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13 articles
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Unofficial Azure Adaptive Cloud Lab Kit x Arc Jumpstart
I am excited to introduce you to my Unofficial Azure Adaptive Cloud Lab Kit x Arc Jumpstart. Do you need a home lab for Azure Arc, Kubernetes, Windows Server, IoT and much more? The Unofficial Azure…
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Install ASUS Intel NUC Windows Server 2025 Network Adapter Driver
I am utilizing Intel or now ASUS NUCs as my lab machine for Windows Server and Azure Arc, running Windows Server 2025 and Hyper-V. A common inquiry is the installation of the Asus Intel NUC Windows…
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Hyper-V Nested virtualization for AMD processors
Windows Server 2022 just became generally available last week with a ton of great improvements in security, hybrid cloud management, and application platform. Another new feature supported with Windows Server 2022 is Hyper-V Nested virtualization for…
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Install Intel NUC Windows Server 2019 Network Adapter Driver
As you know, I am using an Intel NUC as my Windows Server lab machine, where I run Windows Server 2019 and Hyper-V on. Many people asked me about how you can install the Intel NUC…
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Building a Windows Server Lab with an Intel NUC
With the release of Windows Server 2019, which includes a ton of Hybrid Cloud integration features, it was time to build a new lab environment. The plan is to create a lab and demo environment for…
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Apple, Hardware, Microsoft, Microsoft Azure, Office 365, PowerShell, Surface, Virtualization, Windows, Windows Server
Microsoft Guidance to protect against speculative execution side-channel vulnerabilities on Windows, Windows Server and Azure (Meltdown and Spectre)
Microsoft very quickly responded to the speculative execution side-channel vulnerabilities also called Meltdown and Spectre which affect many modern processors and operating systems, including chipsets from Intel, AMD, and ARM. Microsoft released some guidance how you should protect…
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Use PowerShell to verifying protections again speculative execution side-channel vulnerabilities CVE-2017-5754 (Meltdown) and CVE-2017-5715 (Spectre)
As you might have seen in the last couple of days, there are huge news about some security bugs in CPUs from different vendors (not just intel). The Microsoft Security Response Center released a PowerShell Module on the…
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My Hardware Recommendations for Windows Server 2016
Many people are right now asking me about what they have to look out for, if they are going to buy hardware for there next Windows Server 2016 deployment using Hyper-V, Storage nodes or just physical…
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Hyper-V Server: Enable Jumbo Frames on Intel NICs
If you are using iSCSI as storage connection you can win a lot of performance by enabling jumbo frames. It is important that your Storage, Switch and Network Card do support the use of jumbo frames.…
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Ordered HP EliteBook 8460w
Some days ago I compared the new HP EliteBook and ProBook series. Now I decided to buy the HP EliteBook 8460w mobile workstation. I think this is the best option between performance and batterylife. Here the 8460w…
