Configuration Category

A Guide on How to Mount Amazon S3 as a Drive for Cloud File Sharing

June 2, 2023
AWS, or Amazon Web Service, has its own cloud object storage service – Amazon S3 (or Simple Storage Services). Data is stored in "buckets",...

Detailed Walkthrough: Install Ubuntu 20.04 on Hyper-V with Enhanced Session

June 1, 2023
Using the Enhanced session mode in Microsoft Hyper-V Manager is a more convenient way of managing VMs than the basic session mode in VMConne...

VMware Distributed Switch Configuration Best Practices

June 1, 2023
In virtualized environments, a virtual switch is a software-based analog of physical switches. Virtual switches are used to connect virtual...

How to Connect Office 365 Exchange Online Services to PowerShell

June 1, 2023
More often than not, Microsoft Office 365 and all included applications are managed via a web browser in a graphical user interface. Basical...

How to Use USB Devices with a VMware vSphere Virtual Machine

June 1, 2023
The main function of a hypervisor is to emulate devices used by VMs at the software level. Devices are created in a VM, whether virtual cont...

Setting Up an Office 365 SMTP Relay with TLS Connectors

June 1, 2023
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) is the standard protocol used to send email messages over the internet and to deliver them to recipient...

How to Deploy Graphics Devices Using RemoteFX vGPU

June 1, 2023
Installing video acceleration and a graphics card on a physical computer for better performance and image quality is a common task. But what...

Setting the Number of Cores per CPU in a Virtual Machine

June 1, 2023
When it comes to configuring the processor settings for a new virtual machine, there are several key concepts to understand. These include c...

How to Join vCenter to an Active Directory Domain

May 15, 2023
To integrate a vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) with Microsoft Active Directory as the identity source simplifies and improves the security o...

How to Set Up Windows Server for File Sharing

April 18, 2023
If you want to configure access to files over the network for one or more users, you need to configure file sharing on the computer on which...

How to Configure Hyper-V VMs in Windows Server 2016 and Newer

March 28, 2023
The point of setting up the Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V hypervisor is to host virtual machines. Once you have installed the Hyper-V role, th...

How to Configure a vSphere SSO Domain in vCenter

March 2, 2023
A key part of vSphere infrastructure administration is being able to assign roles and permissions for vSphere resources. Managing logins and...