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Preparing to Upgrade SQL Server? Data Migration Assistant! Part 1 #MVPHour #SQLServer #DMA

Preparing to Upgrade SQL Server? Data Migration Assistant! Part 1 #MVPHour #SQLServer #DMA

by | Jul 25, 2017 | , | 0 |

Datacenter’s and companies everywhere generally rely on a core piece of software to store their data and metrics, SQL Server. It’s nice to keep it up to date, but sometimes, and a lot of the time, if it’s not broken, don’t fix it. SQL Server has been around for quite a while, there are many databases hosted by SQL Server. Microsoft has released many upgrade advisors over the years, but recently the SQL Server team has overhauled their traditional SQL Server Upgrade Advisor and have created a new product – SQL Server Data Migration Assistant (DMA), which is different than SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA). To pull off a successful migration or upgrade, you need to do your detective work.

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SECURE ACCESS INTERNAL NETWORK RESOURCES WITHOUT VPN – DIRECTACCESS PART2 #DIRECTACCESS #WINDOWSSERVER #MVPHOUR #STEP-BY-STEP

SECURE ACCESS INTERNAL NETWORK RESOURCES WITHOUT VPN – DIRECTACCESS PART2 #DIRECTACCESS #WINDOWSSERVER #MVPHOUR #STEP-BY-STEP

by | Jul 19, 2017 | , | 0 |

Windows 10 Enterprise as DirectAccess Client. Because Windows 10 supports automatic entry point selection and transparent failover, better scalability and performance. Also, windows 10 built-in DirectAccess connectivity status indicator, the administrators don’t have to deploy, manage, and maintain additional software.

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SECURE ACCESS INTERNAL NETWORK RESOURCES WITHOUT VPN – DIRECTACCESS PART1 #DIRECTACCESS #WINDOWSSERVER #MVPHOUR #STEP-BY-STEP

SECURE ACCESS INTERNAL NETWORK RESOURCES WITHOUT VPN – DIRECTACCESS PART1 #DIRECTACCESS #WINDOWSSERVER #MVPHOUR #STEP-BY-STEP

by | Jul 18, 2017 | , | 0 |

DirectAccess provides users with the experience of being seamlessly connected to their intranet any time they have Internet access. When DirectAccess is enabled, requests for intranet resources (such as email servers, shared folders, or intranet websites) are securely directed to the intranet, without the need for users to connect to a VPN. DirectAccess enables increased productivity for a mobile workforce by offering the same connectivity experience both inside and outside of the office.

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VMware Storage and PowerShell #MVPHour #PowerShell

VMware Storage and PowerShell #MVPHour #PowerShell

by | Jul 11, 2017 | | 0 |

Well I’ve been buried lately under a lot of LUNs. Spring is over and a customer I’m at has forgotten to do their spring cleaning! Needless to say, the LUN presentation and maintenance to their VMware clusters is a mess! In order to audit the system and ensure things were going in my favor, I wrote quite a few PowerShell code blocks/1 liners.

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UPDATE MELLANOX NIC FIRMWARE AND DRIVER FOR NON-RDMA STORAGE SPACE DIRECT CLUSTER SERVERS #STORAGEPACEDIRECT #POWERSHELL #WINDOWSSERVER #MVPHOUR #STEP-BY-STEP #MELLANOX

UPDATE MELLANOX NIC FIRMWARE AND DRIVER FOR NON-RDMA STORAGE SPACE DIRECT CLUSTER SERVERS #STORAGEPACEDIRECT #POWERSHELL #WINDOWSSERVER #MVPHOUR #STEP-BY-STEP #MELLANOX

by | Jun 27, 2017 | , , , | 1 |

Today, let’s talking about how to step by step to update Mellanox NIC firmware and driver for non-RDMA Storage Space Direct Cluster Servers. You can easy to do via follow steps.

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Active Directory – When was this user/computer Created #PowerShell #MVPHour #

Active Directory – When was this user/computer Created #PowerShell #MVPHour #

by | Jun 22, 2017 | , | 0 |

A pretty simple request came across my desk today. I was requested to send a report of users that were created after a specific date. Do you remember the Windows Server 2003 and prior? Before PowerShell? We had to use what I’ll term loosely as “wonderful” LDAP queries. Also the query result was pure text, we couldn’t do anything easily with it short of magical text parsing! Well here is my PowerShell script I quickly whipped up!

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NON-RDMA STORAGE SPACES DIRECT STRESS TEST STEPS and RESULT – #WINDOWSSERVER #S2D #MVPHOUR #STEP-BY-STEP

NON-RDMA STORAGE SPACES DIRECT STRESS TEST STEPS and RESULT – #WINDOWSSERVER #S2D #MVPHOUR #STEP-BY-STEP

by | Jun 20, 2017 | , , | 1 |

Today, I am going to do stress test for NON-RDMA Storage space direct servers, the customer use their existing Cisco Catalyst 4500-x for Storage space direct servers, as we know, it doesn’t support DCB and PFC function, so, we will focus on stress test result for Storage space direct servers without enable RDMA and see how’s the performance.

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Deploying Storage Spaces Direct – Part 31 – @MellanoxTech Capture RoCE v2 or Infinniband Traffic with #WireShark and IBDump.exe #StorageSpacesDirect #MVPHour #HyperV

Deploying Storage Spaces Direct – Part 31 – @MellanoxTech Capture RoCE v2 or Infinniband Traffic with #WireShark and IBDump.exe #StorageSpacesDirect #MVPHour #HyperV

by | Jun 17, 2017 | | 0 |

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MINIMAL DOWNTIME MIGRATION OF WINDOWS SERVER ROLES – PART 3 #WINDOWSSERVER #MVPHOUR #STEP-BY-STEP

MINIMAL DOWNTIME MIGRATION OF WINDOWS SERVER ROLES – PART 3 #WINDOWSSERVER #MVPHOUR #STEP-BY-STEP

by | Jun 16, 2017 | , | 0 |

Ok, it’s time to demote existing Windows server 2003 and migrate all Windows server roles to new Windows server 2012 R2, there are no down time for Part1 steps and Part2 steps, but we need to schedule down time for Part3 steps to cut over all services.

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MINIMAL DOWNTIME MIGRATION OF WINDOWS SERVER ROLES – PART 2 #WINDOWSSERVER #MVPHOUR #STEP-BY-STEP

MINIMAL DOWNTIME MIGRATION OF WINDOWS SERVER ROLES – PART 2 #WINDOWSSERVER #MVPHOUR #STEP-BY-STEP

by | Jun 15, 2017 | , | 0 |

After done for Active Directory Preparation, now we need to install a new Windows Server 2012 R2, export data from existing windows server 2003 and then import to new Windows Server 2012 R2.

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