This course for server administrators teaches installation and configuration tasks in the Server 2012 environment, including how to implement various standard Windows components. New features and ...

Data Deduplication, often referred to as Dedup, allows you to reduce the impact of redundant data on storage costs. When enabled, Data Deduplication optimizes free space on a volume by examining the ...

As locking down information becomes a more critical priority for IT organizations, securing individual files or shares is completely dependent on effectively setting up security groups. Because ...

Scott Lowe walks you through some of the first tasks administrators perform when deploying a new Windows server on the network. Here's how it looks on Windows Server 2012. Most Windows system ...

One of the more useful features of Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2 is native data deduplication. Although deduplication features have existed in storage hardware for years, the release ...

Q: A company's server deployment team needs to install fourteen Windows 2012 servers to handle the expected increase in holiday traffic. The team would like the option of switching the servers between ...

Russell Smith is a technology consultant and trainer specializing in management and security of Microsoft server and client technologies. He is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer with more than 15 ...

Focusing on virtualization and headless server technologies, Server Core is easier to manage and provides more flexibility for system administrators. Russell Smith is a technology consultant and ...

This guide will walk you through a precise method to configure email alerts that trigger only when a specific Windows Service changes state. By combining the filtering capabilities of Windows Event ...