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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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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 demos table joins, shell scripts for repetitive tasks and using "exec" to run commands inside a container from the host system.
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By Tom Fenton
After his introductory series, Tom Fenton deploys a database on Docker and integrates it with other apps deployed from other Docker images.
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By Tom Fenton
The less-expensive Quadra is a better fit than Raspberry Pi for those who want/need a low-cost software platform to use and experiment with.
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Setting up a peering connection between VPCs in two different regions can help to simplify your disaster recovery efforts.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom examines different ways to store persistent data such as volume and bind mounts (or host volumes).
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By Tom Fenton
Tom Fenton explains how networking works with containers.
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By Tom Fenton
After introducing the basics, Tom Fenton looks at the ephemeral nature of container instances and how to use networking and persistent storage with them.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom Fenton begins a series on how to install Docker containers on a Linux system while discussing images, performance hits and how to use network/storage with containers.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom Fenton looks at specs, design and build quality before discussing how well this low-priced device performs as a thin client, KVM server, Docker server and repository for edge device data.
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Paul takes a look at newly released Azure AD B2B Direct Connect and Microsoft Teams Connect shared channels.
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Brien shows how to perform Windows Server core deployments in AWS without having to build your own custom Amazon Machine Image (AMI).
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By Tom Fenton
After being questioned on how to install the suite after a recent article, Tom provides step-by-step instructions.
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After earlier describing some of the storage types that are used by EC2 instances, Brien now shows how this information plays into the troubleshooting process.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom goes down one rabbit hole after another until finally discovering what caused system sluggishness and even prevented an upgrade to Windows 11 because of a slow CPU speed.
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If it's not because of an increased workload, check for problems with the instance's storage.