Using Group Policies, you can create a shortcut to a specific application and deploy it to the desktops of all users in the domain (or to specific users only). This…
In this article, we’ll show how to restore the Active Directory domain controller from a previously created System State backup (see the Active Directory backup post), and discuss the types…
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.
Tools 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…
In 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…
In 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…
This 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…
This 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…
The 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).…
I 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“.