Tag: Windows 8/Server 2012

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”.

MVA: Windows Server 2012: Identity and Access Course

Another course about Windows Server 2012 is available at Microsoft Virtual Academy. This course is titled Windows Server 2012: Identity and Access and consists of technologies as Active Directory, Remote Desktop Services, DirectAccess and Dynamic Access Control:

Remote Desktop Services Module

DirectAccess for Remote Access Module

Dynamic Access Control Module

Full course materials can be found on MVA.

Build your Test Lab with Windows Server 2012

If you want to test out Windows Server 2012 but you are not sure how to build your test lab Microsoft provides guide for that:

This Microsoft Test Lab Guide (TLG) provides step-by-step instructions to create the Windows Server 2012 Base Configuration test lab, using computers running Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8. With the resulting test lab environment, you can build test labs based on other Windows Server 2012-based TLGs from Microsoft, TLG extensions in the TechNet Wiki, or a test lab of your own design that can include Microsoft or non-Microsoft products. For a test lab based on physical computers, you can image the drives for future test labs. For a test lab based on virtual machines, you can create snapshots of the base configuration virtual machines. This enables you to easily return to the base configuration test lab, where most of the routine infrastructure and networking services have already been configured, so that you can focus on building a test lab for the product, technology, or solution of interest.

 

You can download the guide from here.

SCOM 2007 R2 will not support monitoring of Windows Server 2012

This week Microsoft posted supported scenarios for SCOM 2007 R2 / 2012 / SP1 with Windows Server 2012. The main surprise to me is that SCOM 2007 R2 will not be able to monitor Windows Server 2012. There are lot of benefits of upgrading from 2007 R2 to 2012 but not all companies can do that at this moment because of a lot of dependencies and Microsoft is not making this easier with this announcement. When such decision is announced I will definitely will want to know what is the reason behind it. There should be very good reason for this because SCOM 2007 R2 mainstream supports end in 2014 which means there are at least 2 years left for supporting. I am still hoping that Microsoft will change their mind and support for monitoring Windows Server 2012 via SCOM 2007 R2 will be provided.

The full announcement is here.