GPO: User Folder Redirection

Aperçu de la stratégie

Presentation User Folder Redirection allows Windows to store the contents of certain user profile folders on a network location. This solution has the following advantages: No local file storage. Possibility for users to change computers and find their folders and files. In an RDS environment, you can have the same documents on the user computers …

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Hyper-V Cluster: Installation and Configuration

Introduction Through this tutorial, we will see how to set up a Hyper-v cluster under Windows Server (2012R2 / 2016/2019) step by step. Each step requires it, will take you on a tutorial to guide you in setting up a Hyper-V cluster. Prerequisites Be in an Active Directory environment, ideally having a server-side domain controller …

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Configuring the Update for Windows Server Clusters

Clustered Update is a feature that allows you to update servers in a failover cluster with little or no loss of availability during the update process. During an update run, the feature transparently performs the following tasks: The automatic update process triggers a scheduled failover. This may result in a temporary downtime for connected clients. …

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Managing virtual machines in a Windows Server Hyper-V cluster

Création machine virtuelle

In this tutorial, we will see how to manage your virtual machines in a Hyper-V cluster using the Cluster Manager console. It is also possible to use the following tools to manage virtual machines with Hyper-V: In this article we will address the following points: If you are not in a hyper-v cluster, the Hyper-V …

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Hyper-V: Create a virtual switch

Commutateur créé

Presentation A virtual switch in Hyper-V is a virtual switch that allows the connection of network adapters to be created using Hyper-V (virtual machine or host). Under Hyper-V, there are 3 types of virtual switches: External : Create a physical switch that is attached to the physical network adapter so that computers can access a …

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Network Card Association with Windows Server – Network Teaming

Création de l'équipe

Presentation of the Network Teaming Teaming consists of grouping several network cards into a single virtual card. This technology allows depending on the configuration of the association to set up fault tolerance, load balancing between physical cards and increased throughput. With the arrival of Windows 2012, this feature became native to Windows, before it had …

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Windows Internet Printing Service – IPP

Presentation IPP (Internet Printing Protocol) is a protocol that allows printing using HTTP, which theoretically allows printing from anywhere. On Windows Server IPP is implemented on print services and relies on the IIS web server. The installation of Internet Printing on Windows Server sets up a self service web portal that allows the user to …

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Failover Clustering Windows 2016/2019 – Installation and Configuration

Noeuds du cluster

The failover clustering feature ensures high availability of a service by using multiple servers (nodes) that can make it work. Some examples of services that can be used with the Failover Cluster feature: Prerequisites Configuration of the control disk (Quorum) Quorum is a very important element of the Failover Cluster, it has 2 main functions: …

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MPIO: Installation and configuration

MPIO or MultiPath I / O is a Windows feature that allows multiple path support for storage. MPIO addresses two issues: performance and reliability. The majority of storage bays have two controllers for reliability reasons. Whether you are a SAN or a DAS, the servers are “attached” to the array via the two controllers, which …

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Windows Print Server: Installation and Configuration

Introduction In this article, we will see how to setup and configure a print server on Windows Server. Installing the Print and Document Scanning Service role adds an administrative console for managing the print server. This service is not required to install and share a printer from a Windows server, it is possible to go …

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