Continuing with its increased, laser-focused approach towards making its cloud database services ready for enterprise and production use, Google is making several announcements today around… Read More
Below is a list of updates, recommendations and new technologies for customers moving SAP applications onto Azure.
At the end of the blog is a checklist we recommend all customers follow wit… Read More
This is part two of one of how to setup the mother of all database clustering solutions for SharePoint. In part one we setup the failover cluster, installed SQL Server and configured the fai… Read More
When I demonstrated AlwaysOn for SharePoint Disaster Recovery setups a while ago, the SQL cluster model I setup wasn’t strictly speaking highly-available. This is because there’s… Read More
Azure DocumentDB is a schema-less NoSQL database, which also supports the MongoDB wired protocol and tools including mongoose, mongochef, and others.
One of the key questions about Azure Doc… Read More
Hello all,
In this blog, I am covering the scenario of migrating the SQL Server database from On premise environment to SQL Azure Virtual machine.
There are multiple ways to migrate the app… Read More
If you have a Service Broker (SSB) application connecting to SQL Server using an AlwaysOn availability group listener, in the event of an unexpected failover, some messages may be lo… Read More
I recently finished reading Programming Microsoft Azure Service Fabric. I think it’s the best resource for anything on Service Fabric. I particularly liked the discussion on common wor… Read More
Authors: Rob Hindman and Subhasish Bhattacharya, Program Manager, Windows Server
In this blog I am going to discuss deployment considerations and scenarios for IaaS VM Guest Clusters in Micr… Read More
Last week, I have had one mystery challenge while creating Availability Group listener in Azure. We followed Configure one or more Always On Availability Group Listeners – Resource Man… Read More
HDInsight
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Enterprise-grade security and monitoring
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Cost effective cloud scale
Integration with… Read More
Windows 2016 has been released by Microsoft and is now Generally Available for any SAP NetWeaver 7.0 or higher components. Release information can be found in SAP Note 2384179 – SAP Sy… Read More
Chris SkorlinskiMicrosoft SQL Server Escalation Services
We’re seeing an uptick in customers using combination of AlwaysOn and Transactional Replication. Some are configuring the Pub… Read More
In this post, Senior Application Development Consultant, Greg Roe, shares insights from a cloud transformation using Azure Cloud Services and ultimately, Service Fabric.I love helping custom… Read More
Hi all, we are delighted to share the Production Ready Release of the Microsoft ODBC Driver 13.1 for macOS – El Capitan and Sierra. The new driver enables access to SQL Serve… Read More
In my previous blog post, I briefly talked about smart transaction log backup, monitoring and diagnostics along with other community driven improvements we released in SQL Server 2017 CTP 2… Read More
Background
One of the new features of SQL Server 2016 is the ability to use SQL Server with Failover Cluster in a workgroup rather than joined to Active Directory. When working with SQL Serv… Read More
With Azure Site Recovery (ASR) it is now possible to orchestrate fail over of workloads like Web Applications running Azure Virtual Machines from a Primary Site to a DR Site. Using Recovery… Read More
By Amitabh Tamhane
Goals: This topic provides an overview of providing persistent storage for containers with data volumes backed by Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV), Storage Spaces Direct (S2D)… Read More
This is a blog that has been a long time coming. From time to time, we get a request about how to configure networking in Failover Clusters. One of the questions we get is how sh… Read More
We are getting following questions repeatedly from many customers so thought of writing a quick blog to explain the behavior.
Question: For example if you have Query Data Store (QDS) enable… Read More
Many web applications cannot tolerate downtime in the event of regional data center failures. Failover to a secondary region can be orchestrated with solutions such as Azure Traffic Manager… Read More
Motivation for this blog...
On my last day at my former workplace, where I mostly worked on customer Hadoop projects on AWS, a colleague got a project that involved provisioning an IaaS Hado… Read More
We are excited to announce general availability of clustering of an SAP (A)SCS instance on Windows Server Failover Cluster (WSFC) with file server, e.g. Scale Out File Server (SOFS) and Stor… Read More
SQL Server 2017 was recently launched, having multiple new features. One of these included something called "Read-Scale Availability Groups". There was a good bit of discussion about this fe… Read More
SAP and Microsoft are continuously adding new features and functionalities to the SAP on SQL Server platform. The key objective of the SAP on Windows SQL port is to deliver the best performa… Read More
We now have a user interface for Geo-Disaster-Recovery (Geo-DR) exposed in the portal which will make management operations much very straight forward and easy. If you have not explored our… Read More
This blog details a recent customer deployment by Cognizant SAP Cloud team on HANA Large Instances. From an architecture perspective of HANA Large Instances, the usage of HANA System R… Read More
This blog was contributed by Stuart McKee, Chief Technology Officer, US State and Local Government, Microsoft Corporation
Many government agencies would like to take their first steps towar… Read More
A bit of history
When you talk about Cloud Computing, you cannot avoid talking about networking, it is the glue that maintain everything together, and permit users to access their resources… Read More
I recently took the 70-533, Implementing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions exam. Each Microsoft exam page has a Skills Measured section. This section clearly outlines the knowledge th… Read More
In this post, Senior Application Development Manager, Danny Kolke, gives a practical guide on getting started with PowerShell and Azure CLI.
"For the things we have to learn before we can d… Read More
This blog discusses a new feature in the upcoming release of Windows Server 2019. Currently, Windows Insiders receive current builds of Server 2019. We urge you to become an Insider and play… Read More
Three years ago, I started working with a big Microsoft partner on moving infrastructure and services into Azure. At that time, it was not possible to implement all the required functionalit… Read More
In a recent blog post, I described that Azure Traffic Manager (ATM) can be useful in failover scenarios for applications with private endpoints, e.g. internal web apps running in an Internal… Read More
Regular readers of this blog will be aware that Azure App Service Environment (ASE) is available in Azure Government and it offers many advantages for Government Web Applications. For missio… Read More
At the event of SQLSaturday Dallas 2018, it was a great honor to present this new feature that allows you to put Distribution database in AlwaysOn AG. The slide deck for the session can be… Read More
This post is provided by Ryan Berry, a Cloud Solution Architect (CSA) at Microsoft. In many of our strategic accounts, CSAs play a key role in the success of customers making a transit… Read More
I have a university in Los Angeles wanting to validate the Read Access Geo-redundant storage (RA-GRS) process and what to do in the event of a regional storage problem. I put together… Read More
This blog discusses a new feature in the upcoming release of Windows Server 2019. Currently, Windows Insiders receive current builds of Server 2019. We urge you to become an Insi… Read More
We received many requests regarding the IP addresses used by production environments of Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations in the cloud. There might be multiple reasons for those reques… Read More
In recent months we saw several customers with large investments into Hana technologies approach Microsoft for information about deploying large mission critical SAP applications on Azure wi… Read More
SAP and Microsoft are continuously adding new features and functionalities to the Azure platform. The key objective of the Azure cloud platform is to deliver the best performance and availab… Read More
Few days back, one of my clients' faced an issue with their Availability group getting into the resolving state. On checking the logs found that the issue was due to a split brain scenario a… Read More
Special thanks to Matthew Snider from the Service Fabric team for reviewing this article, sharing his insights and tons of facts from the Service Fabric history.
Introduction
During the… Read More
Okay folks, we need to have a conversation about SYSTEM permissions in SQL Server. SYSTEM is constantly over-permissioned in SQL Server . Some of the reasons given for why SYSTEM is ove… Read More
Authored by Charles Young from Solidsoft Reply, in conjunction with Russell Young from Microsoft.
This article is part of a series about customers who’ve worked closely with Microsoft… Read More
App Dev Manager Mike Barker builds on his previous article about Azure API Manager, exploring the pros and cons of various high availability and disaster recovery strategies.
In a previous p… Read More
Written by Kanchan Mehrotra, Tony Wu, and Rakesh Patil from AzureCAT. Reviewed by Solliance. Edited by Nanette Ray.
This article is also available as an eBook:
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As cloud migration continues to evolve, hybrid architectures that enable companies to take advantage of both on-premises and cloud resources are a valuable tool. Hybrid architectures allow f… Read More
We are happy to announce General availability of Business Critical tier in Azure SQL Managed Instance - architectural model built for high-performance and IO demanding databases.
After 5 mo… Read More
A distributed availability group (DAG) is a special type of availability group that spans two availability groups. This blog will clarify some issues regarding failover in a DAG.
A simple DA… Read More
Over the years, we have been asked about what some of the Failover Cluster resources/resource types are and what they do. There are several resources that have been asked about on multiple o… Read More
Hello Team,
Some days ago, I worked in a service request in this following scenario:
Using the portal, our customer, copied the database from one server to another.
After it, our customer wa… Read More