It's always a good idea to make sure your hardware firmware and BIOS is updated prior to a major undertaking such as upgrading a server for hypervisor work. Besides, it's not that hard to do in the ...

I have a home windows server I setup ages ago. Installed windows server 2012 r2 essentials (got the license through school) and it's been my NAS/workhorse for 10+ years now... It runs my stablebit ...

Q: A company's server administrator needs to become familiar with the different backup locations available with Windows Server 2012. Which of the following are supported when configuring backup ...

Although Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V introduced an overwhelming number of new features, Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V introduces even more. With Windows Server 2012 R2, Microsoft did a good job of ...

Microsoft today announced that Windows Server 2012 R2 has been released to manufacturers (RTM). "The amazing new features in this release cover virtualization, storage, networking, management, access, ...

After earlier detailing needed planning, Brien goes to the next step: an in-place upgrade of the Windows Server OS as it relates to AWS EC2. In my previous blog post in this series, I talked about ...

Not too surprisingly, given the two teams work in lockstep, Microsoft has released to manufacturing Windows Server 2012 R2, alongside Windows 8.1 client. Windows Server 2012 R2 is the "Blue" update to ...

As Microsoft moves toward shorter and shorter release cycles -- meaning a new version of Windows and other server products every 12 to 18 months, in all likelihood -- I'm wondering if their marketing ...

Does anyone have any good resources on how to do a headless install for windows server 2012 r2? I've tried searching and found a few methods that don't seem to work... 1) I've run the installer to ...

A preview version of Windows Server 2012 R2 is now out, complete with a nag feature aimed at administrators. The new preview pushes related Microsoft services at SMBs via a dashboard that will “remind ...

Hot on the heels on the official news that Windows 8.1 has reached RTM status, Microsoft has announced that Windows Server 2012 R2 has also gone gold and has been released to manufacturing. As ...