If you need an SFTP server, you can set it up easily on a Linux box since it’s supported out of the box. But if you’d like to set up one on Windows, you need to do some extra work since SFTP is not natively supported on Windows. Don’t get confused it with the FTPS, short for FTP over SSL, which […]
I have a BitLocker encrypted external drive that I needed to read from a Windows Server 2012. When I connected it to the server and right-click on the drive I don’t see the Unlock Drive option from the context menu like I usually see on my Windows 10 computer. So, what to do? How to enable BitLocker encryption on Windows […]
One of my Windows Server 2012 R2 ran out of space. A quick folder analysis using the free portable tool TreeSize revealed that both Windows.old and WinSxS folders are the ones taking most of the spaces. On Windows desktop systems, both folders are easy to clean up with the built in tool Disk Cleanup Utility. But, it’s not the case in […]
UPD, short for User Profile Disks, is a new disk type for Remote Desktop Services in Windows Server 2012 R2. It’s an alternative to roaming profiles and folder redirections for RDS to store user profiles as a separate VHDX disk on dedicated file storage. The disk is mounted to the user session as soon as the user logs into the […]
I was trying to install .Net 3.5 on a Windows Server 2012 machine through “Add or Remove Features” wizard, like I did many times before. But this time, it’s failed with an error message about “the source could not be found.” Turns out, what’s caused this problem is that the server was configured to use WSUS instead of Microsoft Windows […]