WindowsHow to Use Windows Server FSRM (File Server Resource Manager) to Block Specific File Extensions

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WindowsHow to Use Windows Server BitLocker for Full Volume Encryption

Physical security is the most commonly overlooked aspect of server administration. You might have firewalls,...

ExcelHow to Use Excel Data Types to Pull Live Stock Quotes

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WindowsHow to Use Windows Server VSS (Volume Shadow Copy Service) to Recover Deleted Files

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WindowsHow to Use Windows Server DFS (Distributed File System) to Replicate Data

If your company has a main office in New York and a branch office in...

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Microsoft Excel is traditionally used to move forward through a problem: you input the raw...

WindowsHow to Use Windows Server WDS (Windows Deployment Services) to Image Computers

If you are an IT administrator tasked with provisioning 50 new laptops for the marketing...

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WindowsHow to Use Windows Server DHCP Reservations to Manage IP Addresses

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If you have a spreadsheet containing sales figures across 500 different cities, presenting that data...

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Standard Excel PivotTables are incredibly powerful, but they suffer from a massive limitation: they can...

WindowsHow to Use Windows Server WSUS to Manage Windows Updates

In a corporate environment with hundreds of Windows 10 and Windows 11 workstations, allowing every...

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