Microsoft Supportability e-Newsletter : Windows Server Cluster

How to Configure Antivirus Software on a Cluster

Support News Editor — Tue, 29 May 2007 10:08:00 GMT

Enterprise solutions are becoming more and more complex as companies develop different hardware technologies and businesses require such programs as mandatory antivirus software or quota management software. Microsoft does not provide many of these components....(read more)

Latest Hotfix Adds Two New Features to Cluster

gbs — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 10:50:00 GMT

File Share Witness The file share witness feature is an improvement to the current Majority Node Set (MNS) quorum model. This feature lets you use a file share that is external to the cluster as an additional "vote" to determine the status of the cluster...(read more)

Planning Fault Tolerance and Avoidance for Cluster

gbs — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 08:57:00 GMT

Microsoft Windows 2000 Server, and especially Advanced Server with its clustering support, provides an excellent environment in which to build a truly fault-tolerant system. Of course, avoiding the faults in the first place is even better than handling...(read more)

Server Clusters: Storage Best Practices for Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003

gbs — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 10:59:00 GMT

Storage configuration is the key part of a successful cluster deployment. This white paper introduce the storage types, storage features in Windows 2003, hardware based storage, storage tools and services, backup and restore, storage management and the...(read more)

Backup and Recovery Best Practices for Windows Server 2003

gbs — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 07:49:00 GMT

Server Cluster is a Microsoft technology to provide high availability on Windows platform. Though Server Cluster is very stable, it’s always recommended to have a backup in case any unexpected incidents occur, such as power outage s or storage corruption....(read more)

Configuring a Highly Available Print Server Cluster

gbs — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 10:24:00 GMT

This guide provides step-by-step instructions for creating and configuring a highly available print server on Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition and Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition operating systems. These print servers use a typical, single quorum device, multi-node server cluster that uses a shared disk. ...(read more)