One of the many considerations involved with managing your Windows Server infrastructure is licensing. Licensing plays a key role in determining how you build out your infrastructure as well as what edition of Windows Server you choose for various roles. Additionally, when deploying Hyper-V in [...]
When designing any system for high availability, one of the basic fundamentals of engineering in any system is to provide redundancy. Redundancy ensures that if you do have failures (you will), there are components or mechanisms in place that will take over for the failed [...]
Each new version of Windows Server has generally improved on the underlying technologies contained in previous releases of Windows. This is true across the board with Windows Server 2019. Features related to high-availability and disaster recovery have been improved with Windows Server 2019 as well. [...]
Today’s businesses are empowering their employees to be able to work from anywhere and from many different devices. With Virtualization and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) technologies driving the modern workforce employees have more connectivity and productivity options than ever before. When it comes to utilizing [...]
Adoption of Windows Server Core with Windows Server 2019 has seen the fastest adoption rate of any previous Windows Server Core edition since it was first introduced. IT admins are seeing the advantages of making use of Windows Server Core in their environments due to [...]
Today’s “always on” and “always available” IT environments require that you design your applications and infrastructure for high availability. Simply put, you do not want to have a single point of failure in your business-critical infrastructure. It quickly becomes apparent that you are only as [...]
There are many decisions that need to be made when it comes to managing and maintaining a Windows Server environment. With the newest versions of Windows Server, there are other decisions that need to be made that were not relevant in legacy versions of Windows [...]
Remote Access is one of the key components of empowering the mobile workforce for productivity when away from the central production location and network. Over the years, the Virtual Private Network or VPN connection has been a staple of the remote access mobile workforce that [...]
Automation is the king of the world of IT operations today. There are so many great scripting and other platforms that allow operations to efficiently automate much of the infrastructure and network. With Windows Server, PowerShell is certainly a great way to perform any kind [...]
One of the basic functions provided by enterprise IT is the hosting of file services in an organization. Since the early days of computer networks, having shared network locations to store and edit documents and other file resources has been a basic requirement. As the [...]
