🟠 High ⏱ 5–30 min Last verified: 7 July 2020 Affected versions: Windows Server 2019 📖 ~1 min read Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution – Primary Fix Solution – Alternative Approaches Verification & Acceptance Criteria Rollback Plan Prevention & Hardening Related Errors […]
Introduction to Azure Site Recovery for Windows Server 2019 Azure Site Recovery (ASR) is Microsoft’s cloud-based disaster recovery service that replicates workloads running on physical and virtual Windows Server 2019 machines to Azure, providing automated failover to Azure VMs when the primary site is unavailable. Unlike backup solutions that restore from a point-in-time copy, ASR […]
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 Microsoft Security Compliance Toolkit on Windows Server 2012 R2 The Microsoft Security Compliance Toolkit (SCT) is a free collection of tools from Microsoft designed to help administrators implement, manage, and validate security baselines for Windows operating systems and Microsoft applications. For Windows Server 2012 R2, the SCT provides pre-built, tested Group Policy […]
How to Create a Virtual Machine in Hyper-V on Windows Server 2012 R2 Creating virtual machines is the primary day-to-day task of a Hyper-V administrator. Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V introduces Generation 2 VMs — which use UEFI firmware, support Secure Boot, and eliminate legacy hardware emulation — alongside the traditional Generation 1 VMs which […]
How to Set Up Windows Server 2016 Storage Spaces Storage Spaces is a Windows Server 2016 feature that allows you to group physical drives into storage pools and create virtual disks with resilience options such as mirroring and parity. It is an excellent solution for software-defined storage, providing fault tolerance, flexible capacity management, and tiered […]
How to Configure System Center Operations Manager Agent on Windows Server 2012 R2 System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) is Microsoft’s enterprise monitoring solution that provides comprehensive, agent-based monitoring of Windows servers, applications, network infrastructure, and services. The SCOM agent installed on each managed server collects performance data, event log entries, and application health information, forwarding […]
Introduction to DHCP Audit Logging on Windows Server 2019 DHCP Audit Logging records every IP address assignment, renewal, release, and denial made by the DHCP server. This log is invaluable for network troubleshooting (tracking which machine had a given IP at a specific time), security investigation (identifying rogue devices or tracking when an infected machine […]
🟠 High ⏱ 5–30 min Last verified: 29 June 2020 Affected versions: Windows Server 2016 📖 ~1 min read Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution — Primary Fix Solution — Alternative Approaches Verification & Acceptance Criteria Rollback Plan Prevention & Hardening Related Errors […]
Introduction Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS) on Windows Server 2016 provides a complete Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) platform for issuing and managing digital certificates used by SSL/TLS, smart card authentication, email signing, IPsec, code signing, and more. A two-tier PKI hierarchy — an offline Root CA and an online Issuing CA — is the […]
