Windows Azure in the Middle East
Just want to share a tool I found. Recently we had to deploy some azure resources to support a client in the Middle East, only to find out: There are no existing resources in the Middle East, nor in Africa for that matter. How do I determine which is the resource that is most available with least latency and fastest bandwidth? Azure Speed Test, provided by twodegrees10, provided me with the tools I needed to determine this. It runs Blob storage latency off all the Microsoft d
P2P migration using Sysinternals Disk2VHD and VHD2Disk
Having successfully performed P2V migrations, why is there a need to do a P2P migration? In this particular case, the reasons are 1. There are specific hardware requirements for an attached device or licensing service 2. The hardware requirements is also for an EOL windows 2003 server The method I used for this migration requires 2 cycles of the imaging and restoring: - Using Disk2VHD from Sysinternals, I created a VHD of the necessary OS and data disks. - I then transferred
Skype Business and the ghost of Live Communications Server
So we were enabling Skype for business for some of our users, and we came upon a strange occurrence. Although the feature is enabled in the licensing portal, certain users were unable to log on Skype for business. This despite the fact that
a) this came as part of an Office365 E3 package,
b) the user is able to log in the portal and use the other online services
c) the problem did not affect all users uniformly
Upon further investigation, we had determined the followin
Hyper-V VM Migration using Sysinternals Disk2VHD
Disk2VHD by Sysinternals is an awesome tool not only for doing Hyper-V VM migrations, but for testing and timing your migration window as well. Let me explain: You can capture a VHD image of a running server with Disk2VHD with minimal to moderate performance impact (there will be additional load on your hard disks and network if you are capturing over the network). This will produce an image that, when you start it up, will assume that the server had been reset while running
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