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SCVMM Powershell - BITSTcpPort
B.I.T.S - Background Intelligent Transfer Service - is also utilized by VMM for a.e. file transfer...
Date: 02/19/2018
Enable Remote Kernel Mode Debugging on Hyper-V Virtual Machine
- start an elevated command prompt and turn on debugging bcdedit /debug on 2) configure debugger to...
Date: 12/18/2017
Powershell - How to detect bad state VMs in a Hyper-V cluster?
[notranslate] integration components are a good indicator of the health of a VM as it can tell us OS...
Date: 12/18/2017
Windows System State Backup from On-Prem to Azure is generally available now
This feature is now GA and available in Azure. For some specific scenarios I do see a great benefit...
Date: 11/15/2017
CRAY Supercomputers are coming to Azure
WOW! This is really a great development and I do have some personal relationship to Cray computers...
Date: 10/24/2017
Event ID 50 - NTFS Delayed Write Lost
We see often alerts in SCOM around "NTFS - Write Delayed Lost" which is worth to investigate further...
Date: 10/17/2017
Cumulative Update for October-INACCESSIBLE BOOT DEVICE
The issue arises if the delta and the full cumulative update for October (KB4041691...
Date: 10/16/2017
The task XML contains a value which is incorrectly formatted or out of range
sharing a quick fix as I couldn't find easily information on how to get rid of this error. This also...
Date: 10/06/2017
Powershell–How to query HP smart array for disk health check?
There is no direct Powershell module for HP servers available yet but the CLI tools can help us...
Date: 09/04/2017
Microsoft Security Intelligence Report Volume 22 is now available
[notranslate]At the end of the day - it's all about Security! Cybersecurity is getting Prio1 is many...
Date: 08/31/2017
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Date: 08/30/2017
“WannaCrypt”–Patch first and then verify depreciation of SMBv1
Due to ongoing “WannaCrypt” attacks highly recommended to review if you rely on SMBv1, this feature...
Date: 05/15/2017
System Center–Version
Below you can find a quick summary to identify the version by the build number, added also latest...
Date: 03/31/2017
SCOM-Agent Failover
Operations Manager is the monitoring component from the System Center suite. Honestly one of the...
Date: 03/29/2017
[Quick] F5 BIGIP-How to configure RDGateway load balancer?
Windows is usually good enough for simple network load balancing methods, networking people know...
Date: 03/28/2017
Powershell-How to query memory state via Get-WMIObject
here is a simple example how WMI queries can be call’d from powershell. this one is just an example...
Date: 03/27/2017
SCOM Datawarehouse-Event31551 Failed to store data in the Data Warehouse
After I updated the SQL management pack to latest release we did saw below error related to SCOM DW...
Date: 03/15/2017
SCOM Reporting Services-rslogon failed
After you change password for your service accounts for SCOM you can hit below issue if you have...
Date: 03/15/2017
Windows Server 2016 Scalability
For those of you who haven’t been able to keep up with all of the new scenarios and features Windows...
Date: 08/26/2016
F5 BIGIP–java.lang.OutOfMemoryError
BIGIP one of the best hardware load balancers I used but sometimes the default configuration can’t...
Date: 08/19/2016
Azure Powershell Part 2-Create VM
in previous post “Azure Powershell Part 1” we setup and establish a connection to Azure through...
Date: 06/07/2016
Azure Powershell Part 1-Setup and Start
Using Powershell in Azure is a powerful and quick way to script and automate frequent coming tasks....
Date: 06/07/2016
Microsoft Azure
Microsoft Azure, formerly known as Windows Azure, is Microsoft's public cloud computing platform. It...
Date: 06/07/2016
Understanding Azure - A Guide For Developers - An Official eBook Guide from Microsoft
Microsoft has released the latest Developers Guides on Azure eBook –. It covers the latest Azure...
Date: 05/18/2016
Recommended hotfixes for Windows 2012 R2 failover clusters
there is no more the need to keep your own lists of clustering patches as this is now summarized in...
Date: 04/27/2016
KB3000850–November Rollup 2014
3000850 is a recommended rollup for failover clusters. beside few others a lot of fixes around...
Date: 12/04/2014
Powershell-Generate Automated CSVFreespace and Memory Report
This script relies the Hyper-V clusters are been managed by VMM but if you do not use VMM you can...
Date: 12/04/2014
best practices for running AV on SQL servers
Running Antivirus software is critical part of server security but it is also important to...
Date: 09/25/2014
Powershell–How to monitor HP Smartarray disk status?
really a quick one and straight forward but sometimes very useful. here is a quick example how you...
Date: 07/04/2014
Powershell-How to easily verify patch level between computers
Compare patches between computers? Here is a quick and easy way how you can verify this with...
Date: 07/04/2014
Powershell – How to get total VM memory overview (dynamic, static and startup memory) per node in a cluster?
Host Memory Pressure – I think this is one of the keys (in addition to storage, network, CPU) in...
Date: 06/16/2014
Failover Cluster - Recommended hotfixes and updates for Windows Server 2012 RTM and R2 based clusters
Checkout KB2920151 for getting a comprehensive list of the recommended hotfixes and updates for...
Date: 05/20/2014
How to configure Preferred Owners and AutoFailback with Powershell in Failover Cluster?
Consider scenario, you “balanced” your VMs across your nodes and you come back in the morning and...
Date: 04/07/2014
Its all about IOPS
Sharing some personal experience from previous benchmarks. Here are some general guidelines for...
Date: 09/16/2013
Windows 8 keyboard shortcuts
I’m typically a keyboard user and try to find short ways to my required actions. The comprehensive...
Date: 04/30/2013
End of Life - Support ends for Windows XP and Office 2003
On April 8, 2014, Microsoft will end support for the decade-old Windows XP and Office 2003. This...
Date: 04/12/2013
SCVMM 2008 R2–Error 2912 - An internal error has occurred trying to contact an agent
I love the “unknown” error things but as all of us know you can NOT handle all error conditions...
Date: 03/20/2013
How to deploy an “classic” terminal server with Windows 2012
Since Windows 2008 the “oldschool” and well known 2003 terminal services are extended on rich web...
Date: 03/18/2013
NetApp – New Windows MPIO (V3.5) available
NetApp has released a new version of their MPIO DSM (Version 3.5) which does include several fixes...
Date: 11/08/2011
How to configure NIC Teaming with HP Proliant and Cisco or Procurve Switch Infrastructure?
Very often I do need to configure NIC teams with HP hardware with Cisco or Procurve networking...
Date: 08/06/2011
How to use Powershell in Failover Clustering–Part 1
Powershell is a really powerful toy for any Windows administrator where tasks need to be automated...
Date: 08/05/2011
Failover Cluster Network Design with Hyper-V–How many NICs are required?
Failover Clustering reliability and stability is also “strongly” dependent on the underlying...
Date: 07/25/2011
Running Domain Controller on top of Hyper-V and Failover Cluster?
Generally this questions is currently a well discussed topic in my customer scenarios therefore I...
Date: 07/15/2011
How to generate and correctly interpret Failover Cluster Log
Very often it is required to generate cluster log if the eventlog information’s are not enough to...
Date: 07/02/2011
Step-by-Step and Capacity Planning Guides for Remote Desktop Services–SP1 updated
Microsoft has released updated documents for host and capacity planning as well step-by-step...
Date: 06/14/2011
YOU HAVE LOST ACCESS TO SQL SERVER, HOW TO FIX-IT?
You are working as a trusted DBA responsible for some extremely important SQL Servers for your...
Date: 06/14/2011
Deploying Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Networking with Cisco
Cisco has published an really useful whitepaper around networking deployments with their Cisco gear...
Date: 06/06/2011
New Hyper-V Performance Blog
Tony Voellm has left Microsoft is his previous role as Hyper-V Performance Lead. He had given great...
Date: 06/05/2011