Learning how products are licenses is a boring thing for most of the IT Professionals but are often facing situation where we need to advise a customer about licensing. If you want to learn more about licensing Windows 8, Windows Server 2012 and MS Private cloud there are 3 videos available on demand:
Tag: windows 2012
System Center 2012 Monitoring Pack for Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Remote Desktop Services
There is a new management pack on the horizon for SCOM 2012. Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Remote Desktop Services MP is based on Remote Desktop Services Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager 2007 which explains why in the guide of the new version SCOM 2007 is requirement even though in the download link it is stated that this MP is only supported in SCOM 2012. So somebody forget to change all references to the previous version of SCOM in the guide.
You can download the MP and the guide from here.
Despite the incorrect references in the guide remember to read it first before importing.
Exam 70-417: Upgrading Your Skills to MCSA Windows Server 2012
Today I’ve passed Exam 70-417: Upgrading Your Skills to MCSA Windows Server 2012 and I’ve became Microsoft Certifies Solution Associate Windows Server 2012. For that exam wasn’t so hard because I am testing Windows Server 2012 from pre-beta stages, but the exam wasn’t so easy also. As described in Microsoft learning site the exam is divided in 3 smaller exams:
- Exam 70-410: Installing and Configuring Windows Server 2012
- Exam 70-411: Administering Windows Server 2012
- Exam 70-412: Configuring Advanced Windows Server 2012 Services
As you can see these smaller exams you can guess how many question the exam has. If you decide to take this exam I suggest to learn the following technologies in Windows Server 2012:
- Hyper-V
- IPAM
- Clusters
- File Services
- Active Directory and AD Federation Services
- Windows Backup
- Network Policy Server
- Dynamic Access Control
- Remote Access
Taking this exam if you eligible to take it will give you MCSA: Windows Server 2012 certificate. This certificate counts as credit towards the following certificates:
- MCSE: Server Infrastructure
- MCSE: Desktop Infrastructure
KB: Feature and performance optimization of Hyper-V Replica (HVR) in Windows Server 2012
Microsoft published a very useful article on how we can fine-tune Hyper-V Replica if we face performance problems. I suggest if to try changing these registry keys only if you face some performance problems. If everything is working smoothly better not touch them. The article is located here.
Windows Server 2012 Upgrade Jump Start Training
This Jump Start Training was held live last month and now it is available as a recordings. This course is led by Microsoft Senior Technical Evangelist Rick Claus and Ed Liberman from TrainSignal. The course is divided in 12 topics which can be found as separate videos here.
Cloud Administrator in Azure World 