When you install a fresh copy of Windows Server 2012 and configure it with the File Server role, the default Power Setting balances power efficiency and performance. For this reason, even if you have a few high speed network interfaces and the fastest...

I had covered the topic of what to look for before creating a DAG in one of my previous article . In this one, I am going to highlight the facts you need to consider while designing a Database Availability Group. Without going over the DAG feature again,...

In the past I have talked about the different configuration options when running Domain Controllers and Hyper-V. One of the more interesting configurations I discussed then was having a Hyper-V server joined to a domain where the domain controller was...

We have all seen the message of the day setting which allows you to alter what you would like to tell your colleagues today and other than the normal fun type messages I have never seen it put to good use. (Yes I know this is used to tell people that...