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31 Days of our Favorite Things: The Recap
It’s over! November (Movember?) is here! Now it’s time to sit back and soak in all of...
Author: Kevin Remde Date: 11/01/2012
31 Days of our Favorite Things: VMware Should Be Worried (Part 31 of 31)
Here it is! …the last day of the month, and the last day of our series of “31 Days of...
Author: Kevin Remde Date: 10/31/2012
31 Days of our Favorite Things: The new CHKDSK. Don’t blink; you’ll miss it! (Part 29 of 31)
Yes, you read that subject line correctly. We’ve actually improved the volume error detection...
Author: Kevin Remde Date: 10/29/2012
31 Days of our Favorite Things: Highly Available DHCP in Windows Server 2012 (Part 28 of 31)
We’re in the final stretch of our 31 days, and for today’s article Keith Mayer is going...
Author: Kevin Remde Date: 10/28/2012
I love these kinds of new-feature surprises (Office 2013)
Isn’t it fun when a new feature just shows up in front of you before you even knew about it? I...
Author: Kevin Remde Date: 10/27/2012
31 Days of our Favorite Things: Active Directory Gremlins? (Part 27 of 31)
Yes, today in our “31 Days of our Favorite Things” series, Matt Hester is talking about...
Author: Kevin Remde Date: 10/27/2012
LIVE NOW: Watch it here: Windows 8 and Microsoft Surface Launch
UPDATE: This was live on Thursday, Oct 25, 2012. Obviously it’s no longer live, so I’ve...
Author: Kevin Remde Date: 10/25/2012
31 Days of our Favorite Things: Windows Server 2012 and the RSATs (Part 24 of 31)
RSAT stands for Remote Server Administration Tools. This is the toolset that IT Pros have come to...
Author: Kevin Remde Date: 10/24/2012
31 Days of our Favorite Things: Windows Server 2012 - I think, therefore IPAM. (Part 23 of 31)
I suppose a more correct title for this article might have been, “I manage IP addressing,...
Author: Kevin Remde Date: 10/23/2012
31 Days of our Favorite Things: Windows Server 2012 makes NIC hardware sing! (Part 21 of 31)
Today in Part 21 of “31 Days of our Favorite Things”, Brian Lewis answers the musical...
Author: Kevin Remde Date: 10/21/2012
31 Days of our Favorite Things: Either / Or with Core in Windows Server 2012 (Part 19 of 31)
In Windows Server 2008 we introduced you to the notion of a “Core” installation. The...
Author: Kevin Remde Date: 10/19/2012
31 Days of our Favorite Things: Continuously Available File Shares in Windows Server 2012 (Part 18 of 31)
How much do you depend on a file share to be available at all times? “Not much. After all, I...
Author: Kevin Remde Date: 10/18/2012
31 Days of our Favorite Things: Just when you thought SMB couldn’t get any better (Part 17 of 31)
“SMB? You mean Server Message Block?” Yep. “Better? It’s just the protocol...
Author: Kevin Remde Date: 10/17/2012
31 Days of our Favorite Things: The Resilient File System (ReFS) in Windows Server 2012 (Part 15 of 31)
NTFS is getting a little long in the tooth. It has been, and continues to be, a rock-solid file...
Author: Kevin Remde Date: 10/15/2012
31 Days of our Favorite Things: Sometimes it’s the little things that make the difference. (Part 14 of 31)
Happy Sunday! As the title of this post suggests, today we’re discussing a couple of the...
Author: Kevin Remde Date: 10/14/2012
31 Days of our Favorite Things: Windows Server 2012 and Easy(er) VDI (Part 13 of 31)
For those of you not familiar with the acronym, VDI stands for Virtual Desktop Infrastructure. The...
Author: Kevin Remde Date: 10/13/2012
31 Days of our Favorite Things: Wield the POWER of the SHELL with PowerShell Script Snippets. (Part 11 of 31)
Today in our "31 Days of our Favorite Things", my friend and colleague Matt Hester has posted an...
Author: Kevin Remde Date: 10/11/2012
You should like me.
I’m almost at the big THREE DIGITS in the number of people who “LIKE” my “Kevin Remde is Full of...
Author: Kevin Remde Date: 10/09/2012
31 Days of our Favorite Things: Network Virtualization in Windows Server 2012 (Part 8 of 31)
What is virtualization? “It’s when you have a computer that is, um.. virtualized.. and...
Author: Kevin Remde Date: 10/08/2012
31 Days of our Favorite Things: Windows Server 2012 and “Storage Spaces” (Part 6 of 31)
Happy Saturday! But that doesn’t mean we get a break. We promised 31 days of our favorite...
Author: Kevin Remde Date: 10/06/2012
31 Days of our Favorite Things: It’s like vMotion, but better. It’s Hyper-V. (Part 4 of 31)
Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V, and Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012 include some really exciting and...
Author: Kevin Remde Date: 10/04/2012
31 Days of our Favorite Things: Windows Server 2012 and the shell of POWER! (Part 3 of 31)
In today’s installment of our "31 Days of our Favorite Things" in Windows Server 2012, Matt...
Author: Kevin Remde Date: 10/03/2012
31 Days of our Favorite Things: Windows Server 2012 Server Manager (Part 2 of 31)
The first time you start up Windows Server 2012, and you login, it is the first thing you see....
Author: Kevin Remde Date: 10/02/2012
Watch This Space
My Central Region IT Pro Evangelist teammates and I are going to be delivering a series of 31 blog...
Author: Kevin Remde Date: 09/28/2012
Oh good. It’s not just me. Richard likes Windows Server 2012, too.
Richard Fichera of Forrester Research had recently written up and posted his initial impressions of...
Author: Kevin Remde Date: 09/14/2012
Beta for System Center 2012 SP1 is available for download!
As the title of this posting suggests – or rather says flat out – the beta of System Center 2012 SP1...
Author: Kevin Remde Date: 09/12/2012
Available Now: RTM Version of the FREE Windows 2012 eBook
I just learned (from the Microsoft Press Blog) that the The Free e-Book on Windows Server 2012 is...
Author: Kevin Remde Date: 09/06/2012
Launch Day! Windows Server 2012 is available today!
Yessir! According to the Microsoft Server and Cloud Platform page, And that’s today! Go...
Author: Kevin Remde Date: 09/04/2012
Evaluate Windows 8 Enterprise–90 Days for FREE
If you’re not already a TechNet or MSDN Subscriber, you have another option for trying out Windows...
Author: Kevin Remde Date: 08/23/2012
TechNet IT “Mini-Camp” Event–August 30, 2012 in Minneapolis (Edina), Minnesota
Yes indeed! It’s short notice, but I’d love to see about 30+ IT Pros from the area on...
Author: Kevin Remde Date: 08/22/2012
Windows Server 2012 Essentials Release Candidate is available for download
Overview Windows Server 2012 Release Candidate Essentials (formerly Windows Small Business Server...
Author: Kevin Remde Date: 08/22/2012
Does my SAN support ODX? (So Many Questions. So Little Time. Part 46)
Dan asked this at a TechNet Event IT Camp a few months ago… For those of you not familiar...
Author: Kevin Remde Date: 08/20/2012
Full of I.T. Shark Week!: Chuck Norris and PowerShell Scripting
I received this question at a TechNet Event IT Camp in Minneapolis a few months ago… Can...
Author: Kevin Remde Date: 08/17/2012
Full of I.T. Shark Week!: Who has the biggest disk?
In this final day of Shark Week! on Full of I.T., we will do a quick comparison of storage...
Author: Kevin Remde Date: 08/17/2012
Full of I.T. Shark Week!: Why Office 365 and not Google Apps?
“It’s been said that the secret to a good marriage is to understand that ‘it must...
Author: Kevin Remde Date: 08/16/2012
And here’s a puzzler…
Why is the “English” version of the Windows 8 download on TechNet is actually a little larger than...
Author: Kevin Remde Date: 08/15/2012
BREAKING NEWS: While I was away, the Windows 8 bits hit TechNet and MSDN!
Gee.. you go out to the gym for a couple of hours and come back and lo-and-behold the Windows 8...
Author: Kevin Remde Date: 08/15/2012