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KMS Count is not increasing
Today’s blog will cover KMS volume activation and the KMS count. Many times customers will contact us and report that their KMS count is not as high as they think it should be or it is not increasing....
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Where’s my disk space?
I have worked a few customer cases lately that have had the same issue. Explorer shows that a disk has plenty of disk space available. When you look at the same disk in Disk Management, you see that...
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Announcing Microsoft Virtualization Jump Start Training Videos!
Microsoft Learning hosted another new and exclusive Jump Start virtual training event – Microsoft Virtualization for VMware Professionals. We are thrilled to announce availability of the HD-quality...
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Disk Considerations for Large File Share Servers
While working here at Microsoft, I have noticed over the years that many administrators have been creating large single volumes for file shares. This has become more prevalent as storage space has...
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Supported workaround for torn state installations on Windows 7 SP1
I have an update for those of you with systems in a torn state. To clarify, torn state systems are those on which the unsupported workaround of deleting the checkpoint from the pending.xml file was...
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Sysprep, SkipRearm, and Image Build Best Practices
Running sysprep Today's blog will cover a common question we get with deploying Windows. The question usually starts as "How many times can I run sysprep"? While the answer is simple it requires a more...
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Bare Metal Restore
With Windows Server 2008 R2 you can perform a Bare Metal Restore of a server that has suffered a catastrophic failure. That’s right you can restore a server without having to install the OS and then...
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Recovering a Deleted Cluster Name Object (CNO) in a Windows Server 2008...
In the previous blog Chuck Timon had created, he explained how to recover your Cluster Name Object (CNO) using ADRESTORE.EXE. I wanted to add on to his blog showing how you can do this with the new...
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How to Export Non Clustered VM’S and Import Them to CSV Shares on 2008 R2...
So I have been asked a few times a process of how to take a Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Hyper-V Server and reconfigure it into a Windows 2008 R2 Failover Cluster with CSV’s running the Hyper-V...
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Installing Windows 7 on UEFI based computer
Many new computers are shipping with the option to boot Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) instead of standard BIOS. In today’s blog I walkthrough how I installed Windows 7 SP1 X64...
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Cluster Installation Time Out Issues
Hello, my name is Steven Andress and I am Support Escalation Engineer (SEE) in the Platforms Support group here at Microsoft. One of the technologies I support is Windows Server Failover Clustering...
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How to add KMDF/UMDF driver to a Windows Vista DVD
Hello, my name is Kaushik Ainapure. I am a Senior Support Engineer in the Windows Platforms Core group. In this blog I am going to discuss how to extract and add the KMDF (Kernel Mode Driver Framework)...
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My Disk is Read-only, Help!
Recently I helped someone on an issue where the customer had a disk that was part of a Windows 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 Cluster. They could bring the disk online, but they couldn’t write to it. During...
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BitLocker on Mac Book running Windows 7 Enterprise Edition
Hello, my name is Manoj Sehgal. I am a Senior Support Escalation Engineer in the Windows group and today’s blog will cover “BitLocker on Mac Book running Windows 7 Enterprise Edition” On a machine...
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Rights needed for user account when precreating a Cluster Name Object (CNO)...
Greetings Cluster fans, John Marlin here again. In my previous blog, Rights needed for user account to create a Cluster Name Object (CNO) on Windows Server 2008 R2 Failover Cluster, I explained what...
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Why are my Cluster Networks Dropping Periodically?
Lately I have been seeing customer issues with Windows 2008 Clustering where they are seeing both of their networks drop connections and this is causing a failover event. In the cases that I have seen,...
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MBAM Setup Fails with SQL Error: Error obtaining a certificate protected by...
Hello, my name is Manoj Sehgal. I am a Senior Support Escalation Engineer in the Windows group and today’s blog will cover “MBAM Setup fails with SQL TDE Error message” Microsoft BitLocker...
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Cluster Disk May Fail to Online and Run ChkDsk when a Backslash ‘\’ or...
We wanted to do a quick write-up on an issue we’ve seen in rare circumstances with 2008 R2 clusters where a ‘Physical Disk’ resource may fail to come online with no events logged in the system event...
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How to Verify BitLocker Recovery Keys in SQL DB using MBAM
Customers using BitLocker Drive Encryption to protect a volume might be curious to know, how to verify BitLocker Recovery keys in SQL database for MBAM. Consider this scenario: A Volume is already...
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Last Known Good
When troubleshooting boot issue such as disk or file corruption, missing files, and third party drivers, Windows provides three Windows boot-problem recovery options: Last Known Good Safe Mode Recovery...
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