As a System Administrator who is in charge of updating Windows Servers, you’ll probably find a need to force Windows Updates. For example, if you change the option for “Give
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According to Microsoft Security Advisory ADV190023, a future Windows Update in 2020 will make changes to LDAP Signing (LDAPS) and will require connections to use LDAPS instead of the less-secure

While running a Windows Server 2016 Server or Windows Server 2012 R2 with the Remote Desktop Licensing role, you may receive this notification popup in the lower right corner saying

On occasion while extending a volume in Windows Server (2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2012 R2, 2016), you may come across this obscure error that just says “The parameter is incorrect”.

There are performance and security benefits to disabling short file names (or 8.3 file names) on a Windows Server. From the graph below, you can see the performance benefits of

As a Systems Administrator, if you use the Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V technology to run virtual servers, then you’ll probably want to memorize these commands. If you know you don’t