Windows Server 2016

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    Windows Server 2016 Install Remote Desktop Services

    This year has been a year like none other with organizations scrambling to bolster their remote work infrastructure. It has meant that businesses have had to provision the infrastructure needed to allow workers to connect to business-critical applications, services, and…

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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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…

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    Windows Server 2016 Active Directory Administrative Center

    A lesser known feature in Windows Server beginning with Windows Server 2008 R2 is the Active Directory Administrative Center that allows administrators what basically looks like Server Manager to administer Active Directory environments. The Active Directory Administrative Center or ADAC…

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    Install Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V Nano Server in VMware ESXi

    One of the exciting features of Windows Server 2016 is Nano Server which is basically a headless operating system that really does strip out just about everything but the necessary components to run a server operating system.  There is of…