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By Tom Fenton
Tom Fenton puts Selenium through its web site testing paces.
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Because standard scheduling options aren't going to be a good fit for every situation.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom does parallel testing of iSCSI and NFS, along with testing NFS SSD VMs, iSCSI SSD VMs, multimedia performance and more.
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Bug fixes, security updates and feature updates are delivered through Windows Update, but if you are running Windows on an EC2 instance, then drivers need to be updated in a completely different way.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom pushes the personal cloud storage device beyond its intended use case to act as a repository for VMs while seeing if it can be used as shared storage for running VMs.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom looks at how easy it is to set up the private cloud NAS device, how well it acts as a backup device for documents and videos, and how easy it is to access the device and its files remotely.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom checks its suitability for the mass storage and protection of his home and lab files and data.
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By Tom Fenton
After previous benchmarking tests, Tom attempts to install and run a bare-metal hypervisor on the low-priced, small form-factor PC.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom installs Workstation on an ACEMAGIC AD15 Mini PC to benchmark its performance running a small and large Windows 10 VM.
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By Tom Fenton
With an i7-1360P processor, 16 GB of RAM and a 512 NVMe device for storage, it should handle the most demanding home and office workloads.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom Fenton finds that Windows IoT Enterprise works fine as a base OS to run a thin client used to connect to a VDI desktop and a local desktop using RDP.
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By Tom Fenton
Tasked with rolling out virtual desktops to remote users with a new thin client, Tom discovers it runs Windows 11 IoT Enterprise. So what's that?
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Paul Schnackenburg talks identity in general, how it fits in with the other security tools and services he has covered and the different parts of Microsoft Entra, along with how they solve various identity-related problems.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom Fenton, needing warranty information for hundreds of Intel NUC systems used as thin clients to connect to VMware Horizon virtual desktops, finds the Linux command dmidecode to be a powerful tool.
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New users sometimes ask Brien Posey how to get their data into the AWS cloud. This is what he says.
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By Tom Fenton
Anybody who has installed a Linux OS knows how tricky that can be, but Tom Fenton is pleasantly surprised by the high-flying lobster.
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By Tom Fenton
The marquee feature in Windows 365 Frontline, now in public preview, allowing each Frontline license purchased to have up to three users access the Cloud PC, albeit not at the same time.
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By Tom Fenton
"If you have a business that has seasonal spikes, DaaS makes a lot of sense."
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By Tom Fenton
Tom Fenton takes a look at Microsoft's Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS), which provides desktops that run in the cloud and which are managed and administrated by the cloud provider.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom adds a DIY fan to cool the small-format Linux computer for students, hobbyist and anyone else interested in learning about the fundamentals of computing.
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By Tom Fenton
"It is certainly a tool that every system administrator should be aware of and use to automate mundane routine tasks such as backups and taking applications offline."
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By Tom Fenton
Tom explains that most multi-tiered apps are dynamic and deployed in multiple locations so their components also will need to be updated.
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One of the things that you can do with the Fault Injection Simulator is to force an EC2 instance offline as a way of testing your high-availability strategy.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom shows how to use Docker Compose to deploy PostgreSQL and pgAdmin from a file.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom demos table joins, shell scripts for repetitive tasks and using "exec" to run commands inside a container from the host system.