Hi it is Bruce again! Night 27. Some of you might be wondering why I am doing a blog on Server Manager. Well, in Windows Server 2012 it is all new! The Server Manager is designed to be your primary console. Microsoft has designed this new console to be...

Night 26 and I’m still studying. Tonight I am looking at Hyper-V Features that have not already covered. Microsoft has really packed a lot of new features into Hyper-V. Just look below at what has been added: Automation - PowerShell includes...

Hi Bruce here again! Night 25 only 5 nights left in my quest. Tonight I am learning about Clustered Shared Volumes. Microsoft first introduced CSV in 2008R2 since then Microsoft has improved on it. CSV in Failover clustering allow multiple nodes in a...

Night 24, Tonight I am looking at a feature in Failover Clustering called VM Monitoring. This feature allows you to monitor the VMs running on your cluster. If you detect the VM is in an unhealthy state you can take recovery action. You can also look...

Night 23, by now some of you may be thinking about installing Windows Server 2012. Well, you are going to have to make a choice. Which user interface do you want? Your choices are: Server core installation – Command Window and PowerShell ...

Night 22, I am going strong and still studying. Bruce here! Tonight I am looking at Scale-Out File Servers. Sometimes known as Active-Active. Scale-Out File Servers is a great choice when your applications keeps files open for a long amount of time, like...

Day 21, It’s Bruce again. Tonight I am looking at Hyper-V Dynamic Memory. We first introduced Dynamic Memory in 2008 R2. Since then we have improved on the feature. Below are some facts I discovered about Dynamic Memory during my studies tonight...

Wow I can’t believe I have been at this for 20 days! Tonight I am learning Remote Desktop Services. I have learned some cool new facts about RDS in 2012. Let me share some of the things I have seen tonight: Active/Active RD Connection Broker...

Hi, its Bruce again, Day 19 - Wow so much to learn! Tonight I am learning IP Address Management (IPAM). IPAM is a new feature that allows us to manage DHCP and DNS servers centrally. Here are some facts I learned about IPAM IPAM provides centralized...

Bruce again, Day 18 and I’m Still Here! Tonight I am learning DHCP Server High Availability. We have two new features for DHCP, a new failover and policy based IP address management features. In my studying I found two great walk troughs of the...

Bruce again, Day 17 and I’m going strong. Tonight I am learning NIC Teaming and SMB Multichannel. Finally we have NIC teaming as part of the Windows Server 2012. As long as your Ethernet Adapter meet the Windows Logo requirements we support NIC...

Day 16 of my 30 day quest to learn Windows Server 2012! It’s Bruce again. Tonight I am looking at Hyper-V Replica. This looks to be a great solution for small and medium business for disaster recovery. Basically in the box you have the ability to...

Day 15, the half-way point on my quest. Yup Bruce is still doing it! Tonight I’m studying Virtual Machine Live Migration, Storage Migration, and Simplified imports. This topic can be broken down it to many scenarios: Live migration on non...

Bruce here again, day 14 on my journey! Tonight I’m studying Group Managed Service Accounts. If you remember in 2008 r2 Microsoft introduced Managed Service accounts. These provided us with a Service account that would provide automatic password...

Bruce here again, day 13 on my journey! It was really hard to sit down tonight and study. But, I powered through and started. Tonight I’m looking at some new user interfaces for Active Directory - “Recycling bin”, “Fine Grain Password”...

Bruce here again, day 12 on my journey! Yes I know it’s Friday night. But this is my quest. Tonight I am looking into Data Deduplication . This looks to be a great way to save on Disk space. So far I have learned we can save anywhere form 2:1...

Hi, it is Bruce here. Tonight I spent hours getting my new test box up and running. It’s running with 2012, Hyper V and now has 12 VM running on it. Now it is time to take a break and look into Store Spaces. It took me a little while to understand...

Bruce is blogging again, it is now day 10, one third of my voyage is over! With the release of Windows Server 2012 we all have to start learning the new features of the product. This night I am studying Resilient File System. Below I highlighted what...

Day 9 and the quest continues! With the release of Windows Server 2012 we all have to start learning the new features of the product. This night I am studying iSCSI. Below I highlighted what is new in iSCSI and listed some resources to bring you to speed...

Tonight starts week 2 of my quest! Bruce again! With the release Windows Server 2012 we all have to start learning the new features of the product. This night I am studying Group Policy. Below I highlighted what is new in Group Policy and listed some...

Day seven on my quest! Bruce here! With the release Windows Server 2012 we all have to start learning the new features of the product. This night I am studying Cluster Aware Updating. Below are some resources to bring you to speed at the same time. ...

Saturday after and it is Bruce again! I need to get my studying done before the OSU game. With the release Windows Server 2012 we all have to start learning the new features of the product. This night I am studying Flexible Authentication Secure Tunneling...

It’s, Bruce! With the release Windows Server 2012 we all have to start learning the new features of the product. It is Friday night and I studying Deferred Index Creation. Below are some resources to bring you to speed at the same time. This...

Hi, it is Bruce again! With the release Windows Server 2012 we all have to start learning the new features of the product. So tonight I am studying about RID improvements. Below are some resources to bring you to speed at the same time. These improvements...

Hi, Bruce here! With the release Windows Server 2012 we all have to start learning the new features of the product. So tonight I am studying an Active Directory-Based Activation. Below are some resources to bring you to speed at the same time. This...