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VMware VCAP6 Exams Are Back!

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Good news. VMware Changed back and brought back certification path for VCAP6 exams, which were previously replaced by VCIX level.  Yes, VMware VCAP6 exams are back. It’s very good news as those VCAPs were fairly popular because of their name and difficultly. Not only that It sounds great “VMware Advanced Certified Professional” but also the […]

VCP6-DTM Objective 1.2 – Install Horizon (with View) Composer Server

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VMware Horizon View Suite has many components. Today’s VCP6-DTM Objective 1.2 – Install Horizon (with View) Composer Server will show you the installation of Horizon View with a Composer server (can also be installed on Windows based vCenter server). Composer is the component That allows using linked clones, do recompose or refresh operations on destkops. Linked […]

Free Update of VMware Workstation 12.1 Released

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New update for VMware Workstation. A Free Update of VMware Workstation 12.1. Free update for existing Workstation 12 users only. Released fixes bugs only. It’s however fixing bugs which were causing issues in the latest Windows 10 version 1511 release (VMtools issues, unity issues or shared folder issues). Also problems with recognizing the ISO of Windows […]

How to Backup to Azure

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In this post we’ll have a look How to Backup to Azure. We’ll test how the Azure backup agent installed on Windows system gets configured and what’s the backup options. In fact the Azure Backup agent is very similar to Windows built-in backup utility, and allows to backup not only Windows server systems, but also […]

Windows Server 2016 licensing moves from per Socket to per core licensing model

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There has been an information released concerning the upcoming release Windows Server 2016, especially the licensing. The Windows Server 2012R2 has already brought about 26% higher licensing costs than the 2008R2 release, and now higher-cores servers will be affected with this move. Licenses for servers with 8 cores or less per proc will be same price […]

Windows 10 Privacy Freeware – Good Enough to Stop Microsoft?

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Another freeware application which keeps Windows 10 less “talking” back to Microsoft. The program’s name is Windows 10 Privacy and it’s Freeware (donateware). It’s minimalistic, but very efficient app! If you boarded on with Windows 10 you might also check Windows 10 AntiSpy from Ashampoo, which is another free software allowing to tweak Windows 10 system in order […]

Free OpenSource PSiphon Client to Bypass Country Restrictions

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I thought I share this Free OpenSource PSiphon Client which allows to accces services which might be blocked by your corporate firewall or not available in your country. It’s Free Open Source software called PSiphon which allows uncensored internet access or gets more secure access when you have to use public wi-fi too. It basically connects to […]

VCP6-DTM Objective 5.3 – Manage Endpoints

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VCP6-DTM Study guide continues today with another chapter covering VMware Mirage which is part of the exam. VCP6-DTM Objective 5.3 – Manage Endpoints is today’s topic. Installation of Mirage components as well as their configuration was covered in previous chapter. Then in the follow-up chapter we dived into the management of Mirage layers. Mirage is very powerful product […]

Veeam Backup and Replication v9 Guest File Exclusion

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I was playing with the latest beta of Veeam Backup and Replication v9 in the lab, and did the installation, including the separate install for the console. I thought that you might want to check out the video that I recorded. I must say that I like the UI. It’s clean, fast and responsive. But […]