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Building highly available shares, DFS namespaces and replication topology (DFS-R) – Part 1 – New site in Active Directory
In the following series of articles I will describe you how to build File Server in order to have highly available shares and how to define DFS namespaces and how to set-up replication between two sites. In the previous articles I described how to build standard File Server clusters. In the following articles I will…
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Building Microsoft System Center Cloud – SCOrch 2012 R2 – Orchestrator 2012 R2 installation – Complex deployment
Simplified deployment with all features on one server is described in the Orchestrator simplified installation guide in the previous article. Uninstall previous Orchestrator Standard uninstall in Program and Features… Install and configure SQL Server Highly-available databases in AlwaysOn Available Groups I recommend you to use the Microsoft SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn Available Groups for every…
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Building Microsoft System Center Cloud – SCOrch 2012 R2 – Orchestrator 2012 R2 installation – Simple deployment
This is simplified deployment. Some of the production environments requires complex deployment process of the Orchestrator with multiple Runbook Servers. You can skip this article and continue directly to the complex installation in the next article. Install and configure SQL Server Highly-available databases in AlwaysOn Available Groups I recommend you to use the Microsoft SQL…
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Building Microsoft System Center Cloud – SCOrch 2012 R2 – Orchestrator – Design
It is not always easy to divide Low-level Design and High-Level Design. How to differentiate between high-level and low-level design depends on the entity that we refer to. When we need to design our cloud then high-level decision could be for example choice of the technology that makes our SQL Servers highly-available. But when we…
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Building Microsoft System Center Cloud – SCSM 2012 R2 – Service Manager 2012 R2 Data Warehouse Management Server installation
Management Server is installed so we can continue with installation of the Service Manager Data Warehouse Management Server. Modifications on the SQL Server where will be stored Data Warehouse Management Server DB Prepare the Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) server We will access the Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) remotely because it is…
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