Week of July 15: Clustering Server Workloads, Updated Windows Server 2012 Rollup, Changes to Group Policy, and Practical Powershell with Windows Server MVPs
Greetings, all,
Welcome to this week’s roundup of blogs from MVPs with expertise areas related to Windows Server.
If you’re interested in how-to articles and background information, this is a good week for you. We’re continuing to see more exploration of PowerShell, with how-tos for using PowerShell to perform tasks such as deleting AD accounts, configuring Live Migration, and enabling jumbo frames on multiple NICs. For those interested in the bigger picture, there’s also some core concepts on Desired State Configuration (new in Windows Server 2012 R2) and how it uses declarative PowerShell. Clustering is also a hot topic, with explanations of how changes to the dynamic witness in Windows Server 2012 R2 should improve uptime in clustered environments and how to set up SQL Server 2014 to use Cluster Shared Volumes. Active Directory Management is also on the list, as well as key new features of Remote Desktop Services and Group Policy caching in Windows Server 2012 R2. This is just a sample--be sure to get the details at the links in this roundup!
MVPs not only provide original writing but can help you find resources created elsewhere. This week includes pointers to the new MAP Toolkit, a free architectural diagram of Hyper-V, and an updated hotfix rollup for Windows Server 2012. Finally, if you’re interested in learning more about PowerShell, MVPs have pointed you to the free PowerShell Jumpstart on July 18, led by Jeffrey Snover. (Seriously, you don't want to miss this, so check out the links below.)
To close, I’d like to introduce you to a change in the format for this regular roundup. While there’s a lot of overlap in interest between Windows Server and System Center, we’ve decided to split them into separate rollups. I’ll be continuing the Windows Server roundups, and we’ll
also publish a separate one for System Center.
Happy reading!
Christa
Cluster
- SQL Server 2014 Create a New #SQL Server Failover #Cluster (Setup) in 5 minutes #SQL2014 #Windows2012R2 #WPC13
- Microsoft Assessment and Planning #MAP Toolkit 8.5 #Hyperv #WS2012 #SQL #Cloud
- Use Cluster Shared Volumes / StoragePools in a Windows Server 2012 For #SQL 2014 DB Storage. #TEE13 #WPC13
- Great new blog post from Brad Anderson : In the Cloud #cloud #msft #pcit
- SQL Server 2014 Setup is failing using #CSV #SQL14 #WFC #ws2012r2js
Directory Services
- (05-07-2013) PowerShell Resources For Survival
- (2013-07-06) Uninstalling An ADFS v2.0 STS Server
- (2013-07-06) Uninstalling An ADFS v2.0 PRX Server
- (2013-07-08) Enabling Auditing Of Issued Claims In ADFS v1.0 and ADFS v1.1
- (2013-07-08) Enabling Auditing Of Issued Claims In ADFS v2.x and ADFS v3.x
- Windows Server, Backup Feature: Como funciona?
- Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Component Architecture Poster and Companion References {Download}
Group Policy
- Understanding Group Policy Caching in Windows 8.1
- An In-Depth Walkthrough of Desired State Configuration in PowerShell Windows Management Framework v4
Hyper-V
- Adding A Disk To A SOFS Clustered Storage Pool
- Building Storage Spaces On My PC
- KB2867302–Clustered File Share Resource Fails With “Status 5. Tolerating …” Cluster Log Error
- Configuring Jumbo Frames Using PowerShell
- Configuring WS2012 R2 Hyper-V Live Migration Performance Options Using PowerShell
- KB2855336 – WS2012 Update Rollup For July 2013
- Creating & Adding Lots Of Shared VHDX Files To VMs Using PowerShell
- KB2846837–Incorrect RSS Core Assignment On Win8 or WS2012 Computer That Has Multi-Core processors
- Best Practices for Virtualizing & Managing SQL Server On Hyper-V
- Cloud as a Tier with Microsoft StorSimple
- Gartner Magic Quadrant for x86 Server Virtualization Infrastructure 2013
- What is Hyper-V over SMB?
PowerShell
- How to use environment variables in PowerShell
- FREE – Getting Started with PowerShell 3.0 Jump Start course
- #PSTip Disabling multiple AD user accounts
- #PSTip Invoking methods by using dynamic method names#PSTip Inserting characters at a specified string index position
- #PSTip PowerShell 4 – Filtering a collection by using a method syntax
- #PSTip How to check if a DateTime string is in a specific pattern
- #PSTip A Faster way to open specific Event Logs
Remote Desktop Services
- Closer look at Remote App and Full Desktop experience improvements in Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows 8.1
- KB: Adding Remote Desktop Services role may fail when Firewall Service is stopped in Windows Server 2012 (2802436)
- Running VDI Session-Based Desktops on Azure now supported for SPLA
- Memory leak occurs in the Dwm.exe process on a Remote Desktop computer that is running Windows 8 or Windows Server 2012
- New Remote Desktop App for Windows 8.1 in the Microsoft Store!
Setup, Deployment, and Patching
- Nice to Know – Video: Windows Server 2012 Fjärråtkomst (Swedish)
- Nice to Know – Video: Windows Server 2012 – Hyper-V (Swedish)
- Nice to Know – Video: Private Cloud med SCVMM 2012 (Swedish)