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Windows Server 2008 Failover Clusters: Networking (Part 1)
The Windows Server 2008 Failover Clustering feature provides high availability for services and applications. To ensure applications and services remain highly available, it is imperative the cluster...
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Cannot Save Recovery Information for Bitlocker in Windows 7
Hello, my name is Manoj Sehgal. I am a Senior Support Engineer in the Windows group and today’s blog will cover How to enable Bitlocker in Windows 7 and avoid one of the most common issues we see when...
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Understanding the 2 TB Limit in Windows Storage
“Why can’t I have a drive bigger than 2 TB?” This is a common question. And as storage has gotten bigger and cheaper, I see it more and more. So let’s take a few minutes to talk about the mysterious...
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Windows Server 2008 R2: No Recording Tab for CD/DVD burner
Today’s blog will cover burning CD/DVD’S in Windows Server 2008 R2. When you are logged into a Windows Server 2008 R2 computer you may notice that you cannot burn a CD/DVD and/or the recording tab is...
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Windows Server 2008 Failover Clusters: Networking (Part 2)
In Part 1, I discussed Windows Server 2008 Failover Cluster networking features. In this segment, I will discuss implementing networks in a Failover Cluster. Implementing networks in support of...
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Windows Server 2008 Failover Clusters: Networking (Part 3)
In Part 2, I discussed implementing networks in a Failover Cluster. In this final segment, I will discuss troubleshooting cluster networking issues. Troubleshooting cluster networking issues As...
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When should I evict a cluster node?
I thought I’d post a quick blog on this topic since we run into cases where evicting a cluster node is used as a troubleshooting step. That being said, evicting a node should NEVER be a primary...
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How To: Customize the Windows 7 Start Menu and Taskbar Using unattend.xml
Today’s blog will cover scenario where you would like to customize the Start menu and TaskBar(also called SuperBar) as part of your deployment. In Windows 7 the start menu looks like this The top 5...
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Hyper-V Snapshots: Suggestions for Success
While working with customers, I have frequently run into situations where they need help with Hyper-V snapshots. Help with understanding what snapshots are, how to use them, best practices with them,...
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Access Denied Error 0x80070005 message when initializing TPM for Bitlocker
Hello, my name is Manoj Sehgal. I am a Senior Support Engineer in the Windows group and today’s blog will cover How to initialize TPM successfully when you enable Bitlocker in Windows 7. A common...
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How to Disable BitLocker Drive Encryption Fixed Data Drive Read-Only Policy...
Hello, my name is Kaushik Ainapure. I am a Support Engineer in the Windows group and today’s blog I am going to discuss an issue with BitLocker drive preparation tool. When you try to run the BitLocker...
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Cluster Validation Storage Test ‘List All Disks’ Fails with Status 87
Greetings CORE blog fans! It has been awhile so I thought it was time for another blog. In recent weeks, we have seen an issue where the Windows Server 2008 R2 storage validation test List All Disks...
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How to backup recovery information in AD after Bitlocker is turned ON in...
Hello, my name is Manoj Sehgal. I am a Senior Support Engineer in the Windows group and today’s blog will cover “How to backup recovery information in AD after Bitlocker is turned ON in Windows 7.” A...
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Understanding the Cluster Debug Log in 2008
One of the major changes from 2003 to 2008 is the way we handle logging of cluster debug events. I thought I’d do a quick write-up on how cluster debug logging works in 2008. In Windows 2003 Failover...
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Windows Server 2008 Failover Clusters: Networking (Part 4)
The Windows Server 2008 Failover Clustering: Networking three-part blog series has been out for a little while now. Hopefully, it has been helpful. Little did I know there would be an opportunity to...
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Hyper-V Client Tracing – Tracing the User Interface (“UI”)
The purpose of this article is to explain a troubleshooting methodology with Hyper-V that goes a little deeper than the Event Logs. I’m creating a simple problem, starting a Virtual Machine with a...
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Reason for Access Denied error in PowerShell using Get-WMIObject calls to a...
What we will be covering in this blog, is a reason for an Access Denied error message in PowerShell and the options for resolving them. The particular Windows PowerShell cmdlet we will be referencing,...
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Rights needed for user account to create a Cluster Name Object (CNO) on...
As discussed in previous blogs and articles, there is no longer a Cluster Service account in Failover Clustering. However, there are still some rights needed in Active Directory. The rights of the...
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Windows Server 2008 and 2008R2 Failover Cluster Startup Switches
I am here today to discuss the troubleshooting switches used to start a Windows 2008 and 2008 R2 Failover Cluster. From time to time, the Failover Cluster Service will not start on its own. You need...
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Cluster Validation Error with Fiber Adapter
Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2 has a validation test that needs to be run against all nodes confirm that your hardware and settings are compatible with Failover Clustering. For the purpose of this...
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