Cluster-Aware Updating (CAU) interaction with Proxy Servers
Welcome back to the CORE Team blog. Cluster-Aware Updating (CAU) is an automated feature that allows you to update clustered servers with little or no loss in availability during the update process....
View ArticleTracing with Storport in Windows 2012 and Windows 8
Welcome back to the CORE Team Blog. Paul Reynolds here. I would like to let everyone know about changes on how to capture Storport traces in Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8. Previously, Bob Golding...
View ArticleError in Failover Cluster Manager after install of KB2750149
On Tuesday, Jaunary 8, the below recommended fix was released and available on Windows Update for Windows .NET Framework 4.5.2750149An update is available for the .NET Framework 4.5 in Windows 8,...
View ArticleRemoving a Mount Point Disk from a Cluster Group
Hello everyone. Today’s post is going to cover the steps needed to follow should you ever have to remove a ‘Physical Disk’ resource from a clustered service or application where that disk is configured...
View ArticleFREE: Online Microsoft Virtual Academy Virtualization Jump Start Classes
The IT Pro Evangelism team, Microsoft Learning and the Microsoft Virtual Academy are pleased to announce the next Jump Start courses!Introduction to Hyper-VThursday, January 24thThis one-day live event...
View ArticleBehavior Change When Working with Pass-Through Disks in Windows Server 2012...
Welcome back to the CORE Team blog. I want to discuss a behavior change in Windows Server 2012 Failover Clusters with respect to configuring highly available virtual machines with pass-through...
View ArticleLooking for Windows Server 2008 R2 Cluster and Hyper-V Hotfixes?
I often get asked the question by customers on how to find the newly released hotfixes for Cluster and Hyper-V or the customer wants to know what hotfixes are out there. We have 3 Wiki pages that will...
View ArticleFREE: Introduction to Hyper-V Training
The Microsoft Virtual Academy training portal offers quick and easy access to presentations, webcasts, whitepapers and other technical content about Microsoft’s Cloud technologies. It is public, free...
View ArticleFREE: Microsoft Virtualization for VMware Professionals Training
The Microsoft Virtual Academy training portal offers quick and easy access to presentations, webcasts, whitepapers and other technical content about Microsoft’s Cloud technologies. It is public, free...
View ArticleWhere Did My Space Go?
While working on Windows 8/Windows Server 2012, I have been tied up with other content creation projects and as such have not had time to write for AskCore. However, I’ve had a number of blog ideas...
View ArticleLooking for Windows Server 2012 Clustering and Hyper-V Hotfixes?
In a previous blog, it was discussed on where you can get a list of the Failover Clustering and Hyper-V hotfixes for Windows Server 2008 R2.Looking for Windows Server 2008 R2 Cluster and Hyper-V...
View ArticleWindows 8 and Windows Server 2012 Recommendations for Activation
Hi, Today’s blog will cover the options available if you are deploying Windows 8 and/or Windows Server 2012 to an existing KMS activation configuration. It references two other blogsInstalling the...
View ArticleInstalling Volume Activation Services Role in Windows Server 2012 to setup a...
Hi, Today’s blog will walk you through installing the Volume Activation services role on Windows Server 2012 so you can setup a new Windows Server 2012 KMS host.Initial Configuration of a new Windows...
View ArticleInstalling Volume Activation Services Role in Windows Server 2012 to...
Hello,Today’s blog will walk you through installing the Volume Activation services role on Windows Server 2012 so you can configure Active Directory Based Activation (ADBA).Initial Configuration of...
View ArticleAlternate Data Streams in NTFS
This blog has been a long time coming. There is a bit of confusion about the subject of alternate data streams (ADS) and no small amount of suspicion. So I want to take a few minutes to set the record...
View ArticleLogical Processor count changes after enabling Hyper-V role on Windows Server...
Hello Everyone, Today we are going to talk about Processor changes in Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V servers. Hyper-V in Windows Server® 2012 supports significantly larger configurations of virtual and...
View ArticleLive Customer Q&A with Virtualization Experts! (Microsoft Virtual Academy)
The IT Pro Evangelism team, Microsoft Learning and the Microsoft Virtual Academy are pleased to announce the next FREE& PUBLIC event Live Q&A: Introduction to Hyper-V on Wednesday April 3rd,...
View ArticleCreating bootable USB drive for UEFI computers
In today’s blog I am going to discuss how to handle booting from a USB drive on a UEFI system so you can deploy Windows. It is common to create bootable USB flash drives or hard drives so you can boot...
View ArticleMicrosoft Deployment Toolkit 2012 Update1 Media Deployment USB drive for UEFI...
In today’s blog I am going to cover an issue related to using Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2012 Update1 to deploy an image to Surface Pro using media deployment point.Notes:This issue is not specific...
View ArticleNew Network Name Resource Fails to come Online
I recently encountered an issue involving the failure of a new Network Name resource to come online. Doing some investigation I found a number of instances where this has been encountered, with...
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