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How to reset lost sa password in SQL express

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: January 20, 2016

How to change login mode in SQL Express

If you are in front of a system where there is a SQL Express installed and you don’t have the sa password for login in, you’re basically stuck, because you have no way to log in and if you login as Windows user you have no rights over the instance and all commands will get […]

| Filed Under: How To Tagged With: How to reset lost sa password in SQL express

VMware VCAP6 Exams Are Back!

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 26, 2025

VCAP6 Design and VCAP6 Deployment

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 […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: VMware VCAP6 Exams

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

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: December 17, 2020

ODBC Connection to Horizon View Composer Database

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 […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization Tagged With: Horizon View Composer Server, VCP6-DTM, VCP6-DTM Objective 1.2 - Install Horizon (with View) Composer Server

Free Update of VMware Workstation 12.1 Released

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: December 9, 2015

VMware Workstation 12.1

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 […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization Tagged With: VMware Workstation 12.1 Pro

How to Backup to Azure

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 23, 2023

How to backup to Azure

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 […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: Azure backup agent, How to Backup to Azure

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

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 16, 2016

Microsoft Windows Server 2016 cpu cores licensing now !!!

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 […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization, Windows Server 2016 Tagged With: Windows Server 2016 licensing

Windows 10 Privacy Freeware – Good Enough to Stop Microsoft?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: May 5, 2016

Windows 10 Privacy

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 […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff, Windows 10

Free OpenSource PSiphon Client to Bypass Country Restrictions

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: August 19, 2020

PSiphon VPN

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 […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: country restrictions, Free OpenSource PSiphon Client to Bypass Country Restrictions

VCP6-DTM Objective 5.3 – Manage Endpoints

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: May 29, 2020

VMware Mirage - Manage collections

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 […]

| Filed Under: Backup, Desktop Virtualization Tagged With: VCP6-DTM Objective 5.3 - Manage Endpoints, VMware Mirage Endpoints

Veeam Backup and Replication v9 Guest File Exclusion

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 30, 2015

Exclude certain folders in VMs from Veeam

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 […]

| Filed Under: Backup, Server Virtualization Tagged With: Veeam Backup and Replication v9 Guest File Exclusion

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