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April 2009 - Helge Klein Helge Klein

  • Is VMware Clustering / VMotion Complex Compared to Microsoft Failover Clustering?

    My last post on VMware VMotion urged several readers to protest, maybe because of its provocative title. What I did was to compare VMware clustering with Microsoft failover clustering. I got to the conclusion that both significantly add to the complexity...
    Published Apr 30 2009 by Helge Klein , 909 views, 0 comments
  • You’ll Know Me by My Shirt at Citrix iForum / Synergy / Summit 2009

    I will be attending the combined Citrix events iForum, Synergy and Summit 2009 in Las Vegas, which start in just a few days. As always, I hope to meet great people and have interesting conversations there. In case you want to talk to me, you need to locate...
    Published Apr 29 2009 by Helge Klein , 654 views, 0 comments
  • VMotion Is Hyped by Consultants, But Do Admins Even Use It?

    Some time ago I attended a presentation by a former VMware, now Microsoft employee who claimed that Hyper-V’s lack of Live Migration aka VMotion is not relevant at all. According to him, the only people vigorously demanding such a feature are consultants...
    Published Apr 23 2009 by Helge Klein , 822 views, 0 comments
  • Hard Links, Soft (Symbolic) Links and Junctions in NTFS: What Are They (For)?

    This is an attempt at demystification. In the Windows world, links in the file system are often regarded as obscure, except for the infamous .LNK files, of course. But file system links are neither freaky UNIX/Linux command line stuff, nor are they new...
    Published Apr 19 2009 by Helge Klein , 1,274 views, 0 comments
  • User Profile and Home Directory Storage: Distributing the Load Across Multiple File Servers

    The easiest way to assign user profile and home directories is via group policy. But that can only be done per computer. There is no (simple) way to point different users’ directories to different file servers. So what? No problem at all, until...
    Published Apr 13 2009 by Helge Klein , 840 views, 0 comments
  • Printer Driver Isolation in Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2

    If you are not tired of print spooler crashes then this article is not for you. If you are, you may find a new feature of the upcoming next version of Windows interesting: printer driver isolation. Some Background In the dark ages of NT4 printer drivers...
    Published Apr 08 2009 by Helge Klein , 3,253 views, 0 comments
  • Microsoft Tackles the “Last Writer Wins” Problem of Roaming Profiles in Windows 7 & Server 2008 R2

    Among the more annoying deficiencies of roaming user profiles in terminal server farms is what came to be known as “last writer wins”. It looks like Microsoft is trying to address the issue in the upcoming next version of its operating systems...
    Published Apr 02 2009 by Helge Klein , 1,098 views, 0 comments
  • New Articles on User Profiles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base (March 2009)

    This is a collection of new MS KB articles related to Windows user profiles. Roaming user profiles are ignored if the network connection to the remote server that stores the roaming user profile is slow How to prevent profile creation on server even when...
    Published Apr 02 2009 by Helge Klein , 697 views, 0 comments