Capacity Planning

How to Set Up Hyper-V Resource Metering on Windows Server 2019 — step-by-step Windows Server 2019 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up Hyper-V Resource Metering on Windows Server 2019

How to Set Up Hyper-V Resource Metering on Windows Server 2019 Hyper-V Resource Metering is a feature in Windows Server 2019 that allows administrators to track and measure the resource consumption of virtual machines. This capability is essential for billing in hosted environments, capacity planning, and chargeback reporting. Resource metering collects data on CPU usage, […]

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How to Configure Hyper-V Checkpoints on Windows Server 2019 — step-by-step Windows Server 2019 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure Hyper-V Checkpoints on Windows Server 2019

Introduction to Hyper-V Checkpoints on Windows Server 2019 Hyper-V Checkpoints (formerly called Snapshots) capture the state of a running virtual machine at a specific point in time, allowing you to revert the VM to that state if needed. This is invaluable before applying updates, making configuration changes, testing software installations, or performing any risky operation. […]

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

How to Set Up Hyper-V Storage Migration on Windows Server 2019

Introduction to Hyper-V Storage Migration on Windows Server 2019 Hyper-V Storage Migration moves a virtual machine’s storage — its VHD/VHDX files, configuration file, snapshot files, and smart paging file — from one storage location to another while the VM continues running. Unlike Live Migration (which moves a VM between hosts), Storage Migration moves only the […]

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How to Configure IIS Compression on Windows Server 2019 — step-by-step Windows Server 2019 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure IIS Compression on Windows Server 2019

Introduction to IIS Compression on Windows Server 2019 HTTP compression reduces the size of responses sent from IIS to clients, significantly reducing bandwidth consumption and improving page load times, particularly for text-based content (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, XML, JSON). IIS 10 on Windows Server 2019 supports two types of compression: Static Compression (compresses static files once […]

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How to Set Up DHCP Audit Logging on Windows Server 2019 — step-by-step Windows Server 2019 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up DHCP Audit Logging on Windows Server 2019

Introduction to DHCP Audit Logging on Windows Server 2019 DHCP Audit Logging records every IP address assignment, renewal, release, and denial made by the DHCP server. This log is invaluable for network troubleshooting (tracking which machine had a given IP at a specific time), security investigation (identifying rogue devices or tracking when an infected machine […]

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

How to Set Up DHCP Failover on Windows Server 2019

Introduction to DHCP Failover on Windows Server 2019 DHCP Failover allows two Windows Server 2019 DHCP servers to share address assignment responsibility for a scope, providing high availability and load balancing for IP address leasing. Without failover, a single DHCP server failure means clients cannot renew leases or obtain new ones — which causes network […]

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How to Configure DNS Logging and Diagnostics on Windows Server 2019 — step-by-step Windows Server 2019 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure DNS Logging and Diagnostics on Windows Server 2019

Introduction to DNS Logging and Diagnostics on Windows Server 2019 DNS logging and diagnostics are essential for troubleshooting resolution failures, detecting security threats, meeting compliance requirements, and understanding traffic patterns on your network. Windows Server 2019 provides two distinct logging mechanisms for DNS: the Windows Event Log (structured event data, always on) and the DNS […]

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How to Configure Split Tunneling for VPN on Windows Server 2019 — step-by-step Windows Server 2019 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure Split Tunneling for VPN on Windows Server 2019

Introduction to Split Tunneling Split tunneling is a VPN configuration where only traffic destined for corporate resources is routed through the encrypted VPN tunnel, while internet traffic goes directly from the client through its local internet connection. Without split tunneling (full tunneling), all client traffic—including YouTube, Windows Update, and personal browsing—travels through the corporate VPN […]

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How to Configure LDAP Security on Windows Server 2019 — step-by-step Windows Server 2019 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure LDAP Security on Windows Server 2019

Introduction to LDAP Security LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) is the protocol that applications use to query and modify Active Directory. By default, Windows Server 2019 domain controllers accept LDAP connections on port 389 without requiring signing or channel binding, making them vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks where an attacker can intercept and relay LDAP authentication. […]

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How to Configure Windows Server 2019 with Ansible — step-by-step Windows Server 2019 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure Windows Server 2019 with Ansible

Introduction to Ansible for Windows Server 2019 Ansible is an open-source IT automation platform developed by Red Hat that enables infrastructure as code for provisioning, configuration management, application deployment, and orchestration. While Ansible was originally designed for Linux management using SSH, it fully supports Windows Server 2019 management using WinRM (Windows Remote Management) as the […]

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