License key management for virtual machines running in Hyper-V will become automatic in R2. This is definitely a nice and welcome feature but from what I know now it will only be available if your virtualization host is running Windows Datacenter 2012 R2. Plus the only operating system currently listed to support this feature...
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Just in time for Christmas and the New Year the long awaited SP1 for System Center 2012 is available. At least to those of us on Technet and MSDN. I’m a bit late on sending this out since it’s been available on Technet since the 20th of December. It boggled my mind that Microsoft...
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So lets configure NIC Teaming in Powershell now.
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In Windows Server 2012 NIC Teaming, you get to finally have nic teaming functionality built in. The built-in NIC teaming is extremely easy to configure, set and manage. Another important point to make here is that it also supports multiple vendors in the same NIC team.
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The last part I'm going to cover in this series is how to install the Hyper-V role on server core system. This can be done a few different ways so I'll show how to do it using powershell and how it can be done using Server Manager from a remote system.
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In this post we continue with setting up and managing the Hyper-V server core system. Now in order to manage the server core system remotely we need to install the Hyper-V management tools on another server that has a GUI.
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In this part after the installation we can give the system a hostname, ip address and configure DNS. This will all be done from the terminal and powershell. After you have logged into the system with the administrator account here is the process to follow.
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So now with Microsoft Windows Server 2012 available, I figured it would be nice to do a step by step setup and install of getting Hyper-V up and running. The focus here is really to show how you would get Hyper-V setup using the manual installation method. I'll also show how you can use...
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Mitch Tulloch has updated his free ebook on Windows Server 2012 based on the RTM version of the software. This free ebook has much valuable information on the new Windows Server 2012 operating systems platform. It includes both “under-the-hood” information concerning how features work, and strategies, tips, and best practices from experts who have...
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If you didn't hear already Microsoft has released Windows Server 2012. It's been a long time waiting but you can truly use totally redesigned operating system from Microsoft for production workloads without worrying about not getting support. So here is some the information about the editions you can get your hands on.
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