Because the forthcoming Microsoft Nano Server doesn't have a GUI, here's how to create configuration scripts with the built-in Desired State Configuration in Windows PowerShell.

A Pull server gives you a central place to manage all of your nodes' configuration files, and your servers call in on their own to retrieve their configurations. In PowerShell five this process gets ...

2] Configure the NTP Server using PowerShell. The aforementioned method allows you to configure the NTP server using the GUI, but we have a CLI-based method as well.

In Server Manager, click on the Refresh button. Go to File and Storage Services. Click on Volumes. Right-click on the volume you want to enable this feature on and select Configure Data Deduplication.

The Server Manager is able to display performance alert counts on a per server basis. About the Author Brien Posey is a 22-time Microsoft MVP with decades of IT experience.

Here are some tips and tricks for creating redundant Azure AD Connect server that can help keep business running if the primary server fails. Topics Spotlight: AI-ready data centers ...

Steven Warren explains how to install, configure, and troubleshoot a Windows Server 2008 DNS server. As many of you are probably aware, the Domain Name System (DNS) is now the name resolution ...

Configure logging and monitoring to keep an eye on the mail server’s performance and security. Setting up Dovecot for POP/IMAP. Dovecot will manage the mailboxes and allow email retrieval: Install and ...

The configuration of the Squid Proxy Server is handled in the /etc/squid/squid.conf. I will show you how to configure a very basic proxy server. The first thing we need to do is uncomment the line ...

A Windows server uses its Local Configuration Manager to read the MOF files and implement the configuration. As you might expect, there are different ways to configure the LCM to determine how it ...