Capacity Planning

How to Set Up DFS Replication for File Server Redundancy on Windows Server 2019 — step-by-step Windows Server 2019 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up DFS Replication for File Server Redundancy on Windows Server 2019

Introduction to DFS Replication for File Server Redundancy Distributed File System Replication (DFSR) is a Windows Server 2019 feature that provides multi-master, state-based replication of file data between servers. Unlike the deprecated FRS (File Replication Service), DFSR uses the Remote Differential Compression (RDC) algorithm to replicate only the changed portions of files, dramatically reducing replication […]

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How to Set Up System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) on Windows Server 2019 — step-by-step Windows Server 2019 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) on Windows Server 2019

Introduction to System Center Operations Manager System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) is Microsoft’s enterprise monitoring platform designed for large-scale Windows environments. It uses management packs — extensible plug-ins — to provide out-of-the-box monitoring intelligence for Windows Server operating systems, SQL Server, IIS, Active Directory, Hyper-V, and hundreds of third-party applications. SCOM uses agents deployed to […]

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How to Configure Windows Performance Monitor (perfmon) on Windows Server 2019 — step-by-step Windows Server 2019 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure Windows Performance Monitor (perfmon) on Windows Server 2019

Introduction to Windows Performance Monitor on Windows Server 2019 Windows Performance Monitor (perfmon) is a built-in Windows Server 2019 tool that provides real-time and historical monitoring of hundreds of system performance counters, including CPU, memory, disk, network, and application-specific metrics. Perfmon supports Data Collector Sets for capturing performance data over time, which is invaluable for […]

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How to Monitor Windows Server with Prometheus and Grafana on Windows Server 2019 — step-by-step Windows Server 2019 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Monitor Windows Server with Prometheus and Grafana on Windows Server 2019

Introduction to Prometheus and Grafana Monitoring on Windows Server 2019 Prometheus is an open-source time-series monitoring system originally developed at SoundCloud, now a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) project. It collects metrics by scraping HTTP endpoints exposed by exporters on monitored systems. Grafana is a visualization and dashboarding platform that queries Prometheus (and many other […]

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How to Configure Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) on Windows Server 2019 — step-by-step Windows Server 2019 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) on Windows Server 2019

Introduction to Volume Shadow Copy Service on Windows Server 2019 The Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) is a core Windows infrastructure component that enables the creation of consistent point-in-time snapshots of volumes, even while applications are actively writing to disk. VSS coordinates with VSS requestors (backup applications), VSS providers (storage drivers or hardware), and VSS […]

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How to Use Veeam Backup for Windows Server 2019 — step-by-step Windows Server 2019 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Use Veeam Backup for Windows Server 2019

Introduction to Veeam Backup for Windows Server 2019 Veeam Backup and Replication is an enterprise-grade data protection solution widely used in production environments running Windows Server 2019. It supports agentless backup of VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines, as well as agent-based backup for physical servers and cloud workloads. Veeam’s proprietary Changed Block Tracking […]

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How to Set Up Windows Server Backup on Windows Server 2019 — step-by-step Windows Server 2019 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up Windows Server Backup on Windows Server 2019

Introduction to Windows Server Backup on Windows Server 2019 Windows Server Backup (WSB) is a built-in feature of Windows Server 2019 that provides reliable, block-level backup and recovery for your server. It supports full server backups, system state backups, bare metal recovery backups, and volume-level backups. Unlike third-party solutions, WSB integrates directly with the Volume […]

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How to Set Up Windows Server 2019 Container Storage — step-by-step Windows Server 2019 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up Windows Server 2019 Container Storage

How to Set Up Windows Server 2019 Container Storage Container storage in Windows Server 2019 covers the mechanisms for persisting data beyond a container’s lifecycle, sharing data between containers, and providing high-performance storage for containerized applications. By default, container storage is ephemeral — all data written inside a container is lost when the container is […]

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How to Set Up Windows Server 2019 Azure Kubernetes Service — step-by-step Windows Server 2019 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up Windows Server 2019 Azure Kubernetes Service

How to Set Up Windows Server 2019 Azure Kubernetes Service Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) on Windows Server 2019 refers to running AKS worker nodes on Windows Server 2019, enabling containerized Windows applications to run in a Kubernetes cluster alongside Linux workloads. Windows nodes in AKS are fully supported and can run Windows Server containers, IIS […]

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How to Configure Windows Server 2019 Container Registry — step-by-step Windows Server 2019 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure Windows Server 2019 Container Registry

How to Configure Windows Server 2019 Container Registry A container registry is a repository for storing and distributing container images. In Windows Server 2019 environments, you can deploy an on-premises container registry using the open-source Docker Registry v2 or a Windows-compatible private registry, or integrate with Azure Container Registry. A private registry gives you full […]

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