Aidan Finn, IT Pro

[...] As I have done with Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2, I am going to do my best to list out and document (level 100 to begin with) the [...]

[...] The big news of the last few days was the announcement that the next version of “Windows Server and System Center” won’t be released until 2016. This is quite disappointing. Windows Server [...]

[...] last night, Microsoft released the technical preview releases for the Threshold generation of Windows Server and System Center, as well as Windows 10. Maybe by now you’ve started your downloads and [...]

[...] Here’s the Microsoft updates from the last few days. Windows Server Advances in Active Directory since Windows Server 2003: Features that people have been asking [...]

[...] Welcome to the “Happy New Year 2015” edition of my Microsoft News posts. I hope you have a nice time off from work – it FLEW by for me; I could do with a [...]

It’s the calm before the storm of announcements from TechEd Europe 2014. Window Server Step-By-Step – Creating a Windows 2012 R2 Lab in Azure: Do [...]

We’re getting close to Christmas and Microsoft is starting to wind down for the year. Here’s a mostly-Azure report for the last few days. Hyper-V [...]

Things have quietened down after the Windows 10 and HoloLens news, and Azure is back to dominating this post. Windows Server Distributed File System N [...]

[...] I am in the midst of finishing off my presentation for TechEd Europe 2014, CDP-B329 From Demo to Reality: Best Practices Learned from Deploying Windows Server 2012 [...]

[...] Azure educational events. And in addition to that, I’ve been preparing my session for TechEd Europe, starting with the keynote at 08:30 in Barcelona (Spain, […] [...]

[...] This is the last of my news posts before TechEd Europe. Expect crazy flurries of news on Tuesday morning during the keynote. I’ll be live blogging so [...]

[...] Press F5 to refresh this page and get the latest updates from the keynote. Welcome to TechEd Europe 2014, blogged live to you by me from Barcelona, Spain. It’s early, I got in to near of the [...]

Microsoft’s patch woes continue. A September update for Lync was pulled this week. Please: do not approve updates immediately; wait 1 month and let [...]

The positive highlight for me is the excellent TechNet article on managing tiered Storage Spaces. The lowlight was the unannounced price changes in Az [...]

There’s not all that much news to cover this morning. Oh … hold on … Hyper-V Hyper-V Virtual Switch Performance – Dynamic VMQ: A feature desig [...]

The dust has settled a little bit after the craziness of the past few days. Here’s some regular news. Windows Server Windows Server Technical Previe [...]

As promised at Teched Europe 2014, I am sharing each of the PowerShell scripts that I used to drive my feature demos in my session. The first of these [...]

The second demo in my presentation focused on being able to export running virtual machines. We can also export a checkpoint to create a merged export [...]

My third demo at TechEd Europe 2014 focused on Resource Metering, enabling granular reporting of per-VM resource utilisation, primarily for the purpos [...]

The 4th of my 10 demos at TechEd North America 2014 was based on Enhanced Session Mode and all the RemoteFX via the VMBus goodness that it provides ad [...]

[...] I am live blogging. My battery is also low so I will blog as long as possible (hit refresh) but I will not last [...]

[...] I am live blogging. My battery is also low so I will blog as long as possible (hit refresh) but I will not last [...]

[...] I am live blogging this session so refresh to see the latest. Speaker: Siddhartha Roy Software-Defined Storage [...]

[...] I am live blogging this so hit refresh to see more Speaker: Mark Russinovich, CTO of Azure Stuff Everyone Knows [...]

[...] (from WS2012 R2 to vNext), we will temporarily have a mixture of WS2012 R2 hosts and Windows Server vNext hosts. This is referred to as mixed mode. To avoid issues, the cluster will either: Run [...]

[...] Carsten Rachfahl (also a Hyper-V MVP) recorded a video interview with me to talk about Windows Server vNext and some of our favourite new features. Technorati Tags: Hyper-V,Virtualisation,WIndows [...]

[...] : Bala Rajagopalan & Rajeev Nagar. The technology and concepts that you will see in Windows Server vNext […] [...]

I am live blogging this session so refresh to see the latest. Speaker: Siddhartha Roy Software-Defined Storage gives you choice. It’s a breadth offe [...]

[...] Server? RDS in the next version of Windows Server builds on a strong foundation (WS2012 and WS2012 R2) and adds support for the scenarios included in this post. Whitepaper – Building High [...]

[...] Server is that upgrading a cluster has been a royal pain in the arse. Previous to the release of WS2012 R2, there was only one process: build a new cluster (either by buying new hardware or draining a [...]

[...] Shared VHDX was introduced in WS2012 R2 to enable easier and more flexible deployments of guest clusters; that is, a cluster that is [...]

[...] is tied into Cluster Rolling Upgrade. When we are doing a rolling upgrade of a cluster (from WS2012 R2 to vNext), we will temporarily have a mixture of WS2012 R2 hosts and Windows Server vNext hosts. [...]

[...] ” to split. No, not leave, but divide into two. Hyper-V Hyper-V did not find virtual machines to import from the location . The operation failed with error code ‘32784’: Didier [...]

[...] network-isolated and the cluster heartbeat times out before the mistake is noticed Virtual machines fail over Great, right? HA kicked in? That’s good … right!?!?! Ummm maybe not. Let me [...]

[...] The second demo in my presentation focused on being able to export running virtual machines. We can also export a checkpoint to create a merged export. And then we can import a VM to [...]

[...] easier and more flexible deployments of guest clusters; that is, a cluster that is made from virtual machines. The guest cluster allows you to make services highly available, because sometimes a HA [...]