Back in Windows 2012, Microsoft introduced a feature called Hyper-V Replica. This feature has been improved in the 2012R2 version and has even more improvements in Windows Server 2016 due for launch shortly. In this series on Windows Hyper-V Replica, I’ll aim to give you some background on the feature as well as pointers on how to implement it. What is Hyper-V … [Read more...]
Patching your Small Business Network – Part 2 – Deciding on your patching strategy
The key decisions you need to make in terms of patching your small business network are around how much you want to do, how much reporting/verification you want and how reliable the technology is. In the small business space you’ve got a few options available to you, and as such you need to decide which one you wish to follow before implementing it. Do nothing and let … [Read more...]
How to do Exchange 2013 Migration Without Migrating Public Folders
We’ve been doing a number of migrations from SBS 2008 and SBS 2011 over to Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials + Exchange 2013., or other variations. So far all the clients have needed to migrate their public folders which is a long and complicated process that really is a pain. Recently we’ve had the need to migrate a client that has no Public Folders in their Exchange … [Read more...]
What size pagefile should I have on Hyper-V?
I’ve been trying to find specific guidance for some time on the size of a pagefile as recommended by Microsoft for a system running as a Hyper-V host. The theory is that on a Hyper-V host, Windows itself should never really use a page file at all. As a result, I’ve been setting page file to be 4GB – enough in case it’s needed, but not huge as we don’t need to waste … [Read more...]
How can I reset a computer accounts password with Active Directory?
Have you ever come across scenarios where the computer account password is out of sync with the Active Directory version of it? Or maybe you’ve done something silly like build two machines with the same name and added them to the domain one after the other? Either way – there’s a few ways to fix it but I recently discovered that Microsoft had provided an update to … [Read more...]