Items related specifically to Windows Server 2012 R2
What is the difference between knowledge and wisdom?
Is it as Miles Kington said, “Knowledge is knowing the tomato is a fruit, wisdom is not putting it in your fruit salad”. Or is knowledge learning by your experience, and wisdom is learning through other people’s experiences? Let’s make this post use the second option, and discuss what was observed on an recent(ish) trip.
The crux of this tale i… Read the rest “Case Of the Disappearing GUI”
AD FS 2012 R2 provides an interesting feature called Extranet Lockout Protection, where the intent is to protect AD accounts from malicious lockout from external access attempts. Previous versions of AD FS had no native mechanism to protect AD from such hammering attempts. For details on the feature please review this post.
One issue that can occur when extranet lockout pro… Read the rest “AD FS 2012 R2 – An Error Occurs When BadPwdCount Not Set”
One of the popular topics lately has revolved around the Hyper-V Did Not Find Virtual Machines To Import error. This issue can arise when we try and import a VM into Windows Server 2012 R2 or 8.1 which was originally exported from Windows Server 2008 or 2008 R2. Such exported VMs from 2008 or 2008 R2 use a .exp file to hold the exported VM's configuration. The issue is discussed in detail in the… Read the rest “How To Import Windows 2008 R2 VM To Windows 2012 or 8.1 Using Boot To VHD”
As announced on the Windows Server blog last month, the team has released Windows Server 2012 R2 for General Availability. Download the Windows Server 2012 R2 evaluation or use our free Windows Server 2012 R2 Virtual Labs to test the product online without installation.
Then, learn directly from Microsoft's product experts with a series of new Windows Server 2012 R2 courses on Microsoft Virtual Acade… Read the rest “Free Microsoft Virtual Academy Courses For Server 2012 R2”
A picture says a thousand words. This is one of the reasons that the various architecture posters are so popular as they provide an easy way to visualise the Hyper-V stack.
Updated posters are now available for Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V. In addition to the architecture poster, there are other smaller bite sized posters on the below topics:
Back in May 2013, we discussed an issue which caused the Hyper-V Did Not Find Virtual Machines To Import error. Well, as mentioned in that blog post there are a few reasons for this error message being displayed and it does depend on the versions of Hyper-V in use.
There were some comments posted (thanks again for that by the way!) which mentioned an issue with importing VMs into Windows Server 201… Read the rest “Windows Hyper-V 2012 & 8.1 Hyper-V Did Not Find Virtual Machine to Import”