Windows Server 2012 R2

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

How to Set Up SMB Transparent Failover on Windows Server 2012 R2

How to Set Up SMB Transparent Failover on Windows Server 2012 R2 SMB Transparent Failover is a feature of SMB 3.0 in Windows Server 2012 R2 that allows SMB clients to reconnect to a file server without interruption or visible error when a cluster node hosting a file share fails or is taken offline for […]

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How to Configure Scale-Out File Server (SoFS) on Windows Server 2012 R2 — step-by-step Windows Server 2012 R2 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure Scale-Out File Server (SoFS) on Windows Server 2012 R2

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 — […]

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How to Set Up BGP Routing with RRAS on Windows Server 2012 R2 — step-by-step Windows Server 2012 R2 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up BGP Routing with RRAS on Windows Server 2012 R2

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

How to Configure IPv6 on Windows Server 2012 R2

How to Configure IPv6 on Windows Server 2012 R2 IPv6 is the successor to IPv4, offering a vastly larger address space (128-bit addresses versus IPv4’s 32-bit), improved routing efficiency, mandatory IPsec support, and built-in autoconfiguration capabilities. Windows Server 2012 R2 has first-class support for IPv6 and is actually designed to prefer IPv6 over IPv4 by […]

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

How to Set Up VLAN Support on Windows Server 2012 R2

How to Set Up VLAN Support on Windows Server 2012 R2 Virtual LANs (VLANs) allow network traffic to be segmented at Layer 2, creating separate broadcast domains over a shared physical network infrastructure. On Windows Server 2012 R2, VLAN support can be implemented at multiple levels: on physical network adapters with 802.1Q VLAN tagging, on […]

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How to Configure Network Adapter Teaming on Windows Server 2012 R2 — step-by-step Windows Server 2012 R2 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure Network Adapter Teaming on Windows Server 2012 R2

How to Configure Network Adapter Teaming on Windows Server 2012 R2 Network Adapter Teaming, also known as NIC Teaming or Link Aggregation, is a feature built directly into Windows Server 2012 R2 that allows multiple network adapters to be grouped together to increase throughput and provide fault tolerance. Unlike previous Windows versions that required third-party […]

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How to Configure File Server with DFS Namespaces on Windows Server 2012 R2 — step-by-step Windows Server 2012 R2 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure File Server with DFS Namespaces on Windows Server 2012 R2

How to Configure File Server with DFS Namespaces on Windows Server 2012 R2 Deploying a file server with DFS Namespaces creates a transparent, unified access layer over multiple file server resources. Rather than mapping separate drive letters to shares on different servers — which requires users to know which server hosts which data — DFS […]

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

How to Set Up Work Folders on Windows Server 2012 R2

How to Set Up Work Folders on Windows Server 2012 R2 Work Folders is a file synchronization service introduced in Windows Server 2012 R2 that allows users to store and sync work files from personal devices or corporate computers, even when they are not connected to the corporate network. Unlike traditional folder redirection which requires […]

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How to Install and Configure RRAS on Windows Server 2012 R2 — step-by-step Windows Server 2012 R2 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install and Configure RRAS on Windows Server 2012 R2

How to Install and Configure RRAS on Windows Server 2012 R2 Routing and Remote Access Service (RRAS) is a comprehensive Windows Server feature that provides a wide range of network services including VPN server, dial-up remote access, network address translation (NAT), demand-dial routing, and multi-protocol LAN-to-LAN and LAN-to-WAN routing. On Windows Server 2012 R2, RRAS […]

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