Technical articles about deploying and managing storage based on Windows Server storage technologies found in Azure hybrid or private cloud built with Windows Server.
Heya folks, Ned here again. The Microsoft Ignite 2023 session “What’s new in Windows Server vNext” is now up if you weren’t able to attend in person. It covers many of the new features coming to Windows Server including Active Directory, File Server, Hyper-V, storage, and more. Many announcements were made – Hotpatch and SMB over QUIC …
What’s new in Windows Server vNext Ignite Session Now Available Continue Reading
Heya folks, Ned here again. Starting with Windows 11 Insider preview Build 25992 (Canary), the SMB client now supports connecting to an SMB server over TCP, QUIC, or RDMA using alternative network ports. Today I’ll explain how to configure this and talk about the near future of this in Windows and Windows Server Insiders a bit. Previous port behaviors …
SMB alternative ports now supported in Windows Insiders Continue Reading
Heya folks, Ned here again. Starting with Windows 11 Insider preview Build 25992 (Canary), creating SMB shares changes a longtime Windows Defender Firewall default behavior. Before Previously, creating a share automatically configured the firewall to enable the rules in the “File and Printer Sharing” group for the given firewall profiles. This began in Windows XP SP2 with the …
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Heya folks, Ned here again. Today I’m sharing advice on migrating from Distributed File System Replication (DFSR) to Storage Replica. This includes deciding when SR is a good replacement, inventorying your DFSR and DFS Namespaces, backing up your existing configuration, validating your existing replication and converging it, migrating to SR, then updating your disaster recovery …
DR 2.0: Migrating from DFSR to Storage Replica Continue Reading
How to deploy S2D on a 4-node cluster. Perform each step in preparation to manage and support the core cluster in a production environment. Part 1 of 4.
Developing ETLs/ELTs can be a complex process when you add in business logic, large amounts of data, and the high volume of table data that needs to be moved from source to target. This is especially true in analytical workloads involving Azure SQL when there is a need to either fully reload a table or …
Metadata Driven Pipelines for Dynamic Full and Incremental Processing in Azure SQL Continue Reading
Heya folks, Ned here again. Beginning in Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 25951 (Canary), the SMB server now supports controlling which SMB 2 and 3 dialects it will negotiate. This changes legacy behavior, where Windows SMB server always negotiated the highest matched server dialect from SMB 2.0.2 to 3.1.1 clients. Beginning in Windows 10, support was added for …
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Heya folks, Ned here again. Beginning in Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 25951 (Canary), the SMB client now supports blocking NTLM for remote outbound connections. This changes legacy behavior, where Windows SPNEGO would negotiate Kerberos, NTLM, and other mechanisms with the destination server to decide on a supported security package. NTLM in this case refers to all versions …
SMB NTLM blocking now supported in Windows Insider Continue Reading
Description This guide walks you through the process of setting up and utilizing webhooks to receive Databricks status alerts, process them using Azure Automation Runbook, and trigger notifications to administrators about the status event. Prerequisites Before diving into the process, ensure you have the following prerequisites in place: An active Azure account. Access to Azure …
Using Automation Runbook Webhooks To Alert on Databricks Status Updates Continue Reading
Today, we are announcing the support for Integer type for pipeline variables. This feature is quite self-explanatory: you can define a pipeline variable as integer, and use all the arithmetic functions with it, without converting it back to string type anymore. This significantly simplifies the workflow if you are using an iterator within an Until or ForEach activity. Please note …
Integer Type Available for Pipeline Variables Continue Reading
