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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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Windows Failover Clustering

Posted on July 29, 2011 by John

As a Business Intelligence (BI) Build Engineerworking in Microsoft IT Services, I was brushing up on SQL Server 2008 High Availability options when I found two books on the subject in the Microsoft Library on the subject and checked them … Continue reading →

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POP3 – Outlook Calendar Sync

Posted on July 23, 2011 by John

This is a companion piece to the gMail – Outlook 2010 Calendar Sync post where I discussed calendar synchronization between Outlook 2010 and the Gmail Calendar. This piece will focus on Hotmail’s Outlook 2010 Synchronization tool called the Hotmail Outlook Connector.

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gMail – Outlook 2010 Calendar Sync

Posted on July 23, 2011 by John

Google provides a calander synchronization tool to sync the online Calendar with Outlook as a free download. Documentation as well as the link is located at http://www.google.com/support/calendar/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=89955. The tool provides one-way (Gmail to Outlook and Outlook to Gmail) as well … Continue reading →

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File Association Fix

Posted on July 22, 2011 by John

Ever have one of those days where you click something and everything doesn’t seem to work correctly from that point on and when you try to find out what caused it, you dig yourself deeper into a hole that you … Continue reading →

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Template vs Non-Template Web sites

Posted on January 25, 2011 by thomascarlos

When I got into the consulting business, I explored options for creating a web site.  Having little or no HTML experience (and a tight budget), I was attracted to a “template solution.”  Some folks refer to this option as the … Continue reading →

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