As locking down information becomes a more critical priority for IT organizations, securing individual files or shares is completely dependent on effectively setting up security groups. Because ...

In Windows Server 2012, dynamic access control (DAC) is a suite of features and utilities that work together to augment the file system security that has been a part of Windows since the NT days. It ...

If you want to enable indexing on a Windows file server, you will need to start by installing the Windows Search Service. To do so, open Server Manager and then choose the Add Roles and Features ...

In this article, we will explore how to install and configure File Server on Windows Server and install the necessary roles, configure shared folders, manage permission, and ensure security. Suppose ...

Okay so we all know of windows HA clusters. Most also know of DFS for providing high availability to file servers. What I am looking for is the most transparent/seamless failover mechanism possible ...

Does your small business rely on one or more file servers? If so, following server security best practices should be an essential part of your overall data security plan. Could your business afford to ...

Amazon has had storage options for Linux file servers for some time, but it recognizes that a number of companies still use Windows file servers, and they are not content to cede that market to ...

In the cloud market, Amazon Web Services Inc. is the largest public cloud provider, accounting for nearly 50% of the entire market, according to global analyst Gartner Inc. Yet, until last year’s ...

I'm tasking my new hire with spinning up a new file server on the domain. It will be running Server 2019, and I'm looking for some best practices guides. It will be part of a DFS namespace and ...

While the majority of workloads in the cloud are Linux-based, Amazon Web Services (AWS) CEO Andy Jassy said he is well aware that Windows is still significant, and as a result, his company on ...