Windows Server 2016 tips, tricks, configuration examples

Manage your Security and Compliance Globally Across Environments and Geo-locations via Runecast Platform

Vladan SEGET — Tue, 05 Apr 2022 08:31:48 +0000

Runecast has grown again by providing global visibility enabling you to be able to achieve 100 % compliance within your enterprise. This can now be achieved with one unified platform. As enterprises have many geo locations and separate datacenters and remote offices across the globe. The management of such an environment with separate and siloed […]

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Iperius Backup 7.0 – Incremental and Differential backup of Hyper-V (RCT)

Vladan SEGET — Mon, 02 Mar 2020 04:34:00 +0000

Iperius backup is known for its small footprint and a possibility to backup VMs running on VMware ESXi. Iperius is the only backup software I know which is able to backup VMs running on the Free version of ESXi. This new release of Iperius Backup 7.0 brings also Incremental and differential Hyper-V backups, features that […]

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New Book – Bitlocker for IT Admins

Vladan SEGET — Mon, 17 Feb 2020 10:23:08 +0000

A fellow blogger and book author Xavier Genestos released a new book called Bitlocker for IT Admins. Like every year he kindly asks me to write a small post about that. This year he wrote about Bitlocker technology from Microsoft and how it can help IT, administrators, to secure their data. The book is in […]

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StarWind Free NVMe-oF Initiator for Windows

Vladan SEGET — Thu, 01 Aug 2019 16:30:23 +0000

StarWind just released new free product. It's called NVMe-oF Initiator for Windows and it's completely free. Not so long time ago we have written about NVMe Over Fabric (NVMe-oF) protocol in this post – What is NVMe Over Fabrics (NVMe-oF)? and talked about the advantages of lower latency and higher throughput. Remember that this protocol is […]

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What is Azure File Sync?

Vladan SEGET — Mon, 08 Oct 2018 12:15:03 +0000

With generalization of cloud storage services, many vendors, including Microsoft offers syncing services. In this post, we'll talk about What is Azure file Sync and what's the different scenarios for usage. If you're already using Azure File Sync or you think you know all about this service from Microsoft, you can skip to another post. […]

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What is Microsoft MSIX Packaging Tool?

Vladan SEGET — Tue, 07 Aug 2018 07:57:05 +0000

MSIX Packaging Tool enables you to update your existing (or older) win32 application packages to the MSIX format. You can run your older desktop installers through this tool and obtain an MSIX package that you can install on your machine and upload to the Microsoft Store (coming soon). According to Microsoft, it will be manageable […]

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Remote Desktop Web Client for Windows Server 2016 and 2019 Preview is Generally Available

Vladan SEGET — Tue, 17 Jul 2018 07:42:34 +0000

The announcement came out on Twitter later today, that Microsoft Remote Desktop Services Team has released a new product. In fact, a Remote Desktop Web Client for Windows Server 2016 and 2019 Preview is Generally Available. A production-ready Remote Desktop Web Client for Windows Server 2016 and Windows Server 2019 Preview. Available through PowerShell deployment, via […]

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What Is StarWind SMI-S Provider?

Vladan SEGET — Mon, 28 May 2018 06:02:33 +0000

Today's heterogeneous storage environment within an enterprise tend to be difficult to manage. Each storage array has different management and different tools. Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S) is a standard which was developed by the Storage Network Industry Association (SNIA), which has done this job to make this management easier. Today's post will talk about What […]

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StarWind Supports SMB3 – Did you Know?

Vladan SEGET — Fri, 18 May 2018 04:59:34 +0000

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 […]

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Microsoft Windows Admin Center is GA – Free Download

Vladan SEGET — Mon, 16 Apr 2018 10:42:16 +0000

Microsoft surprisingly released Project Honolulu that we recently wrote about here and here, under a new name – Windows Admin Center. This sounds good, but not only sounds, we like this project so much that we decided to write and promote this product once more time. What is Windows Admin Center and why we like it […]

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