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Using Failover Clustering Cloud Witness with Managed Identity in Windows Server 2025

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Rob-Hindman
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Mar 21, 2026

This blog article describes how to use Managed Identity with the Cloud Witness quorum resource in Windows Server 2025.

Failover Clustering has a strong quorum model that is always used to prevent partition in space (AKA Split Brain, Network partition, Cluster partition). We require a cluster quorum resource (cluster ...
Updated Mar 21, 2026
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cblackuk1
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Mar 23, 2026

Thanks for sharing Rob :-) We do take this all for granted these days, but it is great to see a quick and easy step by step setup guide :-)

 

Happy Azure Localling :-)