Category Archives: Lab Projects

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Evaluation – Part 2

Posted on November 11, 2011 by John

This post in the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Evaluation series is a follow-up to the earlier post that covered the prerequisites to and the installation of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Server. In this L7TG lab exercise, we’ll concentrate on the … Continue reading →

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Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Evaluation – Part 1

Posted on November 5, 2011 by John

Level 7 Tech Group has taken up the challenge of evaluating an on-premise deployment of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011. The evaluation will consist of three parts: Server and client installation and a Functional evaluation of the product and user interface. … Continue reading →

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SQL 2008 Failover Clustering – test

Posted on October 15, 2011 by John

SQL Server 2008 R2 supports two High Availability features: Database Mirroring and Failover Clustering. Database Mirroring has been covered in a previous post, SQL Server 2008 Database Mirroring.  This blog post will cover the creation of a SQL Server Failover … Continue reading →

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SQL Failover Cluster – Part 4

Posted on August 19, 2011 by John

Continuing on from Part 3 of this series on SQL Server Failover Clustering, the next step after Creating the Distributed Transaction Coordinator (DTC) Service on the failover cluster is to Create the SQL Server instances on each participating node. This … Continue reading →

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SQL Failover Cluster – Part 3

Posted on August 19, 2011 by John

As mentioned in Part 2 of this series on SQL Server Failover Clustering, the next step after Creating the Windows Failover Cluster is to Create the Microsoft Data Transaction Coordinator (MSDTC) Service. This post will present the detailed steps that … Continue reading →

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SQL Failover Cluster – Part 2

Posted on August 17, 2011 by John

As mentioned in Part 1 of this series on SQL Server Failover Clustering, the next step after Creating the SAN Target is to Create the Windows Failover Cluster. This subject has been covered in Windows Failover Clustering http://level7techgroup.com/blog/?p=406, so this … Continue reading →

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SQL Failover Cluster – Part 1

Posted on August 17, 2011 by John

SQL Server 2008 R2 supports two High Availability features: Database Mirroring and Failover Clustering. Database Mirroring has been covered in a previous post, SQL Server 2008 Database Mirroring. This blog post will cover the creation of a SQL Server Failover … Continue reading →

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SQL Server 2008 Database Mirroring

Posted on August 8, 2011 by John

This post is going to cover SQL Server Mirroring. SQL Server 2005 will support mirroring, but it’s best to have SQL Server 2008 or SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise installed on your servers. The Level 7 Tech Group lab is … Continue reading →

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