Windows Failover Clustering (WFC) is one of the oldest technologies utilized by Windows Server for the high availability of systems and services, whether that be traditional on-premise IT infrastructures or hybrid and multi cloud infrastructures in Microsoft Azure. Failover clustering and other relevant Microsoft technologies such as Always On Availability Groups are in many cases the cornerstone of a resilient and solid infrastructure design. In various real life scenarios however, administrators come across incidents and issues in their Windows failover clustering infrastructure which have a significant impact on business operations and may incur catastrophic downtime for services offered to customers.

You are facing issues when trying to login to Microsoft 365 apps, such as Outlook 365.

Source blog post: https://stefanos.cloud/kb/how-to-fix-office-365-sign-in-or-activation-issues/. 

I am happy to announce the publication of my new Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops Troubleshooting book, which is available for order on Amazon and Smashwords. The Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops Troubleshooting book is now live in the Amazon Kindle store.

It is a best practice for every cloud service provider (and more generally any company offering cloud services to end-users, such as an independent cloud software vendor) to operate a Web application called status page, through which to communicate in real time the status of their services to the end customers and users.

As per Microsoft, starting on October 13, 2020, only these versions of Office will be supported for connecting to Office 365 (and Microsoft 365) services:

There are various technologies available in Windows client and server operating systems for managing user profiles and folder redirection in an Active Directory environment. User profiles and folder redirection are methodologies used for accomplishing User State virtualization, also most recently called User Experience virtualization (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/configuration/ue-v/uev-for-windows).

There are two main approaches in the user profile technology. One major approach is the file-based approach where user profile files are synced back and forth between the central user file repository residing in a highly available SMB file share and a locally synced copy. Such an example is Citrix Profile Management (see below section for more details). The other major approach is container-based user profiles, which are based on vhdx containers where all relevant user profile information is stored. Such an example is Microsoft FsLogix profile technology (see below section for more details).

Folder redirection works alongside a roaming profile solution to redirect user folders to a distributed location. Folder Redirection enables users and administrators to redirect the path of a known folder to a new location, manually or by using Group Policy. The new location can be a folder on the local computer or a directory on a file share. Users interact with files in the redirected folder as if it still existed on the local drive.

I am happy to announce the publication of my new e-book entitled "Windows Server Administration Tools and Management Consoles".  The e-book is available for order in the Amazon Kindle store. The book will soon be available for download from the Amazon Kindle store.

When deploying an on-premises virtualization infrastructure (which could also be thought of as a private cloud with the sole customer being the enterprise/organization itself) various services and server roles should be considered in order to achieve a complete virtualization solution.

Microsoft has released a series of kits and tools which are made available for use with Windows 10 for desktop editions (Home, Pro, Enterprise, and Education), Windows 10 Mobile for development and manufacturing and Azure Cloud IoT for IoT applications. A handful of kits and tools are available.

Microsoft Visio is one of the leading software packages for data center diagram design. VisioCafe is an independent non-profit web site for the gathering together of IT industry Visio collections. Each collection is copyrighted to its respective owner, and is not the property of VisioCafe. soft Visio, there are various free pieces of software available for data center diagram design.