Archive for the ‘Windows 2008 R2’ Category

production network card is not the first bound network card (2011-9-8)

Often when you do a validation health check the first nic is not the first nic and you did check it in the network options. There is a way to change this or to checkit. You can change it in the advanced settings with the up down arrow. OR Do this with WMI Open a [...]

Create Hyper-V VHD in Seconds With WAIK WIM2VHD.WSF (2011-6-27)

There are several ways to install a VM simple create and install OS. Or with SCVMM 2012   But If you want to do it fast and you don’t like the Image thing witch I don’t like. then there is a solution. In under the 3 minutes I create a Fresh installed Windows 2008R2 SP1 [...]

A hotfix is available to let you configure a cluster node that does not have quorum votes in Windows Server 2008 and in Windows Server 2008 R2 (2011-4-26)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2494036 Windows Server Failover Clustering (WSFC) uses a majority of votes to establish a quorum for determining cluster membership. Votes are assigned to nodes in the cluster or to a witness that is either a disk or a file share witness. You can use the Configure Cluster Quorum Wizard to configure the clusters quorum model. [...]

Lost Default Gateway Windows 2008 R2 SP1 (2011-4-18)

Do you know the problem reboot your server and you can’t RDP to it but you can ping and if you are in the same subnet you can RDP ? Well maybe you hit a bug , yes I was surprised to where is my DGW ? try bing and you find more of the [...]

Microsoft Virtualization for VMware Professionals – Free Online Classes – March 29 – 31 (2011-3-8)

Just one week after Microsoft Management Summit 2011 (MMS), Microsoft Learning will be hosting an exclusive three-day Jump Start class specially tailored for VMware and Microsoft virtualization technology pros.  Registration for “Microsoft Virtualization for VMware Professionals” is open now and will be delivered as a FREE online class on March 29-31, 2010 from 10:00am-4:00pm PDT. [...]

Powershell Create Windows 2008 R2 Cluster (2010-11-7)

Teched 2010 Berlin #TEE10 #Teched For Demo and learning Sites you need often thing that takes only a minute but when you play with it it takes more time than you want.So with this in my mind I created 3 powershell scripts that you can use for building a cluster , NLB Cluster and a [...]