Last week, Microsoft announced the final release of Windows Server 2016 (the bits can be downloaded here). In addition, Microsoft has announced that Windows Server 2016 supports now a 2-node ...

This can occur even if Node.js is correctly installed and the OpenAI API key is set properly. We investigated the issue and found a working solution. Below is a step-by-step guide. Download Visual C++ ...

When Windows Server 2016 has been released, the data deduplication was not available for ReFS file system. With Storage Spaces Direct, the volume should be formatted in ReFS to get latest features ...

In the previous parts of this series, I have talked about encryption and signature algorithms and why Public Key Infrastructure exists. Next I have shown you step by step how to install a simple ...

WSUS (Windows Server Update Service) is a role that provides a central management point for Microsoft Update. Thanks to WSUS, all servers no longer need to connect to Microsoft Update to download ...

These days I’m trying in depth Windows Server 2019. Today I chose to pay attention to Remote Desktop Services. The goal of my lab is to deploy a RDS Farm with all components and with the new HTML5 ...

If you are using Microsoft Azure, you may have noticed that currently there are two Portals: This topic is not intended to teach you everything about the Azure Resource Manager template. I write this ...

In a previous topic, I have described how to deploy a VMware vSAN cluster. VMware vSAN enables to create a hyperconverged cluster in the vSphere environment. The last time we saw how to deploy this ...

StarWind VSAN Free provides a storage solution for several purposes such as store virtual machines. With VSAN Free, you can deploy a 2-node cluster to present a highly available storage solution to ...

With Windows Server 2019 and Windows Admin Center, we are able to build hybrid cloud in an easy way. First Windows Admin Center provide a GUI to configure features such as Azure Backup, Azure Site ...

StarWind Virtual Tape Library (VTL) is a feature included in StarWind Virtual SAN. StarWind VTL provides a virtual LTO library to store your backup archival. StarWind VTL eliminates the heavy process ...

Storage Spaces Direct (S2D) is the Microsoft Software-Defined Storage solution. Thanks to S2D, we can deploy hyperconverged infrastructure based on Microsoft technologies such as Hyper-V. This feature ...