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Configure preferred geo data location in Office 365

  GDPR had me thinking about Multi-Geo in Office 365 By default, Office 365 resources for your users are located in the same geo as your Azure AD tenant. So, if your tenant is located in North America, then the users’ Exchange mailboxes, OneDrive is also located in North America. For a multinational organization, this […]

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VMware Guest Customization Specification, Configure Domain Joining

I recently worked to correct an outstanding support issue of VMware Guest Customization Specification not joining guests to Active Directory Domains. I thought I’d share my setup so it might help others facing similar issues. Log into the vSphere console, navigate to the Home page section From the Home page click the Customization Specification Manager […]

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How to delay the Windows 10 Spring Creators Update

As we edge ever nearer to the release of the Windows 10 Spring Creators Update, we must pause and think about what could possibly break in the process.  That said, it’s a good practice to allow yourself time to test these things before deploying out to your company. Here are steps you can take locally […]

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Download a copy of your Facebook data

Recently we have all have been reading about Facebook’s breach of trust. Even Mark Zuckerberg, admitted that Facebook has made mistakes. The issue: Cambridge Analytica, a U.K.-based political data-analytics firm hired by the 2016 Trump campaign, got its hands on data for 50 million Facebook users — without the users’ knowledge or consent. At this point, it’s […]

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Hyper-V, and Automatic Virtual Machine Activation in Windows Server 2016

Windows Server 2012 R2 introduced a feature called “Automatic Virtual Machine Activation” (AVMA), and now in Windows Server 2016, this feature has been carried forward. This feature was primarily designed for Web Hosters but found usefulness in internal Hyper-V server for testing lab machines. What is Automatic Virtual Machine Activation (AVMA)? Automatic Virtual Machine Activation is […]

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Windows Server 2016 Core: Active Directory Domain Services

To lower my memory footprint in my home lab I decided to move from into Windows Server 2016 Core.  That said running Active Directory Domain Service seems to be the perfect candidate to start with my new architectured lab environment. There are several prerequisites required for enabling ADDS, but I am not going to get into […]