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Just when you thought… (Part 2)
In Part 1, I covered configuring the Hyper-V Failover Cluster and the Scale-Out File Server solution. In Part two, I will cover:Creating the file shares in the Scale-Out File ServerCreating a virtual...
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Error in Failover Cluster Manager after install of KB2750149
On Tuesday, Jaunary 8, the below recommended fix was released and available on Windows Update for Windows .NET Framework 4.5.2750149An update is available for the .NET Framework 4.5 in Windows 8,...
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Removing a Mount Point Disk from a Cluster Group
Hello everyone. Today’s post is going to cover the steps needed to follow should you ever have to remove a ‘Physical Disk’ resource from a clustered service or application where that disk is configured...
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FREE: Online Microsoft Virtual Academy Virtualization Jump Start Classes
The IT Pro Evangelism team, Microsoft Learning and the Microsoft Virtual Academy are pleased to announce the next Jump Start courses!Introduction to Hyper-VThursday, January 24thThis one-day live event...
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Looking for Windows Server 2008 R2 Cluster and Hyper-V Hotfixes?
I often get asked the question by customers on how to find the newly released hotfixes for Cluster and Hyper-V or the customer wants to know what hotfixes are out there. We have 3 Wiki pages that will...
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FREE: Microsoft Virtualization for VMware Professionals Training
The Microsoft Virtual Academy training portal offers quick and easy access to presentations, webcasts, whitepapers and other technical content about Microsoft’s Cloud technologies. It is public, free...
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Looking for Windows Server 2012 Clustering and Hyper-V Hotfixes?
In a previous blog, it was discussed on where you can get a list of the Failover Clustering and Hyper-V hotfixes for Windows Server 2008 R2.Looking for Windows Server 2008 R2 Cluster and Hyper-V...
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Live Customer Q&A with Virtualization Experts! (Microsoft Virtual Academy)
The IT Pro Evangelism team, Microsoft Learning and the Microsoft Virtual Academy are pleased to announce the next FREE& PUBLIC event Live Q&A: Introduction to Hyper-V on Wednesday April 3rd,...
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New Network Name Resource Fails to come Online
I recently encountered an issue involving the failure of a new Network Name resource to come online. Doing some investigation I found a number of instances where this has been encountered, with...
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Sessions from MMS 2013 Now Available
Greetings AskCore fans. I thought I would start creating a blog for a subset of the videos/sessions available at each of the conferences that Microsoft has throughout the year. These sessions will be...
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MMS 2013 Hands On Labs Available
A few months ago we held the annual 2013 Microsoft Management Summit in Las Vegas. As in years past, the event sold out quickly and it was a very busy week. To everyone that attended, our sincere...
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Nodes being removed from Failover Cluster membership on VMWare ESX?
Welcome to the AskCore blog. Today, we are going to talk about nodes being removed from active Failover Cluster membership when the nodes are hosted on VMWare ESX. I have documented node membership...
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TechEd 2013 Presentations and Videos Ask the Core Team favorites
Today’s blog is a listing of our favorite videos and presentations that recently occurred at TechEd 2013. I have gone through them and picked what we think are the most important to the technologies...
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How to Failover the ‘Cluster Group’ and ‘Available Storage” Cluster Groups
One question I get asked a lot working with our customers is how to failover the ‘Cluster Group’ and ‘Available Storage’ groups?Under the covers, those two groups are still just groups like any other...
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Replacing a Shared Disk on a 2008 Failover Cluster
Several months ago, I posted a blog on adding a new disk to an existing cluster. Another question we get asked a lot is “How do I replace a disk?”In this blog, I’ll walkthrough the process of replacing...
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Stop 0x50 on Windows 2008 R2 Failover Cluster
Greetings Cluster fans, John Marlin back for another go at it. I wanted to write something about what we have been seeing involving the use of Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV) and File Server resources...
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Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV) in redirected access mode after installing...
There is an issue with Cluster Shared Volumes and McAfee VirusScan Enterprise that I wanted to pass along. When installing McAfee VSE 8.7 Patch 5 or 8.8 Patch 1, the CSV drives will go into redirected...
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Understanding the DiskRunChkdsk parameter in Windows 2008 and 2008R2 Failover...
My name is Sean Dwyer and I am a Support Escalation Engineer with the Microsoft CORE team. I’d like to share a quick tip for handling Windows Server Cluster administrators. There may come a time, for...
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FIXED: Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV) in redirected access mode after...
A fix for the above titled problem has been released. If you are running into this problem, please downlaod and install the following fix on all Clusters running McAfee and wanting the updates they...
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Why is the CNO in a Failed State?
Hello, my name is Steven Graves and I am a Support Escalation Engineer (SEE) in the Platforms Support group here at Microsoft. One of the technologies I support is Windows Server Failover Clustering....
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