In this episode I was lucky enough to snap Mr. Emile Cabot MVP and Deployment Guru. He walks through all of the deployment essentials For your very own Windows 10 Project. This was a great session that we did at Channel 9 studios in Redmond, WA. We hope you enjoy. Dave....
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In this episode I was so lucky to be joined by my great friend Clint Wyckoff MVP from Veeam Software. We also had Emile Cabot MVP come in with a Cameo as “The Angry Boss”. We were live trying to record another session as we got a call from the “Boss” that the servers were down. Our RTO/RPO was under 2 minutes and this was an amazing example of how Veeam Software is changing the game. Thanks so much this was a lot of fun. Dave...
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I’ll be speaking at TechMentor, March 7-11 in Las Vegas. Surrounded by your fellow IT professionals, TechMentor provides you with in-depth, immediately usable training that will keep you relevant in the workforce. I’ll be presenting the following sessions: Troubleshooting Hyper-V 2016 Performance: Notes from the Field Workshop: Hacking Hyper-V: How to Protect Your Private Cloud SPECIAL OFFER: As a speaker, I can extend $500 savings on the 5-day package. Register here: http://bit.ly/TMLSK10Home Amplify your knowledge at TechMentor Las Vegas — bring the issues that keep you up at night and prepare to leave...
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“I have always found it difficult to find good information on building my home lab” à is a question I often get when speaking at conferences. As such Clint Wyckoff MVP and myself (Dave Kawula MVP) have decided to have a dedicated episode on Interview with an MVP. We also threw in some great little nuggets about Certification and lots of free tools you can use to get yourself started. I hope you enjoy, Dave....
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For only the second time ever we have recorded #MVPHour Live. In this episode Clint Wyckoff – MVP, Emile Cabot – MVP, and myself (Dave Kawula – MVP) discussed Some of the topics streaming in on our live twitter feed #MVPHour. “I think this one will be an instant classic” said Clint Wyckoff on a facebook post earlier today. I tend to agree with him and I think we need to do these more often. Once again special thanks to our crew at Channel9 @ch9 for making this all possible. Thanks, Dave...
Read MoreIn this blog post I thought it would be fun to share how we migrated a customer environment from one Hyper-V Failover Cluster to another with Zero Downtime using Shared Nothing Live Migration. The image below was some chicken scratch I drafted up during a meeting with the customer showing how we could do this. I often tell people that I get paid to draw with crayons and see it really is true. I hope you enjoy. Dave Shared Nothing Live Migration from Hyper-V Cluster to another Hyper-V Cluster (Without Down Time) In this solution you will be able to migrate Virtual Machines between two Hyper-V Clusters without down time using Shared Nothing Live Migration. The steps below outline the process required to achieve these results. Prerequisites Infrastructure Servers Requirements Component Requirement Servers Need to install and configure a new Hyper-v Cluster Need to match the Virtual Switch Network Name Storage Need to create new Cluster Shared volume Migration Steps – Reverting to Standalone Virtual Machine from Highly Available Login to the Source Hyper-V Cluster and open Failover Cluster Manager Expand Cluster and select Roles. Right-click on the Source Virtual Machine and select Remove Note This step simply removes the Virtual Machine from the cluster and changes the availability of the Virtual Machine from Highly Available to Standalone. Migration Steps – Using...
Read MoreWell today I logged into a customer’s site to deal with a SCOM issue in there SCOM 2012 R2 environment. The SCOM environment itself appeared to be working, but the data warehouse wasn’t being populated. This occurred as they changed the service accounts from a Local Service to best practices of using domain accounts. The following events were constantly repeated through the Operations Manager event log (Applications and Services Log/Operations Manager) Event ID: 31551 Provider Name: “Health Service Modules” Task Category Data Warehouse Time: 13:03 Failed to store data in the Data Warehouse. The operation will be retried. Exception ‘SqlException’: Management Group with id ”ABCDEFAB-ABAB-1234-4567-ABCDEFABCDEF” is not allowed to access Data Warehouse under login ”DOMAIN\svc-ScomDW”One or more workflows were affected by this. Workflow name: Microsoft.SystemCenter.DataWarehouse.CollectEventData Instance name: scom01.someCompoany.com Instance ID: {12312312-3434-4545-5656-123456789012} Management group: SCOM-MGMTGROUP Event ID: 31569 Provider Name: “Health Service Modules” Task Category Data Warehouse Time: 13:02 Report deployment process failed to request management pack list from Data Warehouse. The operation will be retried. Exception ‘SqlException’: Management Group with id ”ABCDEFAB-ABAB-1234-4567-ABCDEFABCDEF” is not allowed to access Data Warehouse under login ”DOMAIN\svc-ScomDW” One or more workflows were affected by this. Workflow name: Microsoft.SystemCenter.DataWarehouse.Deployment.Report Instance name: Data Warehouse Synchronization Service Instance ID: {12312312-3434-4545-5656-123456789012} Management group: SCOM Management Group Event ID: 31557 Provider Name: “Health Service Modules” Task Category Data Warehouse Time: 13:01 Failed to obtain synchronization process state...
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Problem I’ve run into an issue when a customer was using a Cisco ASA 5515 to connect into our WAP deployment. Cisco is a big player in the networking market and one would think that connecting a device such as this to a Windows Server Gateway (WSG) WAP S2SVPN would be straight forward. Reason There are a few key implementation differences with how the WSG and Cisco ASA implement IKEv2. As WSG uses RRAS under the hood, we have to look at how RRAS works. Currently RRAS is configured to send an IKEv2 tunnel with a Traffic Selector of...
Read MoreAnyone who installed MDT 2013 Update 1 experienced a number of issues with the initial release. As of September 16, Microsoft has re-released MDT 2013 Update 1 under build 8298, which addresses most (but not all) of these issues. The new build replaces the existing links from the Download Center, and the old build has been taken down. A full list of fixes and known issues can be found here. It’s important to note that Build 8290 is no longer supported, so those running it will have to upgrade their MDT installation. Among the bug fixes, Microsoft has finally fixed the problems with the UEFI partitioning process, which means that any Task Sequences should be re-created as well. Unfortunately, there are still a few bugs in the release. Microsoft has said that there are no updated builds planned for MDT 2013 Update 1, as Update 2 is scheduled to be released later this year. The upgrade process from Build 8290 to 8298 is very straightforward. Download the new MicrosoftDeploymentToolkit from the Download Center and launch the MSI installation. Next, Next, Finish through the install, and launch Deployment Workbench. From there, if you expand Deployment Shares, you’ll see that your Deployment Share has a yellow Exclamation Mark. Right-click and choose Update Deployment Share. Next, Next, Finish through the upgrade process, and you’re all good to go to re-create your Task...
Read MoreWell like most of us mobility workers, we don’t always make it into the office. Today I showed up at the office and actually had time to sit at my desk. Odd, my 3rd monitor wasn’t working. Worked fine in Windows 8.1. Did the usual checks… Windows 10 is not even showing the monitor in the display settings Unplug and re-plug the cables Check the drivers I unplugged my 2nd monitor which was working and the 3rd monitor kicked in@ System Graphics cards: Intel Core i7 w/ Intel HD Graphics NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M The Fix: Upgraded the drivers, Windows 10 still did not show it. But now I’m 100% updated! Looked at settings in NVIDIA Control Pannel. NVIDIA showed that all the monitors were connected to the Intel HD Graphics Next step was to load the Intel Graphics Properties and click the Multiple Displays Fixed! Life is grand!...
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Hear the Black Belt tips and tricks to protect Hyper-V datacenters of all sizes by fixing numerous security vulnerabilities that you may be exposed to, but never even knew about. Join Hyper-V MVP and 5nine Technical Evangelist Dave Kawula to learn the best practices for protection and compliance for Hyper-V, System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) and Azure Pack (WAP). This was a Webinar that I did for 5nine Software back in early August 2015. Hope you enjoy. Dave...
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Meet your Amazing Speakers for MVPDays Community Roadshow – Edmonton September 25, 2015 If you have not yet registered go to www.mvpdays.com Edmonton...
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Meet your Amazing Speakers for MVPDays Community Roadshow – Calgary September 23, 2015 If you have not yet registered go to www.mvpdays.com Calgary...
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Meet your Amazing Speakers for MVPDays Community Roadshow – Vancouver – Sept 21, 2015 If you have not yet registered go to www.mvpdays.com Vancouver...
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I am so pleased to present below our Agenda for the MVPDays 2015 Western Canada Roadshow. We have such an amazing lineup of guest speakers, sponsors, and event team this year. It will surely be the best event that we have ever put on. If you have not yet registered go to www.mvpdays.com Edmonton...
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I am so pleased to present below our Agenda for the MVPDays 2015 Western Canada Roadshow. We have such an amazing lineup of guest speakers, sponsors, and event team this year. It will surely be the best event that we have ever put on. If you have not yet registered go to www.mvpdays.com Calgary...
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I am so pleased to present below our Agenda for the MVPDays 2015 Western Canada Roadshow. We have such an amazing lineup of guest speakers, sponsors, and event team this year. It will surely be the best event that we have ever put on. If you have not yet registered go to www.mvpdays.com Vancouver...
Read MoreWhen we record these videos, Dave has it in his head that we must NOT edit! We do try to do these in one take. There are some exceptions however, and almost all of them include Dave being a goof when we start causing us to start over. You can apparently seem some of these “special” moments at the end of episode 6. There is a lot more than a few bloopers that makes this 2nd countdown show worth watching. We announce a special speaker for Vancouver, and run down some of our MVPs that will be presenting, and the sponsors that make this all possible. And of course, leave it to Dave to make announcements that are not supposed to be released yet. But as I say, one take! So once it is out there, it is out there. No edits. This was our 6th Episode of Interview with an MVP our Microsoft Channel 9 Show. You can check out all of the sessions at https://channel9.msdn.com/blogs/interview-with-an-mvp We are really committed to putting together some amazing content and value you feedback. ...
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MVPDays 2015 is fast approaching. I am very excited to bring you our first MVPDays Countdown show. Our first year was a lot of unknowns. This year, I am happy to be able to share a bit of the process that goes into creating a roadshow like MVPDays. We go over the basics, who, what, where, when and why you should attend (no it’s not just for the food and prizes, though those are worth getting out of bed for). We announce some of the session that you can look forward to, and how to keep up to date...
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In Episode 4, we get to see one of my favorite Newfies present with Dave on Advanced Windows Deployments. Though at MVPDays 2014 Emile was a non-MVP guest speaker, I am proud to say that this year he will be presenting as an MVP on System Centre Cloud and Datacentre. I am very proud to work with Emile, and super Happy that Microsoft recognized the great work he has been doing and awarded him this honour. Please enjoy this session, and I look forward to bringing you more from Dave and Emile from this year’s MVPDays. This was...
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Hey Viewers! I’m back with another episode of Interview With An MVP. In this episode, Dave is bringing you another session from MVPDays 2014. He was joined by fellow MVP, Marcos Noguiera, in presenting Designing Hyper-V The Right Way. I was lucky enough to assist Dave with this session when he presented it at VEEAMON 2014 with Mike Reiseller. We added a nice element of risk being that we presented in Vegas. Dave had to build his Hyper-V environment in 13 minutes or less… and if he failed, he would give away $500 cash. So… We tried a...
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In this Episode we discuss how to get rid of those pesky Windows 2003 and 2008 Servers once and for all. Dave was lucky enough to be joined by Rick Byrne @RickRByrne in this presentation. The video for this was shot at MVPDays 2014 in Vancouver in front of a sold out house. MVPDays 2015 is going to be bigger and better than ever. Don’t forget to register at www.mvpdays.com. This was our 2nd Episode of Interview with an MVP our Microsoft Channel 9 Show. You can check out all of the sessions at https://channel9.msdn.com/blogs/interview-with-an-mvp We are really committed to...
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It’s official people we have our very own Channel 9 show. In this first Episode I was able to catch my co-host Dave Kawula Hyper-V MVP and discuss some of the critical elements of Hyper-V Security. He goes into great detail discussing some of the common pitfalls organizations face with securing their Virtual Environments. This was our 1st episode of Interview with an MVP our Microsoft Channel 9 Show. You can check out all of the sessions at https://channel9.msdn.com/blogs/interview-with-an-mvp We are really committed to putting together some amazing content and value you feedback. ...
Read MoreI am so proud that we were able to provide some much needed assistance to the Northern Lights School District #113 in La Ronge during their time of need. On July 3, 2015 a notice was given to have the entire township of LA Ronge evacuated. Unfortunately part of the DR Plan that the School Board has was to have a DR Site in the same geography. With no physical access to any critical systems and only remote access and limited power. It was deemed that some emergency measures were required. In fact over 1000 members of Canada’s finest from the Armed forces are on front lines fighting this blaze. Not to mention the countless volunteer firefighters and emergency personnel from around Canada. At 10:00 PM on July 3, 2015 a decision was made to migrate all critical information to the cloud as the entire town was at risk. Being a strong partner with Microsoft we decided to use Microsoft’s Azure Site Recovery, Microsoft’s Azure Backup Services, Crash Plan and Dropbox as a place to quickly dump important data. In order to expedite the process a trial account was setup for Microsoft Azure on a 30 day trial, along with the other providers. Then we quickly setup an Azure Site to Site VPN (in less than 1.5 hours to their core ASA 550 firewalls). Once done we proceeded...
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I will be speaking at the TechMentor conference August 3-7, 2015. This will be an exciting chance to meet some of the smartest and coolest geeks in the industry. My session with be T08 – From Zero to Hero in 75 Minutes: Deploying a HyperConverged Architecture for the Modern Data Center. I was invited by Kelly Murphy – CTO from Gridstore to co-present this exciting topic: https://techmentorevents.com/Events/Redmond-2015/Sessions/Tuesday/T08-From-Zero-to-Hero-in-75-Min-Deploying-a-HyperConverged-Architecture-for-the-Modern-Data-Center.aspx Kelly Murphy, Founder and CTO for Gridstore™, the leader in hyper-converged all flash infrastructure for the Microsoft Cloud-Inspired Data Center will demonstrate how you can “Go from Zero to Hero in 75...
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