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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Hey Storage Spaces Direct fans, I have been on Vacation for the past few weeks so sorry about not...
Read MoreJul 19, 2017 | Step-by-Step, Windows Server | 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.
Read MoreJul 18, 2017 | Step-by-Step, Windows Server | 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.
Read MoreJul 17, 2017 | Hyper-V, HyperConverged, S2D, Scripts, Windows Server | 0 |
A client recently came to me and wanted us to flatten his hyper-converged appliance, and replace...
Read MoreWell 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.
Read MoreJun 29, 2017 | Cool Tools, Scripts | 0 |
Hey fellow IT Pro’s in today’s blog post we will look at a super quick and dirty way...
Read MoreJun 27, 2017 | Hyper-V, S2D, Step-by-Step, Windows Server | 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.
Read MoreEliminating Maintenance Contracts will pay for Storage Spaces Direct! One of the games our...
Read MoreJun 22, 2017 | Scripts, Windows Server | 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!
Read MoreHey Storage Spaces Direct fans, over the course of the past few months we have been showing you...
Read MoreHey Storage Spaces Direct fans, I have now had 3 separate customer cases where their Storage...
Read MoreJun 20, 2017 | S2D, Step-by-Step, Windows Server | 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.
Read MoreHey Networking fans, I’m back again this time with a really cool little trick to determine...
Read MoreHey Networking fans, I’m back again this time with a really cool little trick to capture...
Read MoreHey Networking fans, a few posts back we dug into the Mellanox PowerShell providers that come as...
Read MoreJun 16, 2017 | Step-by-Step, Windows Server | 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.
Read MoreHey Storage Spaces Direct fans, I some very unfortunate news for you. Nano Server + Storage...
Read MoreJun 15, 2017 | Step-by-Step, Windows Server | 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.
Read MoreHey Storage Spaces Direct fans, I know we have had a lot of chatter going on regarding...
Read MoreHey Networking fans, I have been working with Windows infrastructure for a very long time now and...
Read MoreImportant UPDATE: June 27, 2017 – by Dave Kawula Hey folks –> We have an active...
Read MoreJun 14, 2017 | Step-by-Step, Windows Server | 0 |
As we know Windows Server 2003 was end support on July 14, 2015, but there are some customers still using it for some reasons. Today, my customer asked me to migrate their Windows server 2003 to Windows Server 2012 R2, there are many windows roles on that server, let’s follow below steps to migrate it with minimal downtime.
Read MoreJun 13, 2017 | Office365, Step-by-Step | 3 |
You can use the remote move migration wizard on the Office 365 to move existing user mailboxes between the on-premises organization with the Exchange Online organization
Read MoreJun 12, 2017 | S2D, Step-by-Step | 0 |
You have your new Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct hyperconverged HyperV Failover Cluster built....
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