Tag: Windows Server 2012
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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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When I’m Sixty-Four… TERABYTES!
Okay, I am asking for a show of hands: How many of you remember 100MB hard drives? 80? 40? While I remember smaller, my first hard drive was a 20 Megabyte Seagate drive. Note that I didn’t say Gigabytes… Way back then the term Terabyte might have been coined already as a very theoretical term,…
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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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Default File Locations in Hyper-V
This post was originally written for the Canadian IT Pro Connection blog, and can be seen there at http://blogs.technet.com/b/canitpro/archive/2012/09/11/default-file-locations-in-hyper-v.aspx. Note: This article applies equally to the server-side and client-side hypervisor. Although some scenarios may not apply to older versions, the technical steps apply to all versions of Hyper-V released to date. A virtual machine in…
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