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31 Days of our Favorite Things: Windows Server 2012 and Deduplication (Part 12 of 31)

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http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/inetpub/kevinremde/KROmniture.htmIn Windows Server 2012 Microsoft includes many improvements, but also many new capabilities “in the box”.  One of the new things we’re including is built-in support for data deduplication.  “Wait.. you mean like when a process makes more efficient use of the space used on a storage volume by finding all blocks of data that … Continue reading 31 Days of our Favorite Things: Windows Server 2012 and Deduplication (Part 12 of 31)

31 Days of our Favorite Things: Wield the POWER of the SHELL with PowerShell Script Snippets. (Part 11 of 31)

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http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/inetpub/kevinremde/KROmniture.htmToday in our "31 Days of our Favorite Things", my friend and colleague Matt Hester has posted an article about a little-known improvement in the newest version of PowerShell: Script Snippets“PowerShell Script Snippets?  It’s fun to say.  But I’ve never heard of these before.  What are they?That’s what Matt is going to tell you.  But … Continue reading 31 Days of our Favorite Things: Wield the POWER of the SHELL with PowerShell Script Snippets. (Part 11 of 31)

31 Days of our Favorite Things: I got yer document RIGHT HERE, thanks to BranchCache. (Part 10 of 31)

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http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/inetpub/kevinremde/KROmniture.htmMany of you reading my blog are responsible for not only your local users and network and IT infrastructure, but also for supporting those poor folks who work remote branch offices.  And I say “poor folks” in the context of their access to the documents and applications that they would like quicker access to; because … Continue reading 31 Days of our Favorite Things: I got yer document RIGHT HERE, thanks to BranchCache. (Part 10 of 31)

31 Days of our Favorite Things: You want everything, and you want it for FREE? (Part 9 of 31)

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http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/inetpub/kevinremde/KROmniture.htmIn today’s “31 Days of our Favorite Things” series, Matt Hester is giving away the store. “Huh?” Unlike our main competition in the area of virtualization and all things private cloud, Microsoft believes that virtualization is just a ubiquitous part of the datacenter today.  And as such, it should be available and optionally installable as … Continue reading 31 Days of our Favorite Things: You want everything, and you want it for FREE? (Part 9 of 31)

31 Days of our Favorite Things: Network Virtualization in Windows Server 2012 (Part 8 of 31)

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http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/inetpub/kevinremde/KROmniture.htmWhat is virtualization? “It’s when you have a computer that is, um.. virtualized.. and it’s all like ‘Hey.. I’m running on my own hardware’, but really it’s not.” Okay.. what you’ve described there is a kind of virtualization.  I’d call it Machine Virtualization.  And there are other kinds such as Desktop Virtualization and Application Virtualization.  … Continue reading 31 Days of our Favorite Things: Network Virtualization in Windows Server 2012 (Part 8 of 31)

31 Days of our Favorite Things: Yes, there is an “I” in Team. The NIC Team in Windows Server 2012 (Part 7 of 31)

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http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/inetpub/kevinremde/KROmniture.htmHappy Sunday!  It’s my turn again to provide today’s article in our series of “31 Days of our Favorite Things”.  And today I am pleased to introduce to you the topic of NIC Teaming. “’Introduce’?  But, Kevin… I’ve been doing NIC Teaming for years now.” Sure.  But not as a built-in feature of Windows Server.  … Continue reading 31 Days of our Favorite Things: Yes, there is an “I” in Team. The NIC Team in Windows Server 2012 (Part 7 of 31)

31 Days of our Favorite Things: Windows Server 2012 and “Storage Spaces” (Part 6 of 31)

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http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/inetpub/kevinremde/KROmniture.htmHappy Saturday!  But that doesn’t mean we get a break.  We promised 31 days of our favorite things in October, and we’re going to give you 31 days of our favorite things in October.  “Seriously?” Yep.  I hope you had a super weekend, and that you’re reading this on Monday.  (Or even Tuesday if you … Continue reading 31 Days of our Favorite Things: Windows Server 2012 and “Storage Spaces” (Part 6 of 31)

31 Days of our Favorite Things: Windows Server 2012 and Hyper-V Replica (Part 5 of 31)

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http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/inetpub/kevinremde/KROmniture.htmHyper-V in Windows Server 2012 (and in the free Microsoft Hyper-V Server include an easy start to a good disaster recovery solution: Hyper-V Replica.  With Hyper-V Replica you can easily create and maintain an off-line copy – a replica – of a virtual machine on a separate virtualization host.  This means, for example, that if … Continue reading 31 Days of our Favorite Things: Windows Server 2012 and Hyper-V Replica (Part 5 of 31)

31 Days of our Favorite Things: It’s like vMotion, but better. It’s Hyper-V. (Part 4 of 31)

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http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/inetpub/kevinremde/KROmniture.htm Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V, and Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012 include some really exciting and flexible new capabilities for moving virtual machines and their resources (storage) around from here to there – all without any virtual machine down-time.  In today’s installment of our “31 Days of our Favorite Things”, my friend and coworker Keith Mayer contributes a … Continue reading 31 Days of our Favorite Things: It’s like vMotion, but better. It’s Hyper-V. (Part 4 of 31)

31 Days of our Favorite Things: Windows Server 2012 and the shell of POWER! (Part 3 of 31)

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http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/inetpub/kevinremde/KROmniture.htmIn today’s installment of our "31 Days of our Favorite Things" in Windows Server 2012, Matt Hester summarizes the key benefits, plus a couple of really slick improvements available with PowerShell in its newest form.  He specifically focuses on just a couple of his favorites: PowerShell History, and the new Integrated Scripting Environment (ISE), and … Continue reading 31 Days of our Favorite Things: Windows Server 2012 and the shell of POWER! (Part 3 of 31)