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How to Automate Windows Server 2012 R2 Provisioning with PowerShell and MDT — step-by-step Windows Server 2012 R2 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Automate Windows Server 2012 R2 Provisioning with PowerShell and MDT

How to Set Up DirectAccess for Always-On VPN on Windows Server 2012 R2 DirectAccess is Microsoft’s always-on connectivity technology for domain-joined Windows clients. Unlike traditional VPN that requires a user to manually connect, DirectAccess automatically establishes a secure IPv6-over-IPv4 tunnel whenever the client computer detects it is outside the corporate network — before the user […]

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How to Configure DirectAccess with IPv6 on Windows Server 2012 R2 — step-by-step Windows Server 2012 R2 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure DirectAccess with IPv6 on Windows Server 2012 R2

How to Configure Windows Server 2012 R2 as a VPN Server with SSTP Secure Socket Tunneling Protocol (SSTP) is a VPN protocol that encapsulates PPP traffic inside HTTPS, using port 443 for all VPN data. This makes SSTP the most firewall-friendly VPN protocol available — it works through virtually any firewall, NAT device, or web […]

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How to Set Up BranchCache on Windows Server 2012 R2 — step-by-step Windows Server 2012 R2 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up BranchCache on Windows Server 2012 R2

How to Set Up IIS 8.5 Reverse Proxy on Windows Server 2012 R2 IIS 8.5 on Windows Server 2012 R2, combined with the Application Request Routing (ARR) extension and URL Rewrite module, creates a powerful reverse proxy platform that can load-balance web applications, forward requests to backend servers, terminate SSL, and provide WAF-like URL filtering. […]

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How to Configure Cluster-Aware Updating (CAU) on Windows Server 2012 R2 — step-by-step Windows Server 2012 R2 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure Cluster-Aware Updating (CAU) on Windows Server 2012 R2

How to Configure SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Groups on Windows Server 2012 R2 SQL Server 2012 and 2014 AlwaysOn Availability Groups (AG) provide high availability and disaster recovery for SQL Server databases without requiring shared storage. An AG groups multiple user databases that fail over together, with one primary replica handling read-write workloads and up […]

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How to Install SQL Server 2014 on Windows Server 2012 R2 — step-by-step Windows Server 2012 R2 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install SQL Server 2014 on Windows Server 2012 R2

How to Install SQL Server 2014 on Windows Server 2012 R2 SQL Server 2014 is a natural pairing with Windows Server 2012 R2, offering AlwaysOn Availability Groups, in-memory OLTP (Hekaton), buffer pool extensions, and enhanced cloud integration with Microsoft Azure. Installing SQL Server 2014 correctly on Windows Server 2012 R2 requires attention to prerequisites, service […]

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How to Set Up OCSP Responder on Windows Server 2012 R2 — step-by-step Windows Server 2012 R2 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up OCSP Responder on Windows Server 2012 R2

How to Set Up OCSP Responder on Windows Server 2012 R2 The Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) is the modern alternative to Certificate Revocation Lists (CRLs) for checking whether a digital certificate has been revoked. While CRLs are downloaded in their entirety and can grow to megabytes in size for large PKIs, OCSP allows clients […]

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How to Configure Certificate Auto-Enrollment via Group Policy on Windows Server 2012 R2 — step-by-step Windows Server 2012 R2 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure Certificate Auto-Enrollment via Group Policy on Windows Server 2012 R2

How to Configure Certificate Auto-Enrollment via Group Policy on Windows Server 2012 R2 Certificate auto-enrollment allows domain computers and users to automatically request, receive, and renew digital certificates from an Enterprise CA without any manual intervention. This eliminates the administrative burden of manually issuing certificates to hundreds or thousands of devices and users, ensures certificates […]

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How to Set Up a PKI Infrastructure with AD CS on Windows Server 2012 R2 — step-by-step Windows Server 2012 R2 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up a PKI Infrastructure with AD CS on Windows Server 2012 R2

How to Set Up a PKI Infrastructure with AD CS on Windows Server 2012 R2 Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) built on Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS) provides the digital certificate foundation for enterprise security: SSL/TLS certificates for web servers and internal services, S/MIME for email encryption, smart card authentication, code signing, and IPsec encryption. […]

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How to Migrate Active Directory from Windows Server 2008 R2 to 2012 R2 — step-by-step Windows Server 2012 R2 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Migrate Active Directory from Windows Server 2008 R2 to 2012 R2

How to Migrate Active Directory from Windows Server 2008 R2 to 2012 R2 Migrating an Active Directory environment from Windows Server 2008 R2 to Windows Server 2012 R2 is a multi-phase process that involves introducing new Domain Controllers, transferring FSMO roles, raising functional levels, and decommissioning old servers. Done correctly, the migration is non-disruptive — […]

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How to Set Up Multi-Site Active Directory on Windows Server 2012 R2 — step-by-step Windows Server 2012 R2 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up Multi-Site Active Directory on Windows Server 2012 R2

How to Set Up Multi-Site Active Directory on Windows Server 2012 R2 A multi-site Active Directory deployment distributes Domain Controllers across geographically separated locations, providing local authentication, policy application, and directory services to users at each site without relying on WAN connectivity for every AD operation. Properly designed AD sites and services configuration is essential […]

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