A new Network Controller and the same software-defined networking (SDN) stack in the Microsoft Azure cloud are among the significant SDN capabilities coming to Windows Server 2016. Microsoft's quest ...

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The new version of Windows Server will feature improvements in its hosting capabilities that end users can tap into remotely from a variety of client devices. Microsoft adds core version to Server 8 ...

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Businesses are now scrambling again to get disaster recovery systems upgraded or in place. Why now when the whole winter was available? People procrastinate. IT departments fight with management to ...

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Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) now gives your devices and network a security score that tells admins the health of their environment based on how it's configured. A high score ...

Everyone should be able to use basic Windows 10 network commands entered from the command prompt to troubleshoot network connection problems. Living and working in an always-connected world means the ...