In this article, we’ll cover how to back up Active Directory domain controllers and enable automatic AD backups using PowerShell and the built-in Windows Server Backup feature.
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Software RAID1 (Mirror) for Boot Drive on Windows
February 24, 2025Tools for creating software RAID arrays from multiple physical disks are built into Windows. First, let’s look at a simple configuration where you need to create a mirror of two…
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Add or Remove Roles and Features on Windows Server with PowerShell
April 1, 2026In Windows Server, you can install or remove roles and features using either the graphical Server Manager console or the Windows Admin Center web interface. However, in most cases, you…
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Transfer/Seize FSMO Roles to Another Domain Controller in AD
March 24, 2026In this article, we will review the purpose of domain controllers holding FSMO roles in Active Directory, how to identify the current FSMO role holders, how to transfer one or…
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Installing Free Let’s Encrypt TLS(SSL) Certificates on Windows Server
October 4, 2024This guide explains how to install free Let’s Encrypt TLS/SSL on a Windows host. We’ll cover how to issue, bind, and renew a certificate for an IIS website, and how…
- Hyper-VPowerShellWindows Server 2019Windows Server 2022
How to Backup Hyper-V Virtual Machines (Tutorial)
November 9, 2023This article discusses the specifics of organizing virtual machine backups in the Microsoft Hyper-V environment. We’ll look at the basic requirements for Hyper-V backup solutions, backup strategies, and the main…
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How to Measure Disk Speed, Performance and IOPS on Windows
April 24, 2026The basic metrics for evaluating storage performance are data transfer rate (throughput, how much data can be read or written per unit of time) and IOPS (Input/Output Operations Per Second).…
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SQL Server: Could Not Find the Database Engine Startup Handle
February 6, 2025I get a strange error when installing MS SQL Server 2019 on Windows Server 2022. The installation fails with the error “Could not find the Database Engine startup handle“.
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How Show a Pop-Up or Balloon Notification with PowerShell
April 10, 2024You can use PowerShell to show pop-up or toast messages to notify Windows users about important events. To get information from the user or confirm an action, you can use…
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FTP Server Quick Setup on Windows 10/11 and Windows Server
March 16, 2024In this step-by-step guide, we’ll look at how to install and configure an FTP server for easy file transfer on Windows Server. The built-in FTP server is available in all…