Using the SSH server in Windows Server 2019
Yes, your are reading it right. Windows Server has now also a built in SSH Server for remote access. And it is not just any SSH server it is the popular Open...
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Windows Server
Useful PowerShell snippets for Storage Spaces Direct (S2D) operations
This is a very quirk post to just share some simple PowerShell snippets I have created or found elsewhere which I find very handy when it comes to troublesho...
Get insights about the performance of your Windows systems with Grafana
Ever dreamed about some mission control like dashboards to get a quick insight about the performance of your Windows systems? 😊
Script to build stretched file server cluster with Storage Replica
One possible scenario for use of Storage Replica in Windows Server 2016 is to build a stretched file server cluster based on two VMs on two different sites. ...
SCVMM: When the deployment of new VM template suddenly fails
Recently I ran in a very strange behavior when deploying a VM template with Server 2016 through VMM 2012 R2. First of all, to enable the full support of Wind...
Be aware of DSC pull server compatibility issues with WMF 5.0 and 5.1
Apparently, there are some incompatibilities when WMF 5.0 computers wants to communicate with a DSC pull server running on WMF 5.1 or vice versa. This is esp...
How to enable CredSSP for PowerShell Remoting through GPO
In a domain environment CredSSP can easily enabled through a GPO. To do so there are three GPO settings to configure:
How to setup VMFleet to stress test your Storage Spaces Direct deployment
As an outcome of the Microsoft’s demos about Storage Spaces Direct at Ignite conference and the Intel Developer Forum, Microsoft published recently a bunch o...
Configuring Hyper V Hosts With Converged Networking Through Powershell Dsc
Lately I had to rebuild the Hyper-V Hosts in my home lab several times because of the release of the different TPs for Windows Server 2016. This circumstance...
Build a Windows Server 2016 TP3 VHD with minimal GUI
Update, 11/20/2015: This does not work any more with the TP4 which is now public available as the feature “Server-Gui-Mgmt-Infra” is gone now. You can add...
The connection between Hyper-V Network Virtualization (NVGRE) and MTU Size (and Linux)
In a network with Hyper-V Network Virtualization (using NVGRE encapsulation) the MTU (Maximum Transmission Unit) size is 42 Bytes smaller than in a tradition...
Beware of SCVMM UR5 if you have Hyper-V Clusters with Storage Spaces
The latest Update Rollup (UR5) for SCVMM 2012 R2 seems to have some issues with Live Migration in environments where the Hyper-V hosts have Cluster Shared Vo...
SMB Direct connectivity options with HP servers
Are there any 10GBE network cards from HP which you can use for SMB Direct?
How to change the RDP certificate on a RD Session Host
In Windows Server 2012 R2 RD Deployment you will install a certificate for the RD Connection Broker, RD Web Access and RD Gateway in the Deployment Propertie...
Open high ports (over 49151) on a Windows Server Gateway
In a cloud infrastructure with System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM), Hyper-V and Azure Pack the Windows Server Gateway could provide the tenants wit...
PowerShell
Export and import Azure Blueprints definitions
Azure Blueprints are relatively new and currently in public preview. With Azure Blueprint you can deploy and update a set of different Azure resources and co...
Simple and fast way to ensure a PowerShell script runs always as Administrator
Sooner or later when you are writing PowerShell scripts you have the situation where you want to ensure that the Script is running with elevated user rights ...
Script to build stretched file server cluster with Storage Replica
One possible scenario for use of Storage Replica in Windows Server 2016 is to build a stretched file server cluster based on two VMs on two different sites. ...
Be aware of DSC pull server compatibility issues with WMF 5.0 and 5.1
Apparently, there are some incompatibilities when WMF 5.0 computers wants to communicate with a DSC pull server running on WMF 5.1 or vice versa. This is esp...
How to enable CredSSP for PowerShell Remoting through GPO
In a domain environment CredSSP can easily enabled through a GPO. To do so there are three GPO settings to configure:
How to setup VMFleet to stress test your Storage Spaces Direct deployment
As an outcome of the Microsoft’s demos about Storage Spaces Direct at Ignite conference and the Intel Developer Forum, Microsoft published recently a bunch o...
Configuring Hyper V Hosts With Converged Networking Through Powershell Dsc
Lately I had to rebuild the Hyper-V Hosts in my home lab several times because of the release of the different TPs for Windows Server 2016. This circumstance...
Build a Windows Server 2016 TP3 VHD with minimal GUI
Update, 11/20/2015: This does not work any more with the TP4 which is now public available as the feature “Server-Gui-Mgmt-Infra” is gone now. You can add...
Query Terminal Services Profile Path of AD Users through PowerShell
If you like to query Terminal Services or Remote Desktop Server Profile Path with PowerShell you cannot use the Get-ADUser Cmdlet. Instead you have to go thr...
How to delete a specific Recovery Point in DPM
There is no possibility to delete a recovery point (backup) in DPM via GUI. But good old friend PowerShell helps. 🙂
Hyper-V
Useful PowerShell snippets for Storage Spaces Direct (S2D) operations
This is a very quirk post to just share some simple PowerShell snippets I have created or found elsewhere which I find very handy when it comes to troublesho...
SCVMM: When the deployment of new VM template suddenly fails
Recently I ran in a very strange behavior when deploying a VM template with Server 2016 through VMM 2012 R2. First of all, to enable the full support of Wind...
Install Azure Stack POC into a VM
Update 09.03.2016: Although the setup just works fine in the VM and you can even provisioning Subscriptions and Tenant VMs there are some serious issues w...
Configuring Hyper V Hosts With Converged Networking Through Powershell Dsc
Lately I had to rebuild the Hyper-V Hosts in my home lab several times because of the release of the different TPs for Windows Server 2016. This circumstance...
Registry keys to tune the data source colocation in DPM 2012
By default, DPM will create for every data source two volumes (a replica and a shadow copy volume). For Hyper-V and SQL Database DPM can colocation multiple ...
The connection between Hyper-V Network Virtualization (NVGRE) and MTU Size (and Linux)
In a network with Hyper-V Network Virtualization (using NVGRE encapsulation) the MTU (Maximum Transmission Unit) size is 42 Bytes smaller than in a tradition...
Beware of SCVMM UR5 if you have Hyper-V Clusters with Storage Spaces
The latest Update Rollup (UR5) for SCVMM 2012 R2 seems to have some issues with Live Migration in environments where the Hyper-V hosts have Cluster Shared Vo...
Open high ports (over 49151) on a Windows Server Gateway
In a cloud infrastructure with System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM), Hyper-V and Azure Pack the Windows Server Gateway could provide the tenants wit...
Windows Server 2012 R2
Get insights about the performance of your Windows systems with Grafana
Ever dreamed about some mission control like dashboards to get a quick insight about the performance of your Windows systems? 😊
Be aware of DSC pull server compatibility issues with WMF 5.0 and 5.1
Apparently, there are some incompatibilities when WMF 5.0 computers wants to communicate with a DSC pull server running on WMF 5.1 or vice versa. This is esp...
How to enable CredSSP for PowerShell Remoting through GPO
In a domain environment CredSSP can easily enabled through a GPO. To do so there are three GPO settings to configure:
The connection between Hyper-V Network Virtualization (NVGRE) and MTU Size (and Linux)
In a network with Hyper-V Network Virtualization (using NVGRE encapsulation) the MTU (Maximum Transmission Unit) size is 42 Bytes smaller than in a tradition...
Beware of SCVMM UR5 if you have Hyper-V Clusters with Storage Spaces
The latest Update Rollup (UR5) for SCVMM 2012 R2 seems to have some issues with Live Migration in environments where the Hyper-V hosts have Cluster Shared Vo...
How to change the RDP certificate on a RD Session Host
In Windows Server 2012 R2 RD Deployment you will install a certificate for the RD Connection Broker, RD Web Access and RD Gateway in the Deployment Propertie...
Open high ports (over 49151) on a Windows Server Gateway
In a cloud infrastructure with System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM), Hyper-V and Azure Pack the Windows Server Gateway could provide the tenants wit...
Windows Server 2016
Useful PowerShell snippets for Storage Spaces Direct (S2D) operations
This is a very quirk post to just share some simple PowerShell snippets I have created or found elsewhere which I find very handy when it comes to troublesho...
Get insights about the performance of your Windows systems with Grafana
Ever dreamed about some mission control like dashboards to get a quick insight about the performance of your Windows systems? 😊
Script to build stretched file server cluster with Storage Replica
One possible scenario for use of Storage Replica in Windows Server 2016 is to build a stretched file server cluster based on two VMs on two different sites. ...
SCVMM: When the deployment of new VM template suddenly fails
Recently I ran in a very strange behavior when deploying a VM template with Server 2016 through VMM 2012 R2. First of all, to enable the full support of Wind...
Be aware of DSC pull server compatibility issues with WMF 5.0 and 5.1
Apparently, there are some incompatibilities when WMF 5.0 computers wants to communicate with a DSC pull server running on WMF 5.1 or vice versa. This is esp...
How to enable CredSSP for PowerShell Remoting through GPO
In a domain environment CredSSP can easily enabled through a GPO. To do so there are three GPO settings to configure:
Build a Windows Server 2016 TP3 VHD with minimal GUI
Update, 11/20/2015: This does not work any more with the TP4 which is now public available as the feature “Server-Gui-Mgmt-Infra” is gone now. You can add...
Microsoft Azure
The case of the missing AKS route table assignment
When an AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service) cluster is deployed with basic network (kubenet) a (UDR) route table gets created in Azure. But sometimes this route t...
Export and import Azure Blueprints definitions
Azure Blueprints are relatively new and currently in public preview. With Azure Blueprint you can deploy and update a set of different Azure resources and co...
Azure Stack – The Azure in your data center
With the beginning of this year Microsoft Inspire conference (formerly Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference – WPC) the long-awaited Microsoft Azure Stack b...
Webinar “Azure Automation and PowerShell DSC” (German)
On Tuesday October 11 2016 at 2pm (CEST) I had a webinar in German about Azure Automation and PowerShell DSC. I explained the basic concepts of Azure Automat...
Replicate or migrate VMware VMs with a client OS to Azure with Azure Site Recovery
The official (not working) way
Install Azure Stack POC into a VM
Update 09.03.2016: Although the setup just works fine in the VM and you can even provisioning Subscriptions and Tenant VMs there are some serious issues w...
Azure Backup the future (replacement) of DPM?
As Aidan Finn (and probably many others) wrote on his blog Microsoft has published a new Version of the Azure Backup Software. The new Software has now the a...
PowerShell DSC
Speaking at Experts Live Switzerland in Bern
On 3rd of May the one day country event of the Experts Live conference series will take place at the “Workspace Welle 7” in Bern and I am really looking forw...
Be aware of DSC pull server compatibility issues with WMF 5.0 and 5.1
Apparently, there are some incompatibilities when WMF 5.0 computers wants to communicate with a DSC pull server running on WMF 5.1 or vice versa. This is esp...
Webinar “Azure Automation and PowerShell DSC” (German)
On Tuesday October 11 2016 at 2pm (CEST) I had a webinar in German about Azure Automation and PowerShell DSC. I explained the basic concepts of Azure Automat...
Configuring Hyper V Hosts With Converged Networking Through Powershell Dsc
Lately I had to rebuild the Hyper-V Hosts in my home lab several times because of the release of the different TPs for Windows Server 2016. This circumstance...
Automation
Useful PowerShell snippets for Storage Spaces Direct (S2D) operations
This is a very quirk post to just share some simple PowerShell snippets I have created or found elsewhere which I find very handy when it comes to troublesho...
Speaking at Experts Live Switzerland in Bern
On 3rd of May the one day country event of the Experts Live conference series will take place at the “Workspace Welle 7” in Bern and I am really looking forw...
Simple and fast way to ensure a PowerShell script runs always as Administrator
Sooner or later when you are writing PowerShell scripts you have the situation where you want to ensure that the Script is running with elevated user rights ...
Webinar “Azure Automation and PowerShell DSC” (German)
On Tuesday October 11 2016 at 2pm (CEST) I had a webinar in German about Azure Automation and PowerShell DSC. I explained the basic concepts of Azure Automat...
NVGRE
The connection between Hyper-V Network Virtualization (NVGRE) and MTU Size (and Linux)
In a network with Hyper-V Network Virtualization (using NVGRE encapsulation) the MTU (Maximum Transmission Unit) size is 42 Bytes smaller than in a tradition...
SMB Direct connectivity options with HP servers
Are there any 10GBE network cards from HP which you can use for SMB Direct?
Open high ports (over 49151) on a Windows Server Gateway
In a cloud infrastructure with System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM), Hyper-V and Azure Pack the Windows Server Gateway could provide the tenants wit...
SCVMM
SCVMM: When the deployment of new VM template suddenly fails
Recently I ran in a very strange behavior when deploying a VM template with Server 2016 through VMM 2012 R2. First of all, to enable the full support of Wind...
Beware of SCVMM UR5 if you have Hyper-V Clusters with Storage Spaces
The latest Update Rollup (UR5) for SCVMM 2012 R2 seems to have some issues with Live Migration in environments where the Hyper-V hosts have Cluster Shared Vo...
Open high ports (over 49151) on a Windows Server Gateway
In a cloud infrastructure with System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM), Hyper-V and Azure Pack the Windows Server Gateway could provide the tenants wit...
DPM
Azure Backup the future (replacement) of DPM?
As Aidan Finn (and probably many others) wrote on his blog Microsoft has published a new Version of the Azure Backup Software. The new Software has now the a...
Registry keys to tune the data source colocation in DPM 2012
By default, DPM will create for every data source two volumes (a replica and a shadow copy volume). For Hyper-V and SQL Database DPM can colocation multiple ...
How to delete a specific Recovery Point in DPM
There is no possibility to delete a recovery point (backup) in DPM via GUI. But good old friend PowerShell helps. 🙂
Microsoft System Center
SCVMM: When the deployment of new VM template suddenly fails
Recently I ran in a very strange behavior when deploying a VM template with Server 2016 through VMM 2012 R2. First of all, to enable the full support of Wind...
Azure Backup the future (replacement) of DPM?
As Aidan Finn (and probably many others) wrote on his blog Microsoft has published a new Version of the Azure Backup Software. The new Software has now the a...
Registry keys to tune the data source colocation in DPM 2012
By default, DPM will create for every data source two volumes (a replica and a shadow copy volume). For Hyper-V and SQL Database DPM can colocation multiple ...
S2D
Useful PowerShell snippets for Storage Spaces Direct (S2D) operations
This is a very quirk post to just share some simple PowerShell snippets I have created or found elsewhere which I find very handy when it comes to troublesho...
How to setup VMFleet to stress test your Storage Spaces Direct deployment
As an outcome of the Microsoft’s demos about Storage Spaces Direct at Ignite conference and the Intel Developer Forum, Microsoft published recently a bunch o...
How to setup VMFleet to stress test your Storage Spaces Direct deployment
As an outcome of the Microsoft’s demos about Storage Spaces Direct at Ignite conference and the Intel Developer Forum, Microsoft published recently a bunch o...
HNV
The connection between Hyper-V Network Virtualization (NVGRE) and MTU Size (and Linux)
In a network with Hyper-V Network Virtualization (using NVGRE encapsulation) the MTU (Maximum Transmission Unit) size is 42 Bytes smaller than in a tradition...
Open high ports (over 49151) on a Windows Server Gateway
In a cloud infrastructure with System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM), Hyper-V and Azure Pack the Windows Server Gateway could provide the tenants wit...
Windows Azure Pack
Azure Stack – The Azure in your data center
With the beginning of this year Microsoft Inspire conference (formerly Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference – WPC) the long-awaited Microsoft Azure Stack b...
Open high ports (over 49151) on a Windows Server Gateway
In a cloud infrastructure with System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM), Hyper-V and Azure Pack the Windows Server Gateway could provide the tenants wit...
RDMA
How to setup VMFleet to stress test your Storage Spaces Direct deployment
As an outcome of the Microsoft’s demos about Storage Spaces Direct at Ignite conference and the Intel Developer Forum, Microsoft published recently a bunch o...
SMB Direct connectivity options with HP servers
Are there any 10GBE network cards from HP which you can use for SMB Direct?
SMB Direct
How to setup VMFleet to stress test your Storage Spaces Direct deployment
As an outcome of the Microsoft’s demos about Storage Spaces Direct at Ignite conference and the Intel Developer Forum, Microsoft published recently a bunch o...
SMB Direct connectivity options with HP servers
Are there any 10GBE network cards from HP which you can use for SMB Direct?
Microsoft Azure Stack
Azure Stack – The Azure in your data center
With the beginning of this year Microsoft Inspire conference (formerly Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference – WPC) the long-awaited Microsoft Azure Stack b...
Install Azure Stack POC into a VM
Update 09.03.2016: Although the setup just works fine in the VM and you can even provisioning Subscriptions and Tenant VMs there are some serious issues w...
Storage Spaces Direct
Useful PowerShell snippets for Storage Spaces Direct (S2D) operations
This is a very quirk post to just share some simple PowerShell snippets I have created or found elsewhere which I find very handy when it comes to troublesho...
How to setup VMFleet to stress test your Storage Spaces Direct deployment
As an outcome of the Microsoft’s demos about Storage Spaces Direct at Ignite conference and the Intel Developer Forum, Microsoft published recently a bunch o...
RDS
How to change the RDP certificate on a RD Session Host
In Windows Server 2012 R2 RD Deployment you will install a certificate for the RD Connection Broker, RD Web Access and RD Gateway in the Deployment Propertie...
Remote Desktop Services
How to change the RDP certificate on a RD Session Host
In Windows Server 2012 R2 RD Deployment you will install a certificate for the RD Connection Broker, RD Web Access and RD Gateway in the Deployment Propertie...
HP
SMB Direct connectivity options with HP servers
Are there any 10GBE network cards from HP which you can use for SMB Direct?
Active Directory
Query Terminal Services Profile Path of AD Users through PowerShell
If you like to query Terminal Services or Remote Desktop Server Profile Path with PowerShell you cannot use the Get-ADUser Cmdlet. Instead you have to go thr...
Windows 10
How to Build a Source for Windows 10 Enterprise from the official Insider Preview ISO (Build 10162)
The official Windows 10 Preview ISO from Microsoft installs only the Pro or Core Version. So it can not be used to install or upgrade the Enterprise Edition....
ASR
Replicate or migrate VMware VMs with a client OS to Azure with Azure Site Recovery
The official (not working) way
Azure Site Recovery
Replicate or migrate VMware VMs with a client OS to Azure with Azure Site Recovery
The official (not working) way
VMware
Replicate or migrate VMware VMs with a client OS to Azure with Azure Site Recovery
The official (not working) way
Azure Automation
Webinar “Azure Automation and PowerShell DSC” (German)
On Tuesday October 11 2016 at 2pm (CEST) I had a webinar in German about Azure Automation and PowerShell DSC. I explained the basic concepts of Azure Automat...
Webinar
Webinar “Azure Automation and PowerShell DSC” (German)
On Tuesday October 11 2016 at 2pm (CEST) I had a webinar in German about Azure Automation and PowerShell DSC. I explained the basic concepts of Azure Automat...
GPO
How to enable CredSSP for PowerShell Remoting through GPO
In a domain environment CredSSP can easily enabled through a GPO. To do so there are three GPO settings to configure:
Storage Replica
Script to build stretched file server cluster with Storage Replica
One possible scenario for use of Storage Replica in Windows Server 2016 is to build a stretched file server cluster based on two VMs on two different sites. ...
Experts Live
Speaking at Experts Live Switzerland in Bern
On 3rd of May the one day country event of the Experts Live conference series will take place at the “Workspace Welle 7” in Bern and I am really looking forw...
Windows Server 2019
Using the SSH server in Windows Server 2019
Yes, your are reading it right. Windows Server has now also a built in SSH Server for remote access. And it is not just any SSH server it is the popular Open...
OpenSource
Using the SSH server in Windows Server 2019
Yes, your are reading it right. Windows Server has now also a built in SSH Server for remote access. And it is not just any SSH server it is the popular Open...
SSH
Using the SSH server in Windows Server 2019
Yes, your are reading it right. Windows Server has now also a built in SSH Server for remote access. And it is not just any SSH server it is the popular Open...
Cross-platform
Using the SSH server in Windows Server 2019
Yes, your are reading it right. Windows Server has now also a built in SSH Server for remote access. And it is not just any SSH server it is the popular Open...
Azure DevOps
Control pipeline artifacts upload with the .artifactignore file in Azure DevOps Pipelines
To control with files and directories are upload as pipeline artifacts in an Azure DevOps Pipeline the .artifactignore file can be used.
Pipelines
Control pipeline artifacts upload with the .artifactignore file in Azure DevOps Pipelines
To control with files and directories are upload as pipeline artifacts in an Azure DevOps Pipeline the .artifactignore file can be used.
CI/CD
Control pipeline artifacts upload with the .artifactignore file in Azure DevOps Pipelines
To control with files and directories are upload as pipeline artifacts in an Azure DevOps Pipeline the .artifactignore file can be used.
Artifacts
Control pipeline artifacts upload with the .artifactignore file in Azure DevOps Pipelines
To control with files and directories are upload as pipeline artifacts in an Azure DevOps Pipeline the .artifactignore file can be used.
AKS
The case of the missing AKS route table assignment
When an AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service) cluster is deployed with basic network (kubenet) a (UDR) route table gets created in Azure. But sometimes this route t...
Kubernetes
The case of the missing AKS route table assignment
When an AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service) cluster is deployed with basic network (kubenet) a (UDR) route table gets created in Azure. But sometimes this route t...
IaC
The case of the missing AKS route table assignment
When an AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service) cluster is deployed with basic network (kubenet) a (UDR) route table gets created in Azure. But sometimes this route t...