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Remotely accessing your servers and workstations through terminal services or RDP is an easy method of doing your job from a remote location, or gaining access to specific published applications that have been published on your servers. However, without properly investing in securing these types of RDP connections, you could be compromising the security and…

Daniel Petri shares three different ways to enable the helpful Telnet client for Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8 to meet your IT needs.

Daniel shows you how to remotely manage the firewall for Windows Server 2008 Server Core.

In today’s corporate environment IT administrators typically need to manage many different remote systems but it’s important to know the gaps in these offerings too.

Hyper-V is a hypervisor-based technology that is a key feature of Windows Server 2008, and provides a scalable, reliable, and highly available virtualization platform. It provides scalability and high performance by supporting features like guest multi-processing support and 64-bit guest and host support; reliability and security through its hypervisor architecture; flexibility and manageability by supporting…

How can I configure an IIS computer to be a Smart Host for my Exchange Server? It may be necessary to configure a Windows 2000 server to relay or act as a smart host for security reasons, such as in a perimeter network scenario (also known as DMZ, demilitarized zone, and screened subnet) when you…

Microsoft has improved Mobile Device Management in Windows 10 and it now works more like Group Policy.

Were can I download the Windows Server 2003 R2 Administration Pack? The Windows Server 2003 R2 Administration Tools Pack provides server management tools that allow administrators to remotely manage computers running the Windows Server 2003 R2 family of operating systems. These packages contain management consoles for Print Management, File Server Resource Manager, Distributed File System,…

Some Microsoft PowerPoint slides leaked over the weekend reveal a new “Nano Server” role in Windows Server vNext. Editorial Director Jeff James gives us his take on the news.

A number of things can go wrong during the Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365) login process, turning what should be a simple task into somewhat of a headache. Issues such as lost credentials and account lockouts can grind your workday to a halt. This guide will outline the best practices for troubleshooting Microsoft 365 login…