old Windows certificate authority 2 months, 1 week ago
Let’s look at the general steps required to remove an old Windows certificate authority without affecting previously issued certificates.
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Brandon Lee wrote a new post, Install vCenter 8 in VMware Workstation 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Many people use VMware Workstation to set up lab environments. The first step in getting vSphere 8 with a vSphere cluster running is to install the vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA). Let’s see how we can deploy vCenter Server 8 in VMware Workstation.
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Brandon Lee wrote a new post, Install ESXi in a VirtualBox VM 3 months ago
VirtualBox provides an effective and free solution for running ESXi in a lab environment. However, at this point, the support for nested virtualization doesn’t allow the installation of current versions of VMware’s hypervisor. As with Hyper-V VMs, a nested configuration is limited to ESXi 6.x. If you need to enable Microsoft’s hypervisor on a Windows PC, VirtualBox can run on top of it.
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Brandon Lee wrote a new post, Self-service password reset with ManageEngine ADSelfService Plus 3 months ago
ManageEngine ADSelfService Plus is a fully featured solution to easily implement self-service password reset, SSO, password synchronization, MFA, and an employee directory while enforcing strong password policies.
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Brandon Lee wrote a new post, Upgrade VMware vCenter 6.x to vCenter 8.0 3 months, 1 week ago
Statistically speaking, the most popular version of vSphere in production environments is vSphere 6.x. Since VMware has officially ended support for both vSphere 6.5 and 6.7, customers need to upgrade to vSphere 7 or 8 to maintain a supported environment. However, there are also a few things to consider.
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Brandon Lee wrote a new post, Smart App Control: Protect Windows 11 against ransomware 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Smart App Control is a new security solution from Microsoft built into Windows 11 22H2. It aims to add a protective layer against ransomware by complementing Microsoft Defender’s other security features like SmartScreen or Controlled Folder Access. However, it has some notable limitations that may be a dealbreaker for most organizations.
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Brandon Lee wrote a new post, New features in VMware vSphere 8 3 months, 3 weeks ago
The vSphere 8 release includes many new features that are exposed in the new vCenter Server 8 and ESXi 8 releases. With the release of vSphere 8, many organizations will look at upgrading to the latest VMware vSphere.
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Brandon Lee wrote a new post, Split-brain DNS deployment using Windows Server DNS policy 3 months, 3 weeks ago
It is common for organizations to host websites and other resources that may be accessible from external and internal clients on the LAN. Traditionally, organizations may have maintained two different DNS servers for this reason. Microsoft’s split-brain DNS deployment using DNS policy helps consolidate these resources using Active Directory-integrated zones.
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