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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.
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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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By Tom Fenton
After previously showing how to install the new offering, Tom puts it through its paces and shares his thoughts.
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By Tom Fenton
After previously providing an overview of the new features included with Horizon 2111, released last month, Tom takes a deeper dive.
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After initial planning and then doing an in-place upgrade of the Windows Server OS as it relates to AWS EC2, Brien finishes the upgrade to Windows Server 2019.
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After earlier detailing needed planning, Brien goes to the next step: an in-place upgrade of the Windows Server OS as it relates to AWS EC2.
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By Tom Fenton
See what four features piqued Tom's interest in the new Extended Service Branch (ESB) Maintenance Release.
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By Tom Fenton
In demonstrating some monitoring software, Tom needed to replicate a slow network that was being used in a VDI environment. Here's how he did it.
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Brien demonstrates the process of upgrading AWS EC2 instances running Windows Server 2012 R2 to newer OSes.
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By Tom Fenton
After previously installing Linux on VMs in three systems, Tom installs the VMware Horizon native client on them to see how they perform.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom shows how to install Ubuntu 20.04 on a wide range of systems, install the Horizon native client and use the systems to connect to remote desktops.
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While it would be a bad idea to host a mission-critical workload on spot instances, they're great for dev/test environments or for workloads that do not have strict SLAs.
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By Tom Fenton
After earlier detailing how to use a .bat file to launch the Horizon client to a Horizon desktop and then adding start-up functionality to the taskbar and Start menu, Tom Fenton turns to Linux.
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The point of AVNM is to give you a centralized way to manage connectivity and security policy, scoped to subscriptions or management groups for your entire Azure estate.