Category: Windows 8/Server 2012

MVA: Windows Server 2012: Web and Application Platform

New week new Windows Server 2012 course on Microsoft Virtual Academy. This time under the radar is IIS8:

IIS Scale Module

IIS QoS Module

Certificate Management and Deployment Module

Ask the Experts: Windows Server 2012

During the launch of Windows Server 2012 Microsoft gathered questions from viewers. These questions were divided in 3 categories and for every category a session with experts was organized so they can answer the questions. These sessions were recorded and you can watch them on demand:

Install Guide for ConfigMgr 2012 SP1 Beta + Server 2012 + SQL 2012 CU 3

Rob Marshall published very detailed step by step guide how we can install SCCM 2012 SP1 beta with SQL 2012 and Server 2012. If you want to create your test lab for SCCM 2012 SP1 beta you can follow the steps provided here.

Free Whitepaper from Veeam on Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012

Veeam is providing a free for download whitepaper on Hyper-V 3.0. The whitepaper is written by Greg Shields a Microsoft MVP and gives answers to 7 questions:

  • Must your storage strategy evolve to meet Hyper-V’s new capabilities?
  • Will VHDX impact your datacenter operations?
  • Will SMB 3.0 and SOFS impact where you capture backups?
  • Will your Hyper-V backups support deduplication?
  • Is now the time to implement disaster recovery?
  • Which is right for me: Multisite Clustering or VM replication?
  • Is your site-to-site network sufficient?

Find out the answer to these questions by downloading the whitepaper from here.

Get ready to manager Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2 with Server Manager in Windows Server 2012

Microsoft has this great article on Server Manager blog which explains what is needed to manage Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2 from the new Server Manager. Article is titled “Managing Downlevel Windows-based Servers from Server Manager in Windows Server 2012”.