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Brandon Lee
Brandon Lee
Cloud and Virtualization Architect. Brandon has over 20 years of experience across multiple sectors. He is responsible for the creative and technical content direction at virtualizationhowto.com
Brandon Lee
  • Brandon Lee
  • March 2, 2023

What is Universal Print

Working with a mix of new and old printing hardware in hybrid-cloud IT infrastructures can be complex and cumbersome. Microsoft Azure Universal Print allows organizations to bring existing print infrastructure into the cloud without a lot of heavy lifting.
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Brandon Lee
  • Brandon Lee
  • February 13, 2023

New SQL Server 2022 hybrid capabilities with Azure Arc

Microsoft is making strides in cloud-enabling on-premises IT infrastructure with the integration of Azure Arc advancements and multi-cloud capabilities into the latest SQL Server 2022 release. This offers organizations increased scalability, flexibility, and security for hybridizing their on-premises workloads.
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Brandon Lee
  • Brandon Lee
  • January 26, 2023

Feature Update Profiles and Expedited Quality Updates added to Intune

Updating your various Windows systems can be quite a chore. Microsoft knows that as well. Luckily, it added new features to its endpoint cloud-based management solution, Intune, which allows you to prioritize important security updates. It’s a great new addition that you can test out right now.
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Brandon Lee
  • Brandon Lee
  • January 17, 2023

Azure VMware Solution recent updates late 2022

During Microsoft Ignite 2022, the leading vendors announced many Azure features that align with the latest VMware vSphere updates. Mix and match both worlds to suit your business and technology needs.
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Brandon Lee
  • Brandon Lee
  • December 22, 2022

Azure Arc-enabled VMware vSphere

Azure Arc enables users to extend the functionality of Azure Resource Manager to on-premises environments (including VMware vSphere) or other clouds. It brings better visibility, control, and management. This is a great tool as managing hybrid or multi-cloud is daunting, as well as it can cause security compromises.
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Brandon Lee
  • Brandon Lee
  • December 13, 2022

Azure Kubernetes Fleet Manager

Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) being a software as a service (SaaS) leads to organizations having multiple AKS clusters. Managing these diverse and multiple containerized environments is tricky and inefficient at this point in the game. Having a new management solution from Microsoft will surely help the process.
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Brandon Lee
  • Brandon Lee
  • November 22, 2022

New Windows Hello for Business Hybrid Cloud Kerberos Trust

Microsoft recently announced Windows Hello for Business Hybrid Cloud Kerberos Trust to help with the complexity of passwordless authentication. It is commonly thought passwords are the weakest link in a company’s cybersecurity posture. While Azure has seen various aspects of passwordless authentication, Windows has been lacking.
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Brandon Lee
  • Brandon Lee
  • November 3, 2022

Azure Stack HCI Single Node cluster

For some time now, Microsoft has made a single-node configuration available for its cloud service Azure Stack HCI. The name is somewhat misleading since a cluster requires two or more servers to form a group for high availability. Nonetheless, this version is good for dev, test, proof of concept, or initial setup tweaking for further scaling.
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Brandon Lee
  • Brandon Lee
  • October 25, 2022

Enhanced phishing protection in Windows 11 22H2

Microsoft Defender SmartScreen provides a host of new cybersecurity features in Windows 11 22H2, including better protection against phishing. Enterprises often overlook the threat of phishing, which is unfortunate because it’s a matter of human error, i.e. users lacking cybersecurity awareness. Windows 11 now helps tackle that.
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