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Install and configure Windows Server Update Services (WSUS)

Posted by Jarrod Farncomb on February 7, 2017 1 comment

In this post we will cover how to install and configure Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) in Microsoft’s Windows Server 2016.

WSUS can be used to automatically download Windows update files and store them locally. Other Windows servers in your network will then download the updates from the WSUS server rather than the Internet, saving you Internet bandwidth and speeding up the Windows update process.

With WSUS we can configure all of our servers to be automatically updated, ensuring that security updates are installed quickly from a central location. This will provide us with useful information such as reports advising which servers have or have not been patched with a specific update.

Configure automatic updates for Windows Server 2016

Posted by Jarrod Farncomb on January 30, 2017 No comments

In this post we will show you how to use group policy to configure computers within an Active Directory domain to perform automatic Windows updates from either the Internet or a WSUS server that you manage.

Create computer groups for WSUS

Posted by Jarrod Farncomb on January 24, 2017 6 comments

This post will cover how to create and manage computer groups in Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) for Windows Server 2016.

Configure WSUS reporting in Windows Server 2016

Posted by Jarrod Farncomb on January 17, 2017 9 comments

WSUS is quite powerful in that it can provide us reports containing useful information regarding which Windows machines have which Windows updates applied, allowing us to get a good overview of our environment.

This type of information will be useful if you’re required to perform any type of compliance check to ensure that your servers are properly patched. In this post we’ll take a look at installing the software required to view the reports as well as how to run the reports.

Linux VS Windows Web Server Benchmarks

Posted by Jarrod Farncomb on January 12, 2017 20 comments

Windows vs Linux web server benchmark test

Following on from my recent Linux web server benchmarks and Windows web server benchmarks, I noticed that in general IIS appeared to perform better than all Linux based web servers that I’d previously tested.

As my Linux results were completed in March last year, I’ve run some of the tests again with the most up to date versions of each web server to ensure that the best performance can be achieved.

So let’s find out how Linux and Windows based web servers compare against each other in a static workload speed test.

Windows IIS Speed Test Benchmark – 2017 Results

Posted by Jarrod Farncomb on January 10, 2017 11 comments

Windows Server IIS Web Server Benchmarks

Following on from my recent Linux web server benchmarks, I’m going to be performing the same tests on all current generations of Microsoft’s IIS web server.

Here I’ll be performing benchmarks against the below versions of the IIS web server and then comparing them against each other to get an idea of which one performs the best under a static workload.

Windows Server 2008 R2 – IIS 7.5
Windows Server 2012 – IIS 8.0
Windows Server 2012 R2 – IIS 8.5
Windows Server 2016 – IIS 10.0

First I’ll discuss how the tests were set up and actually done before proceeding into the results.

How To Install Microsoft SQL Server On CentOS Linux

Posted by Jarrod Farncomb on January 5, 2017 10 comments

In December 2016 Microsoft made their SQL Server database available in Linux. Here we’ll cover how to install and perform basic setup of MSSQL in the RHEL based Linux distribution CentOS.

How To Install Microsoft SQL Server On Ubuntu Linux

Posted by Jarrod Farncomb on January 3, 2017 7 comments

In December 2016 Microsoft made their SQL Server database available in Linux. Here we’ll cover how to install and perform basic setup of MSSQL in the Ubuntu distribution of Linux.

Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V Installation Guide

Posted by Jarrod Farncomb on September 7, 2016 2 comments

How To Install Hyper-V In Windows Server 2016

Here we’re going to show you how to install Hyper-V in Microsoft’s Windows Server 2016 operating system.

Hyper-V is a hypervisor built into Windows which can be used to host virtual machines. The role can be installed either through the command line interface (CLI) with PowerShell, or through the graphical user interface (GUI). We’ll cover both of these options below, starting with PowerShell first.

How To Install PowerShell On Linux

Posted by Jarrod Farncomb on August 31, 2016 No comments

Earlier this month Microsoft announced that PowerShell had been open sourced and would be available for use in Linux. As a result of this, PowerShell is now available for Ubuntu 14.04 and 16.04, CentOS/RHEL 7, and macOS 10.11.

If your first thought is along the lines of “who would use this abomination?”, then you’re in good company. My best thought at who this is targeted towards is the Windows system administrator that needs to be able to manage Linux systems as they are likely already quite familiar with PowerShell and perhaps unwilling to change.

Personally I’d look at using a tool such as Puppet for managing systems running various operating systems, however here’s how you can install PowerShell in Linux should you want to take this path.

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