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Install and configure Windows Server Backup in Windows Server 2022

If you are running Windows Server 2022, or an older version of Windows Server, you can leverage a native...
Upgrade Windows Server 2012 RDS

With Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2 reaching their end of life at the end of 2023, organizations must...
Split-brain DNS deployment using Windows Server DNS policy

It is common for organizations to host websites and other resources that may be accessible from external and internal...
Resilient storage with Storage Spaces

Historically, businesses have used RAID technologies to avoid data loss when disks fail. However, Windows Server offers a pure...
Configuring Network Load Balancing (NLB) for a Windows Server cluster

Network load balancing distributes traffic across multiple backend servers and provides redundancy for critical applications. Windows Server includes a...
Get updates for Windows Server 2022 in WSUS

In the past, Microsoft set up a separate product in WSUS for each version of Windows Server; this meant...
Setting up highly available file shares in Windows Server 2022

Windows Server 2022 has many robust enterprise features that allow IT admins to create resilient and highly available infrastructure...
Join Server Core to an Active Directory (AD) domain

When you install Windows Server Core in your environment, there is no GUI or desktop experience to manage it....
Install Windows Fax Server in Windows Server 2022

Windows Fax Server has been around for quite some time and is still part of Windows Server 2022. So...
Install subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL2) on Windows Server

While the second generation of the Linux subsystem has been on board with Windows 10 since version 20H1, Windows...
Few innovations, uncertain future: Is Windows Server 2022 worth an upgrade?

For more than 20 years, Windows Server has been Microsoft's on-prem platform for delivering IT infrastructure and applications. Companies...
How to use SMB over QUIC in Windows Server 2022

A new feature in Windows Server 2022 is support for Quick UDP Internet Connections (QUIC). This protocol, which is...
Automatically install Windows Server in a VM with AutomatedLab

Lab environments are powerful tools for learning, proof-of-concept work, and software testing, to name a few. However, building out...
Migrate print servers to Windows Server 2019 / 2022

Businesses may be looking to migrate print services from legacy to current versions of Windows Server (2019 or 2022)....
Migrating roles and features to Windows Server 2022 using WSMT

The Windows Server Migration Tools (WSMT) have shipped with Windows Server since version 2003. Admins can use them to...
Compress SMB data in Windows 11 and Server 2022

One of Windows's most recently introduced features is SMB compression. This can reduce the amount of data transferred between...
Migration to Windows Server 2022: WSMT vs. in-place updates

When organizations decide to move services from an older Windows Server version to a newer one, there are a...
Windows Server 2022: Comparison of editions and features

Windows Server 2022 will be available in two main editions: Standard and Datacenter. In addition, Microsoft will introduce a...
Microsoft will not release a free Hyper-V Server 2022

Until now, with each new version of Windows Server LTSC, Microsoft released a corresponding version of the free Hyper-V...