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…
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…
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…
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…
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….
In this overview, learn how converged networks are an economical, easy to deploy, and flexible option – and what features make converged networks possible.
Find out how to design converged networks, including considering physical storage, bandwidth, hardware, and more!
Learn to use a previously created QoS-enabled virtual switch to implement converged networks using virtual NICs in this quick guide.
Learn by example as we show you scenarios that will help you design converged network implementations in Hyper-V hosts.
Learn the best practices behind creating a converged network using a Windows Server 2012 NIC team – and then connect to a virtual switch.