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Lab Ops - Stop Press Windows Server 2012R2 Evaluation edition released
I have just got back to my blog after a few days at various events and I see the Evaluation edition...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 10/30/2013
Lab Ops 6 – Setup VDI in Windows Server 2012R2
VDI bridges the world of the client and the server, and that can mean that in a world where IT...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 10/14/2013
Lab Ops 5 - Access Rights in PowerShell
In my last post I had a section in my script to create access right to a share I had just created...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 10/10/2013
Lab Ops 4–Using PowerShell with Storage
In previous posts I created a fileserver for my lab environment and used the UI to create a storage...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 10/06/2013
Lab Ops part 3 – Storage in Windows Server 2012R2
In this post I want to show what I plan to do with storage in Windows Server 2012R2 at the various...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 10/01/2013
After Hours - Canon EOS talking to a Surface Pro over wifi
Please note This an after hours post, specifically about connecting a Canon EOS 6D to windows...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 09/29/2013
Lab Ops 2–The Lee-Robinson Script
In my last post I mentioned how Marcus Robinson & had adapted PowerShell scripts by Thomas Lee...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 09/20/2013
Green IT Fatigue
I recently got asked to do an interview on for TechWeek Europe about green initiatives in the...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 08/22/2013
UK Data in the Cloud
There is still a lot of inertia in the UK about storing data in the cloud for entirely valid reasons...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 08/21/2013
Microsoft Valuable Penguin
I sometimes think the IT industry is a bit like a load of penguins on the pack ice, each one...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 08/13/2013
SQL Server Spruce up
Landrovers, will take a lot of pounding and neglect, but when my wife drove hers to Australia she...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 08/08/2013
Spruce Up your Data Centre
The summer holidays can generally be a quiet time for some IT Pros, depending on the industry you...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 08/07/2013
Installing SQL Server in a Virtual World
I do get occasional feedback that SQL Server is hard to install, all those screens all those...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 07/29/2013
Bi Product
I have just read Paul Gregory’s guest post for the TechNet Flash, and the two things that caught my...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 07/26/2013
Virtualizing Tier 1 SQL Server
A while back I published a couple of posts on virtualizing SQL Server, and in the light of...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 07/22/2013
Virtualisation and Interoperability
I often think that Microsoft is a bit like the English language, a lot of people speak it, a lot of...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 07/11/2013
Server 4024 part 3 - Networking
Databases are typically bound either by networking or IO and actually this can be two sides of the...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 07/09/2013
Server 4024 part 2 - Management
In the second post in this series I wanted to look at how changes to the way you manage things in...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 06/12/2013
Server 4024 part 1 – Virtualisation
A database is only as good as the operating system it resides on. SQL Server only runs on Windows...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 05/29/2013
Read it and keep
I have to confess to having quite a few real books in my house. Some of these books are...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 05/29/2013
Microsoft Free Software – a personal top ten
You might think this will would make for a really short article post but actually there’s...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 05/22/2013
Evaluate This – Hyper-V Server 2012
Hyper-V Server is a free operating system specifically designed to just run Hyper-V so basically a...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 04/03/2013
HD Insight
Despite common misconceptions Microsoft now has extensive interoperability with open source...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 03/22/2013
Evaluate This–File Classification
In my last post & screen cast I showed how Dynamic Access Control (DAC) worked; the business of...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 03/19/2013
Evaluate this - Deduplication
Deduplication is the business of compressing data without loss and this is now built into Windows...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 02/10/2013
Evaluate This – Storage Spaces
So far in this series I have used the new storage features of Windows Server 2012 as a place...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 02/06/2013
Evaluate This–Remote Desktop Services
In my last post I showed how easy it is to create virtual desktops in Windows Server 2012, and while...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 01/31/2013
Evaluate This–VDI
Microsoft is serious about Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, and the first sign of this in Windows...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 01/28/2013
Evaluate This – Hyper-V Replica
In many of the screencast in this series I have moved a VM around my demo setup, however there has...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 01/20/2013
Evaluate This–Collapsed Cluster
19 March 2013 - This post has been changed to reflect the best way to configure a cluster in a...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 01/16/2013
Evaluate This–High Availability Virtual Machines
Server virtualisation is all about decoupling the operating system form the hardware it’s running...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 01/13/2013
Evaluate This–Storage Migration
In some smaller organisations virtual machines (VM) often run on local storage DAS – Direct Attached...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 01/10/2013
Evaluate This - Shared Nothing Live Migration
In earlier versions of Windows Server you needed to build a cluster with shared storage (i.e. a SAN)...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 01/08/2013
Evaluate This – Highly Availability File Servers
Storage in Windows Server 2012 is more than firing up a few file shares and setting up...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 01/07/2013
Evaluate This–Server Core and MinShell
In my last video I showed you how to use Server Manager to manage lots of servers, and given that...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 12/30/2012
Evaluate This – Multi-server management
My favourite feature in Windows Server 2012 is it’s ability to manage and be managed. For...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 12/16/2012
Evaluate This–DHCP Failover
Having looked at how NIC teaming makes the best use of your network card in my last video I wanted...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 12/14/2012
Evaluate This – NIC teaming
In the third in this video series I wanted to show you NIC Teaming.. which is how you can provide a...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 12/10/2012
Evaluate This–an Introduction to Hyper-V
Hopefully you will have read the introduction to our Evaluate This series and are now ready to start...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 12/09/2012
Evaluate This – an Introduction
The main reason my blog has been totally neglected for the last few months is because Simon and I...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 12/08/2012
Working anywhere isn’t working
I was invited to attend the EMEA Dell Partner Direct conference in Madrid last week, specifically to...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 10/21/2012
TechDays Online 2012
Simon and I are doing so many events that frankly our blogs are nearly dying of neglect so I am not...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 10/05/2012
Moving to Hyper-V
I am being asked more and more often about how to move virtual machines onto Hyper-V and so I wanted...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 09/10/2012
MCSE for SQL Server
I have to be honest I gave up getting certified before I joined Microsoft mainly because the exams...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 08/31/2012
Windows Server 2012 IT camps
I have been out in the US for the past four weeks, and during my absence the rest of the UK TechNet...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 08/20/2012
Dell and Hyper-V for the smaller business
Over the last month I have been on tour with Dell showing what Hyper-V can do for small/medium...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 07/17/2012