February, 2009

This blog discusses the proper way to make a configuration change to a highly available virtual machine in a Windows Server 2008 (RTM) Failover Cluster. I will demonstrate how to add a Pass-through disk to a highly available virtual machine by attaching...

  QUESTIONS: Is it important to configure the binding order on the "Adapters and Bindings" tab like in Microsoft Failover Clusters? This is located in Network Connections from Control Panel, by going to the Advanced drop down menu then...

Technorati Tags: Compute Cluster Server , CCS As you may already know, with the release of Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 (CCS) we included Microsoft Message Passing Interface (MS‑MPI) implementation which is fully compatible with the reference MPICH2...

What we will be going over in this blog is one of the improvements of Distributed Transaction Coordinator (DTC) on a Windows Server Failover Cluster 2008. The Distributed Transaction Coordinator is a transaction manager which permits client applications...

It is time to update everyone on the types of issues our support engineers have been seeing for Hyper-V. The issues are categorized below with the top issue(s) in each category listed with possible resolutions and additional comments as needed. I think...

The steps in many of our KB articles have been criticized in the past for being too difficult for ordinary users to follow.  As a result, missed or incorrectly implemented steps may have resulted in problems being exacerbated, or new problems being...

What is a Microsoft Failover Cluster Virtual Adapter anyway? A question often asked is, "What is the Microsoft Cluster Virtual Adapter and what can I do with it?" The typical, and correct answer, is to leave it alone and let it just work for...

Hello my name Scott McArthur and I am a Senior Support Escalation Engineer in the Windows Platforms group. Today’s blog submission is how to use Windows Server Backup to do a complete system restore over the network. This blog is specific to Windows...

Hello my name is Scott McArthur and I am a Senior Support Escalation Engineer in the Windows group. Today we are going to discuss the steps to activate Windows Server 2008 Core edition using a MAK key via the phone. It is much easier to activate via the...