In this post series I started here with a release date announced in Windows Server Blog (by the way it was announced yesterday (1st of August) that Windows Server 2012 is RTM today), then I start highlighting the main areas of enhancements that I will focus on in this series starting from Virtualization...

In this post series I started here http://blogs.technet.com/b/meamcs/archive/2012/07/10/windows-server-2012-part1-release-date.aspx with a release date announced in Windows Server Blog and highlighted the main areas of enhancements that I will focus on in this series starting from Virtualization Enhancements...

I was so excited when I read today that Windows Server 2012 Release Date (RTM version) is the first week of August 2012 and the product will be generally available to customers worldwide in September 2012 as clearly announced in Windows Server Blog here http://blogs.technet.com/b/windowsserver/archive...

Windows Server 2012 Release Candidate (RC): Takes you beyond virtualization Delivers the power of many servers with the simplicity of one Opens the door to every app on any cloud Enables the modern work style http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/hh670538.aspx?ocid&wt...

A quick description of fine grained password policies is that you can specify multiple password policies within a single domain. You can use fine-grained password policies to apply different restrictions for password and account lockout policies to different sets of users in a domain One of the nice...

Here is the second part of Windows Server 2012 Direct Access blog series. Part1: http://blogs.technet.com/b/meamcs/archive/2012/05/03/windows-server-2012-direct-access-part-1-what-s-new.aspx In the first post we discussed what’s new and what are the design differences between new and previous version...

  Converged Fabrics tends to simplify data center management by consolidating all communication (Management, Guest access, LiveMigration, iSCSI, CSV and Cluster heartbeat & CSV) onto a single fabric for ease of management and better utilization of high availability features like Teaming. In...

Direct Access feature was introduced with Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 Client computers. Direct Access overcomes the limitations of VPNs by automatically establishing a bi-directional connection from client computers to the corporate network so users never have to think about connecting to the...

As desktop Experience feature is being relocated to be under User interface and infrastructure many people might believe it’s no longer there ! but it’s and below screenshot shows the exact location of desktop experience feature.

Before Windows Server 8 and PowerShell 3.0, to manage your local, virtual or remote disks there were no native PowerShell cmdlets. You had only below choices; - Using Diskpart (Easy for basic tasks but not flexible) - Using WMI (Flexible but hard to use) Diskpart has its own arguments and does not permit...

One another great feature of Windows Server 8 is ability to run your PowerShell commands on your browser from anywhere. This is really amazing feature. While PowerShell is becoming a “must” tool for almost all Microsoft products, using it on your mobile phone or browser will add great value to our day...

Active Directory Recycle Bin helps minimize directory service downtime by enhancing your ability to preserve and restore accidentally deleted Active Directory objects without restoring Active Directory data from backups, restarting Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS), or rebooting domain controllers...

Network adapter teaming, also known as load balancing and failover (LBFO), allows multiple network adapters on a computer to be placed into a team for the following purposes: §   Bandwidth aggregation §   Traffic failover to prevent connectivity loss in the event of a network component failure...

Windows Server “8” Beta introduces Scale-Out File Server with features that let you store server application data, such as a Hyper-V virtual machine files, on file shares, and obtain a similar level of reliability, availability, manageability, and high performance that you would expect from...

One of the very interesting features of Windows Server 8 Beta is the ability to install your server with full GUI and do all of your required configurations and then remove the GUI to be server core. Same operation can be done the other way around as some people may install server core and realize that...

iSCSI Software Target is now part of windows Server 8 Beta Roles and features, In this post i will walkthrough installing and configuring iSCSI software target. Important Notes : - iSCSI Target server now is integrated with Windows Failover clustering to provide HA for iSCSI target server, however...

PowerShell 3.0 is shipped with Windows 8. We are still experiencing some of the great features of Windows Server 8, but PowerShell 3.0 also brings many new features. Thanks to PowerShell Product Team for such a great innovation. In this blog post, I will discuss about some of simplified syntaxes. PowerShell...

One of the major feature of Windows Server 8 is Hyper-V 3.0 This new version of Microsoft virtualization platform brings great improvements and features. In this blog post we’ll cover a couple of Windows Server 8 Hyper-V PowerShell command lets. Using PowerShell cmdlet will reduce most of day-to-day...

Here is the video version of my previous Storage Migration article;  Download link">http://blogs.technet.com/b/meamcs/archive/2012/03/23/windows-server-8-truly-live-storage-migration.aspx   Download Link: Here Format: mp4 Duration: 08:09

Beta version of Windows 8 went to live on 29th February. Development team announced that it had reached over 1 million downloads within the first 24 hours. Considering this is a pre-release software, 1 million is an incredible start for Microsoft. I believe lots of you are still experiencing new features...