How to Configure a DSC Pull Server on Windows Server 2012 R2 Desired State Configuration (DSC) is a PowerShell-based configuration management platform built into Windows Server 2012 R2. In push mode, an administrator pushes configurations directly to individual nodes. In pull mode, nodes periodically contact a central Pull Server to retrieve their configuration and report […]
GitHub Actions self-hosted runners allow running GitHub Actions CI/CD workflows on your own infrastructure instead of GitHub’s shared runners. This is essential when workflows need to: access private network resources (internal databases, Docker registries, Kubernetes clusters), use specialised hardware (GPUs, large memory), comply with data residency requirements, or reduce GitHub Actions billing costs for high-volume […]
How to Configure Software-Defined Networking Basics on Windows Server 2012 R2 Software-Defined Networking (SDN) in Windows Server 2012 R2 is implemented through Hyper-V Network Virtualization (HNV), which allows multiple tenant networks to coexist on a shared physical network fabric while remaining logically isolated. HNV uses NVGRE (Network Virtualization Generic Routing Encapsulation) to encapsulate virtual machine […]
How to Configure High Availability for File Services on Windows Server 2012 R2 High Availability (HA) for File Services on Windows Server 2012 R2 uses the Failover Clustering feature to ensure file shares remain accessible even when individual servers fail. Unlike a Scale-Out File Server — which provides active-active file serving across all nodes — […]
How to Set Up Site-to-Site VPN with RRAS on Windows Server 2012 R2 A site-to-site VPN connects two geographically separate networks over the internet as if they were directly connected. Windows Server 2012 R2 RRAS (Routing and Remote Access Service) can act as a VPN gateway for site-to-site connections, establishing persistent encrypted tunnels between a […]
How to Configure DHCP Failover on Windows Server 2012 R2 DHCP Failover is a new feature introduced in Windows Server 2012 R2 that allows two DHCP servers to share a pool of IP addresses for one or more subnets. Before this feature, providing redundant DHCP service required manual IP range splitting (the 80/20 rule) — […]
How to Set Up iSCSI Initiator on Windows Server 2012 R2 The iSCSI Initiator allows Windows Server 2012 R2 to connect to iSCSI storage targets — shared storage devices that expose block-level storage over a standard IP network. iSCSI is widely used for connecting servers to SAN (Storage Area Network) devices, NAS appliances with iSCSI […]
How to Configure SMB Multichannel on Windows Server 2012 R2 SMB Multichannel is an SMB 3.0 feature in Windows Server 2012 R2 that enables a single SMB session to use multiple network connections simultaneously. This provides three major benefits: increased throughput by aggregating bandwidth from multiple network adapters or multiple paths, fault tolerance through automatic […]
How to Configure Scale-Out File Server (SoFS) on Windows Server 2012 R2 Scale-Out File Server (SoFS) is a Failover Cluster role in Windows Server 2012 R2 that provides continuously available file shares using SMB 3.0. Unlike a traditional File Server Failover Cluster role — where one node actively serves files while others stand by — […]
How to Set Up BGP Routing with RRAS on Windows Server 2012 R2 Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is the routing protocol that underlies internet routing. Windows Server 2012 R2 introduced native BGP support in the Routing and Remote Access Service (RRAS), making it possible to configure a Windows server as a BGP router or BGP […]
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