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  • Vladyslav Savchenko
    Vladyslav Savchenko
  • February 22, 2024
Setting up StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) as Hardened Repository for Veeam B&R
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  • Orest Lesyuk
    Orest Lesyuk
  • June 29, 2023
Microsoft SQL Server High Availability: Always On Availability Groups VS Failover Cluster Instances. What to choose and when?
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  • Vladyslav Savchenko
    Vladyslav Savchenko
  • November 21, 2023
How to Create a File Share with StarWind VSAN
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  • Vladyslav Savchenko
    Vladyslav Savchenko
  • October 24, 2023
What is Business Continuity?
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  • Alex Khorolets
    Alex Khorolets
  • October 11, 2023
Turn two VMware vSphere hosts into a full-blown cluster without breaking the bank, in 5 easy steps
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  • Diana Abo Harmouch
    Diana Abo-Harmouch
  • October 10, 2023
What is V2V (Virtual to Virtual)?
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  • Hanna Parich
    Hanna Parich
  • March 16, 2023
How to Convert Hyper-V to VMware VM
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  • Volodymyr Khrystenko
    Volodymyr Khrystenko
  • May 14, 2024
DRBD/LINSTOR vs Ceph vs StarWind VSAN: Proxmox HCI Performance Comparison
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Vladan Seget
  • Vladan Seget
  • March 15, 2022

VMware OS Optimization Tool (OSOT) to optimize desktop and server OS

VMware OS Optimization Tool (OSOT) is a neat piece of software to optimize your on-prem or cloud OS. Originally designed for VMware Horizon, OSOT is fully applicable to Windows desktop and Windows Server. It allows to eliminate unneeded settings, switch off features, clean up older junk from your OS, and otherwise enhance its functionality.
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Romain Serre
  • Romain Serre
  • March 10, 2022

Join Windows 365 instances to Azure AD only

Windows 365 is Microsoft’s recent twist on virtual desktop infrastructure. Microsoft also calls it “your PC in the cloud.” Initially, Windows 365 wasn’t able to work with only Azure Active Directory (AD), requiring Hybrid AD Join. Now, this has been simplified, so you can easily connect your Windows 365 “PCs in the cloud” to “Azure AD only” in just a few steps.
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Brandon Lee
  • Brandon Lee
  • March 8, 2022

Active Directory Kerberos changes and new Azure Active Directory Kerberos feature

Kerberos is an authentication protocol that has been around since Windows Server 2000. It is the gold standard for on-premises Active Directory authentication. Azure, however, didn’t support it. To further enhance the security and interoperability of its environments, Microsoft announced changes to Kerberos and its Azure Active Directory compatibility.
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Nicolas Prigent
  • Nicolas Prigent
  • February 23, 2022

Move Microsoft Sentinel Logs to Azure Storage

You may need your Sentinel logs in long-term retention based on government requirements. Azure Log Analytics starts charging for such retention after 90 days have elapsed. However, you can use a Playbook that creates an Azure Storage account and, after 90 days, automatically moves such logs to cold storage to avoid retention billing.
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Vladan Seget
  • Vladan Seget
  • February 22, 2022

Microsoft Security Applications New Names and improvements

Microsoft constantly evolves and changes, and so do its products and features. This is especially relevant for the continuous expansion of Azure cloud and its hybrid cloud capabilities. This time, we’ll talk about the changes in names and functionality when it comes to products previously known under the Azure Defender and Sentinel umbrellas.
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Brandon Lee
  • Brandon Lee
  • February 17, 2022

Windows 11 TPM and Encryption in VMware vSphere

Windows 11 doesn’t only come with new features, bells, and whistles, but also with specific prerequisites for installation. Even in terms of virtualization, if you wanted to install Windows 11 inside a vSphere machine, your ESXi hypervisor would need access to certain hardware to virtualize the Windows 11 guest VM (enhanced security steps).
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Florent Appointaire
  • Florent Appointaire
  • February 16, 2022

Publish an application with Azure Virtual Desktop

Deploying an Azure Virtual Desktop infrastructure (VDI) is only the beginning of the journey. Further, you’d need to provision applications to various users with varying authentication policies and rights. Don’t worry, the process is much easier than you might think: just a few clicks, and you’ll get the hang of it.
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Nicolas Prigent
  • Nicolas Prigent
  • February 15, 2022

Automate Microsoft Sentinel Playbook Deployment using Azure DevOps

Microsoft Azure Sentinel is a wide-range cloud-native security and event management service. There’s a variety of ways to manage and automate its services. One of such methods is infrastructure as code, where you can automate how Azure Sentinel will respond to alerts and incidents using a Playbook and Azure DevOps.
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Brandon Lee
  • Brandon Lee
  • February 10, 2022

VMware Tanzu Community Edition Features and Configuration

VMware Tanzu is an umbrella product which encompasses all the Kubernetes products available from VMware. Kubernetes is an open-source service for working with containerized applications. The Community Edition makes VMware Tanzu-powered Kubernetes services available to everyone.
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