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Windows Server Management
Coming soon: monitoring, patching, and brute-force protection for Windows Server, the same 24/7 discipline, native tooling.
7 topics · 7 articles
- Windows Server Monitoring
Windows servers fail differently from Linux: update reboots, disk-full VSS, service hangs, and RDP lockouts. Our upcoming Windows …
- Windows Brute-Force Protection
Internet-exposed RDP is probed within minutes by global botnets, and account lockout alone just becomes a denial-of-service weapon…
- Windows Server EOL Upgrades
Windows Server 2012/R2 lost support in October 2023, and 2016/2019 march toward their own deadlines, while line-of-business apps k…
- PowerShell: The Windows Admin Language That Also Runs on Linux
PowerShell is the automation language for Windows estates: object-based cmdlets instead of text parsing, remoting that reaches fle…
- IIS: The Windows Web Server, Taken Seriously
IIS is the web server built into Windows Server: application pools for process isolation and recycling, modules for authentication…
- Active Directory: The Directory Every Windows Login Depends On
Active Directory is the identity backbone of Windows estates: domain controllers, Kerberos authentication, group policy, and DNS a…
- Hyper-V: Windows Server's Built-in Hypervisor
Hyper-V is a Type 1 hypervisor shipped with Windows Server: no separate license line for the base platform, full live migration, c…
Field notes
Windows operations live and die by update rings. Unmanaged Patch-Tuesday reboots cause the most avoidable Windows outages we see; staged rings with maintenance windows and verified service recovery turn patching from roulette into routine.
RDP exposure is the Windows equivalent of password SSH on port 22, probed globally within minutes. Gateway-or-VPN-first architecture plus IP banning and geo-discipline removes the background noise so real anomalies become visible, exactly as on the Linux side.
Event Log forwarding is the cheapest Windows security upgrade available: centralized Security and System logs with anomaly alerting catches lateral movement and brewing failures months before they surface as outages.
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