Tag: Windows Server

If you don’t know the state of your network and server health every second of the day, you’re like a blind pilot inevitably headed for disaster. Fortunately, the market now offers many good tools, both commercial and open source, for network and Windows Server monitoring. We’ve put...

The Windows registry is a database that contains important, machine-specific settings and information regarding almost everything in your computer — preferences, applications, users, attached devices and so on. The registry contains two basic elements: keys and values. The Windows operating...

In this short PowerShell introduction, I’ll explain what PowerShell is and what it was created for, as well as provide a list of useful resources that can help you learning PowerShell scripting and make your working life easier. Windows PowerShell is a Windows command-line shell created to...

You can improve the security of your application development infrastructure by reducing the size and scope of application and compute resources. One way to do this is to containerize workloads. Windows Server and Microsoft Hyper-V containers enable you to isolate workloads from each other and the...

The Windows registry is a database containing important, machine-specific settings and information regarding almost everything in your computer — preferences, applications, users, attached devices and so on. The registry contains two basic elements: keys and values. The Windows operating system...

You may have been following our series of blog posts on Microsoft Windows Server security features and capabilities for reducing risk in your IT infrastructure. Today, we’ve compiled a list of all these blog posts. You can use them in two ways as you work to secure your Windows Server...

Malware — computer viruses, worms, Trojan horses, ransomware, spyware and so one — is a continuous threat to organizations because it can damage devices and enable unauthorized parties to access the network remotely to collect and transmit sensitive information. Windows Server 2016 includes the...

To help admins manage local users and groups with PowerShell more easily, Microsoft provides a cmdlet collection called Microsoft.PowerShell.LocalAccounts. Previously, you had to download and import it into PowerShell explicitly, and also install Windows Management Framework 5.1; in the Windows...

One key component in securing your IT infrastructure is protecting against network-related security threats. Windows Server offers several network security features to help: Windows Firewall with Advanced Security IPsec Message Analyzer Free Tool Handpicked related content: ...

Administrators can perform all typical registry operations using either the old-good “Regedit” user interface or the reg.exe utility. But there is another option — Windows PowerShell. PowerShell provides a large set of tools for interacting with the Microsoft Windows registry, either on the...