I have had some time to think about it and I don’t normally comment on things like this, but the recent news that Broadcom was acquiring VMware from Dell for approximately $61 billion has me quite concerned about the future of on-premises virtualization and what is going to happen to enterprise solutions like VMware. Perpetual software licenses are going away faster than ever, and once it is normalized there will be no going back.

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I ran into a somewhat annoying issue with using Mail Flow Rules with Exchange Online to modify the subject header on emails that were sent to aliases on some of my Office 365 accounts. I wanted to modify the email subject of those emails to show what alias it was meant for, and I figured I should share that process here if someone else runs into the same issue. This isn’t something that I do very often, and I was doing it wrong from the beginning, hence why I was having an issue.

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I found a useful resource a few days ago that lists all the known/major Microsoft Administration Portals on a single website. While it is a great resource, it also represents a lot of the frustrations that I have with Microsoft’s online services and how administrators are expected to manage them.

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Now available for download, a version of the Building a Certificate Authority in Windows Server 2019 guide that I published in early 2020. This guide offers a rapid deployment of a Two-Tier Certificate Authority using Windows Server without advanced features.

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World Backup Day is a day of awareness for people to learn about the importance of regular backups of their important data.

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I recently saw a post about the newest release of FreeDOS and I wanted to take some time and see how well it works in 2022 on a laptop that was designed to run it from the late MS-DOS era.

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I have written about my obsession with ARM processors and why I have wanted one in a daily driver laptop many times before on this website. It has been something that I have wanted in a laptop for a long time, but unfortunately the hardware and software options were never quite there yet. I have tried many ARM devices over the last 10 years which promised that they could be a daily driver device, or at least something close to that. I was always disappointed with those devices, and I never really found something that worked reliably for me. As time went on, I realized that I really wanted an ARM-based device as my daily driver, regardless of the form factor.

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I have been collecting retro computers for the last few years, mostly replacing devices that I have owned since the early 2000’s that I have gotten rid of. I spent a lot of time moving around between 2004 and 2011, and I wasn’t always able to store things easily, so I got into the habit of traveling light.

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