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    Windows Admin Center 1809 Released with Windows Server 2019 Features

    Microsoft has certainly made no bones about the fact that they are invested and committed to a new management tool called Windows Admin Center. Most have no doubt already heard about the Windows Admin Center if you have not already…

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    Windows Server 2019 New Security Features

    There is no doubt about it that security is on the minds of everyone today. With high profile breaches and data leaks reported in major news headlines, security is on the radar of both IT professionals and C-level executives alike.…

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    Windows Server 2019 Storage Spaces Direct Features and Improvements

    The world of software defined storage is certainly the way of the future with enterprise storage. The wild success of VMware’s vSAN product is proof that customers are excited about and confident in software defined storage as such. Microsoft has…

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    Monitoring Hyper-V Performance with Server Performance Advisor

    When working with virtualization platforms, monitoring gathering information concerning performance is a necessary part of keeping an eye on key performance indicators in the environment. When working with Microsoft Hyper-V as a virtualization platform, there are a lot of third…

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    Windows Admin Center Preview 1808 Hyper-V Cluster and VM Management New Features

    With the recent release of Windows Admin Center Preview 1808, there have been some really additions to this particular build. With Windows Admin Center Preview 1808, Hyper-V management has certainly gotten better for both Hyper-V hosts and Hyper-V hosts in…

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    Installing and Configuring Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V Containers

    Containers are certainly all the rage in the world of virtualization and are the next evolution in how businesses deploy and host applications and perform development. Containers offer several advantages over full blown virtual machines when it comes to efficiency,…

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    Hyper-V Cluster MPIO iSCSI Installation and Configuration

    When configuring storage for Windows Server Hyper-V clusters with SAN storage, you always want to make sure you have multiple paths to your storage for redundancy and performance. With SAN storage and iSCSI you won’t want to utilize link aggregation…

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    VMware vs Hyper-V Nested Virtualization

    Nested virtualization provides tremendous value for virtualization administrators whether running in VMware or now with Hyper-V environments running Windows Server 2016 as base for the Hyper-V role. Nested virtualization brings to the table many benefits including hypervisor hosted containers, dev/test…

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    Troubleshooting Windows Access Denied Errors

    Windows administrators can spend a massive amount of time poring over logs and investigating error messages.ย  Trying to figure out why Windows is throwing certain errors can be frustrating and time consuming.ย  I was reminded of this frustration recently in…

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    Windows Server 2019 Preview 17709 with New Hyper-V Released

    For those that have been following the Windows Insider Preview Builds, Windows Server 2019 Preview 17709 has been released as of a couple of days ago. Additionally, this is the first Windows Server 2019 Preview that has the new preview…