StarWind is known for their StarWind Virtual SAN software. It’s a cost-effective solution for IT admins and organizations willing to deploy simple storage solution. Today we’ll talk about StarWind which is able to provide lower cost data services like caching, snapshots, QoS, or data optimization. Yes, in fact, StarWind Supports SMB3 – Did you know? StarWind itself […]
Microsoft Windows Server Management Challenges – Project Honolulu
It seems that Microsoft hasn’t said their last word concerning GUI management for Microsoft Server systems. In this post we will discuss the new Project Honolulu but get back to Nano Server which seems to be dying fast. In fact, after trying to develop Nano server for some time, a very lightweight server node, recent […]
How to Disable Auto Lock on Windows Server via Group policy
The problem with the auto lock feature is that it really slow down when working in a multi-server environment in a lab. This is especially true of lab environments. Servers in lab environments are usually used much more than usual production servers. So, in the long run, the automatic lock can be especially painful. In this post, […]
Upgrade Windows Server 2012R2 AD to Server 2016
OK, I know that this is not really a good idea, but I had questions on this and wanted to test. I wanted to test an upgrade Windows Server 2012R2 AD to Server 2016. In place migration. Yes, I know, it’s not really worth it as often when migrating, the system isn’t really “clean” with […]
WSUS Offline Updater Free Utility
There is a free utility which is cool and this will be today’s blog post – WSUS Offline Updater Free Utility. The utility allows offline patching of systems, which does not have an internet connection. Also, you can use WSUS Offline Updater Free utility when for example, you want to download Windows patches to your computer […]
How-to Import Windows 10 ADMX into Windows Server 2012 R2 Domain
Windows 10 brought new options for managing endpoints. As the latest version of Windows Server is version 2012 R2 for now, we need a workaround the time new Windows Server 2016 will come up. The pack containing Windows 10 ADMX templates allows to control which features and functions are activated on Windows 10 computers. For […]
vSphere 6.0 vCenter Server 6 Windows 2012 R2 Install Guide (With External SQL Server DB)
VMware vSphere 6.0 has brought simplified deployment model where the dependency on Microsoft SQL server is reduced by using the built-in vPostgre SQL provided by VMware. Supported databases for the windows installation are SQL 2008 R2, 2012 and 2014, Oracle 11g and 12c as well as the option to use an embedded vPostgres database. vPostgres on […]
[How-to] Failure Configuring Windows Updates Reverting Changes Windows 8, 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 issue
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You might encounter this error when there is a power loss during the update process. You’ll see this message “Failure configuring windows updates reverting changes” which basically tells you that Windows is undoing the changes (uninstalling patches.. perhaps). Sometimes manual intervention is necessary as the updates fails to install (even after several reboots). The problem […]
IIS and PHP Setup – The Easy Way On Windows Server 2012 With Web Platform Installer
There is many ways to do an IIS and PHP Setup on Windows machine. It was much more complicated before, as now with Microsoft Platform Installer things got much easier. I wanted to share my experience with that. But before we’ll start the few steps process, lets see which different possibilities exists to install a WAMP […]
Windows Server Hyper-V 2012 R2 Poster of component architecture – Free Download
If you collection freebies, this might be your interest. With the release of Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 as well as Windows Server 2012 R2 few days back, there is a new poster(s) available as a free download from Microsoft’s website. A poster showing the Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V component Architecture, which can be […]