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A Configure Your Microsoft Windows Operating System This section describes how to configure settings on your Microsoft Windows servers to ensure high availability. Procedure Summary To ensure high availability, configure the settings on your Microsoft Windows servers as follows. If you have installed the Host Integration Tools for Microsoft, skip step 3. 1. Install the recommended Microsoft hotfixes described in 1. Install the Recommended Microsoft Hotfixes. 2. Install the Host Integration Tools for Microsoft and proceed to step 4. This kit can be downloaded from eqlsupport.dell.com. 3. (Optional) Set the registry entries if the Host Integration Tools for Microsoft kit is not installed. See 3. Set the Registry Entries. 4. Check the Microsoft guidelines. See 4. Verify Microsoft Windows Guidelines. 1. Install the Recommended Microsoft Hotfixes NOTE: Not all hotfixes are necessary for all versions of Windows. Dell recommends that you evaluate each fix to determine whether it applies to your environment, then install the latest Microsoft hotfixes that apply. Table 1. Recommended Microsoft Hotfixes lists the hotfixes recommended by Microsoft. Table 1. Recommended Microsoft Hotfixes Hotfix/Link Description of Issue Windows 2012 social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/ List of Hyper-V hotfixes for Windows Server 2012 15576.hyper-v-update-list-for-windows-server-2012.aspx support.microsoft.com/kb/2784261 List of hotfixes and updates for Windows Server 2012based failover clusters support.microsoft.com/kb/2869606 LUN for a storage device is lost when multiple paths are lost concurrently in Windows support.microsoft.com/kb/2871085 I/O failures occur when you create a snapshot for a large volume support.microsoft.com/kb/2957560 Windows freezes or loses cluster disk reservation during a stress test in iSCSI initiator support.microsoft.com/kb/2965750 Performance issues occur over a high-latency network if the Windows scale option is removed from retransmitted SYN packets Windows 2016 12 Configure Your Microsoft Windows Operating System