A few years back I was asked to deploy a Windows Server SBS edition. Being an experienced admin, I did not really like the experience. It was not the “traditional tools” which had to be used to configure AD, networking, and GPO, but rather those built-in web-based assistants. Quite terrible. Anyway. This post’s name is […]
Windows Server 2016 – How to configure data deduplication
Windows Server 2016 will also have a new deduplication engine. In this post, we will have a look on how to setup data deduplication in Windows Server 2016 and also what’s changes compared to 2012 R2. While 2012R2 the recommended size of volumes suitable for deduplication were limited to 10 Tb, with the upcoming Windows […]
Top 10 Shortcuts for Windows Server 2016
Some of the shortcuts works for Windows Server 2012 and probably 2008 as well (*.msc was around since 2003?), but as we’re heading towards the release of Windows Server 2016 I’m trying to kind of be ahead of time. The post is based on a latest TP5 release of Windows Server 2016. The shortcuts listed below […]
Windows Server 2016 Telemetry Details
Are you concerned? If you’re planning to deploy Windows Server 2016 in your company, then yes, you should definitely get this document which talks about Windows Server 2016 Telemetry (aka “Windows phone home”) settings. One would have thought that there wasn’t enough noise when Windows 10 went out and many freeware apps were released to […]
Windows Server 2016 Active Directory Installation Guide
This is step by step article (with video) which shows the installation of a Windows Server 2016 Active Directory on Windows Server 2016 (the latest TP5) by using VMware ESXi (I’m running the whole vSphere 6 in my lab). Many folks learning towards Microsoft and VMware certifications usually use a free version of ESXi which is […]
Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview 5 Released
Microsoft has released final TP of Windows Server 2016. It is the Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview 5. There should be no more new features announced after this release as the product will head into the RTM state, which is planned this fall. You can download evaluation ISO, see the links section below. One of the […]
Windows Server 2016 Free E-book
By searching the internet I stumbled on this new Windows Server 2016 Free E-book today. The title of the book is Introducing Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview. It’s based on the latest TP4 preview and it gives very good technical details about the new technologies that we’ll find in the upcoming release of Windows Server 2016. The […]
Windows Server 2016 Active Directory Improvements
Windows Server 2016 shall go out this year and on what’s being said already we wanted to focus today on Active Directory Improvements. Active directory is core directory service in most businesses and especially SMBs do rely on AD in their environment. Currently, we have the TP4 available so the screenshots in this post will […]
Windows Server 2016 – What is the difference between Standard And Datacenter Edition
Windows Server 2016 will come up in two releases. Standard and Datacenter. The standard edition will however not contain some features that the Datacenter will provide. This wasn’t the case of the current Windows Server 2012R2 where Standard and Datacenter editions provided the same features, but the only difference was in the possibilities to virtualize two […]
Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V on VMware
Windows Server 2016 TP4 was released few weeks back. Lots of new stuff is coming in the upcoming Windows Server 2016, including Hyper-V. In one of my previous posts we have showed the installation of installation of Windows Server 2016 and activation of Hyper-V role by using VMware Workstation. We were actually testing the hot-add/remove […]