Does your datacenter go bump in the night? Are you haunted by the thought of managing thousands of processes that could be automated? Well boys and girls Dr. Scripto and his faithful sidekick are here to help combat Scripto-Nite and provide us with their...

Working with Hyper-V for the past several years and even with Virtual PC and Virtual Server, Microsoft has come a long way in the virtualization space. We also have some strong competitors with solid technologies, in VMware, Citrix and others. However...

As our need to provide services and applications to our client desktops becomes more and more important, we turn to products like Remote Desktop Services in Windows Server 2012 to provide these features for our clients.  Wether you use RDS for just...

Just a quick post this morning and it is geared to everyone running in Disney or anywhere it gets hot.  I had a great run on Saturday morning, and felt strong throughout the 15 miles.  My one thought when the alarm went off Sat. at 5:30 am was...

Yes I mean that chkdsk and I mean not only your small volumes but I also mean your very large volumes, up to 64TB.  Traditionally when you created your volumes on your drives you keep them relatively small, because repair operations like chkdsk where...

In today’s post Keith takes a look at a fantastic alternative to provide failover for your DHCP environments.  In prior versions of Windows Server you had the ability to cluster or use split scopes to provide failover.  In Windows Server 2012...

We have all at some time or another virtualized a domain controller, either for test or production.  Most likely sometime during that time your reverted the system back from a snapshot and wondered why did the system stop replicating process. ...

One of the new seucirty features in Windows Server 2012, is Dynamic Access Control.  This is a new way to secure your files and resources on your server.  It truly is a great new way to work through your server security.  Check out the...

In Windows Server 2008r2 there was a new tool introduced, called the Active Directory Administrative Console (ADAC).  This tool was designed in several scenarios including easy search of Active Directory, resetting passwords, etc.  The ADAC...

I know we all want to remotely manage our servers because the datacenters are just too cold!  Unless it is a hot day then of course you will “hardware maintenance” to do.  In a nutshell everyone wants to remotely manage your servers.  I...

One of the long awaited features for the Windows Server environment has been IP address management.  For years you have had to look at 3rd party products to do IPAM on our servers.  Well IPAM is now a built in a part of Windows Server 2012 and...

Wow, what a week and what a fun 14 miles.  I ended up having to run the 14 on Friday, and glad I got it in.  Thanks to John and Jimmy for hanging out with me and running, and also had no music.  So this 14 was the longest I have run since...

In prior versions of Windows Server choosing the right version determined what technical capabilities the server provided.  Some versions had clustering some did not, and some just had IIS.  When planning for your server infrastructures, you...

As our server hardware has changed and improved.  So has many of the components critical to the hardware have as well.  Improvements for your NIC’s has seen just amazing improvements.  From being able to do encryption on the card to dramatic...

Having your Virtual machines connect to your production network is vital to the success of your infrastructure.  Windows Server 2012 has included a lot of improvements to the networking environment in Hyper-V.  Specifically the Hyper-V switch...

If you have downloaded and installed Windows Server 2012 you have probably noticed tons of improvements.  One thing you may have not noticed when you first installed the server, if you were not paying attention, you ended up with a Windows Server...

One thing you will notice in today’s post is the word Continuously.  Notice it does not say highly or mostly, but continuously.  While this is still a file share on a clustered environment like we have had in the past.  There have been...

I know what you’re thinking, a post on Server Message Block (SMB), really? Yes really, SMB and storage services in Windows Server 2012 has become a first class citizen. More importantly it is the glue a lot of the roles and features rely on to bring...

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One of the fantastic technologies we introduced with Windows Server 2012 is the ability to have direct access connections for our clients.  Direct access allowed your clients to securely connect to your network without needing a VPN.  Whenever...

So here we are week 7, and last week I had a great week of running until the weekend.  I was just not able to get myself motivated to run the 9 miles.  Normally, I can just wake up and go.  That was the problem this weekend, I could not...

In today’s post we take a look at a new file system in Windows Server 2012.  The resilient file system or ReFS is the new file system is designed to be self correcting and tuning.  It adds a tremendous tool for maintaining your volumes on your...

I know what your thinking, really Matt the task manager.  Yes we are serious, even the task manager has gotten rewritten, and the new one has gotten even more info.  Know if you have brought up the task manger on a Windows 8 or Windows Server...

One of technologies a lot of businesses are looking at is how to work with a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI).  VDI allows you to take a virtual guest system running a client OS run it on a “thin” client type of system.   While this...

Are you storage needs going up or down?  Most likely up.  In Windows Server 2012, there are some great resources to reduce storage space with deduplication.  In today’s post the title really says it all!  From a backup and management...