Windows Server 2016 Archives - Thomas Maurer

Deploy and Install Windows Admin Center in an Azure VM

Thomas Maurer — Tue, 15 Oct 2019 07:09:29 +0000

The great thing about Windows Admin Center (WAC) you manage every Windows Server doesn’t matter where it is running. You can manage Windows Servers on-prem, in Azure or running at other cloud providers. Now if you want to use Windows Admin Center to manage your virtual machines running in Azure, you can use either an …

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Learn about Windows Server Cluster Functional Levels

Thomas Maurer — Thu, 21 Feb 2019 15:00:59 +0000

A couple of weeks ago, I released a blog post about Hyper-V VM Configuration versions to give an overview about the version history of Hyper-V virtual machines. After that I had the chance to work with John Marlin (Microsoft Senior Program Manager High Availability and Storage) on a similar list of Windows Server Cluster Functional Levels. Why …

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Protect Workloads with Azure Confidential Computing

Thomas Maurer — Mon, 22 Oct 2018 15:52:26 +0000

A year ago Microsoft announced that they were working on a new technology in Azure to protect and encrypt data in use, called Azure Confidential Computing. If you are moving sensitive data to the cloud, you also want to encrypt it. Today, you can do this for data in transit and data at rest. However, …

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Install SNMP on Windows Server Core

Thomas Maurer — Sat, 15 Sep 2018 11:13:39 +0000

If you run Windows Server as Core Installation, like Windows Server 2016 Core or any Microsoft Hyper-V Server edition and you want to use SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) on that system, you first have to install the SNMP feature on that Core Server. After that you can use the MMC to remotely connect to …

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Install FTP Server on Windows Server

Thomas Maurer — Tue, 11 Sep 2018 14:23:45 +0000

Windows Server has IIS build in, which also offers an FTP server option. The File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is still a very popular protocol that allows users to simply upload and download files. Of course today you have more modern options, however, it is still very often used and a lot of legacy applications still …

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Set up Azure Backup in Windows Admin Center

Thomas Maurer — Tue, 11 Sep 2018 14:18:46 +0000

With Windows Admin Center you have a great new web-based management experience for Windows Server. With Microsoft efforts to bring Hybrid Cloud capabilities closer to your on-premises systems, they added support for Azure Backup in Windows Admin Center. This allows you to simply configure Azure Backup for your Windows Server with a couple of clicks. …

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Windows Server 2019 In-place Upgrade

Thomas Maurer — Thu, 30 Aug 2018 18:42:27 +0000

As another part of my series for Windows Server 2019, this blog post covers the in-place upgrade feature. The in-place upgrade allows you to upgrade your existing LTSC versions of Windows Server 2012 R2 or Windows Server 2016 servers to Windows Server 2019. Windows Server 2019 In-place Upgrade will enable businesses to update to the …

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Install OpenSSH Server on Windows Server

Thomas Maurer — Wed, 13 Jun 2018 13:56:51 +0000

Back in 2017 Microsoft made OpenSSH available on Windows 10. Shortly after OpenSSH was also available for Windows Server, version 1709. This blog post should give you a simple step by step guy how you install OpenSSH Server on Windows Server. OpenSSH is available for Windows Server, version 1709 and higher. If you are running …

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Windows Admin Center – The Next Generation Windows Server Management Experience

Thomas Maurer — Thu, 12 Apr 2018 17:21:57 +0000

Back in September Microsoft released Project Honolulu, which is the codename for a new Windows Server management experience. Today Microsoft announced the Windows Admin Center. Windows Admin Center is a flexible, locally deployed, browser-based management platform and tools to manage Windows Server locally and remote. Windows Admin Center (WAC) gives IT Admins full control over all …

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Windows Server – Semi-Annual Channel (SAC) vs Long-Term Servicing Channel (LTSC)

Thomas Maurer — Sun, 19 Nov 2017 15:44:35 +0000

Update March 2018: Microsoft Updated some of the information about the use cases of the Semi-Annual Channel and the LTSC for Windows Server. In short the Semi-Annual Channel releases are focusing on Container innovation and the infrastructure feature and roles are now features and roles of the LTSC. I was already blogging about the new …

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