• Windows Server 2012 Direct Access Part 2–How to Build a Test Lab

    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...
  • Solved: How to move a Hyper-V virtual machine without Exporting it first

    So you have created many virtual machines in Hyper-V manager and suddenly you want to move one of them in a new HDD or just rename the folder holding it, you will find that this is not a trivial task! Hyper-V management service holds an open handle to...
  • Windows Server 2012 Direct Access – Part 1 What’s New

    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...
  • Exchange 2010 Cross-Forest Migration Step by Step Guide – Part I

      This Guide will explain the detailed steps required to do cross forest migration from source forest running Exchange 2003 to target forest running Exchange 2010. Active Directory Migration Tool (ADMT) will be used to migrate user accounts as well...
  • SQL 2012 Failover Cluster Build (Step by Step) – Part 1: Installing SQL 2012

    Introduction Recently, my engagements were related to SQL and 2 of which were to build SQL failover clusters on based on Windows 2008R2/SQL 2008R2 SP1 and Windows 2012/SQL 2012 SP1. In this post, I will share with you my SQL Server 2012 Failover clustering...