The convenient cross-platform compatibility is one of the reasons I keep going back to SMB in my home lab. Theoretically, the SMB multichannel feature enables SMB servers and clients to leverage ...

Microsoft acknowledged a new issue caused by the June 2025 security updates, causing the DHCP service to freeze on some Windows Server systems. On Windows Server systems, the Dynamic Host ...

Network Time Protocol (NTP) is a highly scalable internet protocol that helps determine the most accurate time information and synchronizes the time settings on a computer system. In order to ...

This month's Windows Server updates are causing a wide range of issues, including VPN and RDP connectivity problems on servers with Routing and Remote Access Service (RRAS) enabled. RRAS is a Windows ...

When one of his Windows Servers stopped connecting to its storage array, Brien could find only an incomplete fix and an even weirder problem with Windows. I recently ran into a weird situation ...

In this article, we will explore how to install and configure File Server on Windows Server and install the necessary roles, configure shared folders, manage permission, and ensure security. Suppose ...

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 ...

“East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet,” is a line from Rudyard Kipling’s The Ballad of East and West. It could also apply to Windows and Linux. If you don’t know what you’re ...

Link-Local Multicast Name Resolution is usually not needed in modern networks and leaves the door open to man-in-the-middle attacks. Here's how to shut it off. I recently started deploying servers ...

This month’s collection of fixes from Microsoft includes 86 patches — but at least there were no zero-day bugs.