Getting to know Hyper-V
Thursday, January 7th, 2010Microsoft has released a document called Getting to Know Hyper-V: A Walkthrough from Initial Setup to Common Scenarios. This guide provides detailed step-by-step walkthroughs for testing Hyper-V with Windows Server 2008 R2 in a preproduction environment. You can use this guide to become familiar with Hyper-V and the process of creating and managing virtual machines. [...]
Windows Server 2008 R2 Feature Components Poster
Monday, December 7th, 2009Windows Server 2008 R2 Feature Components poster provides a visual reference for understanding key technologies in Windows Server 2008 R2. It focuses on Active Directory Domain Services, Hyper-V, Internet Information Services, Remote Desktop Services (including Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)), BranchCache, and DirectAccess technologies. In addition, updates to core file services and server management are illustrated. [...]
Core Configurator 2.0
Thursday, December 3rd, 2009If you’re using Windows Server 2008 R2 Core edition, but you’re too lazy to do all administrative tasks from a command line (Why should I use Server Core?), then Core Configurator 2.0 is the tool for you. It enables you to use Windows Server 2008 R2 Core and do all your administrative tasks from [...]
Free Windows Server 2008 R2 Advanced Training Content
Tuesday, December 1st, 2009Interested in Windows Server 2008 R2? If free eBook Introducing Windows Server 2008 R2 is not enough for you, maybe some free training content will be. Windows Server 2008 R2 Advanced Series is an on-demand series about the advanced features of Windows Server 2008 R2. Topics will include Building a Seamless Enterprise, Virtualization Enhancements, [...]
Introducing Windows Server 2008 R2 e-book
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009 There is new free e-book from Microsoft available to download: Introducing Windows Server 2008 R2. This e-book has been written by Charlie Russel and Craig Zacker and it has 200 pages. You can download Windows Server 2008 R2 e-book here.
Original post at Khanov blog.
TechNet Virtual Conference
Tuesday, October 20th, 2009The October TechNet Virtual Conference will take place on Friday, October 30th. You’ll be able to see 5 sessions and learn more about Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows 7, Exchange 2010, SQL Server 2008 and System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2. Here is the program:
How to upgrade from Windows Server 2008 to Windows Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V?
Thursday, October 15th, 2009If you have Windows Server 2008 with Hyper-V role installed and running some virtual machines, and you want to upgrade to Windows Server 2008 R2 because you want to utilize all new features in Hyper-V 2.0, then Jeff Loucks can help you with his post Hyper-V: Upgrade to Windows Server 2008 R2 from Windows Server [...]
How to promote Windows Server 2008 machine to domain controller – step-by-step guide
Monday, September 28th, 2009Promoting Windows Server machine to domain controller is one of tasks that (almost) every system administrator had done in his life. Using dcpromo tool, promoting Windows Server 2008 R2 machine to domain controller is quite easy, and in this post I will show you how step-by-step promoting Windows Server 2008 R2 operating system to [...]
How to install Windows Server 2008 R2 in virtual machine?
Monday, September 7th, 2009After reading my post How to create new Hyper-V virtual machine?, you realized that playing with virtualization and virtual machines doesn’t have to be very difficult. You just have to follow few easy steps and there it is, you have your virtual operating system. But wait! We still don’t have virtual operating system. We have [...]
System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 RTM
Monday, August 24th, 2009 I just got this message from SCVMM Team, this is only one part of it:
System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 has released to manufacturing (RTM’d) and will be generally available (GA) via volume licensing is October 1. A 180-day evaluation version is now available on the Microsoft Download site. You can access [...]