Windows Server 2012 R2

Due to disabling PPTP VPN support in iOS, one of my clients decided to reconfigure the VPN server running Windows Server 2012 R2 from PPTP to L2TP / IPSec. Internal…

After installing the latest security updates that were released on May 8, 2018 on Windows 10 and Windows 7, users began to complain that when they try to run RemoteApp…

Most backup solutions for Windows use Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) to create backup copies of the application or service data. In some cases, the VSS service or one of…

Portqry.exe, a part of Support Tools for Windows 2003, is a convenient tool to check the availability of TCP / UDP ports on a remote server that enables to diagnose issues…

In this article, written as a part of a series devoted to Windows systems security (in the last article we discussed the security issues of passwords stored in the GPP),…

An SSL certificate of a website allows to protect user data transferred over the network against man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks and provide data integrity. In this article we’ll describe the installation…

Own KMS server allows you to significantly simplify the process of activating Microsoft products on the corporate network and in contrast to a usual the activation process doesn’t require granting…

Going back to the security of data stored in RAM, I faced the need to configure an automatic clearing of the swap file (pagefile) in Windows.  When you turn off…

A new version of SMB 3 protocol was introduced since Windows Server 2012 R2 (technically, it is SMB 3.02, since SMB 3.0 appeared in Windows Server 2012). Now you can disable…

Most modern Windows applications require .NET Framework to work properly. The roles and features setup wizard Server Manager in Windows Server 2012 R2 allows to install two different versions of…