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By Tom Fenton
After it catches his attention at KubeCon, where it was accepted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation as an incubating project, Tom Fenton tackles deployment.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom Fenton discovers a plugin that has CSV support and uses it to quickly create a bar chart.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom provides an overview of Grafana and how to use it, including the Grafana plugin that lets you use CSV data sources to create a dashboard.
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By Tom Fenton
Although Workstation has a GUI interface that is easy to use and very powerful, sometimes it is more useful to perform an action using the command line or a script than using a GUI.
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AWS expert Brien Posey demonstrates how to automate EC2 instance customization by using PowerShell to simplify post-deployment tasks.
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A new tool called the IAM Access Analyzer can help you to find IAM resources with unused permissions, IAM settings that allow for external access, and more.
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Brient Posey recommends important tasks before experimenting with the Migration Hub.
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Brien Posey provides step-by-step instructions for creating a firewall to prevent or allow specific DNS queries.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom tests the desktop hypervisor recently made free for personal use to students, hobbyists and casual users who want to run multiple OSes on a single computer.
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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.