The just-released Windows Home Server (WHS) from Microsoft Corp. is a surprisingly powerful networking tool that offers some of the sophisticated networking capabilities you would expect from big-boy ...

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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 ...

There are endless software tools and utilities out there to help you in managing your network. Here are some of the best free ones. They can help you with deploying, maintaining, troubleshooting, and ...

If your server network performance is lagging, chances are Windows' security features are to blame. Here's how to alleviate the problem. One of the problems that has long plagued Windows Server 2012 ...

I’ve been looking a lot lately into high-end Windows 7 networking features like URL Quality of Service (QoS)-based traffic management and Secure Remote Connect. There is a lot to like here — and yes, ...

If you spend any amount of time in home-lab communities or pursuing forums, you’ll notice a weird propensity to dump on ...

I'm going to be setting up a network in a new location (new office space). I've bought Meraki gear for the new location. This will be the corporate HQ. I'm currently running DHCP on my Windows Server ...

One day after Microsoft launched the first beta of the next generation of its Windows desktop operating system, Windows 8, the company previewed the next version of its server operating system, ...

Whether at home or at the office, networking has gone mainstream. Once upon a time, a computer had value as a stand-alone machine running applications, but that time has passed. Without an ability to ...