Part 5.2 Cluster Aware Patching
One of my particular annoyances and pain points with Windows is patching. Oh how I hate patching. It happens at least one Tuesday of every month and while WS8 does improve greatly on
Part 5.1 - Clustering Fun
I was thinking that I’d just go through each of the technical preview documents, call out the stuff that I thought was cool, break it down into easily readable prose, go in
Part 4 - Direct Access
Remote access is a tough nut to crack. On the one hand, every employee needs access to their corporate resources at all times of the day and from whatever device they can shake
Part 3 - Branch Cache
Perhpas my favorite WS8 feature, Branch Cache, has received tremendous updates in this release. Branch Cache is a technology originally released in the 08 versions of Windows Server that allows companies with large
Part 2 - Making the Administration of Servers Easier
It comes as no surprise that in order to build a private cloud (or a public one if you’re in the hosting space) that the fewer server admins per server, the better.
Part 1 - Active Directory
One of the most stable and well designed pieces of software to come out of Microsoft – ever – is Active Directory. While its development was riddled with twists and turns (and the occasional run
The Coming Storm - Introduction
If ever there was a time when the technology of the world that enables millions of businesses and this new concept of the cloud converged on a single piece of software, it is
The Coming Storm - Windows 8
I am beginning a series on all that is amazing in Windows Server 8. There will be 55 posts in all. It’s a very exciting time! Look for them to start early
The State of Storage in 2012
There is a great article in Information Week this week about the 2012 State of Storage [http://bit.ly/wAy04n] that I wanted to comment on. If you don’t have a subscription,
Captain Thomas
I was en route the other day from Seattle to DFW. Home from a fun and thoroughly educational trip to Microsoft HQ for a super secret top classified semi-decoder ring style event. Had
Mass Updating Site Owners
In SharePoint, if you’re smart, you have written a custom footer to display the site owner (or primary site collection administrator) so people know who to talk to when something goes wrong.
Switching from Claims to Not Claims with SharePoint 2010
Working with a client the other day, I had the need to take a web application from one SP install to another. Normally, no big deal. This time, however, client has two different