60 http://www.dabcc.com/channel.aspx?id=377 Microsoft Windows Server 2012 News and Support Resources (c) 1999-2013 DABCC Inc. Thu, 16 May 2013 04:20:00 0500 en-US http://www.dabcc.com/dabcc/images/logo_dabcc.gif http://www.dabcc.com/channel.aspx?id=377 http://www.dabcc.com/article.aspx?id=25666 For over five years, I have been working with co-host Jonathan Walz on the PowerScripting Podcast, a weekly Internet radio show. The primary topic of the show is the Windows PowerShell scripting language. We like to talk about news, tips, and resources related to the PowerShell community, but the biggest part of most shows is the interview. We've had a wide variety of guests on the show, ranging from prolific scripters who enjoy sharing their work, to PM's, architects, and engineers from larges... Thu, 16 May 2013 04:20:00 0500 http://www.dabcc.com/article.aspx?id=25468 There is 5 PowerShell 3.0 Cheat Sheets available as a free download from Microsoft. If you're IT sysadmin, you certainly started using PowerShell here or there. If not, you have an occasion to learn some quickly some tips and tricks, shortcuts, and common operations in the new Windows Powershell 3.0.... Mon, 22 Apr 2013 13:24:00 0500 http://www.dabcc.com/article.aspx?id=25128 GreenQube decided to upgrade its file servers to Windows 2012. With the advent of SMB 3.0, hosted desktop users have faster access to their data shared out from these resources. Other features in this release of SMB ensure transparent failover of file shares between file server nodes. Feature enhancements to VSS and quota management enable GreenQube to more easily manage backups and file storage for the end user... Fri, 12 Apr 2013 07:03:00 0500 http://www.dabcc.com/article.aspx?id=25125 GreenQube has gone through a hardware refresh and upgrade process. With this upgrade GreenQube has incorporated Windows 2012 and Solid State Drives (SSD) into its Hosted Desktop infrastructure.... Tue, 09 Apr 2013 07:49:00 0500 http://www.dabcc.com/article.aspx?id=25279 Windows 8 has a nice feature called Client Hyper-V. This allows you to run virtual machines on Windows 8 just like running virtual machines on Windows Server Hyper-V. Client Hyper-V has the same functionality as VMware Workstation however Client Hyper-V is a free feature of a Windows 8 Pro edition licensed device.... Mon, 08 Apr 2013 10:44:00 0500 http://www.dabcc.com/article.aspx?id=25246 Windows Server 2012 has some nice storage management features, notably ODX, which reduces server and network overhead, and Trim/Unmap, which reclaims unused storage space. But, writes Wikibon Lead Analyst and Cofounder Dave Vellante in his latest alert, overall it is insufficient to support software-led storage, a key part of IT infrastructure virtualization and the use of commodity, "plain vanilla" storage, and support a hyperscale computing model.... Fri, 05 Apr 2013 14:45:00 0500 http://www.dabcc.com/article.aspx?id=25196 Windows Server 2012 introduces fundamental improvements that make it a cloud-ready operating system. The capabilities provide a flexible and scalable solution which opens up a wide range of opportunities for hosting providers to build new cloud services.... Wed, 03 Apr 2013 10:29:00 0500 http://www.dabcc.com/article.aspx?id=25167 Windows Server 2012 introduces some significant improvements to RemoteFX?. One feature ? RemoteFX vGPU - already present in Windows Server 2008 R2 is the ability to use a physical graphic adapter (GPU) in the Hyper-V host to accelerate the host-side rendering of display content. This guide describes the configuration steps to leverage RemoteFX vGPU in Windows Server 2012.... Tue, 02 Apr 2013 11:39:00 0500 http://www.dabcc.com/article.aspx?id=25132 Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Today we start a three-part series by Yuri Diogenes and Tom Shinder. The authors describe examples about how you can leverage Windows PowerShell to automate tasks to protect a Windows Server 2012-based cloud infrastructure.... Mon, 01 Apr 2013 06:07:00 0500 http://www.dabcc.com/article.aspx?id=25032 Roger Osborne has create a huge checklist form of best practices on Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V. The Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V or Hyper-V 3 best practices focuses on the following topics:... Fri, 22 Mar 2013 14:52:00 0500 http://www.dabcc.com/article.aspx?id=24971 Recovering or resetting a password can be a tedious job requiring purchase of dodgy tools that promise you everything but you'll never know if they do until you bought them. This blog will show how I reset my Windows 2012 domain administrator password in under 2 minutes without any tools, just by using Microsoft tooling that you have at hand.... Wed, 20 Mar 2013 10:02:00 0500 http://www.dabcc.com/article.aspx?id=24910 One of the most common requests I get from customer and partners is ? When will VMware View support Windows 2K8 as Guest OS?... Mon, 18 Mar 2013 10:35:00 0500 http://www.dabcc.com/article.aspx?id=24867 What is deduplication you ask? Deduplication at its most simple level, examines data, compares it to other data that is already stored and if that data is identical, instead of storing that second copy of data the deduplication technology establishes a link to the original data.... Fri, 15 Mar 2013 14:34:00 0500 http://www.dabcc.com/article.aspx?id=24563 In a pinch, Windows Server Backup is the perfect and simply elegant solution for backing up a Hyper-V VM.... Thu, 28 Feb 2013 15:10:00 0500 http://www.dabcc.com/article.aspx?id=24173 Storage is an area that's often ignored by outside specialists. That's too bad, because Windows Server 2012 makes a major push to improve its storage management and virtualization technologies.... Thu, 14 Feb 2013 14:45:00 0500 http://www.dabcc.com/article.aspx?id=24091 Most Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) watchers remain focused on Windows 8 sales, Office 365 subscriptions and the Surface Pro tablet release later this week. But Microsoft has another operating system that seems to be gaining major momentum.... Thu, 07 Feb 2013 11:36:00 0500 http://www.dabcc.com/article.aspx?id=24096 Microsoft's new Windows 2012 features a list of advanced data storage management tools, and Microsoft has done its best to make those tools as uncomplicated as possible to use. But despite that, writes Wikibon Analyst, Consultant, and former CIO Scott Lowe in his latest Professional Alert...... Thu, 07 Feb 2013 03:58:00 0500 http://www.dabcc.com/article.aspx?id=23970 I can't believe its been over 3 months since my last blog. I've been busy working away on protocol papers comparing RDP8, PCoIP, and ICA/HDX. I wrote one paper for each vendor and a fourth paper doing a side by side comparison of them.... Mon, 04 Feb 2013 11:17:00 0500 http://www.dabcc.com/article.aspx?id=23931 This article applies to all virtualization technologies used to run Windows Server 2012 VMs. In fact, I would like to clear out some misunderstanding and do small simulation of price for small shops (2 physical hosts), when it comes to a number of VMs which needs to run, and also the number of physical hosts that are in the infrastructure.... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 10:04:00 0500