Brien runs down how you can get the most out of Windows Server 2012 R2's newest tiered storage functionality. One of the most welcome new features in Windows Server 2012 R2 is the ability to create ...

Microsoft this week announced that Extended Security Updates (ESUs) for Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2, as managed using Azure Arc, reached the "general availability" ...

Russell Smith is a technology consultant and trainer specializing in management and security of Microsoft server and client technologies. He is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer with more than 15 ...

Support for Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2 ended in October. Here’s what it means for small businesses — and what they can do about it. Ryan Titus is a corporate account manager at CDW. He works in ...

From UEFI to full-disk encryption to improvements in IIS, Windows Server 2012's security features alone provide reason enough to upgrade With the shift to the new Metro user interface, a lot of people ...

Amazon Web Services announced today that it will now offer virtual Windows 2012 server instances as part of its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service. Amazon Web Services’ Windows team General Manager ...

The Microsoft new product and service barrage is not letting up. On November 1, Microsoft made generally available both its Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) 2012 tool bundle and its Windows ...

A preview version of Windows Server 2012 R2 is now out, complete with a nag feature aimed at administrators. The new preview pushes related Microsoft services at SMBs via a dashboard that will “remind ...

OK I think I have this figured out.... We currently have a network with 75 users on a 2008 R2 Domain Controller with nearly a 100 CALS (we lost a few folks in the recession). I just purchased a few ...