April, 2010

What we will be covering in this blog, is a reason for an Access Denied error message in PowerShell and the options for resolving them. The particular Windows PowerShell cmdlet we will be referencing, is Get-WmiObject for accessing WMI object calls against...

The purpose of this article is to explain a troubleshooting methodology with Hyper-V that goes a little deeper than the Event Logs.  I’m creating a simple problem, starting a Virtual Machine with a corrupt .vhd file, to show how to proceed. I’m simply...

The Windows Server 2008 Failover Clustering: Networking   three-part blog series has been out for a little while now.   Hopefully, it has been helpful.   Little did I know there would be an opportunity to write another part.   This...

One of the major changes from 2003 to 2008 is the way we handle logging of cluster debug events. I thought I’d do a quick write-up on how cluster debug logging works in 2008. In Windows 2003 Failover Clustering, the cluster service on each node constantly...

Hello, my name is Manoj Sehgal. I am a Senior Support Engineer in the Windows group and today’s blog will cover “How to backup recovery information in AD after Bitlocker is turned ON in Windows 7.” A common question we are asked is how do I save the recovery...

Greetings CORE blog fans!   It has been awhile so I thought it was time for another blog.   In recent weeks, we have seen an issue where the Windows Server 2008 R2 storage validation test List All Disks is failing with a Status 87.   Figure...

Hello, my name is Kaushik Ainapure. I am a Support Engineer in the Windows group and today’s blog I am going to discuss an issue with BitLocker drive preparation tool. When you try to run the BitLocker Preparation tool you may encounter the following...