IT Knowledgebase Articles

Our two-part series on the Windows Server Security Configuration Wizard concludes with a look at how to apply and roll back security policies.

Use these handy Windows PowerShell commands to help you accomplish a variety of tasks to make your workday more efficient.

How do you keep your IT environment secure when Windows Update won’t work? You fix it! John O’Neill Sr. shows you how in this handy how-to article.

Our series on Hyper-V DHCP Guard and Router Guard concludes with how to enable those features in existing VMs and with System Center Virtual Machine Manager.

In this new Ask an Admin post, learn how to use the command line in Windows Server Core 2012 R2 to set the time and date.

Aidan Finn explains how Hyper-V Router Guard and DHCP Guard can be used to prevent guest OS administrators from enabling unwanted network services.

Need help with PowerShell? Here’s a list of some of the most influential PowerShell experts on Twitter.

Dealing with frozen virtual machines in Hyper-V? Learn how to get the GUID of a VM running on WS2012/WS2012 R2 Hyper-V in order to kill it.

Learn how to create custom security policies for Windows Server using the Security Configuration Wizard and how to evaluate risks associated with new policies.

Learn all about how Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V introduced improved network security with Extended Port Access Control Lists (ACLs).