‘Infrastructure’

• Configuring Windows Server 8 Core with DHCP Failover and Replication!

  Posted Mar 19 2012 by Dane Young with 0 Comments

  In consulting with clients over the years for Virtualization, VDI and Cloud initiatives, an inevitable conversation that surfaces is DHCP high availability. While Microsoft allows Enterprise customers to protect DHCP in a Failover Cluster, my experience is that this option lacks mass adoption due to …

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• Change Windows Server from Standard to Enterprise Edition

  Posted Jul 22 2011 by Scott Cochran with 1 Comment

  Recently a client asked why their virtual SQL Server was only seeing 4 vCPU’s out of the 8 vCPU’s assigned to the virtual machine. After verifying the server was licensed with Windows Server Standard edition I explained the Standard edition limitations. Microsoft restricts Windows Server …

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• Windows 2008 Server Core: My First Choice for Role-Based Infrastructure Services

  Posted Apr 14 2011 by Dane Young with 1 Comment

  If you haven’t evaluated Windows 2008 Server Core, now’s the time!  Server Core is the ultimate choice for infrastructure services that are role based, utilizing any of the following: Active Directory (Including LDS and Certificate Services), DNS, DHCP, File Services (Including Distributed File System Replication), …

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