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Not sure where February went but it sure is flying by in a hurry. During the month I had another interesting question given to me to answer. Don't forget that you can contact us using the Contact tile just to the right of this article when viewed from our TechNet blog . Question When building a...

Rick Bergman here with a post on gathering hotfixes from multiple node failover clusters ranging in OS version from Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2012. Recently, I reviewed a number of failover clusters for my customer and it was identified that they were struggling with keep the hotfixes...

In my role, I often get to review failover clusters. Typically we look for configuration problems or deviations from best practices. One of the most challenging aspects of managing and maintaining a failover cluster is keeping the nodes identically configured. This means identical drivers, driver versions...

There are many potential causes for Cluster communication failures including: Network latency Network outages Faulty drivers or network cards, including TCP offload issues Misconfigured firewall rules Security software such as anti-virus, intrusion detection, etc. I was recently...