A WORLD OF BITS AND BYTES…
During the Microsoft events, especially Microsoft Ignite, we’ all collect as much as possible swag. Like t-shirts, stickers and other things. During this online Microsoft Ignite event, we can’t collect some swag.
BUT….Microsoft has created a digital swag kit, including cool wallpapers, Teams background, social media stickers, your digital badge and even some great things for the kids.
You can download the digital swag kit here.
Yesterday, the biggest Microsoft event in the world has started, Microsoft Ignite 2020! This year, it’s completely digital and online!
If you’re not going to watch all the sessions, but you only want to know all the new announcements, start reading the ‘Book of news’. This document will give you an overview of all the new stuff. Happy reading!
Download the Book of news.
Azure Backup now has even greater support and functionality for Azure VM backups:
For more details, please read our documentation
For more details, please read our documentation.
All the above features are generally available in all Azure regions.
Last week I’ve visited Microsoft Ignite The Tour in Amsterdam. Two realy great days with a lot of new information, presentations and knowledge. There also where a couple of new announcements from Microsoft.
My focus was Azure IaaS, security, governance and cost control within Azure. Of course there was a lot more to see, but this event was only 2 days, so I’ve had to make choices!
Microsoft has published the slide decks online, so you can download these now! (click)
Hoppefully I’ll be present the next year at this great event!!
When you delete a old RDS Session Host server from your environment whitout first deleting the server from your RDS Farm, you’ll receive the following error:
Install SQL Management Studio on your RDS Connection Broker and connect to the following server name:
\\.\pipe\MICROSOFT\##WID\tsql\query
Create a new query:
SELECT TOP 1000 [Id],[Name] FROM [RDCms].[rds].[Server]
Here you can see all your servers in your RDS Farm. Notice the Id of your ‘old’ server. In this example it is server ‘RDS-01’ with ID 2.
Create a new query:
use RDCms;
delete from rds.RoleRdsh where ServerID = ‘2’;
Start Powershell on your RDS Broker server and type:
Get-RDServer
Now you can open your Server Manager again and manage your RDS Farm!
So you’ve heard all about Windows Server 2019 – now you can see it in action in a live demo
webinar on November 8th!
The last WS2019 webinar by Altaro was hugely popular with over 4,500 IT pros registering for
the event. Feedback gathered from that webinar and the most popular features will now be
discussed and tested live by Microsoft MVP Andy Syrewicze. And you’re invited!
This deep-dive webinar will focus on:
• Windows Admin Center
• Containers on Windows Server
• Storage Migration Service
• Windows Subsystem for Linux
• And more!
Demo webinars are a really great way to see a product in action before you decide to take the
plunge yourself. It enables you to see the strengths and weaknesses first-hand and also ask
questions that might relate specifically to your own environment.
With the demand so high, the webinar is presented live twice on November 8th to help as
many people benefit as possible. The first session is at 2pm CET/8am EST/5am PST and the
second is at 7pm CET/1pm EST/10am PST.
With the record number of attendees for the last webinar, some people were unable to attend
the sessions which were maxed out. It is advised you save your seat early for this webinar to
keep informed and ensure you don’t miss the live event.
Save your seat!!
Ignite Book of News: Your Guide to All the News at Microsoft Ignite
This document contains information on all the announcements made at Microsoft Ignite 2018, including:
Download the full document here (or click the big picture below).
In my previous blogpost, I’ve installed and configured a two node virtual S2D cluster with Windows Server 2019 within Hyper-V on my laptop (Windows 10).
Now the full infrastructure is up and running, and the first guest virtual machine is a live, it’s also nice to take a view on some failover scenarios! In the following examples, you can see the high availability and resiliency of a Storage Space Direct (S2D) cluster. It’s realy, realy, realy powerfull and absolute the feature of virtualization!!
The following scenarios I’m going to cover:
Scenario 1 – Live Migration:
This feature is already present in the previous versions of Hyper-V and it’s realy powerfull to migrate a virtual machine to another Hyper-V host without any downtime!
Scenario 2 – Pause a Hyper-V cluster node:
In this scenario I’m going to ‘pause’ a Hyper-V cluster node with the ‘drain roles’ option. This can be for maintenance, for example: Patching, firmware updates, driver updates or just investigate some issues within Windows.
As you can see, in my two node S2D cluster, we can ‘pause’ one of the Hyper-V cluster nodes and the virtual machine is still up and running!!
Scenario 3 – Power Off a Hyper-V cluster node:
In this scenario I’m going to simulate a power failure or hardware failure, just to ‘Power Off’ on of the Hyper-V cluster nodes! The virtual machine is saved for a couple of seconds, migrated to the other Hyper-V node and started again!
With also with a hardware or power failure, the impact and downtime is that much!! Because the power of Storage Spaces Direct (S2D), your workloads are maximum protected and available!!
Wrap Up:
In this blogpost you’ve seen some scenarios with Storage Space Direct (S2D) in Windows Server 2019. Here you can see the high availability and resiliency of a Storage Spaces Direct infrastructure. Realy powerfull and it meets all your needs for your virtualization environment.