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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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, […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Introduction Most businesses today are critically dependent on the continued availability of their IT environments to support business operations. Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Hello folks, Packt celebrates International Day Against DRM, May 6th 2015! Packt Publishing firmly believes that you should be able to read and interact […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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