Introduction to Privileged Access Workstations (PAW) A Privileged Access Workstation (PAW) is a dedicated, hardened computer used exclusively for performing sensitive administrative tasks. The concept was formalized by Microsoft as part of the Privileged Access strategy to counter the most common attack vectors used by threat actors to compromise administrative accounts — credential theft, pass-the-hash, […]
Advanced Audit Policy vs Basic Audit Policy Windows provides two mechanisms for configuring Security event log auditing: the legacy Basic Audit Policy and the more granular Advanced Audit Policy Configuration. Understanding the difference is important before you begin configuring auditing on Windows Server 2022, because the two systems interact in ways that can produce unexpected […]
Introduction to PowerShell Remoting for Server Management PowerShell Remoting is the built-in mechanism for executing commands and scripts on remote Windows machines. It uses the WS-Management protocol (WinRM) and provides a secure, scriptable channel for managing fleets of Windows Server 2022 machines from a single administrative workstation or CI/CD agent. This guide covers everything from […]
How to Use Ansible WinRM to Manage Windows Server 2022 Windows Remote Management (WinRM) is the Microsoft implementation of the WS-Management protocol — a SOAP-based protocol for managing hardware and software over a network. Ansible uses WinRM as its transport layer to communicate with Windows hosts in the same way it uses SSH for Linux. […]
How to Install Ansible and Manage Windows Servers with Ansible on Windows Server 2022 Ansible is an agentless automation platform that uses SSH for Linux and WinRM for Windows to execute configuration management tasks, application deployments, and orchestrated workflows across infrastructure. Unlike agent-based tools, Windows servers do not require any Ansible software installed — only […]
Introduction to Hyper-V Replica Hyper-V Replica is an asynchronous replication feature built into Windows Server 2022 Hyper-V that continuously replicates virtual machine changes from a primary server to a replica server, providing disaster recovery capability without requiring shared storage or expensive SAN replication hardware. Changes made to a VM’s virtual hard disks on the primary […]
Introduction to Hyper-V Live Migration Live Migration is one of Hyper-V’s most important features for high availability and workload management. It allows a running virtual machine to be moved from one Hyper-V host to another with no downtime — users connected to services inside the VM experience only a very brief pause (typically less than […]
How to Configure a WCF Service on Windows Server 2022 Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is the .NET Framework’s unified programming model for building service-oriented applications that communicate over a variety of protocols and transport mechanisms. While newer workloads often use ASP.NET Core Web API or gRPC, a large installed base of enterprise systems — financial […]
How to Set Up SQL Server Always On Availability Groups on Windows Server 2022 SQL Server Always On Availability Groups (AG) provide high availability and disaster recovery by maintaining one or more synchronous or asynchronous secondary replicas of a group of databases. Reads, backups, and even DBCC checks can be offloaded to secondaries. This guide […]
How to Configure SQL Server Authentication and Logins on Windows Server 2022 Securing access to SQL Server starts with understanding its authentication models and then carefully configuring logins, server roles, database users, and permissions. SQL Server 2022 on Windows Server 2022 supports two authentication modes, a rich role-based access control system, and built-in auditing capabilities. […]
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