It’s Gone To Plaid: Storage Replica and Chelsio iWARP Performance
Hi folks, Ned here again. A few years ago, I demonstrated using Storage Replica as an extreme data mover, not just as a DR solution; copying blocks is a heck of lot more efficient than copying files. At the time, ... continue reading
Troubleshooting Active Directory Based Activation (ADBA) clients that do not activate
Hello everyone! My name is Mike Kammer, and I have been a Platforms PFE with Microsoft for just over two years now. I recently helped a customer with deploying Windows Server 2016 in their environment. We took this opportunity to ... continue reading
Part 1 Ultimate Step to Remote Desktop Services HTML5 on Azure QuickStart Deployment #RDS #S2D #VDI #RDP #RDmi
As I did already an step by Step Step by Step Server 2016 Remote Desktop Services QuickStart Deployment #RDS #VDI #RDP #RemoteApp Step by Step Server 2016 Remote Desktop Services QuickStart Deployment #RDS #VDI #RDP #RemoteApp that’s Covering all the ... continue reading
Cipher Suite Breakdown
Hi all, my name is Jason McClure and I’m a Platforms PFE with Microsoft. If you read Demystifying Schannel from Nathan Penn, then you may be asking yourself “What do all those letters and numbers mean?” Often, we deal with ... continue reading
Remote Desktop Connection (RDP) – Certificate Warnings
Hello everyone! Tim Beasley, Platforms PFE here again from the gorgeous state of Missouri. Here in the fall, in the Ozark Mountains area the colors of the trees are just amazing! But hey, I’m sure wherever you are it’s nice ... continue reading
Using the OpenSSH Beta in Windows 10 Fall Creators Update and Windows Server 1709
I’m thrilled to share that a Beta OpenSSH client and server daemon are available as a Feature-on-Demand in Windows 10 Fall Creators Update and Windows Server 1709. Since our last update blog, we’ve been working hard on a Win32 port ... continue reading
WNV Deep Dive Part 5 – Container Networking: The default NAT network
By James Kehr, Networking Support Escalation Engineer There are, as of this writing, five Container network types in Windows: NAT, Transparent, L2bridge, Overlay, and L2tunnel. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/windowscontainers/manage-containers/container-networking This part of the article series will cover the NAT network type. Part 6, ... continue reading
WNV Deep Dive Part 4 – Looking at LBFO and Hyper-V traffic
By James Kehr, Networking Support Escalation Engineer We’re going to look at the two other basic types of WNV traffic in part 4: LBFO (NIC teaming) and Hyper-V. I’ll be skipping over Hyper-V Network Virtualization and Software Defined Networks. The ... continue reading
WNV Deep Dive Part 3 – Capturing and Reading Virtualized Network Traffic
By James Kehr, Networking Support Escalation Engineer There are three primary tools used to capture virtual network traffic in Windows: netsh trace, the PowerShell NetEventPacketCapture module, and Message Analyzer. I won’t focus much on Message Analyzer captures here. Most server ... continue reading
The Evolution of RDMA in Windows: now extended to Hyper-V Guests
This post written by Don Stanwyck, Senior Program Manager, Windows Core Networking Remote DMA (RDMA) is an incredible technology that allows networked hosts to exchange information with virtually no CPU overhead and with extremely little latency in the end–system. Microsoft ... continue reading
