Just a guy – talking about technology … in an uncomplicated way.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVO3SMrnaG8 Well it had to happen and thanks to Heike Ritter @heikeritter it did. Simon May and I grabbed some ice, some water and a bucket and got it done. We nominated some people you might have heard from: Mary Jo Foley (@maryjofoley), Paul Thurrott (@thurrott), Simon Bisson (@sbisson), Mary Branscombe (@marypcbuk), Tom Warren (@tomwarren)…
I am assuming you have used the online graphical portal a bit and now you want to be more productive and start some rudimentary automation. We don’t expect you do use the portal for everything. For an IT Pro – the logical choice is to use PowerShell and work like an admin from your workstation….
(NOTE 3/11/14: clarification on billing with “spending limits feature” has been added. See italicized text in bullet points for additions) No seriously – where do I get it? Do I have to get some sales guy to come and sell it to me? Do I contact a software reseller to sell me a copy? Do…
As you may or may not know – I am a Server Hugger – heck I even have a pin to prove it. But – as I like to take on challenges, I thought I would transition my expertise out of on-premise server architecture and infrastructure and walk on the wild side for a while….
I can’t believe I still get the “TechEd is in Houston? Awww, what am I going to do in Houston during TechEd?”. I was kind of in that boat, since I had never been to Houston except once for an overnight and all I saw was the airport hotel and a training center. Let me…
http://video.ch9.ms/ch9/6a41/9456d129-867c-4e06-830b-51c0d41f6a41/BobCombsHyperVSwitchWS2012R2_mid.mp4 A while back, when Windows Server 2012 was codenamed “Windows Server 8”, I sat down and talked with Bob Combs, a Sr. Program Manager on the Windows Core Networking Team about the newly released “Hyper-V Extensible Switch”. Well, now that Windows Server 2012 R2 has been released and planning has already begun for whatever…
Those of you who know me from my previous job as a Technology Evangelist in Canada know that there is one thing I STONGLY believe in… User Communities of all shapes and sizes. I remember when I first started my job – one of the things we tried to do was gather people of similar…
One of the best parts of my job is talking with IT Professionals / SysAdmins / Students from all over. It doesn’t matter if they are independent IT consultants, staffers / lifers at “company x” or someone just getting started in the IT field – they all at some point ask me about “spinning up…
I’ve been updating my various environments from Windows Server 2012 RTM or Preview releases (build 9431) of Windows Server 2012 R2 to the final bits. On some boxes I just use my scortched earth policy of leveling the partitions and starting from scratch – others I will do an install and use the same partition….
I’ve been rebuilding some of my lab and demo machines running WS2012 R2 preview with RTM bits. As they are Cluster-In-A-Box systems, they have shared disk between them and an already configured Storage Pool. Once I did a clean install one node of the CiB with Windows Server 2012 R2 RTM bits – it sees…