May, 2011

Hello, my name is Steven Andress and I am Support Escalation Engineer (SEE) in the Platforms Support group here at Microsoft. One of the technologies I support is Windows Server Failover Clustering (WSFC). I’d like to take a minute to provide some...

Many new computers are shipping with the option to boot Unified Extensible Firmware Interface ( UEFI ) instead of standard BIOS.   In today’s blog I walkthrough how I installed Windows 7 SP1 X64 Enterprise on a Dell Latitude E6410 laptop that supports...

So I have been asked a few times a process of how to take a Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Hyper-V Server and reconfigure it into a Windows 2008 R2 Failover Cluster with CSV’s running the Hyper-V Application.   So I decided to write this process...

In the previous blog Chuck Timon had created, he explained how to recover your Cluster Name Object (CNO) using ADRESTORE.EXE.   I wanted to add on to his blog showing how you can do this with the new Active Directory Recycle Bin available a Windows...

With Windows Server 2008 R2 you can perform a Bare Metal Restore of a server that has suffered a catastrophic failure.    That’s right you can restore a server without having to install the OS and then the backup agent.   You just simply...

Running sysprep Today's blog will cover a common question we get with deploying Windows. The question usually starts as "How many times can I run sysprep"? While the answer is simple it requires a more detailed explanation. When sysprep executes...

I have an update for those of you with systems in a torn state. To clarify, torn state systems are those on which the unsupported workaround of deleting the checkpoint from the pending.xml file was used after getting the 0xC0000034 error during SP1 installations...