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What Is Windows Admin Center? A Quick Overview

Windows Admin Center (WAC) is the modern evolution of “in-box” management tools, like MMC (Microsoft Management Console) and Server Manager for Windows Server management. WAC provides wizards to guide users through its deployment and deploying Windows Servers and other cluster solutions. Learn more about what Windows Admin Center features and capabilities might be useful to…

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How to Enable Microsoft Copilot Effectively: A Quick Guide

The buzz around Microsoft Copilot has been well-documented. Since its inception, this intelligent AI assistant tool has offered users access to a wealth of information and resources to help them work more efficiently and effectively. It’s certainly part and parcel of Microsoft’s continued excellence in responsible AI integration across its estate. In this article, I’ll outline…

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Active Directory Backup vs Replication (And Why You Need to Be Clear on the Difference Now)

Backup and replication are common data protection concepts, but they serve different purposes. Learn more about their differences and how they can benefit your data management strategy, especially how the backup vs replication argument relates to Active Directory (AD) and protecting it. What are backup and replication? Although backup and replication are both methods of…

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Datacenter networking servers

How to Build Guest Clusters on Hyper Converged Infrastructure (HCI)

With Hyper Converged Infrastructure (HCI) solutions becoming more common, many customers are now concerned with building clusters on top of those environments. In this article, I’ll explain how to build a guest HCI cluster and why traditional approaches don’t work. In the past, customers built redundancy and resilience based on virtualization and Storage Area Networks…

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Everything You Need To Know About Outlook For Windows (Deployment, Architecture, and Update Playbook)

This Week in IT, Microsoft is promising to support the classic desktop Outlook app until 2029, but not everyone is happy about the new Outlook for Windows. I take a look at the new app and whether you should consider using it or holding off for now. Links and resources Transcript This Week in IT….

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Introducing Converged Networks

In this overview, learn how converged networks are an economical, easy to deploy, and flexible option – and what features make converged networks possible.

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How to Design Converged Networks

Find out how to design converged networks, including considering physical storage, bandwidth, hardware, and more!

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Creating Converged Networks Using Virtual NICs

Learn to use a previously created QoS-enabled virtual switch to implement converged networks using virtual NICs in this quick guide.

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Sample Converged Network Designs for Hyper-V Hosts

Learn by example as we show you scenarios that will help you design converged network implementations in Hyper-V hosts.

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Creating a NIC Team and Virtual Switch for Converged Networks

Learn the best practices behind creating a converged network using a Windows Server 2012 NIC team – and then connect to a virtual switch.

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