Deduplication on Data Protection Manager is one of the most important feature that IT Pro wants, not only because the competitor give it since years but also because the amount of data grow-up faster. The great news of yesterday is ...

When you install an Antivirus on your servers is very important create the right exclusions rule to avoid blocks and errors. For example, if you don’t exclude folders and processes of SQL Server, the items could fails during live-scan.   ...

If you protect your Hyper-V hosts with Veeam Backup & Replication, you could find an issue during backup job of one, or more, virtual machine. This issue is generated by VSS Writer on Windows Server, as showed in figure 1. ...

Yesterday I found a very ugly failure into my lab environment: one of my ESXi SSD died! The good news is that the disk contained only configurations but the bad news is that is the second SSD that I lost ...

After upgrade from Windows 10 build 9860 to build 9879 I found some issues with ModernApps. In detail three apps give me errors: Mail/Calendar/People, OneNote and Microsoft Wireless Adapter.   In the most of case, the code errors was 0x80246007 ...

Recently I had a crash of Windows 10, build 9879, thanks the temperature issue of Surface 3 with Intel i7. After the reboot the system was unable to load Windows because there was a problem with winload.efi. The full details is: ...

During my last training on Windows Server 2012 R2 I found a strange bug in WDS during the capture sequence. In detail, when you run a machine with the OS Capture WIM the image returns an error like figure 1. ...

November 2014 Update Rollup for Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2 was released a couple of days ago but many users had found a critical problem with VSS Writer that stops all the backups. Hyper-V, Exchange Server and SQL Server ...

New appointment with Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter 3.0 where I will show you how to move a virtual machine from VMware to Microsoft Azure. If you want know the new features of v3, check my previous article.   Requirements In ...

Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter is the software that allows IT Admins to convert machines to Hyper-V or Microsoft Azure. The new v3 introduce some new features like:   Supports conversion and provisioning of Linux-based guest operating systems from VMware hosts ...