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Windows updates and patch distribution without WSUS

Microsoft decided to discontinue the Windows Server Update Services update helper and declare it deprecated at the end of Windows 2025 support. We look at whether companies need to take action now and analyze the tools available as alternatives for Windows updates and patch distribution.

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Automated health checks

The open source Dradis framework helps you create plans for carrying out team pentests and facilitates the task of standardizing reports from different tools to create summary output.

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Integrate remote cloud storage

You don't need native clients for every single service just to back up or synchronize your data in the cloud; Rclone helps you handle these tasks for multiple cloud accounts at the command line or in a graphical front end.

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Data deduplication on Windows Server 2022

Data deduplication tools boost efficiency in storage management by improving storage utilization and saving network bandwidth during backup and replication processes.

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Hardening SSH authentication to the max

Public key authentication further supplemented with one-time password or hardware authentication methods improves SSH security while offering genuine convenience.

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Production-ready mini-Kubernetes installations

Kubernetes can be highly complex, with massive setup routines that are totally over the top for newcomers. If you want to try out Kubernetes or run it in production, you have a number of options, even if you decide not to use the comprehensive packages from established vendors.