Introductiom The Zabbix Agent 2 service on a Windows server was repeatedly becoming unresponsive and eventually crashing. The issue caused intermittent monitoring interruptions and required further investigation through Event Viewer messages and Zabbix Agent 2 logs to better understand why the service was no longer responding properly. While monitoring a Windows server with Zabbix Agent 2, we encountered repeated crashes…
A few months ago, I had to work on a Windows Server to setup an IDS Target. The installation and configuration of the target wasn’t that different compared to a Linux host, so it wasn’t difficult at all (if you ignore some strange behavior like described here for example). But there was one point for which I was a little…
During my last blog-posts I tested the MARS (Microsoft Azure Recovery Service) through Windows Admin Center and how to use Azure Backup to recover files/folders or System State for protected servers. To continue my Azure protection possibilities overview I will today installed a MABS on one of my virtual on-premise server and uses it to protect my others virtual on-premises…
During my last blog-post I experienced to use Azure backup to protect an on-premise Windows server. To recover data from Azure backup we need to use the Microsoft Azure Recovery Services console (MARS). This service and its management console have been installed during the setup of the Azure backup in the Windows Admin Center. When we open the Microsoft Azure…
To be honest I never used before Windows Admin Center but after some hours of utilization I’m still convinced. As SQL Server Management Studio is a great tool to manage our SQL Server instances with a CMS (Centralized Management Server), Windows Admin Center is a great tool to centralize the management of our Physical, Virtual, on-premises…Windows Server. This browser-based tool…
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…
PowerShell est un outil en ligne de commande dorénavant intégré à tous les environnements Windows. Cet outil est extrêmement puissant, et avec le vent en poupe, puisqu’il permet de simplifier l’exécution et l’automatisation des tâches de configuration et d’administration. Dans mon travail d’Administrateur de bases de données, j’effectue de nombreux Audits d’environnements afin de vérifier, par exemple, si les bonnes…
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…
I am looking to have all SQL Server updates on a server including Service Packs, Cumulative Updates and other fixes like we can see in the uninstall panel from Windows. I take the opportunity of this blog to remind you in a little introduction the different types of patches for SQL Server: Service Pack Service Pack, known as SP is…
The first technical preview of the future version of Windows Server was, since last October, available (here) and a second one with more new features should be available in May. The final version which should be normally released in 2015 has been recently postponed to 2016. It will be the first time that the client and server releases will be…
I have just attended an interesting session held by Martin Nash (@mpnsh) at UKOUG 14 – Liverpool: “The least an Oracle DBA Should Know about Linux Administration” . During this session I had the opportunity to discover some interesting commands and tools such as FIO (Flexible I/O). FIO is a workload generator that can be used both for benchmark and stress/hardware…
I faced a problem at a customer site last week when I tried to install the .NET Framework 3.5 – a prerequisite for installing SQL Server 2012 on a Windows Server 2012 R2. I opened the Server Manager and then navigated to the Manage, Add Roles and Features section: I selected the .NET Framework 3.5 Features option: I specified an…
