http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/inetpub/kevinremde/KROmniture.htmNear you, that is, if you live in any of the most major cities in the United States. Our team of 11 Technical Evangelists (IT Pro Evangelists) are once again on the road and delivering live, FREE IT Camps for you! We’re bringing you three very compelling topics: What’s new in System Center 2012 SP1, … Continue reading FREE IT Camps Coming to a Location Near YOU!
http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/inetpub/kevinremde/KROmniture.htm Yes indeed! It’s short notice, but I’d love to see about 30+ IT Pros from the area on Thursday, August 30th. We’ll be holding an IT “Mini-Camp”, where we’ll discuss and give you some hands-on time with Windows Server 2012 and the new version of Hyper-V virtualization. Here is the text from the registration … Continue reading TechNet IT “Mini-Camp” Event–August 30, 2012 in Minneapolis (Edina), Minnesota
Jeff asked me for this at a recent TechNet Event… That’s a fair question, Jeff. For several years, I have been promoting TechNet Subscriptions in pretty much every way available to me. It is a great resource that, even if I weren’t a Microsoft Employee, I would yearly purchase for myself. The answer to your … Continue reading TechNet Subscription Discount Code? (So many questions. So little time. Part 44)
The following question was asked by Joobly-Goop (not his real name) at a recent TechNet Event, in the context of our doing a Boot-From-VHD configuration and then dual-booting into the Operating System that was in the Virtual Hard Disk (.VHD) file… I certainly understand your confusion, J.G. (May I call you J.G.?) If I’m running … Continue reading How are you booting into the VHD? (So many questions. So little time. Part 43)
Mike W asks: “When backing up a virtual machine, what files need to be backed up?” ”Do the virtual servers need to be down for the backup?” ”What considerations need to be made when doing a ‘Disaster Recovery’ of a host server?” Well Mike, you sure do ask a lot of questions. And I don’t … Continue reading How do I backup a virtual machine? (So many questions. So little time. Part 42)
At a TechNet Event a couple of months ago, Ken W. asked : “If I'm running many guest VMs, do you recommend NIC teaming additional NICs for guest traffic? Or just adding them and keeping them separate and control per guest settings?” For those of you not familiar with the idea, NIC Teaming is a … Continue reading When is NIC Teaming Useful? (So many questions. So little time. Part 41)
Adam asked this question at a recent TechNet Event… Well, Adam, you’re asking me to share my opinion. At this stage of the release cycle, I’m not sure that I’m allowed to share my own opinion. And of course I want to point you to the blogs that hold the official company stance on … Continue reading Why Metro on a Server Product? (So many questions. So little time. Part 40)
Good question, Todd. And unfortunately I don’t know the details enough to give you a precise answer. But I will say that no matter what Windows Server 2012 has in it, it isn’t a supported platform for the current RTM (Release to Manufacturing) version of System Center 2012. “Why not?” ‘cause it’s in beta – … Continue reading Why .NET 3.5? (So many questions. So little time. Part 39)
This question was asked at a recent TechNet Event where we discussed Server Migration tools: For those of you not familiar with these, the Server Migration tools are best practices and utilities for moving server roles and data from old servers (Are you still running Windows Server 2003?) to the current Windows Server 2008 R2. … Continue reading File Server Migration (So many questions. So little time. Part 38)
Dan, at a recent TechNet Event, noticed that although he can get Hyper-V working on his laptop when it’s running Windows Server 2008 R2, he couldn’t get it going when running the Windows 8 Consumer Preview. SLAT (Second Level Address Translation) is a CPU-based memory indexing technology that greatly increases the performance of virtualization. Intel’s … Continue reading Why can’t I get Hyper-V working in Windows 8? (So many questions. So little time. Part 37)
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