Windows Server 2016

A Windows administrator can use the good old Dnscmd cli tool or DNSServer module for PowerShell to manage DNS zones and records. In this article we’ll cover the basic operations…

The monitoring system on one of my servers running Windows Server 2016 started sending multiple messages of the Volume Shadow Copy Service error with the Event ID 8193 and VSS…

Windows has many tools for diagnosing problems in TCP/IP networks (ping, telnet, pathping, etc.). But not all of them allow you to conveniently check the status or scan opened network…

On one of the servers running Windows Server 2016, an additional disk (not a system one) connected as a SAN LUN over FC gets offline after each restart of the…

In the Active Directory domain, you can centrally manage and customize Start Menu and Taskbar Layout on Windows 10 users’ computers using Group Policy. This allows you to assign the…

The “CredSSP encryption oracle remediation” error when connecting to the remote computer’s desktop over RDP indicates that the remote host (most likely) or your computer is missing a security update…

A RAM disk is a virtual drive created in a free area of RAM that the OS sees as a normal local hard drive. The advantage of RAM Drive is…

Group Policy (GPO) WMI Filters allow you to create additional conditions that define the computers to which you want to apply GPO settings. For example, you can use a WMI…

Storage Spaces Direct (S2D) is a new distributed data storage technology that appeared in Windows Server 2016. Due to Storage Spaces Direct, you can turn local drives of several servers…

TFTP (Trivial File Transfer Protocol) is a simplified file transfer protocol that provides an easy way to download and upload files. Typically, TFTP is used for PXE booting (network boot,…