windows server 2016
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Windows Server 2016
Windows Server 2016 Security Features and Hardening
There is no doubt about it that Windows Server 2016 is Microsoft’s most powerful server operating system. If you have been waiting on reasons to upgrade server infrastructure to Server 2016, security may be among the top reasons why you…
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Hyper-V
Use Snapshots in Production with Hyper-V Production Checkpoints
For most virtualization admins who have spent any time in the trenches with administering virtual environments, snapshots are just a bad thing for most use cases, especially production workloads. We have all most likely been in situations where snapshots caused…
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Computers
Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V Versions
Microsoft’s Hyper-V hypervisor has definitely seen an uptick in adoption with more enterprise ready features with each version. Windows Server 2016 is the most capable and fully featured release to date and it certainly has matured from the early days…
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Windows Server 2016
Add iSCSI Shared Storage in Windows Server 2016
If you are configuring a Windows Server 2016 Failover cluster or you are building a Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V cluster, you will need shared storage so that either the file or virtual machine resources don’t live on local storage which…
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Windows Server 2016
When to use Windows Server 2016 ReFS
Windows Server 2016 has many exciting enhancements, however, one that many will want to take advantage of is the new version of the ReFS file system that is baked into Windows Server 2016. ReFS version 3.1 contains many new enhancements…
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Windows Server 2016
Install and Configure Windows Server 2016 WSUS
Windows Server Update Services or WSUS is a Microsoft product that allows us to centrally manage patches for Microsoft operating systems and other Microsoft products. With Windows Server 2016, the process is basically the same as previous server operating systems…
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Horizon View
Installing VMware Horizon View 7.1 Connection Server
We begin a series of posts on installing and configuring VMware Horizon 7.1. In this first post, we will begin with Installing VMware Horizon View 7.1 Connection Server which is the first role we need to install to get VMware Horizon…
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Computers
Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V Cluster Not Enough Storage Space Available
I wanted to write up a quick end of the week post that had me scratching my head for a bit in a Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V cluster lab I had built up. When powering up a virtual machine in…
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Windows Server 2016
Add iSCSI target Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V Core
Working with Windows Server 2016 Server Core is a bit more difficult than working with the GUI enabled version of Windows Server. Also, with Windows Server 2016 Microsoft has removed the ability to go back from GUI to Server Core,…
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Windows Server 2016
Enable Windows Server 2016 Active Directory Recycle Bin
In our last post, we talked about the Active Directory Administrative Center in Windows Server 2016. ADAC is a great way to interface with Active Directory with a task oriented GUI interface. One of the things we can do from…
