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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
  • August 23, 2022

What is Secured-core PC Configuration Lock?

Microsoft Secured-Core PC Configuration Lock is a new feature that enables you to prevent configuration drift of secured-core PC settings and features. Secured-Core PCs united various layers of protection to combat the growing trend of attacks on kernel drivers. The Lock makes sure the secured-core PC remains secure no matter what.
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Brandon Lee
  • Brandon Lee
  • August 16, 2022

What is Microsoft Pluton Security Processor?

The traditional security model implies combining different solutions to increase safety. However, cyberattacks are constantly developing and becoming more sophisticated, which makes the “layered approach” fairly obsolete. That’s why Microsoft has opted to concentrate on the hardware level instead. Meet Microsoft Pluton, a new step in the hardware chips evolution.
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Brandon Lee
  • Brandon Lee
  • August 9, 2022

Windows Autopatch

Windows Autopatch is a new cloud-centric way to streamline the process of updating OS instances across your IT environment. It is meant to take the heavy-lifting and complexity out of applying patches to your Windows clients registered in Microsoft Endpoint Manager. It’s applicable to Windows 10 &11, M365 for Enterprise, MS Edge and Teams.
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Brandon Lee
  • Brandon Lee
  • July 28, 2022

vSphere+ – A New hybrid vSphere offering from VMware

VMware vSphere+ is an Enterprise hybrid subscription service, which provides a blend of on-prem vSphere plus VMware Cloud services through Cloud Gateway. In other words, it’s a combination of your current vSphere environment with SaaS-delivered VMware components from the VMware Cloud offering.
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Brandon Lee
  • Brandon Lee
  • July 14, 2022

Windows 11 22H2 new features

Windows 11 22H2 is a major update package that Microsoft recently published for its latest operating system. The long-anticipated release does not disappoint. There are many new features and upgrades that are introduced to make the performance, operation, and user experience with the OS better than with the initial release.
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Brandon Lee
  • Brandon Lee
  • June 21, 2022

Windows Admin Center 2110.2 and Azure Stack HCI 21H2 new features

Microsoft is continuously updating its cloud services, further evolving with the mission-critical IT infrastructure needs. Recently, Windows Admin Center 2110.2 and Azure Stack Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) experienced a swath of updates. All of them aim at IT environment operation smoothness and cross-platform compatibility.
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Brandon Lee
  • Brandon Lee
  • June 7, 2022

What is Microsoft Dev Box

Microsoft has been making its cloud services ever more diverse and specific. This time, the software goes even deeper, allowing you to enable a geographically disparate and niche workforce to perform better with limited hardware, bandwidth and resources. Various specific tools for modern developers’ needs are presented in this new solution.
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Brandon Lee
  • Brandon Lee
  • April 26, 2022

Overview of System Center 2022 New Features

Although Microsoft continues to increase its Windows Server and Azure presence, most businesses still prefer a hybrid environment. Managing a hybrid cloud is more complicated, as you also need to operationalize your on-premises IT environment at scale. Here is where System Center comes into play, along with its new functionality.
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Brandon Lee
  • Brandon Lee
  • March 22, 2022

VMware vSphere Native Key Provider Best Practices

There are many “moving parts” to cybersecurity, among which, encryption is on the frontline. Previously, you’d have to use a third-party key management solution to facilitate security in a vSphere environment. Now, you can use Native Key Provider to integrate vSAN encryption, VM encryption, and virtual Trusted Platform Modules (vTPM).
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