In this blog we are going to discuss about how we can decode and fix operating system crashes with Stop c000021a. Below is the first screen you will see after POST, followed by the bugcheck information. Here is the detail bugcheck information...

The most popular question everyone asks themselves before calling Microsoft Customer Service and Support (CSS) for assistance in determining a Root Cause Analysis be done. Why did the resources failover to the other node? Some times a Root...

Windows Server 2008 R2 has been publicly available now for only a short period of time, but we are already seeing a good adoption rate for the new Live Migration functionality as well as the new Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV) feature. I personally have...

Quite a while back I wrote a blog on a new functionality in Windows Server 2008 Failover Clusters called ‘file share scoping’ ( http://blogs.technet.com/b/askcore/archive/2009/01/09/file-share-scoping-in-windows-server-2008-failover-clusters.aspx ). I...

In my quest to better understand the interworking of how NTFS stores information on disk, I have been researching what happens to a file as it grows in size and complexity.   The reason I’m after this knowledge is so I can better troubleshoot certain...

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

My name is Tanner Slayton and I am a Sr. Support Escalation Engineer for Microsoft on the Windows Core Team. I am writing today to shed some light on a common Bitlocker problem that we see. * While you can accomplish most tasks via the Bitlocker Control...

1.         Under no circumstance should any other resource be created in the Cluster Group other than the default ones which are Quorum, Cluster IP Address and Cluster Network Name. (ref: KB 168948 )  If MS...

With SharePoint gaining popularity in the last year and the recent release of DPM 2007 which supports the protection of SharePoint this has become a hot topic in the last few months. The protection and recovery of SharePoint data is not small undertaking...

Hello, my name is Manoj Sehgal.   I am a Senior Support Engineer in the Windows group and today’s blog will cover How to enable Bitlocker in Windows 7 and avoid one of the most common issues we see when enabling Bitlocker using GPOs. A common problem...

In Part 2 , I discussed implementing networks in a Failover Cluster.   In this final segment, I will discuss troubleshooting cluster networking issues. Troubleshooting cluster networking issues As previously stated, it is important that redundant...

Microsoft’s Data Protection Manager (DPM) version 2007 must have an agent installed on any server or workstation that it is going to protect. The installation of the DPM agent requires contact with many different components both locally and across the...

The purpose of this posting is to explain the supportability of removing resources on a Cluster Server. We have seen an increase lately with users manually deleting resources from the Cluster registry and I wanted to say that this is unsupported by Microsoft...

Hello, my name is Manoj Sehgal. I am a Senior Support Escalation Engineer in the Windows group and today’s blog will cover “MBAM Setup fails with SQL TDE Error message” Microsoft BitLocker Administration and Monitoring (MBAM) provide a simplified administrative...

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...

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...

Hello, my name is Scott McArthur.   I am a Senior Support Escalation Engineer in the Windows group and today’s blog will cover an issue involving specifying MAK Product Keys during setup of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2.   When deploying...

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...

Today’s blog is going to cover some issues regarding the installation of MS12-034 (2686509).  When installing this update you may encounter the following error message: Setup cannot continue because one or more prerequisites required to install KB2686509...

Welcome back to the CORE Team blog. The General Availability date for Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 has come and gone, and we here on the CORE Team expect more of you will be diving in and taking part in all of the excitement around these new products...

  In today’s blog submission, we would like to address some reasons and troubleshooting tips for resolving the error of “ Enumeration of the files failed ” that can occur during System State backup. This particular error can be experienced on various...

Article http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb808814(TechNet.10).aspx describes how to install DPM on to a 2008 Server. However I have found that this article is incomplete. The following is how to install DPM onto a 2008 Server. After the 2008...

This post is about Windows Server 2008 with the Hyper-V role installed, that are being protected by System Center Data Protection Manager 2007.  There may be one or many Virtual Machines on each Host/Parent Partition, and they may be running Windows...

This blog is essentially an update, or follow-up if you will, to the original blog I wrote for Windows Server 2008 Failover Clustering.   With the release of Windows Server 2008 R2 comes the ability to Live Migrate highly available virtual machines...

Things to consider before the upgrade Hi Again everybody, Windows Server 2012 was launched in August this year. With an innovative user interface, powerful remote management tools, a big bunch of new features, major enhancements to existing ones...