Happy New Year! I’m back at work after a much-needed vacation. Check out the blogs from the last couple of weeks, discussing new KBs, the complete documentation for Windows Server 2012 R2 in downloadable form, a new comparison of application virtualization approaches, practical applications for PowerShell, and a new book on IPv6!

Happy reading,

Christa

App-V

Ruben Sprujit

• Application Virtualization Smackdown: Head-to-head analysis of Cameyo, Citrix, Numecent, Microsoft, Spoon, Symantec and VMware: 2014 edition

Cluster

Philip Elder

• Repeat After Me: SATA Does Not Belong In Servers Part Deux

• Windows Server 2012 R2: Intel PROSet Install Error: No Intel Adapters Present

• Hyper-V: Number of NUMA Nodes on a Dual Intel Xeon E5-2630 R2208GZ4GC

Robert Smit

• Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 9.0 #MAP #MSA

• Windows Server 2012R2 StorageSpaces Minimal DiskSize 4GB #winserv #StorageSpaces #guidance

Directory Services

Jorge de Almeida Pinto

• (2013-12-17) Important Changes To The Forefront Product Line

• (2013-12-19) Selective Authentication Broken In W2K12R2 – To Be Fixed

Mike Kline

• Complete Windows 2012 & 2012 R2 Documentation

Roberto di Lello

• Windows Server 2008 R2: DirectAcces una alternativa a la VPN (Laboratorio) {Parte 1}

• Windows Server 2008 R2: DirectAcces una alternativa a la VPN (Laboratorio) {Parte 2}

File System/Storage

Dennis Martin

• Demartek Interview - When Does 16 Gbps Fibre Channel Make Sense?

Group Policy

Matthias Wolf

• Group Policy Preferences und der Internet Explorer 11

Hyper-V

Aidan Finn

• Corrupted Memory Dump When You Obtain Full Memory Dump From A VM On WS2012 Or W2008R2 Cluster

• Linux Integration Services Version 3.5 For Hyper-V Is Released

• Disk2VHD Version 2.0 AKA Disk2VHDX!

• KB2761899 – Hyper-V VMMS Fails When Dynamicportrange Is Changed On WS2012

Carsten Rachfal

• MSMQ Eventlog Fehler im Failover Cluster

• Microsoft Microsoft ITCamp CloudOS

• Microsoft Virtualisierungs Podcast Folge 34: Veranstaltungen

Didier Van Hoye

• Failed Live Migrations with Event ID 21502 Planned virtual machine creation failed for virtual machine ‘VM Name’: An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host. (0×80072746) Caused By Wrong Jumbo Frame Settings

PowerShell

Don Jones

• My outline for accelerated PowerShell training

• Using Install-WindowsFeature with Offline Source

Jeff Wouters

• PowerShell – A quick way to write content plain text to a file

• Set domain runas account for SQL Server Management Pack in SCOM

• I will be a judge at the PowerShell Scripting Games – Winter 2014

Jeffery Hicks

• Friday Fun: Does Anyone Really Know What Time It Is?

Ravikanth C

• #PSTip Copying folders using Copy-VMFile cmdlet in Windows Server 2012 R2 (Hyper-V)

Remote Desktop Services

Freek Berson

• RDV Team: Resolution and Scaling Level Updates in RDP 8.1

Nicholas Dille

• Useful Features in Remote Desktop Services for Cloud-Based Labs

Setup, Deployment, and Patching

Mikael Nystrom

• Nice to Know – Getting Hardware info(iLO) data using native PowerShell (and no need for credentials)

• PowerShell is King – Convert WIM to VHD/VHDX with support for Gen 1 and Gen 2 (BIOS/UEFI) and then some…

• Nice to Know–Getting Make and Model using CMD or PowerShell

• PowerShell Is King – Deploying Windows To Go devices using PowerShell

• Nice to Know – Adding the missing Disk performance counters in task manager in Windows Server 2012 R2

• Nice to Know – Where is the links to RSAT for Windows 7, 8, 8.1?

• PowerShell Is King – Using PowerShell to manage WDS in Windows Server 2012 R2

• Nice to Know–Upgrading Storage Spaces 2012 to 2012 R2 is easy (and works)

• PowerShell is King – Create a webpage containing LTI/ZTI Deployment issues with information and links to logs

• OS Deployment – Out Of Band install of Windows Server 2012 R2 Using MDT,WDS and PowerShell

Windows Server for Small and Medium Business

Amy Babinchak

• Exchange 2010 doesn’t free up ram–updated

Elvis Gustin

• Not able to backup Generation 2 VM

Other

Edward Horley

• IPv6 is like global warming

• Practical IPv6 for Windows Administrators is available!