Introducing Microsoft Azure Data Box #Azure
Hey Checkyourlogs Fans, This past week we had the pleasure of working at the Microsoft Booth at...
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#MVPHour live from #MSIgnite 2017 – Podcast Center
Hey Checkyourlogs Fans, This year at Microsoft Ignite we had the chance to do a live streaming...
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Deploying Storage Spaces Direct – Part 43 – Dave Kawula’s Notes from the Field on #StorageSpacesDirect #MSIgnite Session online
Hey Storage Spaces Direct fans, My session from Microsoft Ignite has now been uploaded and is...
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Missing or Couldn’t attend Microsoft Ignite 2017?
Well thousands don’t have this problem, but perhaps you do, or couldn’t attend all the...
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Deploying Storage Spaces Direct – Part 42 – HPE RDMA Issues Mellanox CX3-Pro Prod Issue #StorageSpacesDirect #HPE #S2D @MellanoxTech
Hey Storage Spaces Direct Fans, Today seemed to have finally resolved the case of the jobs that...
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Deploying Storage Spaces Direct – Part 41 – HPE Build Guide #StorageSpacesDirect #HPE #S2D
Hey Storage Spaces Direct Fans, Recently I had the privilege of speaking at the TechMentor Event...
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List of must Attend Sessions at Microsoft Ignite #MSIgnite .@MSIgnite #MVPHour
Hey Microsoft Fans, Today I wanted to chat with you about some of the must attend sessions at...
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Deploying Storage Spaces Direct – Part 40 – 500k IOPS in 2-Node Non-RDMA Config #StorageSpacesDirect #HPE #S2D @MellanoxTech
Hey Storage Spaces Direct Fans, Today I deployed a 2x Node Storage Spaces Direct configuration for...
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Hot off the press E-Book – 6 Common #HyperV Configuration Mistakes to Avoid #Altaro
What do MVP’s do over their summer Vacation? Well, Cristal and I were busy writing another...
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Windows Server 1709 is a “Game Changer” for Hyper Converged Infrastructure #Microsoft #StorageSpacesDirect #Gartner
Hey Microsoft Fans, Earlier this week on the Microsoft Storage Blog there was a blog series on the...
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Deploying Storage Spaces Direct – Part 39 – SES Enclosure issue with HPE DL380 G9 #StorageSpacesDirect
Hey Storage Spaces Direct Fans, This week is all about production related issues with Storage...
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Deploying Storage Spaces Direct – Part 38 – Issue Expanding the Storage Pool Automatically + 24 Drives Verification in Progress #StorageSpacesDirect #HPE #S2D
Hey Storage Spaces Direct Fans, We are back again with the 2nd post of the day. Today I had a...
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Deploying Storage Spaces Direct – Part 37 – Test-RDMA.PS1 #PowerShell #StorageSpacesDirect
Hey Storage Spaces Direct fans, After a beautiful summer, away from blogging we are back and this...
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Active Directory Password Complexity Check – #PowerShell #MVPHour
Ever need to check the complexity of a password that will be used in AD? Ever need to import a list of users or reset their passwords in AD from a predefined list that has been given to you? I have updated my code for my AD Password Complexity check. Check it out.
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North American MVPDays 2017-18 Community Roadshow– Call for Speakers now open all cities
Are you interested in Speaking at the North American MVPDays 2017-2018 Community Roadshow? Call...
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Copy AD Group Members in a different Domain to Another Domain #PowerShell #MVPHour
This sounds scenario sounds pretty simple, and theoretically it is. It’s also a common request. Someone comes to you and says, I have members in one group and I need them copied to another group. Sure, no problem. But what they forgot to mention is that the source group is in a different domain and has users and groups from the same or different domain than their target group.
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Preparing to Upgrade SQL Server? Data Migration Assistant! Part 2 #MVPHour #SQLServer #DMA
Time to dive into Microsoft Data Migration Assistant. In this part of the DMZ log series, we’ll take a look at how we install DMA.
Read MoreFull Audio Conferencing for the #SMB Using #S4B and @PGi
A small business recently had a requirement for an audio conferencing solution that would also integrate with Skype for Business. For ease of marketing and management purposes, they wanted to have static dial-in information as...
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Preparing to Upgrade SQL Server? Data Migration Assistant! Part 1 #MVPHour #SQLServer #DMA
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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Windows 10 Deployment Nightmare – Rogue Imaging in #SCCM #OSD
I just got back from a client site where we built their end-to-end Win10 migration solution. It...
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Deploying Storage Spaces Direct – Part 36 – Virtual Adapter Affinity S2D Deployment #PowerShell #MVPHour #StorageSpacesDirect
Hey Storage Spaces Direct fans, I have been on Vacation for the past few weeks so sorry about not...
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SECURE ACCESS INTERNAL NETWORK RESOURCES WITHOUT VPN – DIRECTACCESS PART2 #DIRECTACCESS #WINDOWSSERVER #MVPHOUR #STEP-BY-STEP
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
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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Installing #S2D without #RDMA
A client recently came to me and wanted us to flatten his hyper-converged appliance, and replace...
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VMware Storage and PowerShell #MVPHour #PowerShell
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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