A web-server Internet Information Service in Windows 2016 / 2012 / R2, like previous IIS versions, can be managed remotely. In fact, it is convenient enough to manage multiple IIS…

I have come across an interesting “feature” or “bug” in Windows Update service on Windows Server 2016 (Windows 10 RTM). If you’re not using an internal WSUS server and your…

How to quickly estimate the current number of user connections (sessions) to the IIS sites on webserver running on Windows Server? Such information will allow to determine and predict the…

In one of the previous articles we have described the installation of a WSUS server on Windows Server 2012 R2 / 2016 in details. After you have configured the update…

Despite the fact that the Windows XP OS support is over 4 years ago, many customers continue to use this OS, and it seems that nothing will drastically change in…

In the last article we told about a new technology of the distributed storage that appeared in Windows Server 2016 – Storage Spaces Direct (S2D). S2D allows to create a…

Storage Spaces Direct (S2D) is a new distributed data storage technology that appeared in Windows Server 2016. Due to Storage Spaces Direct, you can turn local drives of several servers…

In older Windows Server versions prior to Windows Server 2016, you could create a failover cluster only between the servers in the same Active Directory domain. The new version allows…

Most backup solutions for Windows use Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) to create backup copies of the application or service data. In some cases, the VSS service or one of…

In this article we’ll consider the procedure of deployment and configuration of a corporate KMS server able to activate new Microsoft server platform Windows Server 2016. All major peculiarities of…