• Getting started with Storage Replica in Windows Server Technical Preview

    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...
  • Migrating DFS Namespace from Windows 2000 Server mode to Windows Server 2008 mode

    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:...
  • Office 2013 Security Baselines for SCM are live

    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...
  • A backup server flooded by DPCs

    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...
  • Low throughput when copying files

    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...