Capacity Planning

How to Generate Storage Reports with FSRM on Windows Server 2016 — step-by-step Windows Server 2016 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Generate Storage Reports with FSRM on Windows Server 2016

How to Configure Storage Reports with FSRM on Windows Server 2016 The Storage Reports feature within File Server Resource Manager on Windows Server 2016 gives administrators a powerful mechanism to analyze disk usage patterns across managed file servers. Storage reports can identify the largest files consuming space, break down usage by file owner, discover duplicate […]

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How to Use SQL Server Profiler on Windows Server 2016 — step-by-step Windows Server 2016 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Use SQL Server Profiler on Windows Server 2016

How to Monitor SQL Server with SQL Server Profiler on Windows Server 2016 SQL Server Profiler is a graphical interface included with SQL Server Management Studio that allows database administrators to capture and analyze a real-time trace of events occurring inside a SQL Server instance. By recording events such as query executions, stored procedure calls, […]

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How to Run Windows Diagnostics on Windows Server 2016 — step-by-step Windows Server 2016 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Run Windows Diagnostics on Windows Server 2016

How to Configure Windows Diagnostics and Memory Dump on Windows Server 2016 When a Windows Server 2016 system experiences a kernel-mode crash, also known as a Blue Screen of Death or Bug Check, the operating system can be configured to capture diagnostic information in the form of a memory dump file. Analyzing this dump file […]

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How to Monitor Windows Server 2016 with SolarWinds — step-by-step Windows Server 2016 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Monitor Windows Server 2016 with SolarWinds

How to Set Up SolarWinds Monitoring Agent on Windows Server 2016 SolarWinds offers a suite of monitoring products, and its agent-based monitoring approach is central to platforms such as SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor (SAM) and the N-able N-central and N-sight Remote Monitoring and Management products. Installing the SolarWinds agent on a Windows Server 2016 […]

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How to Configure DFS Replication on Windows Server 2016 — step-by-step Windows Server 2016 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure DFS Replication on Windows Server 2016

How to Set Up DFS Replication for File Server Redundancy on Windows Server 2016 Distributed File System Replication, commonly referred to as DFS-R, is a role service built into Windows Server 2016 that enables efficient, multi-master replication of folders between servers. By leveraging the Remote Differential Compression algorithm, DFS-R transfers only the changed portions of […]

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How to Configure IIS Logging on Windows Server 2016 — step-by-step Windows Server 2016 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure IIS Logging on Windows Server 2016

How to Configure IIS Logging and Analysis on Windows Server 2016 Internet Information Services (IIS) on Windows Server 2016 generates detailed access logs that record every HTTP request, response code, bytes transferred, time taken, client IP, and user agent. Properly configured IIS logging is essential for security auditing, performance troubleshooting, SEO analysis, capacity planning, and […]

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How to Set Up Prometheus and Grafana Monitoring on Windows Server 2016 — step-by-step Windows Server 2016 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up Prometheus and Grafana Monitoring on Windows Server 2016

How to Monitor Windows Server with Prometheus and Grafana on Windows Server 2016 Prometheus and Grafana form a powerful open-source monitoring stack widely used in both Linux and Windows environments. Prometheus is a time-series metrics database that scrapes exporters at regular intervals. Grafana is a visualization platform that queries Prometheus and renders dashboards. On Windows […]

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How to Configure SLB MUX on Windows Server 2016 — step-by-step Windows Server 2016 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure SLB MUX on Windows Server 2016

How to Configure Windows Server 2016 SLB MUX The Software Load Balancer (SLB) Multiplexer (MUX) is a core component of the Windows Server 2016 SDN stack that provides inbound network address translation and load balancing for virtual IP (VIP) addresses. The SLB MUX runs as a virtual machine on the SDN fabric and works in […]

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How to Configure SDN Gateway Pools on Windows Server 2016 — step-by-step Windows Server 2016 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure SDN Gateway Pools on Windows Server 2016

How to Set Up Windows Server 2016 Gateway Pools In a Windows Server 2016 SDN deployment, a Gateway Pool is a logical grouping of RAS Gateway virtual machines managed by the Network Controller. Gateway Pools provide high availability and capacity management for tenant VPN and routing connections. When a tenant requires a gateway connection, the […]

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