Category: Windows Server 2012
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Getting Certified: Things have really changed!
This article was originally published to The Canadian IT Pro Connection.Boy has it been an exciting year… Microsoft’s busiest release year ever! On the IT Pro side we have System Center 2012 (a single product now, but truly seven distinct products for managing your environment!), Windows Server 2012, Windows 8… we have Windows Azure (which…
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Storage Pools… Dive right in!
This article was originally posted to the Canadian IT Pro Connection. Storage Pools are a new feature in Windows Server 2012 that at first glance (at the terminology) may look like software RAID arrays that have been around for years, but are really a new concept, or at least several generations of advancement on the…
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The Least Spooky Thing to Come Out This October
This post was originally published on the Canadian IT Pros Connection.. Think the release of Windows 8 means there’s toil and trouble brewing for desktop deployment specialists and IT project managers? Not so! It’s really not that spooky and here are 3 reasons why: There’s lots to like about Windows 8 for organizations. From AppLocker…
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Haiku… do you?
I have been having fun with these Windows Server 2012 haikus… here’s another for the collection! –M Advanced Storage Needs Storage Spaces next gen RAID Volumes grow with ease
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Friday Afternoon Haiku
I still have a couple of haiku from my session last week… here’s one to end the week with! –M Shared Nothing migrate VMs move effortlessly Hosts can stand alone
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Windows Server IT Camps: Server 2012!
Although our events are usually quite well attended, few have ever been as well received as the IT Camps that we’ve been holding across the country since last January. To date we’ve held Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Virtualization Camps , Windows Server 2012 Install Camps , Private Cloud Camps with Windows Server 2008 R2…
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Haiku is the greatest form of flattery
This will be my last haiku on Windows Server 2012 of the week. It has been a great week that has best been experienced seventeen syllables at a time. However if you want to experience true greatness, download the eval of Windows Server 2012 and see for yourself the power of the cloud OS! Today’s…
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The Haikus continue–You are getting in on it!
Following my first two published haikus on Windows Server 2012, I got my first couple of submissions from you! Sean Kearney, Canada’s foremost PowerShell MVP and overall enthusiast, sent me a few poems of his own. Here is the first, with two more coming (thus far, and for those of us who know Sean, there…
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The Haiku Goes On…
Yesterday I began my journey to improve the world through haikus about Windows Server 2012. Here is my second Windows Server 2012 haiku! And remember… if you like the poem, you will love the product! Download your evaluation copy today! Also… if you have a poem about Windows Server, Hyper-V, Windows 8, or Office 2013…
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Windows Server 2012 Haiku
In 2009 there was a contest to write haiku about Windows Server 2008R2. On Monday I was in a meeting with a colleague who reminded me of this, and I went back to my blog to see if I could find my original entries (A Windows 2008 R2 Haiku!). It got me thinking… what would…
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Following My Own Advice: New DCs at SWMI
Earlier this year I published an article in which I told you that it was okay to virtualize your domain controllers; however in the piece I opposed the idea of doing a P2V (physical to virtual) migration of them, or to upgrade them from one version of the OS to another. This weekend I followed…
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From Server Core to GUI to… MinShell?
This post was originally written for the Canadian IT Pro Connection blog, and can be seen there at http://blogs.technet.com/b/canitpro. In Windows Server 2008 we were introduced to a revolutionary way to install Windows Server: Server Core. Server Core may look boring – there’s nothing to it except the command prompt – but to an IT…
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A new Server Means New Books… where should you start?
With the recent launch of Windows Server 2012 comes a new slate of books. Many IT pros will automatically reach for the updated version of the book they liked for the previous iteration of the OS, and there are many to choose from. I doubt there are too many successful books on Windows Server 2008…
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