Implementing & Configuring Failover Clustering in Windows Server 2012 R2 (part 2)

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Implementing & Configuring Failover Clustering in Windows Server 2012 R2 (part 1)

Failover clusters in Windows Server 2012 provide a high-availability solution for many server roles and applications.

Implement & Configure Network Load Balancing in Windows Server 2012 R2

Network Load Balancing (NLB) is a feature available to computers that run the Windows Server operating system. NLB uses a distributed algorithm to balance an IP traffic load across multiple hosts. It helps to improve the scalability and availability of business-critical, IP-based services. NLB also provides high availability, because it detects host failures and automatically redistributes traffic to surviving hosts.

Install & Configure ADFS in Windows Server 2012 R2

Active Directory Federation Services (AD S) in the Windows Server 2012 R2 OS provides flexibility for organizations that want to enable their users to log on to applications that are located on a local network, at a partner company, or in an online service.

Configuring Hyper-V Replicas in Windows Server 2012 R2

Hyper-V Replica. This new Windows Server 2012 feature enables you to replicate a virtual machine to another host or into the cloud, instead of moving the virtual machine, and to synchronize all virtual machine changes from the primary host to the host that holds the replica.

Domain Log On Auditing in Windows Server 2012 R2

This time lets go through a very simple method how you as a administrator can audit domain Log On so that you can track down / audit domain users that successfully & failure log on to their profile.

Folder Auditing in Windows Server 2012 R2

Previously in mizitechinfo… i’m blogging about Domain Log On Auditing, today lets go through a bit about how you can audit folder (the idea is very simple, we wanted to know who access what…).

How to deploy Distributed File System (DFS) in Wndows Server 2012 R2 (part 2)

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How to deploy Distributed File System (DFS) in Wndows Server 2012 R2

In this article, i will introduce how to deploy Distributed File System (DFS) in Wndows Server 2012 R2, but before we start, you should know what is DFS all about.

What Is DFS?

Normally for domain users, to access a file share, they might use Universal Naming Convention (UNC) name to access the shared folder content.

Many large company have 100 of file servers that are dispersed geographically throughout an organization.

This is very challenging for users who are trying to find and access files efficiently.

So by using a namespace, DFS can simplify the UNC folder structure. In addition, DFS can replicate the virtual namespace and the shared folders to multiple servers within the organization. This can ensure that the shares are located as close as possible to users, thereby providing an additional benefit of fault tolerance for the network shares.

Orait, that’s a just a bit of DFS introduction, for more information, please do refer to http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj127250.aspx, or for those who interested to “feel” the hands-on on the DFS, please do join my Server 2012 training, please refer to my website for more information : http://compextrg.com/

So, enough said, lets get started with our DFS deployment.

** as usual, for this DFS demo, I’m using 3 server 2012 (DC01, SVR01, COMSYS-RODC01) and Window Client (Surface01).

** I will install DFS into SVR01 and COMSYS-RODC01 Server

1 – Always be aware that to deploy DFS you need 2 Servers so that the Folder will replicate each other, so I will install DFS into SVR01 and COMSYS-RODC01 server, you can install DFS simultaneously.

To install DFS in Svr01 server, open Server Manager, on the Dashboard click Add Roles and Features…

2 – In the Before you begin box, click Next…

3 – On the Select installation type box, click Next to proceed (make sure Role-based or feature-based installation is selected)…

4 – On the Select destination server box, click Next to proceed…

5 – On the Select server roles page, expand File and Storage Services, expand File and iSCSI Services, and then select the DFS Namespaces check box, in the Add Roles and Features pop-up box, click Add Features…

6 – Next, make sure you select the DFS Replication check box, and then only click next to proceed…

7 – Next, on the Select features box, click Next…

8 – On the Confirm installation selections box, click Install…

9 – Wait for few minutes for the installation to complete and when the installation completes, click close…

** As I mentioned previously, you need to install DFS in another server also which is in my demo is a COMSYS-RODC01 server…

** Once you confirm both of the Server has been installed with DFS, please proceed with DFS namespace configuration.

10 – 1st, open DFS Management from Server Manager…

11 – Next, on the DFS console, right-click Namespaces, and then click New Namespace (A namespace is a virtual view of shared folders in your server)…

12 – In the New Namespace Wizard, on the Namespace Server page, under Server, type svr01, and then click Next…

13 – Next, on the Namespace Name and Settings box, under Name, type MarketingDocs, and then click Edit Settings…

14 – In the Edit Settings box, under Local Path of shared folder: type C:\DFSRoots\MarketingDocs and select Administrator have full access; other users have read and write permissions, then click OK…

15 – Next, on the Namespace Type box, verify that Domain-based namespace is selected. Take note that the namespace will be accessed by \\comsys.local\MarketingDocs, ensure also that the Enable Windows Server 2008 mode check box is selected, and then click Next…

16 – On the Review Settings and Create Namespace page, click Create…

17 – On the Confirmation box, verify that the Create namespace task is successful, and then click Close…

18 – Next, you need to enable access-based enumeration for the MarketingDocs namespace.

To do so, under Namespaces, right-click \\comsys.local\MarketingDocs, and then click Properties…

19 – In the \\comsys.local\MarketingDocs Properties box, click the Advanced tab, then  select the Enable access-based enumeration for this namespace check box, and then click OK…

20 – Next, let’s add the Brochures folder to the MarketingDocs namespace…

To do that, right-click \\comsys.local\MarketingDocs , and then click New Folder…

 To be continue....

Installing SharePoint 2013 on Windows Server 2012 R2 Preview

This has changed a little for Windows Server 2012 R2 RTM, so make sure that you also read my follow-up post before spending time on the below.