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

How to Configure IIS Logging and Analysis on Windows Server 2019

Introduction to IIS Logging and Analysis on Windows Server 2019 Internet Information Services (IIS) on Windows Server 2019 generates detailed access logs for every HTTP and HTTPS request received by a web server. These logs are invaluable for performance analysis, troubleshooting 4xx and 5xx errors, detecting security threats (such as directory traversal or SQL injection […]

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How to Use Azure Monitor with Windows Server 2019 — step-by-step Windows Server 2019 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Use Azure Monitor with Windows Server 2019

Introduction to Azure Monitor for Windows Server 2019 Azure Monitor is Microsoft’s comprehensive monitoring service that collects, analyzes, and acts on telemetry data from Azure resources, on-premises servers, and hybrid environments. For Windows Server 2019 machines — whether on-premises, in Azure, or in other clouds — Azure Monitor can collect performance metrics, Windows Event Logs, […]

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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 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 Configure Windows Server 2019 Helm Charts — step-by-step Windows Server 2019 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure Windows Server 2019 Helm Charts

How to Configure Windows Server 2019 Helm Charts Helm is the package manager for Kubernetes, enabling you to define, install, and upgrade complex Kubernetes applications using reusable packages called charts. When working with Windows Server 2019 nodes in a Kubernetes cluster, Helm charts need to be configured with Windows-specific node selectors and tolerations to ensure […]

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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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