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Video Tutorial How To Deploy Printers To Specific Users Through Active Directory Group Policy Object

Video Tutorial How To Deploy Printers To Specific Users Through Active Directory Group Policy Object

In this tutorial we are going to use Active Directory Security Groups and Group Policy Objects to deploy printers to specific users based on their group membership. At the end of this tutorial we will have two new security groups and two new group policy objects. Members of the first security group will get PRINTER1…

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Video – How To Sysprep Then Create And Deploy Windows OVF/OVA in VMWare ESX

Video – How To Sysprep Then Create And Deploy Windows OVF/OVA in VMWare ESX

Today we are going to use sysprep to prepare a Windows workstation for deployment and create an Open Virtualization Format Appliance. Then we are going to upload that OVA to the VMWare ESX datastore and deploy the image using the vSphere client. Step-by-step instructions follow the video below. Let’s start by logging into the workstation’s console…

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Install VMWare ESXi Hypervisor 5.5 Update 2/6.0 on Late 2012 Mac Mini 6,2 MD388LL/A

Install VMWare ESXi Hypervisor 5.5 Update 2/6.0 on Late 2012 Mac Mini 6,2 MD388LL/A

Today we are going to install VMWare Hypervisor on our late 2012 Mac Mini that has been upgraded to 16GB of memory and a second hard drive. For this installation I’ve picked up two of the Verbatim 16 GB Store ‘n’ Stay Nano USB 3.0 Flash Drives, but we will be using only one for…

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Upgrading Our Mac Mini 6,2 Model MD388LL-A To Dual Hard Drives and 16GB RAM for ESXi

Upgrading Our Mac Mini 6,2 Model MD388LL-A To Dual Hard Drives and 16GB RAM for ESXi

[nextpage title=”Page 1″]Today we are going to convert last years Mac Mini from desktop-computer duties to a powerful VMWare ESXi Hypervisor lab server. To upgrade this Mac for ESXi we will add a second hard disk, (we still want the ability to dual-boot back into Mac OS X). Using the OWC Data Doubler SSD/2.5″ Hard Drive Installation…

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VIDEO – How To Install The 1Channel Add-on In Kodi, (XBMC), For iOS 8 8.1

VIDEO – How To Install The 1Channel Add-on In Kodi, (XBMC), For iOS 8 8.1

We have already Installed Kodi on our iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch, so now we are going to install the 1Channel Add-on which will allow us to watch just about any internet media stream available. Launch Kodi on your iDevice and change to the Confluence theme, (the file-manager isn’t there on the Re-Touched theme). Go to System > File…

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