Microsoft Premier Support (PFE) Latin America

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  • Blog Post: Scheduling SharePoint 2010 backups

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  • Blog Post: Performance - SharePoint 2010 Cache

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  • Blog Post: OpsMgr: Saved some overrides to Default Management Pack, didn’t you? – It’s simple to move them!

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  • Blog Post: Unable to select disk from dropdown in Cluster Administrator

    Hello everybody, this time I’m going to talk about a problem that it’s not related to SQL specifically, it’s an issue that I found related with Windows Server 2003 Failover Clustering The problem it’s that after installing a shared disk to the cluster nodes they didn’t...
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  • Blog Post: Analysis Services Tabular Mode vs Multidimensional Mode

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  • Blog Post: TIP: SharePoint PowerShell Mount-SPContentDatabase "creates" databases on SQLServer

    Hey there SharePoint Community, Recently I was deliverying the SharePoint 2010 Migration Workshop which I strongly recommend, during a Lab I realized some behaviour that freacked me out. One of the labs requires to attach a pre-existen content database, the content database is already created in SQL...
  • Blog Post: 1° Latin American Symposium of SQL Server

    Dear members of the PFE LATAM community and SQL community, last Friday, June 22, 2012 we had our first Latin American Symposium of SQL Server in the Microsoft Mexico Auditorium. The agenda for this evens was create by a people with diverse roles like: developers and It Pros. We have speakers like...
  • Blog Post: Clustered DTC versus Local DTC

    In the last 6 months I have faced two cases of linked servers between a SQL Server 2008 R2 Instance running on Windows Server 2008 R2 and a SQL Server 2000 instance running on Windows 2003 were distributed transactions were not working correctly. The root cause of the problem is still under investigation...
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