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Saturday, May 23, 2009 5:29 AM

PowerShell for Failover Clustering: Frequently Asked Questions & Enabling CSV

Hi, Today I’m going to talk a little more about PowerShell by answering some of the frequently asked questions I hear. 1) Why is PowerShell better? 2) How do I get started using PowerShell? 3) Where are the properties? 4) Where are the private properties?
Posted by msclustm | 5 Comments
Thursday, May 21, 2009 5:39 AM

PowerShell for Failover Clustering: Getting Started

Hi Cluster Fans, Amongst the long list of features that is being added in Windows Server R2, Clustering team is also providing a set of PowerShell cmdlets (“command-lets”) to manage your Failover Cluster. Hopefully this is not news for most cluster administrators
Posted by msclustm | 7 Comments
Thursday, November 13, 2008 9:49 PM

What is the purpose of the “Repair Active Directory Object” option?

Something changed the CNO’s password without the CNO knowing. One of the responsibilities of Network Name resources is to rotate the passwords of the machine accounts. While it is online, each network name changes its password according to domain and
Posted by msclustm | 3 Comments
Wednesday, September 03, 2008 11:59 PM

Share Subdirectories, Where Hast Thou Gone?

You may have noticed that in Windows Server 2008 that the “Share Subdirectories” option for file shares on a Failover Cluster is no longer around…why would we do that? First off, let’s take a stroll down memory lane and talk about the history of this
Posted by msclustm | 10 Comments
Thursday, August 28, 2008 11:47 PM

Migration Options for Hardware with Failover Clustering in Windows Server 2008

Hi Cluster Fans, Failover Clustering in Windows Server 2008 no longer supports the traditional “rolling upgrade” which you may be familiar with from Windows Server 2003. This has given the impression that you will not be able to reuse your hardware. That
Posted by msclustm | 10 Comments
Tuesday, August 19, 2008 12:55 AM

What happened to the Cluster Service Account?

Before Windows Server 2008, the cluster required the use of a Cluster Service Account (CSA). This was a domain user under whose credentials the cluster service, as well as cluster resources, ran. The CSA presented some problems, the most obvious of which
Posted by msclustm | 5 Comments
Saturday, July 26, 2008 2:45 AM

Cluster Validate Error for Duplicate IP Addresses? Teredo may be the Culprit!

Hi Cluster Fans, We’ve been seeing an increasing number of questions about a specific error in Windows Server 2008 Failover Clustering using the ‘Validate a Configuration’ Wizard (‘Validate’). This error is fairly common and very easy to fix and I’m going
Posted by msclustm | 9 Comments
Saturday, June 28, 2008 1:02 AM

New Whitepaper: Failover Clustering with AD Certificate Services in Server 2008

Hi cluster fans, A new whitepaper was release this week describing how to set up, configure and troubleshoot Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS) with Windows Server 2008 Failover Clustering. With Windows Server 2003 and earlier versions, organizations
Posted by msclustm | 2 Comments
Wednesday, June 18, 2008 6:14 AM

Help the Clustering and High Availability team with Network Load Balancing features!

NLB users, In a previous post ( http://blogs.msdn.com/clustering/archive/2008/02/15/7718003.aspx ), I requested your input on how you use NLB in your environments. Many of you responded with great information. Thank you! Thank you! Taking this a step
Posted by msclustm | 2 Comments
Monday, June 16, 2008 9:45 PM

What’s new in Failover Clustering in 2008? . . . What isn’t new!

Now that Failover Clustering deployments on Windows Server 2008 are growing, and our customers are spreading the word about how easy it is, we’re getting an increasing number of questions about “what’s new in 2008?” The short answer is – pretty much everything!
Posted by msclustm | 4 Comments
Friday, June 06, 2008 8:16 PM

Announcing the Failover Clustering Information Portal

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/clustering-home.aspx Hi Cluster Fans, For a long time we’ve been asked for a centralize location to find all of your clustering information – and it is here! This easy-to-use website offers information
Posted by msclustm | 1 Comments
Thursday, June 05, 2008 6:39 PM

WebCast: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Failover Clustering on Windows Server 2008

Monday, June 09, 2008 10:00 AM Pacific Time Details: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=953170 Webcast Link: http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?culture=en-US&EventID=1032379512 This Support WebCast focuses on how
Posted by msclustm | 1 Comments
Saturday, May 31, 2008 10:45 PM

Clustering is coming to TechEd!

Hi cluster fans, From June 9 th – 13 th the cluster team will be at IP Pro TechEd in Orlando, Florida. Windows Server 2008 has been our biggest release to date and a quorum of our program managers, marketing team, and cluster MVPs will be there to educate
Posted by msclustm | 6 Comments
Friday, May 16, 2008 1:34 AM

Official Microsoft Curriculum: Implementing and Managing Windows Server 2008 Clustering

Hi clustering fans, The Windows Server Failover Clustering Product Group is proud to announce the release of the first ever Windows Server 2008 Microsoft Official Curriculum course: Course 6423A: Implementing and Managing Windows Server 2008 Clustering
Posted by msclustm | 4 Comments
Saturday, May 10, 2008 3:42 AM

Windows Server 2008 Clustering Documents, Whitepapers, Webcasts, Groups

Hi Cluster Fans, We’ve had a lot of requests for a centralized website to find clustering and high-availability information and…it’s coming soon. But in the meantime I’ll post some great resources from Microsoft’s Clustering and High-Availability team.
Posted by msclustm | 2 Comments
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