Bypassing SharePoint Server 2013 Prerequisites Installation Error On Windows Server 2016 SYMPTOMS Before running the setup of SharePoint 2013 on Windows Server 2016, the prerequisites as the application server role and the web server role have to be installed and during that process, the following error message appears: ROOT CAUSE This error occurs when one or more of the…
By Mouhamadou Diaw In a previous blog we described how to install dbvisit standby in a Linux box. In this article I am going to describe the installation on a Windows machine. We are using dbvisit 8 and windows server 2016. The name of my servers are winserver1 and winserver2. The first thing you will have to do is to…
I wrote some months ago several blog posts about the new Container feature of Windows Server 2016. Here is the list: Windows Server 2016: Containers Windows Containers: Migration Windows Container: installation and utilization Today, I will install the Container feature, install Docker and deploy a container. First of all, I need to enable the Container and the Hyper-V feature, take…
I was playing with my lab environment which includes Windows 2016 and SQL Server 2016 and I noticed an interesting scenario while testing cluster node failures. After simulating some network outage scenarios, I was not able to bring back my cluster node online immediately by using traditional way. A quick look at the cluster manager led me to notice something…
Une nouvelle année commence et 2017 devrait être un bon cru dans le domaine de la base donnée notamment en prédiction des effets d’annonces faites par Microsoft cette fin d’année 2016. En effet, il a été notamment été question de la prochaine vNext de SQL Server qui sera porté sous Linux ainsi que des nouvelles fonctionnalités prometteuses. A l’habitude, l’équipe dbi services tentera couvrir…
Have you already a plan to migrate your old SQL Server 2012 availability group infrastructure to windows 2016 and SQL Server 2016? In a previous post, I talked about distributed availability groups and cross-cluster migration scenarios but this time the game is not the same because we want to achieve an in-place upgrade of the existing AG infrastructure. This question…
Have you heard about Storage Spaces introduced by Windows Server 2012? Well, this is a very interesting storage feature that allows us to deal with functionalities like storage virtualization, RAID capabilities, thin or thick provisioning, cluster shared volume (CSV), efficiently file repair and so on. In addition, the Windows 2012 R2 version has also introduced some enhancements like storage tiering,…
Let’s continue with the new high available functionality shipped with the next Windows version. In my previous blog, I talked about the new site awareness feature that provides more flexibility to configure failover resources priorities and more granular heartbeat threshold as well by introducing the new site concept. This time, we’ll talk about stretch cluster. What’s that? Let’s introduce the…
In my last blog post (here), I explained how to configure a host for Windows Container as well as how to use some Windows Container cmdlets. Finally I demonstrated how to create a container with a SQL Server 2014 instance. In this blog post, I will continue by explaining how to migrate the container I just created. First of all,…
Some weeks ago, I did a general presentation about Windows Server 2016 and the new Container feature (here). Today, I will go through the installation and utilization of Windows Containers. I will use a Virtual Machine, under Hyper-V, during this blog. First of all, I have to set the environment to be able to use Windows Containers as it requires…
After my first two blogs about cloud witness and domain-less dependencies features shipped with Windows Server 2016, it’s time to talk about another pretty cool feature of the WSFC : site awareness that will also benefit to our SQL Server FCIs and availability groups. But before to talk further about the potential benefits of this new feature, let’s go back…
One of the new feature which will come with Windows Server 2016 is the Containers. Microsoft made available its fourth technical preview of his Windows Server 2016 platform some days ago. This new Technical Preview brings with it and for the first time Hyper-V Containers as the Technical Preview three came with the first release of Windows Server Containers. I…
