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Exchange DAGs and Cluster Networks
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3 days ago
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Jeff Hughes [MSFT]
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One of my colleagues here at Microsoft wrote a couple blogs on managing Exchange networks on a cluster so I thought I’d post the links since they are tied into behavior you would see in a clustered environment. Exchange 2010: Mapping DAG network states...
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MDT 2010 / 2012 – My deployment failed. What logs should I review and where are they located?
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6 days ago
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Jeff Hughes [MSFT]
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One of the most common questions I get is “What logs should I look at if my deployment fails?” So here is a little summary of the logs you will be most concerned with when troubleshooting a failed Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 install...
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Requirements to save Bitlocker Recovery Key to AD using MDT
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8 days ago
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Jeff Hughes [MSFT]
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My name is Naziya Shaik and I am a Support Escalation Engineer with Windows Core team @ Microsoft. I would like to share information about enabling BitLocker while deploying operating system via MDT and the group policies that are required to be configured...
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Windows 8 and .Net Framework 3.5
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9 days ago
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John Marlin [MSFT]
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With each new release of Windows, it's a challenge to balance keeping the OS footprint small with maintaining forward compatibility for applications and devices. The .Net Framework is at the heart of this challenge. In Windows 8, Microsoft decided to...
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EVENT ID 55: When Good Bits Go Bad
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14 days ago
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Jeff Hughes [MSFT]
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My name is William Effinger, and I am a Senior Support Escalation Engineer with the Windows Core team at Microsoft. Some of the most common questions we get here at the storage team center around CHKDSK. If you have ever come across any event ID 55s in...
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MDT 2010 & 2012 – My deployment failed. What and where are logs I should review?
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15 days ago
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John Marlin [MSFT]
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One of the most common questions I get is “What logs should I look at if my deployment fails?” So here is a little summary of the logs you will be most concerned with when troubleshooting a failed Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 install that are being...
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How to: VSS Tracing
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24 days ago
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John Marlin [MSFT]
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How VSS Tracing Works! Where to start? Well this depends on your current level of knowledge on the topic. So let’s start with a basic understanding of what VSS is. If you are just starting to work with VSS I suggest reading the articles below...
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Troubleshooting Boot Issues due to missing Driver signature (x64)
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1 month ago
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John Marlin [MSFT]
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Today, I am going to discuss how to troubleshoot a scenario where the system does not boot in normal mode; however, boots up fine upon selecting F8 -> Disable Driver Signature Enforcement. In 64-bit operating systems starting with Windows Vista...
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Why is the CNO in a Failed State?
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1 month ago
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Jeff Hughes [MSFT]
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Hello, my name is Steven Graves and I am a Support Escalation Engineer (SEE) in the Platforms Support group here at Microsoft. One of the technologies I support is Windows Server Failover Clustering. I’d like to take a couple of minutes to share some...
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FIXED: Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV) in redirected access mode after installing McAfee VSE 8.7 Patch 5 or 8.8 Patch 1
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2 months ago
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John Marlin [MSFT]
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A fix for the above titled problem has been released. If you are running into this problem, please downlaod and install the following fix on all Clusters running McAfee and wanting the updates they provide. 2674551 Redirected mode is enabled unexpectedly...
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Windows Performance Monitor Disk Counters Explained
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2 months ago
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Jeff Hughes [MSFT]
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My name is Flavio Muratore and I am a Sr. Support Escalation Engineer with the Windows Core team at Microsoft. If you ever find yourself analyzing storage performance with Performance Monitor, this post is for you. We will go beyond very brief descriptions...
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How to manage Out-of-Box Drivers with the use of Selection Profiles in Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010 Update 1
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2 months ago
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Jeff Hughes [MSFT]
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Hello. My name is Bill Spears and I am a Senior Support Escalation Engineer / Premier Field Engineer in the Windows/Platforms group at Microsoft. In today’s blog I will discuss the approach that I use to manage Out-Of-Box drivers within...
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Understanding the DiskRunChkdsk parameter in Windows 2008 and 2008R2 Failover Clusters
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2 months ago
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Jeff Hughes [MSFT]
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My name is Sean Dwyer and I am a Support Escalation Engineer with the Microsoft CORE team. I’d like to share a quick tip for handling Windows Server Cluster administrators. There may come a time, for whatever reason, that a Cluster managed...
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Windows Server 8 beta now available !!!
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2 months ago
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John Marlin [MSFT]
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Thursday morning Bill Laing, Corporate Vice President of Server and Cloud Announced the beta release of Windows Server “8” . I think it is really important for anyone who is interested in hearing more about what is coming in this beta with Hyper-V and...
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Windows 8 Consumer Preview now available !!!
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2 months ago
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John Marlin [MSFT]
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Today is a big day here at Microsoft. This morning at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, it was announced that Windows 8 Consumer Preview (beta) is now released. At the conference, several key points were discussed and demonstrated....
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Having a problem with nodes being removed from active Failover Cluster membership?
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3 months ago
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John Marlin [MSFT]
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Welcome to the AskCore blog. Today, we are going to talk about nodes being removed from active Failover Cluster membership randomly. If you are having problems with a node being removed from membership, you are seeing events like this logged in your System...
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Measuring Disk Latency with Windows Performance Monitor (Perfmon)
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3 months ago
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Jeff Hughes [MSFT]
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My name is Flavio Muratore and I am a Senior Support Escalation Engineer with the Windows Core Team. One subject we haven’t written much about in the Core team blog is “disk performance”. Today I would like to talk a little bit about measuring Physical...
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Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV) in redirected access mode after installing McAfee VSE 8.7 Patch 5 or 8.8 Patch 1
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3 months ago
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John Marlin [MSFT]
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There is an issue with Cluster Shared Volumes and McAfee VirusScan Enterprise that I wanted to pass along. When installing McAfee VSE 8.7 Patch 5 or 8.8 Patch 1, the CSV drives will go into redirected mode and will not go out of it. The reason for...
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Better alternatives to manually merging snapshots in Windows Server 2008 R2
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3 months ago
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Jeff Hughes [MSFT]
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There might be times on Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V host when the snapshots will not merge, the virtual machine disappears from the Hyper-V management console or the virtual machine goes into a Critical-Saved or Paused state for what seems to be no...
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Free Microsoft Private Cloud Training
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4 months ago
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Jeff Hughes [MSFT]
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Are you ready for the Microsoft Private Cloud? On February 21 & 22 Microsoft Learning is running a 2-day virtual training event to help the world learn about the upcoming enhancements with the Creating & Managing a Private Cloud with System...
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Error “Encountered errors while reading in the specified configuration file” when you use FSRM dirquota command
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4 months ago
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Jeff Hughes [MSFT]
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My name is Himanshu Singh and in this blog I will talk about an issue seen on Windows Server 2003 64-bit servers running File Server Resource Manager (FSRM), where, when you run a dirquota command to modify notifications using a configuration file, you...
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One of the source volumes specified has invalid….” Error messaging running wbadmin to backup system state
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5 months ago
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Jeff Hughes [MSFT]
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When creating a system state backup with Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2 you may encounter the following error: “One of the source volumes specified has an invalid format and cannot be protected using Windows Backup. Only volumes formatted...
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Troubleshooting Error 800B0100, TRUST_E_NOSIGNATURE, during Service Pack 1 installation on Windows 7 or Windows 2008 R2
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5 months ago
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Jeff Hughes [MSFT]
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Hello, My name is Himanshu and I work with the Windows Core Support Team. Recently, I worked on a patch installation issue known internally at Microsoft as a servicing issue. I thought this would be a great customer example as to how a specific error...
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Error message running WBAdmin to backup system state: “One of the source volumes specified has an invalid….”
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5 months ago
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Jeff Hughes [MSFT]
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When creating a system state backup with Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2 you may encounter the following error: “One of the source volumes specified has an invalid format and cannot be protected using Windows Backup. Only volumes formatted...
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Stop 0x50 on Windows 2008 R2 Failover Cluster
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6 months ago
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Jeff Hughes [MSFT]
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Greetings Cluster fans, John Marlin back for another go at it. I wanted to write something about what we have been seeing involving the use of Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV) and File Server resources on the same Cluster. There have...
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