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31 Days of Our Favorite Things: Get the Gremlin Out of Your Active Directory Virtualization Infrastructure with Windows Server 2012 (Part 27 of 31)
We have all at some time or another virtualized a domain controller, either for test or...
Author: Matt Hester Date: 10/27/2012
31 Days of Our Favorite Things: Getting Dynamic with Security in Windows Server 2012 (Part 26 of 31)
One of the new seucirty features in Windows Server 2012, is Dynamic Access Control. This is a...
Author: Matt Hester Date: 10/26/2012
31 Days of Our Favorite Things: New and Improved ADAC in Windows Server 2012 (Part 25 of 31)
In Windows Server 2008r2 there was a new tool introduced, called the Active Directory Administrative...
Author: Matt Hester Date: 10/25/2012
31 Days of Our Favorite Things: Turn Up the ThermoRSAT in Windows Server 2012 (Part 24 of 31)
I know we all want to remotely manage our servers because the datacenters are just too cold! ...
Author: Matt Hester Date: 10/24/2012
31 Days of Our Favorite Things: Putting the IPAM in Windows Server 2012 (Part 23 of 31)
One of the long awaited features for the Windows Server environment has been IP address...
Author: Matt Hester Date: 10/23/2012
31 Days of Our Favorite Things: Which one to Choose Windows Server 2012 Standard or Datacenter, I Say Both!!!! (Part 22 of 31)
In prior versions of Windows Server choosing the right version determined what technical...
Author: Matt Hester Date: 10/22/2012
31 Days of Our Favorite Things: Choosing a NIC in Windows Server 2012 (Part 21 of 31)
As our server hardware has changed and improved. So has many of the components critical to the...
Author: Matt Hester Date: 10/22/2012
31 Days of Our Favorite Things: Switch on Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012 (Part 20 of 31)
Having your Virtual machines connect to your production network is vital to the success of your...
Author: Matt Hester Date: 10/22/2012
31 Days of Our Favorite Things: Getting to Core of Windows Server 2012 (Part 19 of 31)
If you have downloaded and installed Windows Server 2012 you have probably noticed tons of...
Author: Matt Hester Date: 10/19/2012
31 Days of Our Favorite Things: Continuously Available File Shares in Windows Server 2012 (Part 18 of 31)
One thing you will notice in today’s post is the word Continuously. Notice it does not say...
Author: Matt Hester Date: 10/18/2012
31 Days of Our Favorite Things: SMB 3.0 the Glue in Windows Server 2012 (Part 17 of 31)
I know what you’re thinking, a post on Server Message Block (SMB), really? Yes really, SMB and...
Author: Matt Hester Date: 10/17/2012
Get Ready Here Comes Surface!
Cannot Wait until the 26th! Pre-Order now: https://www.microsoft.com/surface/en-US And...
Author: Matt Hester Date: 10/16/2012
31 Days of Our Favorite Things: Directing Direct Access in Windows Server 2012 (Part 16 of 31)
One of the fantastic technologies we introduced with Windows Server 2012 is the ability to have...
Author: Matt Hester Date: 10/16/2012
20th Anniversary Walt Disney World Marathon Training Week 7: Listening to Your Body
So here we are week 7, and last week I had a great week of running until the weekend. I was...
Author: Matt Hester Date: 10/15/2012
31 Days of Our Favorite Things: Goodbye CHKDSK Hello ReFS in Windows Server 2012 (Part 15 of 31)
In today’s post we take a look at a new file system in Windows Server 2012. The resilient file...
Author: Matt Hester Date: 10/15/2012
31 Days of Our Favorite Things: Getting to Know the New Task Manager in Windows Server 2012 (Part 14 of 31)
I know what your thinking, really Matt the task manager. Yes we are serious, even the task...
Author: Matt Hester Date: 10/15/2012
31 Days of Our Favorite Things: Getting up to Speed with VDI quickly Windows Server 2012 (Part 13 of 31)
One of technologies a lot of businesses are looking at is how to work with a virtual desktop...
Author: Matt Hester Date: 10/15/2012
31 Days of Our Favorite Things: From 240GB to 7 GB Deduplication with Veeam and Windows Server 2012 (Part 12 of 31)
Are you storage needs going up or down? Most likely up. In Windows Server 2012, there...
Author: Matt Hester Date: 10/15/2012
31 Days of Our Favorite Things: Getting Snippy with PowerShell 3.0 in Windows Server 2012 (Part 11 of 31)
As most of you know I am a huge fan of PowerShell and as I took you on a brief glimpse of PowerShell...
Author: Matt Hester Date: 10/11/2012
31 Days of Our Favorite Things: Get Happy over the Free Hyper-V Server 2012 (Part 9 of 31)
I think one of everybody's favorite word is FREE. In any language that is just a great...
Author: Matt Hester Date: 10/09/2012
31 Days of our Favorite Things: Network Virtualization (Part 8 of 31)
In todays part of the series Keith takes a walk through network virtualization built-into Windows...
Author: Matt Hester Date: 10/08/2012
31 Days of our Favorite Things: There is No I in Team but There is a NIC(Part 7 of 31)
You probably have doing NIC teaming in your infrastructure for a few years now. Was it...
Author: Matt Hester Date: 10/08/2012
31 Days of our Favorite Things: Space I Need More Space! (Part 6 of 31)
How many of you say you have too much storage for your datacenters? I am willing to bet it is...
Author: Matt Hester Date: 10/08/2012
20th Anniversary Walt Disney World Marathon Training Week 6: Fueling Up!
So this last week was a great and fun week! Had the longest run to date during the plan at 12...
Author: Matt Hester Date: 10/08/2012
31 Days of our Favorite Things: Windows Server 2012 and Hyper-V Replica (Part 5 of 31)
Windows Server 2012 Hyper-v and virtualization has a great addition with replicas. In this part of...
Author: Matt Hester Date: 10/05/2012
Some Great Events Coming up in the Community!
Hey everyone checkout some of these upcoming events, I will be attending/speaking at in the near...
Author: Matt Hester Date: 10/04/2012
31 Days of Our Favorite Things: Live Migration and Shared Nothing Migration, (Part 4 of 31)
In today’s post it is Keith’s turn and he wrote a stellar post on Live Migration. Even...
Author: Matt Hester Date: 10/04/2012
31 Days of Our Favorite Things: Feel the Power of PowerShell 3.0 (Part 3 of 31)
I thought long and hard what would be my favorite thing of Windows Server 2012. Yeah, right who am I...
Author: Matt Hester Date: 10/03/2012
31 Days of Our Favorite Things: At Your Service With Windows Server 2012 (Part 2 of 31)
Welcome to day 2 of our series of 31 of our Favorite things with Windows Server 2012! Today...
Author: Matt Hester Date: 10/02/2012
31 Days of our Favorite Things: The Windows Server 2012 Blog Post Series (Part 1 of 31)
Good afternoon everyone! Brian, Keith, Kevin and I are doing another blog series. This series...
Author: Matt Hester Date: 10/01/2012
20th Anniversary Walt Disney World Marathon Training Week 5: Running with Technology
So this is a fun post for me to write and the technology for running has come a long way from...
Author: Matt Hester Date: 10/01/2012
Dallas/Houston Launch Event Questions and Answers (9-18/9-19 2012)
Good afternoon everyone! I hope everyone has enjoyed the events so far and I know I have had a...
Author: Matt Hester Date: 09/24/2012
TechNet Slides for Windows Server 2012 Launch Event
Here are the slides for the launch event. To download a copy of a slide deck: Click on the...
Author: Matt Hester Date: 09/24/2012
20th Anniversary Walt Disney World Marathon Training Week 4: Running with Someone
Happy week 4! This is going to be a great week of training and I am just jacked up and ready...
Author: Matt Hester Date: 09/24/2012
5 Bold Predictions for the NFL 2012
Well it is that time of the year again!!! I almost forgot but it is time for my annual...
Author: Matt Hester Date: 09/05/2012
Look what happens when you go on vacation….
We got a new logo, what do you think: Microsoft Unveils a New Look
Author: Matt Hester Date: 08/27/2012
Windows Server 2012 RTM!
Today is big day for the next generation of Microsoft Servers, Windows Server 2012 is released to...
Author: Matt Hester Date: 08/01/2012
Marco Tempest: The magic of truth and lies (and iPods)
Yet another fun video from Marco Tempest!
Author: Matt Hester Date: 08/01/2012
Announcing Outlook.com
Really interesting changes and they are already happening, if you have an email log in. From...
Author: Matt Hester Date: 07/31/2012
Get ready for Windows Server 2012 with MAP 7.0!
The Solution Accelerators team just launched Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 7.0,...
Author: Matt Hester Date: 07/10/2012
Does your Group Policy need a GPS?
If your like me you can lost in the thousands of policies in Group Policy. As new...
Author: Matt Hester Date: 07/10/2012
I Spy some PowerShell 3 and Windows Server 2012 RC Quick References Guide
Thanks Keith! The PDF files in this download are short-form Quick Reference (also called "cheat...
Author: Matt Hester Date: 06/13/2012
Microsoft System Center Cloud Services Process Pack now available for download
The Microsoft Solution Accelerators team is pleased to announce that the System Center Cloud...
Author: Matt Hester Date: 05/10/2012
Get Free System Center Management Pack from Veeam
After MMS Veeam made a great announcement for FREE 10 sockets of Veeam Management Pack The...
Author: Matt Hester Date: 05/07/2012
Could Not Make MMS? Get DIGITAL…
MMS that is. If you were like me you may not have been able to make MMS, but wanted to see the...
Author: Matt Hester Date: 04/25/2012