David Elfassy IM'd me yesterday and asked me to play a game of word association. I hate word associations. It seems that word associations always lead to people thinking I am insane, and I get locked in padded rooms. Anyways, he said it would really help him with some Exchange materials that he is...
Greg Page of the Microsoft Cluster Group and I had a mini-discussion today on the microsoft.public.windows.server.clustering newsgroup, as well as followed it up with a phone conversation, regarding the implementation of the MSDTC resource. In the past , Microsoft has clearly stated that the MSDTC resource...
I got brave and decided to fix the problem. The issue, for those who missed the first show, was that I needed to reconfigure the MSDTC on a SQL cluster. The MSDTC needed to be moved to a different drive because we are retiring one of the EMC frames. The more I read on this the more complex it seemed...
More like, it is semi-broken. Ok, it isn't broken at all, but it isn't configured the way I want it configured so I have a desire to fix it. It all started last Friday night. We are migrating from one EMC frame to another one. The storage guys (they really do a great job here) added new LUNS...
Whenever I teach Exchange Server 2003 classes, I get to the module that discusses clustering and I want to scream. There just isn't enough material to discuss Exchange clustering properly. Anyways, I started talking more and more about clustering as there seems to be a great deal of interest in clustering...