Unable to RDP into Azure VMs
After patching all the Windows Server in Azure, a colleague calls me in panic, because their users, could not access their VMs through RDP. They...
Category: Windows Server 2012
How to extend Azure Service Fabric to on-premise?
You can deploy a Service Fabric cluster on any physical or virtual machine running the Windows Server operating system, including ones residing in your on-premises...
Hyper-V 2012 Hotfixes: Where I can find it and how to automate the deployment ?
After my session at TechEd about Best Practices for Virtualizing and Managing Microsoft SharePoint 2013 with Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2012...
SCOM Alert: WinRM is not functional or not the right version
On System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager (SCOM) (with UR2) starting to appear Critical Alerts coming from System Center Advisor (SCA) saying that my System...
iSCSI connection issues with Hyper-V Server
If you have a Hyper-V Cluster connected through iSCSI to a storage solution and sometimes you get errors that your CSV volumes went offline. In...
Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV) errors on Hyper-V Cluster
In a failover cluster, virtual machines can use Cluster Shared Volumes that are on the same LUN (disk), while still being able to fail over...
MPIO on Hyper-V Server
On the previous version of Windows Server (prior Windows Server 2012) you have to download and install MultiPath I/O (MPIO). Since Windows Server 2012 MPIO...
Hyper-V Best Practices Analyzer
Sometimes when you deploy an Hyper-V Server you don’t know if you miss any configuration or if you are following the best practices regarding security,...
Restoring Hyper-V and Virtual Machines using Windows Server Backup
Cluster, Hyper-V Replica, Storage Migration, and other features makes for a higher availability for Hyper-V virtual machines, but it is impossible to provide 100 percent...
Backing up Hyper-V and virtual machines using Windows Server Backup
Previous versions of Hyper-V (like 2008, 2008 R2 and 2008 R2 SP1) had complications and incompatibilities with the built-in backup tool, forcing the administrators to...