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Windows Server Failover Cluster 2012 in Depth

Published Tue, Jul 24 2012 9:18 | Thomas K.H. Bittner

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.  

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

Microsoft Standalone System Sweeper Beta announced

Published Thu, Feb 9 2012 9:21 | Thomas K.H. Bittner

Microsoft Standalone System Sweeper Beta, a recovery tool that can help you start an infected PC and perform an offline scan to help identify and remove rootkits and other advanced malware. In addition, Microsoft Standalone System Sweeper Beta can be...

Filed under: General, Disaster Recovery, Tools, Windows Client, Security

Microsoft Exchange PST Capture

Published Tue, Jan 31 2012 9:20 | Thomas K.H. Bittner

Now it is available. Discover PST files on your network and import it automatically into users mailboxes On-Premise or Exchange Online. Download here , and be able to stay compliant and follow your achiving and retention rules.  

Filed under: General, Exchange, Windows Server, Disaster Recovery, Backup, Hosting, Microsoft Online Services, Managed Services, Tools, Data Protection Manager, Migration, Outlook, Windows Client, Security, Cloud Computing, Dynamic Computing

NetApp released new SnapManager

Published Fri, Jan 13 2012 12:06 | Thomas K.H. Bittner

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

Filed under: General, SQL, Storage, Windows Server, Cluster, SharePoint, Disaster Recovery, Backup, Managed Services, Tools, NetApp, High Availability, Business Intelligence

Recommendations on Reseeding Exchange 2010 databases

Published Thu, Dec 1 2011 22:22 | Thomas K.H. Bittner

When I met my former fellow Microsoft MVP, Mark Arnold, and Microsoft Technical Architect, Alex Jauch, from NetApp on Microsoft Tech-Ed 2011 in Atlanta, I was also able to watch some new achievements they have had on Exchange storage and Hyper-V Virtual...

Filed under: General, Storage, Exchange, Windows Server, Disaster Recovery, Backup, NetApp, High Availability

Best Practices for Microsoft Virtualization and Netapp Storage for Hyper-V

Published Wed, Aug 3 2011 8:45 | Thomas K.H. Bittner

A consolidated version of the former articles about this scenario has been published by ‘NetApp for Microsoft Environments’ Team. You’ll find the detailed documentation about NetApp Storage Best Practices for Microsoft Virtualization and NetApp Snap-Manager...

Filed under: General, Storage, Windows Server, Hyper-V, SCVMM, Disaster Recovery, Virtualization, NetApp, High Availability, Cloud Computing, Dynamic Computing

NetApp Storage Systems in Microsoft Systems Environment

Published Tue, May 3 2011 13:05 | Thomas K.H. Bittner

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...

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

Snapshots are not supported with Windows DFSR

Published Tue, Mar 22 2011 9:36 | Thomas K.H. Bittner

If you are running virtualized Windows Server with DFSR, snapshots are not supported as with any other Windows Multi-Master Database. DFSR does not implement USN rollback quarantine protection like Active Directory Domain Services. More details here ...

Filed under: General, Storage, Windows Server, Hyper-V, Disaster Recovery, Backup, Tools, Active Directory, File Services, NetApp, DFS

Install a Hyper-V Cluster

Published Sat, Feb 19 2011 15:22 | Thomas K.H. Bittner

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...

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

Published Fri, Feb 18 2011 15:13 | Thomas K.H. Bittner

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...

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

Configure the Forefront TMG 2010 to allow DPM 2010 communication

Published Wed, Oct 20 2010 14:55 | Thomas K.H. Bittner

The DPM agent uses various ports and protocols to connect with the DPM server. The Forefront TMG needs to be configured to allow the DPM server to communicate through those ports. The complete list of ports that are used by DPM are documented at the Microsoft...

Filed under: General, Storage, Exchange, Windows Server, Hyper-V, SharePoint, System Center, Disaster Recovery, Backup, TMG, ISA Server, Data Protection Manager, Forefront, Virtualization, File Services, Security

More Performance with SMBv2x on Windows and NetApp

Published Wed, Sep 22 2010 19:22 | Thomas K.H. Bittner

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...

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

Published Sat, May 29 2010 10:33 | Thomas K.H. Bittner

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...

Filed under: General, Storage, Exchange, Windows Server, Cluster, Hyper-V, Disaster Recovery, Backup, Migration, Virtualization, NetApp, High Availability