Keep up with new blogs from Windows Server/System Center MVPs!

Hi, all,

Christa Anderson here. Here’s a quick summary of what you’ll find in the MVP blogs this week. The blogs themselves are linked below, organized according to the blogger’s MVP expertise. (MVPs can have only one official expertise, but frequently have experience with more than one technology, so you'll find MVPs blogging about a variety of topics.)

Microsoft announced the general availability of System Center 2012 SP1 on January 15, so it’s no surprise that MVPs were all over the news, posting lots of practical information about where to download the service pack, some important updates, and issues of which you should be aware when deploying this update. There were also an announcement of the availability of Windows Azure Services for Windows Server 2012.

In other blogs, MVPs explored practical topics around Windows Server 2012, including migrating a lab to Windows Server 2012, enabling advanced features in the event log to facilitate debugging, resetting the admin password for Directory Services Restore mode, troubleshooting information for Remote Desktop Services and tips on using RDMS, how to build an iSCSI target cluster, and a series on NIC teaming. They've also highlighted some KBs that they felt most important.

Finally, MVPs announced new resources they or others had created: a new whitepaper on best practices for using antivirus on VDI, a new whitepaper on Active Directory, and a new PowerShell script for discovering the AD schema.

Enjoy!

Christa

App-V

Ruben Sprujit

• Project VRC: Antivirus impact and best practices on VDI

Cluster

Robert Smit

• How to: Import Export (Setup) Windows Server 2012 configuration windows features 
• How to: Create a New #SQL 2012 SP1 Server Failover Cluster (Setup) multiple instances on windows 2012 Quick Guide
• #Debug #Eventlog #WS2012 Hard ? now way Use the hidden options. Windows 2012 Tips

Directory Services

Jorge de Almeida Pinto

• Active Directory From On-Premises To The Cloud
• Active Directory Schema Discovery PowerShell Script/Tool

Leonardo Ponti (Spanish)

• Restableciendo la clave de Administrator de DSRM (Resetting the DSRM Administrator’s Password)

Roberto di Lello (Spanish)

• Lab 2013-1P1: Laboratorio de migracion de toda la arquitectura a Windows Server 2012; migraremos Active Directory, Usuarios, Exchange y clientes {Parte 1} (Migrating the lab to Windows Server 2012: Active Directory, users, Exchange, and clients—Part 1)

Hyper-V

Aidan Finn

• Update Rollup 1 for System Center 2012 Service Pack 1
• Red Hat Enterprice Linux 5.9 Has Built-In Support For Hyper-V
• Windows Server 2012 NIC Teaming Part 3 – Switch Connection Modes
• Do Not Install KB2750149 On Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Cluster Nodes
• Strike Up Another Reason For Using System Center Configuration Manager In Your Cloud
• Windows Server 2012 NIC Teaming Part 4 – Load Distribution
• Windows Server 2012 NIC Teaming Part 5 – Configuration Matrix
• KB2781512 – WinRM "PUT" operations to Hyper-V fail on a W2008R2 With WMF 3.0 Installed
• KB2710870–No DHCPv4 Address After Restarting Hyper-V VM with Vista, Win7, W2008 or W2008 R2
• KB2754704 – DSM Notifies MPIO On W2008 And W2008 R2 That A Path Is Back Online
• Monitor Web Site Health From Around The World Using System Center 2012 SP1 
• Windows Server 2012 NIC Teaming Part 6 – NIC Teaming In The Virtual Machine
• KB2799728–VM Enters Paused State Or CSV Goes Offline When Backup WS2012 Hyper-V Cluster 
• Windows Server 2012 NIC Teaming Part 6 – Support Policies
• System Center Hyper-V Monitoring Pack For Windows Server 2012
• Memory Leak Issues Being Reported With KB2799728
• KB2779768–Experiencing Issues When Using NLB In VMs On WS2012 NIC Teaming
• System Center Global Service Monitor Availability
• The Big Changes In WS2012 Cluster Shared Volume (CSV)
• KB2804678–Cannot Exceed 256 Dynamic MAC Addresses By Default On Hyper-V Host

Hans Vredevoort

• Failover Cluster Manager affected by KB2750149
• W2K12 Hotfix related to Host Level Backup of VMs  
• System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager Service Pack 1 KBs

 Thomas Maurer

• Failover Cluster Manager Error caused by KB2750149
• System Center 2012 SP1 Update Rollup 1 Available
• Windows Azure Services on Windows Server for Hosting Service Providers now available
• How to build a iSCSI Target Cluster on Windows Server 2012

Tomica Kaniski

• Configuring Online Backup for Windows Server 2012

Remote Desktop Services

Freek Berson

• RDS and TS CAL Interoperability Matrix
• Dialog boxes & new windows displayed as blank in Office 2013 RemoteApps on a Win 2008 R2-RD Session Host 
• “Client Side Rendering Print Provider" registry key growth on a Win 2008 R2-based RD Session Host server 
• Dynamically enable the RDP setting Smart Sizing in RDP 8 (Windows 8) 
• RDMS on Windows Server 2012: The Where, the Why and the How.. 
• Article: Monitoring RDS 2012 with System Center Operations Manager 2012 (Part 1) 

Small Business Server

Damir Dizdarevic

• SAN in certificates–might be useful

Elvis Gustin

• Connecting Windows 8 to SBS 2008 (2011) RWW
• Internal computers not accessible in RDWeb

System Center Cloud and Datacenter Management

James van den Berg

• Windows Azure Services on Windows Server ! #WindowsAzure #Winserv 
• #Microsoft Active Directory from on-premises to the #cloud with #WindowsAzure
•  Manage Self Service (Multiple) Private #Cloud with Tenants for in your datacenter with #SCVMM Part 1 of 2 
• Manage Self Service (Multiple) Private and Public #Cloud with Tenants for in your datacenter with #SCVMM Part 2 of 2 

John Joyner

• DIY SAN: Windows Server 2012 Storage Spaces and iSCSI target

Marnix Wolf

• CU#7 For SCOM R2 Is Available 
• HOT HOT! Update Rollup 1 For SC 2012 SP1 Is Available!
• SCOM SP1 & SCOM R2 Microsoft Security Bulletin MS13-003 
• Upgrades: System Center 2012, SQL Server 2012 (SP1) and Windows Server 2012
•  New MP: Windows Server Backup MP 
• SC2012 SP1 Troubleshooting Wiki 
• OM12 SP1 Upgrade: Beware For The Corrupt ISO!!! 
• SC2012 SP1 Is General Available! 
• Updated MP: Hyper-V, version 6.2.6640.0
• Installing SP1 For OM12: Patience Is A Virtue… 
• System Center Universe 2013 (SCU 2013)

Michel Kamp

• Authoring SCOM Reports in VS 2010
• No Mr. SCOM I told you not a availability state report but a performance state report I want! 

System Center Configuration Manager 

Johan Arwidmark

• Wohoo! - CMTrace included in ConfigMgr 2012 Toolkit SP1

Kent Agerlund

• Correct – SCCM 2012 does not support SQL Mirroring and can breake a SCCM SP1 upgrade
• Working with database replicas on your Management Point

Marcela Berri(Spanish)

• Asset Intelligence overview
• ConfigMgr 2012 - Asset Intelligence console
• PCM - ConfigMgr 2012 
• ConfigMgr 2012 Asset Intelligence Config 
• ConfigMgrSP1 
• ConfigMgr2012Sp1- VHD 

Other

Marcelo de Moraes Sinsic

• Upgrading System Center 2012 RTM/SP1 RC to SP1 RTM-Part 1 (SCCM, SCOM, Orchestrator) 
• Choosing the type of RAID and Storage Solution 
• Upgrading System Center 2012 RTM/SP1 RC to SP1 RTM-Part 2 (SCVMM, SCDPM, SCSM and App) 
• Windows Server 2012: NIC Team (Team)

Comments

• Anonymous
  January 01, 2003
  Thanks, Leonardo! Looking forward to seeing more blogs from you!

• Anonymous
  January 01, 2003
  Great list of RSS feeds Christa !   I use FeedDemon Lite to subscribe to all my feeds, and it gives some good flexibility in reading, tagging, and managing the whole process. Dusty BI Goals bigoals.azurewebsites.net www.twitter.com/bigoals365 www.facebook.com/bigoals365         Microsoft Partner @bigoals365

• Anonymous
  January 01, 2003
  Excellent post Christa!! Thank you very much!! Regards =)

• Anonymous
  January 01, 2003
  Thanks, Dusty!