Storage Replica (SR) is a new feature that enables storage-agnostic, block-level, synchronous replication between servers for disaster recovery, as well as stretching of a failover cluster for high availability. Synchronous replication enables mirroring...

Hi,   I recently helped a customer with this tricky little exercise. The idea was to do the upgrade during office hours with as little downtime as possible and to run it remotely from one server.   It’s following the basic guide here: http:...

Hi, Pat Fetty recently blogged about the new SCM baselines for Office 2013 going live. I opened up my local copy of SCM and imported the content: The .cab file contains the security settings. The “att” file contains the attachments which are Word documents...

Hi, I’ve just finished working on a case with a customer that was so interesting that it deserved a blog post to round it off. These were the symptoms: Often while logged in to the server things would appear to freeze – no screen updates, little mouse...

Hi, I have been helping a customer with a tricky issue recently regarding slow network performance for SMB file copies over their network. It came about after they took the settings defined in Security Compliance Manager for their member servers and deployed...