The next objective in the 70-412 path is all about managing roles on failover clusters. This objective will cover adding a role to a failover cluster along with configuring the role properties such as preferred owners, failover settings, and startup priority.
Monthly Archives: August 2015
Blog: Windows Update Delivery Optimization
Another feature of Windows 10 that is getting a lot of heat on at present is Windows Update Delivery Optimization. This feature does two things, and is turned on by default.
Blog: Windows 10 Privacy Settings
There has been a lot of chat on the internet regarding the privacy settings in Windows 10. When you first install and configure Windows 10 the installer will encourage you to choose “Express Settings” which I think most users (including me) will choose. However this will perhaps give Microsoft more information about you than is comfortable. So with this in mind I thought it best to go back and review the privacy setting on my two Windows 10 computers and document what I find.
Certs: 70-412 Objective Domains
If you are studying for the 412 Microsoft certification it is critical you know exactly what’s on the exam. I would recommend downloading the objectives document from the Microsoft web site and use it to plan out your schedule, however here is a breakdown of each objective followed by a link to my associated study notes.
Tech Note: Installing Microsoft .NET Framework 4
I’ve talked about upgrades before and the fact that they are part of a Technical Support Professionals job. The other day I was asked to upgrade a web application on a production file server. Ok no problem, the developers documented the process, I can fully backup the web application and its backend database, however the latest version is built using Microsoft .Net v4. So, how to upgrade the version of Dot Net Framework required? Follow the instructions below and you should be ok.
Certs: Passing 70-412
Exam: 70-412 Configuring Advances Windows Server 2012 R2 Services
At the start of May this year I sat the 70-412 Microsoft exam. The score required to pass is 700 and I scored 781. The charts are shown below organised by objective domain.