Quick Bites: The blog discusses the importance of updating and patching Windows Hyper-V hosts and clusters for stability and security It highlights tools like Windows Server Update Services (WSUS), Cluster Aware Updating (CAU), and PowerShell for managing updates effectively Administrators can control update timing, test [...]

In the last four articles, we discussed WSUS fundamentals, how to install WSUS on your Windows Server 2022, how to perform an initial configuration, and how to create computer groups. Even when things are configured on WSUS, clients will not be able to download updates. [...]

In the last three articles, we covered the introduction to WSUS, installation, and initial configuration. In this article, we will talk about computer groups and explain how to create one. Computer groups help you organize your computers and target updates to them at a convenient [...]

In the previous article, we covered some fundamental information you should know before installing WSUS in your infrastructure. Just to refresh your memory, WSUS stands for Windows Server Update Service, and it is used for the centralized update and reporting of Microsoft-based products. This includes [...]

Windows Admin Center is one of the pivotal technologies integrated with Windows Server 2019. Microsoft has purpose-built Windows Admin Center to be a new platform for management that allows administrators to aggregately manage hosts, Failover Clusters, Hyper-V hosts, and HCI solutions. When managing Windows server [...]

There have been many new advancements in Windows Server technologies in the past few Windows Server releases. Many of these have improved upon the core features of Windows Server, including the resiliency and high-availability features it offers. One of the newer features found in Windows [...]

Quick Bites: Deduplication saves space: Eliminates duplicate data in Hyper-V environments, potentially saving 10x the storage space ReFS + Deduplication now available: Windows Server 2019 unlocks ReFS deduplication, removing a major limitation Performance benefits: ReFS offers fast virtual disk provisioning and efficient checkpoint merging Considerations [...]

Windows Server 2019 brings about tremendous changes and improvements to Windows Server architecture. There are great improvements in the realm of hybrid cloud, storage spaces direct, security, HCI, and many others that help to take the enterprise data center to the next level when running [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]