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 R2
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...
Software-Defined Networking with Windows Server and System Center Jump Start
Free online event with live QA with the WAP team: http://aka.ms/WAPIaaS Two half-days – Wednesday July 16th & Thursday July 17th – 9am-1pm PST IT...
Virtualizing Your Data Center with Hyper-V and System Center
Free online event with live Q&A: http://aka.ms/virtDC Wednesday, February 19th from 9am – 5pm PST If you’re new to virtualization, or if you have some...
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...
Integration between Hyper-V Network Virtualization and Windows Server Gateway
One of features on Windows Server 2012 R2 that was improved since the last version is network virtualization. Virtual networks are created by using Hyper-V...
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,...
How to delegate access in Hyper-V
In some medium/large organizations, it is common practice to have different access levels for systems, such as administrator, help desk, support and auditor. When implementing...
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...