Active Directory Replication Troubleshooting

With Active Directory having a decentralized database, healthy replication is extremely important to ensuring it functions correctly.  Replication problems can lead to all sorts of issues, including authentication failures, machines falling off the domain, or worse.  Let's take a look at some ways to diagnose and troubleshoot basic replication problems.

by Mitchell Grande Oct 4, 2018

Upcoming Windows Features

With the release of Windows Server 2019 getting closer, let's take a look at some of the upcoming features in the latest version of Windows Server: Storage Migration Service, System Insights, and Remote Desktop Modern Infrastructure.

by Mitchell Grande Sep 21, 2018

Testing File Server Performance

Measuring file server performance can be a little tricky.  In this post, we are going to look at each of the components that affect the speed clients can read/write to a file server.  After gathering baseline stats, we'll look at 2 different ways to test the performance of a file server: using the Windows Explorer file copy UI and using the diskspd command line tool.  We'll find that the speed shown in the Windows Explorer file copy interface isn't a reliable measurement of the disk throughput on the backend.

by Mitchell Grande Sep 5, 2018

Domain Controller Selection

The process of a Windows client selecting an Active Directory domain controller isn't too complex but is often not fully understood.  Let's look at the way a member server chooses a DC and how this affects applications.

by Mitchell Grande May 17, 2018

Tech Talks - What the Edge has to do with the Cloud

In this episoide of Tech Talks, Nathan Lasnoski, discusses what the Edge has to do with the Cloud.

by Nathan Lasnoski Apr 12, 2018

Tech Talks - Azure Iaas, Paas, Containers

In this episode of #techtalks, Nathan Lasnoski walks through how a business can use Iaas, Paas, and Containers to quickly scale up and down with demand, and deliver everything from simple cloud-based apps to sophisticated, cloud-enabled enterprise applications.

by Nathan Lasnoski Feb 15, 2018

Tech Talks - How to Transition from a Traditional Organization to a Cloud Organization

In this episode of #techtalks, Nathan Lasnoski walks through how a traditional organization can go through a successful adoption of cloud services through a cohesive triangle of technology, business and organization.

by Nathan Lasnoski Feb 8, 2018

Windows Subsystem for Linux – A High Level Overview

You can now run Linux command-line tools directly on windows, without use of Virtualization applications.

by Scott Poling Aug 14, 2017

Starting from scratch with Windows 10 Anniversary Update

With the release of Windows 10 Anniversary update, many of us will be upgrading to it. But many of us will also be installing it from scratch. You can cut down the time your machine is out of service by automating application installation with a simple script.

by Carl Schweitzer Aug 1, 2016

Microsoft BI Announcements from SQL PASS Summit 2015

SQL PASS started off with a bang following the Keynote. There was new type of session introduced this year called the “Foundation Sessions”. The first of these session types presented was for BI and was led by James Phillips, Microsoft’s CVP of BI (and now more).

by Seth Bauer Oct 31, 2015

Why Migrate SQL Server to Azure

When making the decision to move SQL Server workloads to Azure, there are a series of questions that need to be answered.

• Why are you migrating to Azure?
• What are you going to migrate to Azure?
• Where will you migrate in Azure?
• How will migrate to Azure?
• When will you migrate to Azure?

The answer to the first of these questions is extremely important to answering the others.  In my experience, it is often neglected.

by Frank Gill Jan 3, 2020