With Windows 2008, running Linux as guest OS on hyper-v was sometime difficult. If you wanted to install old version of Ubuntu or a Network Virtual Appliance like pfsense you had to use Emulated device and/or to manually load hyper-v driver. Performance was sometime poor.

The Sophos XG Firewall is a powerful and advanced NextGen Firewall. It works well in virtualized environment. You can find more info about Sophos XG Firewall here The XG firewall run on Hyper-v as a Gen 1 VM, it supports VLAN in access or trunk mode…

A few weeks ago I had to resolve several problems. I did not want to put the SQL server Name and other data inside the code. A junior admin with no PowerShell background should be able to read and update the list. More I need…