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By Tom Fenton
Tom steps through the process of downloading, installing and licensing Workstation Pro 17 on his personal laptop.
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Brien Posey explains how to use the AWS Tools for PowerShell to make AWS services accessible through the PowerShell interface, providing extra capabilities.
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The process of setting up a logon notification is more involved than what you might reasonably expect, but Brien shows the way.
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By Tom Fenton
After a series of articles on the enterprise-grade Tailscale VPN whose free version suits his needs just fine, Tom demonstrate his quick-and-easy process of utilizing the VPN on a home network-attached storage setup.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom continues to be impressed by Tailscale, which saved his skiiing trip when a co-worker urgently needed some files from his home server.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom and a friend come up with an exciting proposition: Could the Moonstone NUC replace one of the Dell R630 servers in his lab rack?
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By Tom Fenton
Tom didn't think remotely accessing local computing resources would be as easy as advertised, but it was: "It just worked out of the box."
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By Tom Fenton
Tom walks through the installation and use of "a must-have tool" that can save desktop administrators in Dell shops a lot of time and aggravation.
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A new testing tool for AWS Backup allows you to create a restore testing plan that you can use for the purposes of validating your backups.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom seeks a usable low-cost PC that isn't "cheap."
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Brien Posey explains the advantages and potential disadvantages of using DNS over HTTPS.
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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.