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Preparing to Upgrade SQL Server? Data Migration Assistant! Part 2 #MVPHour #SQLServer #DMA

Aug 4, 2017 | SCCM, Windows Server | 0 |

Time to dive into Microsoft Data Migration Assistant. In this part of the DMZ log series, we’ll take a look at how we install DMA.

Full Audio Conferencing for the #SMB Using #S4B and @PGi

Jul 31, 2017 | Office365, Skype for Business | 0 |

A small business recently had a requirement for an audio conferencing solution that would also integrate with Skype for Business. For ease of marketing and management purposes, they wanted to have static dial-in information as...

Preparing to Upgrade SQL Server? Data Migration Assistant! Part 1 #MVPHour #SQLServer #DMA

Jul 25, 2017 | Design, Windows Server | 0 |

Datacenter’s and companies everywhere generally rely on a core piece of software to store their data and metrics, SQL Server. It’s nice to keep it up to date, but sometimes, and a lot of the time, if it’s not broken, don’t fix it. SQL Server has been around for quite a while, there are many databases hosted by SQL Server. Microsoft has released many upgrade advisors over the years, but recently the SQL Server team has overhauled their traditional SQL Server Upgrade Advisor and have created a new product – SQL Server Data Migration Assistant (DMA), which is different than SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA). To pull off a successful migration or upgrade, you need to do your detective work.

Windows 10 Deployment Nightmare – Rogue Imaging in #SCCM #OSD

Jul 24, 2017 | 1E, OSD, SCCM | 0 |

I just got back from a client site where we built their end-to-end Win10 migration solution. It...

Deploying Storage Spaces Direct – Part 36 – Virtual Adapter Affinity S2D Deployment #PowerShell #MVPHour #StorageSpacesDirect

Jul 19, 2017 | S2D | 2 |

Hey Storage Spaces Direct fans, I have been on Vacation for the past few weeks so sorry about not...

SECURE ACCESS INTERNAL NETWORK RESOURCES WITHOUT VPN – DIRECTACCESS PART2 #DIRECTACCESS #WINDOWSSERVER #MVPHOUR #STEP-BY-STEP

Jul 19, 2017 | Step-by-Step, Windows Server | 0 |

Windows 10 Enterprise as DirectAccess Client. Because Windows 10 supports automatic entry point selection and transparent failover, better scalability and performance. Also, windows 10 built-in DirectAccess connectivity status indicator, the administrators don’t have to deploy, manage, and maintain additional software.

SECURE ACCESS INTERNAL NETWORK RESOURCES WITHOUT VPN – DIRECTACCESS PART1 #DIRECTACCESS #WINDOWSSERVER #MVPHOUR #STEP-BY-STEP

Jul 18, 2017 | Step-by-Step, Windows Server | 0 |

DirectAccess provides users with the experience of being seamlessly connected to their intranet any time they have Internet access. When DirectAccess is enabled, requests for intranet resources (such as email servers, shared folders, or intranet websites) are securely directed to the intranet, without the need for users to connect to a VPN. DirectAccess enables increased productivity for a mobile workforce by offering the same connectivity experience both inside and outside of the office.

Installing #S2D without #RDMA

Jul 17, 2017 | Hyper-V, HyperConverged, S2D, Scripts, Windows Server | 0 |

A client recently came to me and wanted us to flatten his hyper-converged appliance, and replace...

VMware Storage and PowerShell #MVPHour #PowerShell

Jul 11, 2017 | Scripts | 0 |

Well I’ve been buried lately under a lot of LUNs. Spring is over and a customer I’m at has forgotten to do their spring cleaning! Needless to say, the LUN presentation and maintenance to their VMware clusters is a mess! In order to audit the system and ensure things were going in my favor, I wrote quite a few PowerShell code blocks/1 liners.

Dave’s Cool Tools Part 3 #PowerShell FTP Downloader Script PSFTP #mvphour #Canitpro

Jun 29, 2017 | Cool Tools, Scripts | 0 |

Hey fellow IT Pro’s in today’s blog post we will look at a super quick and dirty way...

UPDATE MELLANOX NIC FIRMWARE AND DRIVER FOR NON-RDMA STORAGE SPACE DIRECT CLUSTER SERVERS #STORAGEPACEDIRECT #POWERSHELL #WINDOWSSERVER #MVPHOUR #STEP-BY-STEP #MELLANOX

Jun 27, 2017 | Hyper-V, S2D, Step-by-Step, Windows Server | 1 |

Today, let’s talking about how to step by step to update Mellanox NIC firmware and driver for non-RDMA Storage Space Direct Cluster Servers. You can easy to do via follow steps.

Deploying Storage Spaces Direct – Part 35 – Did you say #S2D for Free? #MVPHour #StorageSpacesDirect .@MS_Ignite

Jun 23, 2017 | S2D | 0 |

Eliminating Maintenance Contracts will pay for Storage Spaces Direct! One of the games our...

Active Directory – When was this user/computer Created #PowerShell #MVPHour #

Jun 22, 2017 | Scripts, Windows Server | 0 |

A pretty simple request came across my desk today. I was requested to send a report of users that were created after a specific date. Do you remember the Windows Server 2003 and prior? Before PowerShell? We had to use what I’ll term loosely as “wonderful” LDAP queries. Also the query result was pure text, we couldn’t do anything easily with it short of magical text parsing! Well here is my PowerShell script I quickly whipped up!

Deploying Storage Spaces Direct – Part 34 – Patching Offline S2D Labs with Cumulative Updates #MVPHour #StorageSpacesDirect

Jun 22, 2017 | S2D | 0 |

Hey Storage Spaces Direct fans, over the course of the past few months we have been showing you...

Deploying Storage Spaces Direct – Part 33 – Is Apple is causing the worldwide DRAM & NAND Shortage? #MVPHour #Apple #StorageSpacesDirect

Jun 21, 2017 | S2D | 0 |

Hey Storage Spaces Direct fans, I have now had 3 separate customer cases where their Storage...

NON-RDMA STORAGE SPACES DIRECT STRESS TEST STEPS and RESULT – #WINDOWSSERVER #S2D #MVPHOUR #STEP-BY-STEP

Jun 20, 2017 | S2D, Step-by-Step, Windows Server | 1 |

Today, I am going to do stress test for NON-RDMA Storage space direct servers, the customer use their existing Cisco Catalyst 4500-x for Storage space direct servers, as we know, it doesn’t support DCB and PFC function, so, we will focus on stress test result for Storage space direct servers without enable RDMA and see how’s the performance.

Deploying Storage Spaces Direct – Part 32 – @MellanoxTech Hidden Device Manager Settings #StorageSpacesDirect #MVPHour #HyperV

Jun 20, 2017 | S2D | 0 |

Hey Networking fans, I’m back again this time with a really cool little trick to determine...

Deploying Storage Spaces Direct – Part 31 – @MellanoxTech Capture RoCE v2 or Infinniband Traffic with #WireShark and IBDump.exe #StorageSpacesDirect #MVPHour #HyperV

Jun 17, 2017 | S2D | 0 |

Hey Networking fans, I’m back again this time with a really cool little trick to capture...

Deploying Storage Spaces Direct – Part 30 – @MellanoxTech System Snapshot 2.6 Documentation #StorageSpacesDirect #MVPHour #HyperV

Jun 16, 2017 | S2D | 0 |

Hey Networking fans, a few posts back we dug into the Mellanox PowerShell providers that come as...

MINIMAL DOWNTIME MIGRATION OF WINDOWS SERVER ROLES – PART 3 #WINDOWSSERVER #MVPHOUR #STEP-BY-STEP

Jun 16, 2017 | Step-by-Step, Windows Server | 0 |

Ok, it’s time to demote existing Windows server 2003 and migrate all Windows server roles to new Windows server 2012 R2, there are no down time for Part1 steps and Part2 steps, but we need to schedule down time for Part3 steps to cut over all services.

Deploying Storage Spaces Direct – Part 29 – The Death of #StorageSpacesDirect on #NanoServer #MVPHour #HyperV

Jun 16, 2017 | S2D | 0 |

Hey Storage Spaces Direct fans, I some very unfortunate news for you. Nano Server + Storage...

MINIMAL DOWNTIME MIGRATION OF WINDOWS SERVER ROLES – PART 2 #WINDOWSSERVER #MVPHOUR #STEP-BY-STEP

Jun 15, 2017 | Step-by-Step, Windows Server | 0 |

After done for Active Directory Preparation, now we need to install a new Windows Server 2012 R2, export data from existing windows server 2003 and then import to new Windows Server 2012 R2.