Introduction In Windows Server 2016, Microsoft added a new type of storage called Storage Spaces Direct (aka S2D). S2D enables building highly available storage systems with local attached disks, and without the need to have […]
Introduction On Tuesday June 26, 2018, Microsoft is hosting a virtual Windows Server Summit that will help you to get speed with many important capabilities in the upcoming release of Windows Server. In this virtual […]
Updated – 19/04/2018 – Added [Manage Storage Spaces Direct in Windows Server 2016 with Windows Admin Center] Introduction The day has come… After almost a year of private and public previews, Windows Admin Center (formerly […]
Introduction Hello Windows Server folks, Today is a big day, Microsoft just confirmed that Windows Server 2019 is in the oven on high temperature, and will be generally available in the second half of calendar […]
Introduction Physical disks often experience errors of varying severity, from errors that the disk can transparently recover from, without interruption or data loss; to errors that are catastrophic and can cause data loss such as […]
Introduction In Windows Server 2016, Microsoft added a new type of storage called Storage Spaces Direct (S2D). S2D enables building a highly available storage systems with local attached disks, and without the need to have […]
Introduction Since Hyper-V inception back in 2008, you can configure a virtual machine to use a dynamic or a static MAC address for any given network adapter. By default, Hyper-V use dynamic MAC address – which means […]
Introduction If you are regularly deploying Windows operating systems, the combination of Microsoft WinPE and Windows PowerShell tools work together to speed up the deployment of Windows Server. There are also other tools of course you […]
Introduction You have deployed the first Technical Preview of Microsoft Project Honolulu in your environment, and you started exploring the new way of managing your servers in your Datacenter. If you did not hear yet about Microsoft […]
Introduction After Microsoft announcement on discontinuing Server Management Tools (SMT) Azure service on June 30, 2017. The server management team at Microsoft was working very hard on replacing SMT by a new server management experience […]
Introduction In Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016, Microsoft introduced a new feature called Virtual Secure Mode (VSM). VSM is what enables feature like Device Guard and Credential Guard. Credential Guard and Device Guard delivers unparalleled […]
Warning! This article is written for lab and demo purposes, it’s not supported to be used in production and is neither supported by Microsoft, HPE nor myself. Introduction In Windows Server 2016, Microsoft added a […]
Hello folks, After a successful release of my first book Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V Cookbook – Second Edition, I am delighted to announce that my second book is published as well. Over the past one year and a half, I’ve been […]
Introduction A while ago, I wrote a blog post on how to create a Two-way Mirror Storage Spaces in Windows Server 2012 R2. In Windows Server 2016, Microsoft introduced a new storage solution called Storage […]
Microsoft just announced a big change for Windows Server and System Center with a faster release cadence. The Future of Nano Server The future of Nano Server is all about containers. In the next release […]
With the release of Windows Server 2016, Microsoft introduced a new type of teaming approach called Switch Embedded Teaming (known as SET). SET is a virtualization aware virtual switch, and it’s different from the traditional […]
Introduction You deployed a new shiny Storage Spaces Direct cluster and everything is running smoothly. During the planning phase, you missed to add an additional network that you might use to isolate certain type of […]
I recently did a 2 Nodes Storage Spaces Direct Hyper-Converged deployment using SSDs & HDDs on top of HPE DL380 Gen9 servers. I used the following hardware configuration: 2 Nodes Cluster – Hardware Platform HPE […]
Introduction A while ago, I wrote a step by step guide on how to install and evaluate Microsoft Advanced Threat Analytics (ATA). In summary, Microsoft Advanced Threat Analytics (ATA) is a security product that helps […]
Introduction Recently I was upgrading some Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V hosts to Windows Server 2016. I have Storage Tiered Spaces with mirroring resiliency deployed on those Hyper-V 2012 R2 hosts. For info about Storage […]
Introduction If you have been in IT for while, you probably aware about how power is important for your Datacenter. I’m not sure about how many times I’ve read or been told that power is […]
This is a short blog post about my experience in deploying System Center Data Protection Manager 2016. I am involved currently with several DPM projects on upgrading System Center Data Protection Manager 2012 R2 to […]
Introduction In the previous version of Hyper-V, whenever you upgraded your host to a new release, the moment Hyper-V sees your virtual machines, the VM configuration version will be upgraded automatically behind the scenes. This […]
Introduction In Windows Server 2016, Microsoft added a new type of storage called Storage Spaces Direct (S2D). S2D enables building highly available storage systems with local attached disks, and without the need to have any […]
Introduction In the previous post, I showed you how to install Windows Nano Server on HPE ProLiant Gen9 servers. When creating a Nano Server image in Windows PowerShell or using the new graphical user interface […]
Updated 10/01/2017: [Adding the following two sections: “Updating Nano Server with HPE Drivers”, “Applying Latest Windows Updates”, and “Adding Nano Server Roles and Features”]. Introduction With the release of Windows Server 2016 and System Center […]
Today’s post is not related to Virtualization or Cloud topic. If there is one thing irritating me when I log on to Windows Server is Server Manager. When you logs on to a server, the […]
Introduction On October 12th, Microsoft released Windows Server 2016 and System Center 2016 for public (GA). With the release of Windows Server 2016, we also get the first version of Nano Server. First version? Yes, […]
Big day to Microsoft folks! At Microsoft Ignite last month, the Windows Server team released Windows Server 2016 and System Center 2016 to the public. This is was the Retail version of Windows Server 2016 […]
Hello folks, Live from Microsoft Ignite 2016 at Atlanta, Georgia! In October 2014, Microsoft released the first Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview, on May 5th, 2015 Microsoft released the second Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview, […]
Image Credit [http://wonderfulengineering.com/] Do you need massive Virtual Machines with 240VPs, 16TB of RAM to run databases for Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Data Mining and Analytics? Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V is your right choice! After […]
Hello folks, Big news at exiting time! With the launch of Windows Server 2016, Microsoft just announced a new VMware migration offer. From September 1, 2016, through June 30, 2017, you can switch workloads from […]
Nano is a super small light weight version of Windows Server, it’s an installation option of Standard and Datacenter edition, it’s about 400MB on disk that can run Hyper-V, DNS Server, IIS Server, Scale-out file […]
In the unlikely event that you have not heard, Windows Server 2016 TP5 is now available for download unless you are under a rock What you do after you install Windows Server?… Update it of course! […]
Hello folks, The big news! Microsoft just released Windows Server 2016 and System Center 2016 Technical Preview 5 to the public. You can download the evaluation bits from the following links: Windows Server 2016 TP5: […]
For the past couple of months, I’ve been working with my peer Romain Serre (@RomSerre) in something special for you. We wanted to bring a new resource about the Microsoft Hyper-Converged solution to the community […]
Introduction Most businesses today are critically dependent on the continued availability of their IT environments to support business operations. Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BCDR) allows organizations to resume operations as soon as possible […]
Updated 12/08/2017: [ReFS v1 volumes which are created under Windows Server 2012/R2, can be mounted on Windows Server 2016. ReFS is backward compatible, however, that volume will not be upgraded to ReFS v3 when you mount […]
Hello folks, Party on… Microsoft just released Windows Server 2016 and System Center 2016 Technical Preview 4 to the public You can download the evaluation bits from the following links: Windows Server 2016 TP4: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/evaluate-windows-server-technical-preview […]
Hello Developers and IT Pros! In the unlikely event that you have not heard that Microsoft has released Technical Preview 3 of Windows Server 2016 which includes the first public release of Windows Server Containers. […]
Hello folks, Microsoft just announced that Microsoft Advanced Threat Analytics (ATA) is generally available. What is Microsoft Advanced Threat Analytics (ATA)? Microsoft Advanced Threat Analytics (ATA) helps IT departments identify advanced attacks with User and […]
Cross-post from Microsoft MSDN Blog —————————————————- Hello Folks! In the unlikely event that you have not heard, Windows Server 2016 and System Center TP3 is now available for download. The highlight in this TP3 release […]
Hello folks, Party on… Microsoft just released Windows Server 2016 and System Center 2016 Technical Preview 3 to the public! You can download the evaluation bits from the following links: Windows Server 2016 TP3: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/evalcenter/dn781243.aspx […]
Hello folks, I am happy to share with you that Microsoft just released Storage Spaces Design Consideration Guide and Software-Defined Storage Design Calculator The Software-Defined Storage Design Calculator (SDS) spreadsheet is to design a storage […]
Hello folks, I am glad to share with you that Windows Server has a new User Voice page to submit your general feedback here: http://windowsserver.uservoice.com/forums/295047-general-feedback However for specific feedback, you can submit your voice using […]
Hello folks, Packt celebrates International Day Against DRM, May 6th 2015! Packt Publishing firmly believes that you should be able to read and interact with your content when you want, where you want, and […]
Hello folks, A few blogs ago, I showed you step by step on how to create a Two-Way mirrored Storage Space, and how to replace a failed disk and repair the storage space. In today’s […]
Hello folks, Do you want to implement the commonly used roles and features provided by Windows Server 2012 R2 effectively, do you want to make your Microsoft network infrastructure more streamlined and efficient than ever? […]
Hello folks, In today’s blog post, I will demonstrate the Storage Spaces Tiering feature that was introduced in Windows Server 2012 R2. If you want a quick overview on how to optimize Storage Tiered Spaces, […]
In this blog post we will continue our step by step series on Microsoft Storage Spaces, if you missed the previous post on How To Replace A Faulty Disk In Two-Way Mirrored Storage Tiered Space, […]
Hello Folks, As you know that Physical disks often experience errors of varying severity, from errors that the disk can transparently recover from, without interruption or data loss; to errors that are catastrophic and can […]
Hello Folks, The killer feature in Windows Server 2012 R2 is Storage Tiered Spaces. What is Storage Tiered Spaces? Storage Tiers automatically moves frequently accessed data to faster (solid-state drive) storage and infrequently accessed data […]
Illustrates the differences among the various Windows Server 2012 R2 products and editions, including information about locks and limits and supported server roles and features. This chart illustrates the differences among the various Windows Server […]
Hello Folks, Today Microsoft announced the General Availability for Windows Server 2012 R2 Cloud OS. At the heart of Cloud OS is Windows Server 2012 R2, which delivers upon the promises of a modern datacenter, […]
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