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Enable Server Manager remote management for Windows Server 2016 Core

The purpose of this post is to document the steps I had to follow to get my Hyper-V Server...
Privileged Access Management – Assign temporary AD group membership

In today's post, I will show you how to provide Active Directory user accounts with temporary group memberships in...
Storage Spaces Direct (S2D) – Part 2: setup and monitoring

In the first part of this article, we looked at the benefits of S2D, its building blocks and how...
Three new free IT pro eBooks in the wiki: Docker, Windows Server 2016, Data Science

Since my last update, I've added three new books to our list of free Windows admin eBooks: Introducing Windows...
Install Azure Stack in a nested Windows Server 2016 VM

If you want to test Azure Stack, you can install Microsoft's hybrid cloud solution in a nested Windows Server...
Setup and Boot Event Collection in Windows Server 2016

Windows Server 2016 introduced a new feature called “Setup and Boot Event Collection,” which allows you to remotely connect...
Install Nano Server with Microsoft’s Nano Server Image Builder

Microsoft released a new Nano Server Image Builder tool that allows you to install Window Server 2016 with a...
Active Directory Federation Services in Windows Server 2016

It’s been a long wait, but Windows Server 2016 is finally here. Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) is...
Security Compliance Manager – Deploy baselines

In part one of this two-part mini-series, we gained initial familiarity with the Security Compliance Manager (SCM) solution accelerator....
Security Compliance Manager Windows Server 2016

You may be familiar with Microsoft Security Essentials or the Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (MBSA), but have you ever...
Storage Replica in Windows Server 2016

Storage Replica is a new feature in Windows Server 2016 that allows us to do storage-agnostic block-level replication of...
What’s new in Active Directory for Windows Server 2016

Active Directory received three major enhancements with the release of Windows Server 2016. This article will review Privileged Access...
Disable SSL in Windows Server 2016 with PowerShell

Cracking SSL-encrypted communications has become easy, if not trivial, for a motivated attacker. In July 2016, the de facto...
Five new free eBooks from Microsoft Press

It's time for me to update our list of free admin eBooks. Five new eBooks made it into the...
Configure Credential Guard via Group Policy

Credential Guard in Windows Server 2016 allows you to protect in-memory credentials. This post explains how Credential Guard works...
Create Hyper-V containers in Windows Server 2016

Microsoft's been pretty busy integrating Docker containers into Windows Server 2016, and some of the terminology can be confusing....
Evaluating Nano Server in Windows Server 2016 TP4

Today, you’ll learn how Nano Server works in Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview 4 (TP4). The Microsoft Windows product...
The Windows Server 2016 price tag

Although Microsoft hasn’t given us a release date for this “latest and greatest” server OS, we now know the...
Deploying Windows Server 2016 containers using Azure and Docker

Today we learn to leverage Azure (the Microsoft cloud), Windows PowerShell, and Docker to deploy Windows Server 2016–based virtual...