Richard Spitz - Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft
Synchronously copy all managed disks of an Azure Virtual Machine to Azure Storage Accounts in multiple Azure regions
There are many different ways to copy an Azure Virtual Machine's managed disks to different Azure...
Date: 01/24/2019
How to study for the "70-535: Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions" certification
Moving at a pace unthinkable a few years ago, Azure continues to grow leaps and bounds as the Cloud...
Date: 05/23/2018
PowerShell script to determine if an IP Range is part of the Azure Datacenter IP Range
Microsoft publishes an XML document that contains the IP address ranges (including Compute, SQL and...
Date: 03/02/2018
Just enough BGP to get your Azure dual-redundancy, active-active VPN gateways up and running
I'd last dabbled in Azure Site to Site (S2S) VPN or Virtual Network Gateways when the configuration...
Date: 02/19/2018
How to hot-add a Shared VHDX
Shared VHDX, a new feature in Windows Server 2012 R2, is a boon for administrators wanting to create...
Date: 01/24/2014
My First (Useful) PowerShell Script!
Heard of PowerShell? No? Just Kidding! Even if you run your IT department under a rock or on Mars,...
Date: 07/26/2013
Field, Here I Come!
Now and again, a colleague or customer points to my blog, having run into one of the issues I've...
Date: 07/24/2013
Cluster service fails to start on Windows Server 2008 SP2, cluster.log contains “Too many failures while attempting to start RHS process.”
It’s been a while since my last post – not due to the dearth of interesting issues to...
Date: 11/24/2011
Certain icons do not appear the first time you open Control Panel on Windows 7
I was over at the NTDebugging blog the other day and while browsing through the posts, I came across...
Date: 06/16/2011
How to run a script when a Resource Group fails over to the passive node of a Windows Server 2003 based MSCS Cluster
Having recently scripted the Cluster WMI Namespace (for fun) and blogged about it with my Cluster...
Date: 05/30/2011
Error when you click the “File Screens” section of FSRM on Windows Server 2003 R2 with Service Pack 2
When it comes to the cases we work on, issues related to the File Server Resource Manager (FSRM) are...
Date: 05/20/2011
Error when you access the “Storage Reports Management” section of FSRM on Windows Server 2003 R2 with Service Pack 2
Some of the previous issues I’ve blogged about require hours upon hours of research to...
Date: 04/11/2011
Service fails to start and logs ERROR_DOWNGRADE_DETECTED in its log, on a Windows Server 2008 R2 based system
Microsoft Support is comprised of separate teams, each specialized in a few areas, so our customers...
Date: 11/23/2010
How to install a font from the command line on Windows 7
With the new Rupee symbol out, we’ve been getting a lot of queries about how to deploy a new...
Date: 09/25/2010
"Access is denied" when you attempt to start the Base Filtering Engine service, after upgrading from Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2008 R2
Here's an issue that appears deceptively simple. After upgrading a Windows Server 2003 based system...
Date: 09/19/2010
The Cluster Service service terminated with service-specific error 183 (0xB7)
I worked on an issue recently where the cluster service was stopped on both nodes of a Windows...
Date: 08/26/2010
World, Hello!
I’m Richard, a Support Engineer here at Microsoft with the Platforms Core team. We’re...
Date: 08/26/2010