Hyper-V certificate expiration and resolution 

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For those of you who’ve enabled the Hyper-V role in WS08. It has been determined that a certificate error can occur resulting in the inability to start or connect to virtual machines running on Windows Server 2008 or Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008.  The Hyper-V virtualization host and the existing virtual machines will continue to operate Read more

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“Crossing your fingers,” “Rubbing your lucky rabbit’s foot,” or WSFC? It’s your choice. 

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Cross your fingers.  Rub your lucky rabbit’s foot.  Pray to the server gods.  It won’t happen to you, right?    But what if it does happen?  And the servers are down…    Maybe you can help save your company from some of the heartache and costs of downtime.   Failover Clustering has been around a Read more

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Best Practices Analyzer Resolution Guidance Now Available Online 

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Best Practices Analyzer (BPA) is a server management tool included with Windows Server® 2008 R2. BPA can help administrators reduce best practice violations by scanning one or more roles that are installed on Windows Server 2008 R2, and reporting best practice violations to the administrator.  Roles that support BPA scans in Windows Server 2008 R2 Read more

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