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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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Tech News: VMware PowerCLI 10.0.0! Released

VMware just released PowerCLI 10.0.0. and before you ask; I thought they were just on version 6?  I wondered the same and here is the answer: The decision to move to version ten was a marketing choice as the PowerCLI project recently celebrated its 10th birthday. Let’s get into the how to install or update to the […]

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Install VMware Tools Windows Server 2016 Core

I just completed my install of Windows Server 2016 Core as a guest in my VMware Lab. Now that this has been completed the next step is for me to install the VMware tools so that I can take advantage of various features; specifically, template deployment with customization options About:VMware:Tools: VMware software tools enhance the […]

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Hyper-V Virtualization: Turning Hyper-V On and Off

I recently started using Hyper-V on my Windows 10 workstation to task advantage of using technologies such as Docker that leverages Hyper-V to run its container images.  I also run VMware Player for running virtual machines. The following commands make it a simpler task to toggle Hyper-V on and off again. To Turn Hyper-V off, […]

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Microsoft: Meltdown and Spectre Check via PowerShell

Like many folks around the world, I was wondering if this Meltdown and Spectre flaw would impact my computers and virtual machines.  Microsoft has started to release emergency fixes for Windows 10 and its been said that Windows 8 and legacy 7 will also receive patches. Microsoft has released a PowerShell script that lets users […]

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Office 365: Use Content Search to delete unwanted Emails from Organization

Office 365: Use Content Search to delete unwanted Emails from Organization As an admin you can use the Content search located under Security & Compliance to search for and delete email message from select or all mailbox in your organization.  This is particularly useful to remove high-risk emails such as: Message that contains sensitive data […]