When you think about security technologies that are used to secure your data, most likely one of the first technologies that you think of is encryption. There are many different levels of encryption and technologies that can implement it. When it comes to Windows Server, [...]
The trend for both on-premises housed servers, as well as those servers in the public cloud, is leaner, is better and automation is king. This is driving servers that are “headless” or GUI-less and using configuration management tools and other automation tools to interact with [...]
Windows Server Backup is the free backup tool provided by Microsoft in Windows Server. It has been around for several Windows Server versions, including the latest, Windows Server 2019. For basic backup and restore functionality, the Windows Server Backup utility provides basic backup and restore [...]
Windows Server has become more powerful than ever with the release of Windows Server 2019 across all functionalities and components. However, with network troubleshooting and connectivity testing, it still often comes down to a few basic command-lines that can help identify and troubleshoot problems. In [...]
Performing a backup of Windows Server is an essential part of the day to day Windows Server management. Backups allow you to recover from disaster scenarios where data is lost. This could be a result of any number of events such as accidental or intentional [...]
The use of public cloud is as hot as ever among today’s organizations looking to keep pace with the pressing infrastructure needs of their current and future technology challenges. However, most companies are not able to “throw a switch” and cutover cleanly to public cloud [...]
One of the evolutions of technologies with Windows Server in general and Windows Server Hyper-V, in particular, is in the realm of storage. New storage technologies have created interesting capabilities that allow organizations to solve very complex and demanding business challenges and problems they face. [...]
One of the powerful features of Windows Server is the ability to create Windows Failover Clusters. With Windows Failover clustering, pools of hardware resources can be bound together in a virtual entity that allows seamlessly hosting resources in a way that is highly available and [...]
Windows Server 2019 contains really great new functionality and features. In today’s fast-paced, software-driven market, modern infrastructure must be able to keep pace with the production workload demands and pace of deployment, etc. Software-defined infrastructure has been the driving force behind today’s modern data centers [...]
When thinking about the attack surface of a server operating system, the attack surface is drastically reduced when the server operating system is not running a GUI. When adding a GUI to a server, there is exponentially more code that can be exploited by an [...]
