It's all about Server Infrastructure Support - by Nirav Soni

 Below is the link of my YouTube video showing how to replace or upgrade the memory of Dell Inspiron 15 3000 Series Laptop. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9vGZGpq7qQ I hope that you will find this video helpful and informative.  Thank you, Nirav Soni

I have seen many Systems Administrators having challenges in cleaning up WinSXS folder on system drive of Windows Servers 2008/2008R2. What is this WinSXS folder for? What does it contain within it? Is it safe to clean up those files under this folder by selecting them and pressing Delete button to get rid of them and reclaim disk space on C: drive? I know, you might be having these questions, if you would have come across the incidents where this folder would be taking lot of space of C: drive. I have seen Windows Server 2008 R2 machines where this folder would be taking over 20GB of disk space. Microsoft has released few knowledge-base articles as well showing how you can deal with these kind of situation. Microsoft realized the pain that Systems Administrators have cleaning up this folder and hence, they came up with "Features on Demand" on Windows Server 2012/2012 R2. So, now, you would be curious to know what this "Features on Demand" is and how it can help ove...

Hello guys, As it's an era of Cloud Computing and Microsoft Azure being the leader in providing the cloud services, today, I would like to introduce you to the Microsoft Azure Core Services. This is just a brief introduction to Azure Core Services to prepare you for the AZ-900 Microsoft Azure Fundamentals certification. Azure Regions Each region has one or more data center(s). A region is a set of data centers deployed within a latency-defined perimeter and connected through a dedicated regional low-latency network. There are 54 regions worldwide available in 140 countries as of writing this blog. For more information, visit https://azure.microsoft.com/en-ca/global-infrastructure/regions/ . Azure Geographies Azure Regions are group of one of more data centers. Azure broadens that into geographies. Each Geography contains two or more regions. These geographies are to preserve compliance and data residency. Examples of Geographies are Americas, or Europe, or Middle ...

Each and every organization wants to provide seamless and continuous service without any interruptions to their internal as well as external clients in case of planned or unplanned maintenance activity. When it comes to unplanned or unpredictable circumstances, there comes "Fault Tolerance." So, now the question is what is Fault Tolerance, what kind of solution this is and how it can help any organization to provide seamless service. To explain in simple terms, I will give you an example of a physical server with some hard drives with RAID configuration on it. In such case, if any of the hard drives fails, server will still be functional without any production impact, and monitoring system in place, for example, if SCOM agent is installed on the server, SCOM agent will generate an alert that the hard drive on that physical server is defunc, so later, the support team can replace the faulty hard drive. Benefit here is no impact to any clients. No clients would know that the ...

# configure networking New-NetIPAddress -InterfaceIndex 12 -IPAddress 192.168.1.110 -PrefixLength 24 -DefaultGateway 192.168.1.1 Set-DnsClientServerAddress -InterfaceIndex 12 -ServerAddresses 192.168.1.100 # generate domain admin credentials $pass = ConvertTo-SecureString -String 'P@ssw0rd' -AsPlainText -Force $creds = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential('xyz\administrator',$pass) # wait for user Read-Host "Press any key to join the domain and restart" | Out-Null # join to domain Add-Computer -DomainName xyz.com -Credential $creds -Restart

One of the great features to come out of server 2012 and expanded upon here in 2012 R2 is NIC teaming. NIC teaming gives us the ability to combine multiple network adapters together. They're presented to the operating system as a single adapter, and it gives us benefits, such as performance and redundancy. Now prior to server 2012, if you were to combine multiple network interface cards together, you would need specific network adapters from the same vendor plus third party software to make it all happen. And the bottom line is… it just wasn't simple. Now, with server 2012, it is built into the operating system native to Windows. It is also vendor and hardware independent. So, it is extremely easy to work with. It is also supported in both physical and virtual machines. Another nice thing, it supports up to 32 network interface cards, and this is also known as LBFO, which stands for load balancing and failover.  Let's say that we have got a bunch of physical network ad...