As the world continues its public cloud journey, more milestones arise. As this case is still being actively discussed, the fun continues. Microsoft Azure – one of the largest public cloud platform had experienced a major widespread outage today. Microsoft Azure that over the past few years grew to a…
Author: Misha Hanin
Exchange 2013 CU6 – The third Cumulative Update in a row that is facing issues :(
On August 26 Microsoft released Exchange 2013 CU6, the sixth Cumulative Update since the new servicing model of Exchange 2013, exactly after 90 days which fits in the quarterly cadence. Besides the Cumulative Update itself a new CU6 UM Language Pack is available as well. You can find more information in the Microsoft…
Veeam Task Manager for Hyper-V
Veeam has released the Veeam Task Manager for Hyper-V. The Veeam Task Manager for Hyper-V visualizes real-time performance data from your Hyper-V host and each child VM running on that host. You will be able to view what resources the parent partition is using and at the same time see what…
Exchange Server 2013 Cumulative Update 6 Released
CU6 represents the continuation of our Exchange 2013 servicing and builds upon Exchange 2013 CU5. The release includes fixes for customer reported issues, minor product enhancements and previously released security bulletins. A complete list of customer reported issues resolved in Exchange 2013 CU6 can be found in KB 2961810. Customers…
List of Hotfixes for Hyper-V on Server 2012 R2 and Server 2012 R2 Cluster
Validating Hyper-V 2012 R2 and Failover Clustering 2012 R2 hotfixes and updates. (more…)
Useful Links for Windows Server 2012 R2 / Hyper-V Server 2012 R2
Windows Server 2012 R2 offers new features and enhancements across enterprise-class virtualization, multi-tenant-aware storage, networking, virtual desktop infrastructure, access and information protection, and more. (more…)
Best Practices For Running Linux on Hyper-V
Microsoft has a TechNet article where they describe the best practices for Linux VMs running on Hyper-V 2012 or Hyper-V 2012 R2. The article is a list of recommendations for running Linux virtual machine on Hyper-V. (more…)
How to change default TCP/IP from IPv6 to IPv4?
Many of us were disabling IPv6 protocol on a system, where it was not used. You can find many blog articles, where people are recommending disabling IPv6 (unfortunately the procedure in most of these articles is not correct). Times are changing, and more organizations are preparing for IPv6 implementation. At…
Automating the Cloud with Azure Automation
Check out this course to explore the process of automating the cloud with Azure Automation. Find out how to get started and how to connect to Microsoft Azure. Learn how to import and publish a Connect-Azure runbook, and create and publish your first runbook. Finally, invoke Azure Automation runbooks, and…
Microsoft Lifecycles, Windows End of Support
Just recently Microsoft came with its warnings for approaching support deadlines: http://support.microsoft.com/gp/support-reaching-end-2nd Many people I know were confused with differences between Microsoft’s mainstream and extended support. The end of mainstream support in actually not that big of a deal. All it means is Microsoft tells us “Hey, we’ll no longer going to…