Larry Smith Jr.

Exploring and sharing practical insights on virtualization, cloud technologies, automation, and DevOps. My mission is to empower others to build, automate, and innovate with confidence.

Everything Should Be Virtual - Virtualization, Automation, Infrastructure

Atlanta VMUG - 11/7/2012

November 6, 2012 less than 1 minute read

I will be attending the Atlanta VMUG tomorrow. Definitely looking forward to this as this will be my first one. Glad I joined the VMUG community while at VMw...

Back to PFsense I go

November 6, 2012 less than 1 minute read

So after 2 years that I have been using Astaro/Sophos for my firewall I have gone back to PFsense. Do not get me wrong, but I do really like Astaro/Sophos. T...

Ubuntu UTM Homebrew – Part 2 - Network Graphing

November 4, 2012 less than 1 minute read

In this previous post we setup the initial UTM (Unified Threat Management). In this quick guide we will be setting up network traffic graphing. We want to be...

Windows 8 Mapped Drives via GPO

October 30, 2012 1 minute read

So I went ahead and loaded Windows 8 Pro this past weekend. I used it a few times during the preview releases and didn’t care much for it at the time. Well I...

Upgrade GPO Templates on Server 2008 R2 with Windows 8/Server 2012

October 30, 2012 less than 1 minute read

Here is a quick howto on upgrading the GPO templates on a Server 2008 R2 domain controller with the newest ones from a Windows 8 machine. There are a few add...