Hi , All systems admnis that are good at GUI & want to fit their shoes in server core 2008: Its very easy just download & install server core configurator utility & you are done Download from Codeplex Core Configuration tasks include: Product Licensing Networking Features DCPromo Tool ISCSI Settings Server Roles and Features User…

The patch information can be easily find with the help of below simple commands: wmic qfe get hotfixid you can append > to the command to insert it in text file. To get detailed information about the patches: wmic qfe list full  

Clustering best practice Network: Private Network: Atleast 150 ms ping response time Use TCPIP Only No DNS, No default gateway,No wins Static ip address Disable Netbios No NIC Teaming Public Network: Use atleast two DNS servers Teaming is not rrecommended If teaming is used confugure it after configuring clustering Windows Level: No password policies for cluster…

There are four types of Clustering topologies:- 1.  Single instance One node in cluster owns all the resources 2.  Multi-instance (some times called as active-active) One Virtual server in a cluster owns some of the resource groups and another virtual server owns other resource groups. At any one time, the virtual servers themselves can be…

There is an unlikely event when you went in to a situation where you need to reset Administrator password as you have forgotton it. The same situation we were in when a critical server machine was disjoined from the domain to troubleshoot something but as administrator password was not known to any one of us…