I do a lot of virtual machines Save, and hardly reboot my VMs. So for the past weeks, my Windows 8.1 host did a lot of Windows Updates. Then yesterday I had to reboot one of my VMs named SP1 and I got Blue Screen of Death at the boot screen. I became curious and restarted SQL1, DC1, then ROUTER1. They all had the same Blue Screen of Death: SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED (WppRecorder.sys). Ok, now I'm panicking...I could rebuild the virtual machines using PowerShell that I described in previous post, but it would take hours to re-install SQL Server 2014, SharePoint 2013,...
Monthly Archives: March 2015
Presentation: SharePoint Warm Disaster Recovery with SQL AlwaysOn
This is the talk that I gave on 14th March 2015 at the SharePoint Saturday Abu Dhabi event. Check out my previous post on how to re-create the demos using PowerShell to script virtual machines creation. Or click here to see it directly on SlideShare if the above embedded iframe does not show up.
Building Enterprise Environment Lab for Development with Windows 8 & Hyper-V
So you don't want Visual Studio to be installed in a Virtual Machine, because that's not what happens in the real-world. You want Visual Studio to be natively on your Windows 8, but easily copy files for deployment to IIS/SharePoint site hosted by your 3-tier virtual machines of Web-App-Database servers. You want to be able to use the Domain Controller's DNS in the virtual machine, so you can type http://intranet.zed.com from Windows 8 Internet Explorer, not from Restricted IE inside your virtual machine. You want to simulate having 2 Datacenters, where 2 virtual machines have different Subnet, and they all...