You can install an SMTP server using built-in tools in all versions of Windows Server. This SMTP server can work as a mail relay service that should receive and send SMTP emails from various devices in the organization (for example, senders, scanners, access control devices, etc.) and applications (web apps, SQL Reporting Services, SharePoint), which should be able to send mail using the SMTP protocol. Such a relay can send messages to your Exchange servers or to public email services such as Gmail, Yahoo, Office 365 (outlook.com), etc. (since it is not always advisable to deploy a full-featured internal email infrastructure based on Microsoft Exchange Server or other email services).
- Hyper-VVMWareWindows Server 2012 R2Windows Server 2016Windows Server 2019
Windows Server Licensing for Virtual Environments
May 10, 2023In this article, we’ll look on licensing features of the Windows Server 2019, 2016 and 2012 R2 operating systems from the point of view of new Microsoft licensing model. Also,…
In the Exchange Server 2010 SP1 (and newer), special PowerShell cmdlets appeared: New-MailboxImportRequest and New-MailboxExportRequest, that allow you to import or export the contents of the Exchange mailbox from / to…
- Active DirectoryGroup PoliciesWindows 10Windows Server 2016
Restricting Group Policy with WMI Filtering
February 16, 2021WMI filters in Group Policy (GPO) allow you to more flexibly apply policies to clients by using different rules. A WMI filter is a set of WMI queries (the WMI…
- PowerShellWindows 10Windows Server 2012 R2Windows Server 2016
Assign Multiple IP Addresses (Aliases) to a Single NIC
August 3, 2020In some cases an administrator needs to configure multiple IP addresses one a single network interface (NIC) in Windows. An example of such situations can be the need to run…
- Windows Server 2012 R2Windows Server 2016
Configuring an FTP Server with User Isolation on Windows Server 2016 / 2012 R2
May 10, 2023The FTP protocol is one of the oldest protocols (it is more than 40 years old), but it is still widely used where a simple file transfer protocol is required.…
- Windows 10Windows 7Windows Server 2012 R2Windows Server 2016
How to Remove Installed Updates in Windows 10 and Windows Server?
June 7, 2022Sometimes it happens that the security updates for Microsoft products (released under MS Patch Tuesday) cause problems with the OS or third-party software. The issues caused by the updates can…
- Windows 10Windows Server 2012 R2
DistributedCOM Error 10016 in Windows: The Application-specific Permission Settings do not Grant Local Activation Permission
April 3, 2019In this post I’ll show you how to fix the error with the EventID 10016 from the DistributedCOM source on a computer running Windows 10 or Windows Server 2012 R2.…
When the system warns you that free space on your local drive is running out, the first thing that the administrator does is trying to find all large files that…
- PowerShellWindows 10Windows Server 2012 R2Windows Server 2016
Managing Printers and Drivers with PowerShell in Windows 10 / Server 2016
February 20, 2023In the previous article, we looked at the old-school VBS scripts that can be used to manage printers and print operations in all Windows versions, starting from Windows XP. Today…