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Windows Server Failover Cluster 2012 in Depth

Find here all sessions from Tech-Ed which covers all details about Windows Server Failover Cluster 2012. Every session takes about one hour. But it is worth taking time watching all of the sessions.

Posted to WSSRA by Thomas K.H. Bittner on Tue, Jul 24 2012
Filed under: Filed under: General, SQL, Storage, Windows Server, Cluster, Hyper-V, SharePoint, System Center, SCVMM, Disaster Recovery, Hosting, Managed Services, OCS, Active Directory, NetApp, High Availability, Navision, CRM, DFS, BizTalk, SCOM, SCCM, SCMDM, Opalis, Cloud Computing, Dynamic Computing
NetApp released new SnapManager

Find new versions with multiple enhancements for download: SnapManager for SharePoint SnapManager for SQL

Posted to WSSRA by Thomas K.H. Bittner on Fri, Jan 13 2012
Filed under: Filed under: General, SQL, Storage, Windows Server, Cluster, SharePoint, Disaster Recovery, Backup, Managed Services, Tools, NetApp, High Availability, Business Intelligence
Monitoring NetApp SnapManager and SnapDrive with Microsoft SCOM

NetApp Reference Architect for Virtualization and Cloud Computing, Santhosh Rao, has published two very interesting articles how to monitor SnapManager and SnapDrive with Microsoft System Center Operation Manager. You should read this https://communities.netapp.com/community/netapp-blogs/msenviro/blog...

Posted to WSSRA by Thomas K.H. Bittner on Thu, Dec 8 2011
Filed under: Filed under: General, SQL, Storage, Exchange, Windows Server, Cluster, SharePoint, System Center, Managed Services, Microsoft Provisioning Services, Tools, File Services, NetApp, SCOM, Cloud Computing
Exchange 2010 Service Pack 2 available

You can download it from here http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=28190 Exchange 2010 SP2 is a complete installation software pack, so for new Exchange installations, you can use it to start with from scratch. Also when you use it for updating your current installations, be aware that...

Posted to WSSRA by Thomas K.H. Bittner on Mon, Dec 5 2011
Filed under: Filed under: General, Storage, Exchange, Windows Server, Cluster, Hyper-V, BlackBerry, Mobile, TMG, UAG, Hosting, Microsoft Online Services, Managed Services, Microsoft Provisioning Services, UM, Migration, Active Directory, Forefront, Virtualization, Outlook, NetApp, High Availability, Security, SCOM, Conferencing, Cloud Computing
Exchange DAG and Cluster recommended Updates

My former Microsoft MVP fellow and well-known Microsoft Exchange Cluster Expert, Scott Schnoll, published a new blog post giving a headsup on recommended updates for Windows Failover Cluster environments with Exchange DAG implemented. It is worth reading his blog post now and prepare for some patching...

Posted to WSSRA by Thomas K.H. Bittner on Wed, Nov 30 2011
Filed under: Filed under: General, Storage, Exchange, Windows Server, Cluster, File Services, High Availability
Partly Cloudy and forecast for 2012

As you may already know, there will be some essential changes with several Microsoft technologies in next version 2012 coming up. According to those changes infrastructure design will also need to be adjusted. As well dynamic computing architectures and hardware selection in regards of storage. The guys...

Posted to WSSRA by Thomas K.H. Bittner on Tue, Nov 29 2011
Filed under: Filed under: General, Storage, Exchange, Windows Server, Cluster, Hyper-V, System Center, SCVMM, Managed Services, Virtualization, File Services, NetApp, High Availability, Cloud Computing, Dynamic Computing
Exchange for Hosters

As you know, this feature was removed from the current version of Exchange. There are some features back with Exchange 2010 SP1 back not as we had it in the past with legacy versions. Now with Exchange 2010 SP2 we will get back functionality on a standard On-Premise Exchange environment. Read http:/...

Posted to WSSRA by Thomas K.H. Bittner on Tue, Aug 30 2011
Filed under: Filed under: General, Storage, Exchange, Windows Server, Cluster, Hyper-V, BlackBerry, Hosting, Managed Services, Microsoft Provisioning Services, Office, Migration, Active Directory, Virtualization, Outlook, High Availability, Security, Cloud Computing, Dynamic Computing
Windows Anti-Virus Exclusion List

A comprehensive all exclusion list for Windows Server Systems has been published on TechNet Wiki. http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/953.aspx

Posted to WSSRA by Thomas K.H. Bittner on Wed, Aug 17 2011
Filed under: Filed under: General, Storage, Exchange, Windows Server, Cluster, Hyper-V, SharePoint, System Center, Data Protection Manager, Active Directory, Certificate Service, Forefront, Network Services, File Services, CRM, DNS, Windows Client, DFS, BizTalk, App-V, MED-V, Cloud Computing, Group Policy, IIS, SCDPM
Scott Schnoll’s - Exchange 2010 HA Misconceptions Addressed

You should not miss this detailed information http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2011/05/31/exchange-2010-high-availability-misconceptions-addressed.aspx

Posted to WSSRA by Thomas K.H. Bittner on Tue, May 31 2011
Filed under: Filed under: General, Storage, Exchange, Windows Server, Cluster, Hosting, Managed Services
NetApp Storage Systems in Microsoft Systems Environment

NetApp published a new article and guide how their storage environment and solutions work in Windows Systems architectures and infrastructures. The article gives you a lot valued information about how it works with Domain Controllers in Active Directory in many aspects, for example, it describes how...

Posted to WSSRA by Thomas K.H. Bittner on Tue, May 3 2011
Filed under: Filed under: General, Storage, Exchange, Windows Server, Cluster, Hyper-V, Disaster Recovery, Backup, Managed Services, Migration, Active Directory, Virtualization, Network Services, File Services, NetApp, High Availability, DFS, Security, Group Policy
Microsoft iSCSI Software Target now available

All new OS have the iSCSI Initiator client already available out of the box. The server side component was only available for Windows Storage Server. Now it is available for all other server types too. How to use it with a Hyper-V Cluster read the blog from Jose Barreto http://blogs.technet.com/b/josebda...

Posted to WSSRA by Thomas K.H. Bittner on Tue, Apr 5 2011
Filed under: Filed under: General, SQL, Storage, Windows Server, Cluster, Hyper-V, Tools, Virtualization, Network Services, File Services, NetApp, High Availability, Windows Client
Microsoft System Center Advisor

The public available Release Candidate has new features: Windows Server, Hyper-V host, and Active Directory analysis – Analyze and see alerts for these workloads on your Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2 installations. Multi-User support – Multiple users can access a single Advisor account. Email Notifications...

Posted to WSSRA by Thomas K.H. Bittner on Tue, Mar 22 2011
Filed under: Filed under: General, SQL, Windows Server, Cluster, Hyper-V, System Center, Microsoft Online Services, Managed Services, Tools, Active Directory, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Dynamic Computing
Install a Hyper-V Cluster

A complex challenge is to install a Hyper-V Cluster. Chris Collins from NetApp has put together all the necessary steps to achieve such a Hyper-V Cluster. Find here the checklist from Alex Jauch from NetApp who published the necessary steps to finally provision a Hyper-V Cluster. A complete technical...

Posted to WSSRA by Thomas K.H. Bittner on Sat, Feb 19 2011
Filed under: Filed under: General, Windows Server, Cluster, Hyper-V, Disaster Recovery, Managed Services, File Services, NetApp, High Availability, Dynamic Computing
Architecting iSCSI Storage for Hyper-V

A very interesting article about this has been published here . How is Hyper-V supporting iSCSI technologies? How can iSCSI storage provided for guest systems? What is best practise configuration? How to achieve the best data throughput? This and other questions are subject of this document.

Posted to WSSRA by Thomas K.H. Bittner on Fri, Feb 18 2011
Filed under: Filed under: General, SQL, Storage, Exchange, Windows Server, Cluster, Hyper-V, SharePoint, System Center, SCVMM, Disaster Recovery, Backup, Hosting, WSUS, Data Protection Manager, Migration, Virtualization, Network Services, File Services, High Availability, DFS, SCOM, SCCM, MED-V, SCMDM, Cloud Computing, Dynamic Computing, VDI
How incorrectly formatted NTFS volumes affects Exchange

Here is a really important article descibing how incorrectly formatted NTFS volumes affects Exchange http://blogs.technet.com/b/mikelag/archive/2011/02/09/how-fragmentation-on-incorrectly-formatted-ntfs-volumes-affects-exchange.aspx Thanks to Mike Lagase sharing this with us.

Posted to WSSRA by Thomas K.H. Bittner on Thu, Feb 10 2011
Filed under: Filed under: General, Storage, Exchange, Windows Server, Cluster, File Services, NetApp, High Availability
SQL Server Cluster: There was an error setting private property 'RequireKerberos' to value '1' for resource 'SQL Network Name'. Error: Value does not fall within the expected range

For a minute I thought the error is related to network as it refers 'RequireKerberos' and 'SQL Network name', on top of that this is a SQL Server 2008 Failover clustering environment. Both of these terms are registry based values that...

Posted to SQLServer-QA.net - Knowledge Sharing Network (SSQA.net) by on Thu, Dec 16 2010
Filed under: Filed under: sql server, kba, best practices, cluster, installation, instances, kerberos, slipstream, merge drop, network name, failover clustering
SQL Server 2005 and Windows Server 2008 - Failover clustering problems

Scenario: SQL Server 2005 and Windows 2008 X64 EE. Multiple errors after installing SQL Server as failover cluster, so here are the few gotchas on how to avoid them in your case. Failover Clustering - the first checkpoint I always look out is to ensure...

Posted to SQLServer-QA.net - Knowledge Sharing Network (SSQA.net) by on Mon, Oct 18 2010
Filed under: Filed under: sql server, windows, cluster, installation, service pack, failover, setup, resource group
Running, Filtering and Saving Scans in Best Practise Analyzer

Who knows the Best Practise Analyzer for Exchange (ExBPA) is already familiar exporting scan results to other file formats to save or achive. The Best Practise Analyzer (BPA) coming with Windows Server 2008 R2 Server Roles doesn’t have this opportunity to save the scan reports form the Server Manager...

Posted to WSSRA by Thomas K.H. Bittner on Sat, Sep 25 2010
Filed under: Filed under: General, Storage, Exchange, Windows Server, Cluster, Hyper-V, Remote Desktop Services, ISA Server, Tools, Active Directory, PKI, Certificate Service, Forefront, Network Services, File Services, BPA, DNS, DFS, Security
More Performance with SMBv2x on Windows and NetApp

NetApp has prepared an interesting performance test with new SMBv2.x available with Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008. The NetApp OnTap operating system has already been updated to support SMBv2. Find here the result figures about performance increase with SMBv2.x

Posted to WSSRA by Thomas K.H. Bittner on Wed, Sep 22 2010
Filed under: Filed under: General, SQL, Storage, Exchange, Windows Server, Cluster, Hyper-V, SharePoint, Disaster Recovery, Backup, ISA Server, Hosting, Managed Services, Office, OCS, Data Protection Manager, Migration, Active Directory, Forefront, Virtualization, Network Services, File Services, NetApp, High Availability, Navision, Business Intelligence, CRM, Windows Client, DFS, BizTalk, Opalis
Best Practise Deployment Exchange 2010 with NetApp Storage

In the May issue of Tech OnTap an article has been published that describes some of the new features for Exchange 2010 and discusses best practices for deploying it with NetApp storage including HA, virtualization, and storage efficiency. You can check out the article at http://communities.netapp.com...

Posted to WSSRA by Thomas K.H. Bittner on Sat, May 29 2010
Filed under: Filed under: General, Storage, Exchange, Windows Server, Cluster, Hyper-V, Disaster Recovery, Backup, Migration, Virtualization, NetApp, High Availability

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