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Upgrade Windows 8 Customer Preview to Windows 8 Release Preview ;-)

May 31, 2012

For those who are going to install the Windows 8 Release Preview. You cannot upgrade from Windows 8 Customer Preview. Same for the Windows Server 8 beta to Windows Server 2012 Release Candidate.

Microsoft, PowerShell, Virtualization, Windows, Windows Server

Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V: Convert VHD to VHDX

May 22, 2012

With Windows Server 2012 Microsoft released a new Virtual Disk Format called VHDX. VHDX improves the Virtual Disk in a lot of way. Back in October I wrote a blog post on the improvements of the VHDX Format in…

Microsoft, Windows Server

Windows Server 2012 – Add and Remove GUI

May 16, 2012

Microsoft worked hard on the management of the new Windows Server 2012. In Windows Server 2008 R2 you had to choose during the Installation if the Server is a Windows Server Full Installation (with GUI) or…

Microsoft, PowerShell, Virtualization, Windows, Windows Server

Configure Hyper-V Host Network Adapters Like A Boss

May 2, 2012

If you are working a lot with Hyper-V and Hyper-V Clustering you know that something that takes a lot of time is configure the Hyper-V Host Network Adapters. First because most of the time you have a lot…

Microsoft, PowerShell, System Center, Virtualization, Windows Server

Windows Server 2012: Hyper-V Snapshot Reminder

April 27, 2012

Last year I created a Windows PowerShell script for System Center Virtual Machine Manager which checks all the Virtual Machines for Snapshots and if you have any it will send you an E-Mail and it will…

Microsoft, PowerShell, System Center, Virtualization, Windows, Windows Server

Windows Server 2012: Doing multiple configuration changes on Hyper-V VMs via PowerShell

April 25, 2012

Over the weekend I was Setting up my lab for the RTM of System Center 2012. I created some Windows Server 2008 R2 Virtual Machines on my Windows Server 2012 beta Hyper-V server. After I had…

Hardware, Microsoft, Virtualization, Windows Server

Windows Server 2012 – CDN (Consistent Device Naming)

April 23, 2012

There is a new feature coming with Windows Server 8 called Consistent Device Naming (CDN) which should make life in the datacenter a lot easier. It allows to hardware vendors to consistently name NICs in the BIOS which…

Microsoft, Windows, Windows Server

Windows Server 2012: SMB 2.2 is now SMB 3.0

April 20, 2012

Last September at the Build Conference, Microsoft announced a new version of SMB (Server Message Block protocol), at this time the new Version was called SMB 2.2. Now some days ago at MMS 2012 (Microsoft Management Summit 2012)…

Microsoft, Microsoft Azure, System Center, Virtualization, Windows, Windows Server

News from MMS 2012

April 18, 2012

Yesterday there was the first Keynote at MMS2012 (Microsoft Management Summit). Microsoft made some really amazing announcements. First Microsoft announced the General Global Availability (RTM) of System Center 2012. You can now download it here: http://aka.ms/syscntr …

Microsoft, PowerShell, Virtualization, Windows Server

Windows Server 2012: CSV Cache Benchmark

April 12, 2012

Some days ago I wrote a blog post about how you can enable CSV Cache on the new Windows Server 8 beta. Now a lot of people asked me about some benchmarks. Here a test inside…

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