While visiting a customer and helping them set up AlwaysOn Availability Groups we came across a surprising "feature". On my laptop I had build a demo lab consisting of one domain controller, three Windows 2008R2 Core member servers with SQL 2012 SP1 installed...

I have not been able to follow up my post for a long time. Work has to be done as well. The good thing is that it gives me a lot of new ideas for blog posts and as a (late) resolution for the new year I will write more blog posts But back to part 4...

In part 1 showed how you could install Windows on a virtual disk and use that disk to create a new virtual machine. We improved on part 2 to show how to set the administrator password or the computer name during installation to minimize user input. ...

This post is part of a series of posts about buidling a lab environment using some of the new PowerShell cmdlets and features in Windows 8. In the previous post I explained how to create a virtual disk, apply a standard Windows Server 2008 image to...

As a Premier Field Engineer I get into a different challenge every week. These challenges can be anything; performance issues, architecture review or migration scenarios. If I'm at a customer site it is not always possible (or recommended) to test my...