Free Windows Server 2012 Training

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May 262012
 

The release of Server 2012 is just around the corner.  The Microsoft Certified Community Connection has a great opportunity to learn more about it.  Microsoft is holding a a free training session on June 20-21, 2012 from 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM CST.  Check out the course summary below on what is going to be covered.

COURSE OUTLINE

(http://mctreadiness.com/MicrosoftCareerConferenceRegistration.aspx?pid=323)

Day 1 Morning: Beyond Virtualization

• Learn about the game changers in the next release of the Hyper-V role on Windows Server 2012
- Scale, CPU, RAM, Cores, etc.
- Networking Switch (recorded demo hopefully)
- NUMA and performance
- Hyper-V over SMB and Hyper-V over RDMA
- Replication
- Shared Nothing Live Migration
- Live Storage Migration
- Moving VM from test to a production cluster without downtime
• Massive scale increases, networking improvements, replication and disaster recovery is all in the box
- IP Address Virtualization
- IP Address Virtualization with SCVMM 2012 SP1

Day 1 Afternoon: Manageability

• Learn about how you can manage a few systems up to a hundred systems – all from one console
- Server Manager
- DAC… and related topics
- Installing roles in offline VHDs
• Server Core installs scaring you off? Learn about all your installation and management options
- Moving from Core-MiniShell-Full UI and back again
• Windows PowerShell automation and management at scale – all with built in tools
- PowerShell ISE and command simplification
- PowerShell new features and new PowerShell replacements for common commands
- Automating OS level tasks, IP addresses, etc.
• Clustering—Cluster-aware updating
• Networking
- Network Teaming and network configuration
- SMB MultiChannel and RDMA

Day 2 Morning: Storage

• Learn how Continuous Availability of File Services improves workload reliability and performance
- Setup HA File Server; SMB Failover
- Running SQL over SMB; Running Hyper-V over SMB
• Storage groups, disk provisioning, iSCSI and SAN integration
- Storage Spaces
- Built-in ISCSI; Boot from ISCSI
- DeDup
- Windows Online Backup

Day 2 Afternoon: Remote Users

• Remote connectivity options for your workforce
- DA; Offline Domain Join and DA
- DA simplified Setup; Possible DA Multi-Site
• VDI and Remote Desktop Services deployment and changes
- User level disks
- Pooled / Private VDI Setup
- VDI Quick Setup
- Multi-Touch RDP

Additional Information
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Turning Off Smart Screen In Windows 8

 IT Admin Tips, Windows 8  No Responses »
May 182012
 

There is a new security feature in Windows 8 called smart screen.  This new level of security can help prevent unknown computer programs from running on your computer.  I ran into a situation where I wanted to disable the smart screen feature.   Below are the steps needed to complete in order to turn it off.

1.  Open up the control center.

Windows 8 Control Center

 

2.  Click on Action Center

Click On Action Center

 

3. In the left pane click on “Change Windows SmartScreen Settings”

Left Hand Column, Click On Change Windows Smart Screen Settings

 

4.  Select the option for how you would like Windows SmartScreen to handle unrecognized apps.

Windows SmartScreen Options

5.  Select Ok to close the dialog box.

6.  You can also choose to disable message so you will not get the security warning in the desktop tray.

Click Turn off messages about Windows SmartScreen

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Driverquery.exe Command Line Tool

 IT Admin Tips, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008  No Responses »
Jan 152012
 

System administrators sometimes need to be able to produce a list of drivers that are installed on their system.  Driveryquery.exe is an excellent command line tool from Microsoft to accomplish this.  This tool will give you a report on all of the current device drivers that are loaded on your system.  The command line tool also gives you several options on the information that it will display.  Below is a screenshot that shows all of the options available for running Driverquery.exe.

Driverquery.exe From Microsoft

Driverquery.exe From Microsoft

 

Examples Of Driverquery.exe

This example will pipe the information from driverquery.exe to a txt file on the drive.
C:\driverquery.exe > C:\driverqueyr.txt

This example will format the output into a list view.
C:\driverquery.exe /fo list

This example will turn on verbose output for more information.
C:\driverquery.exe /V

This example will show drivers that are currently running.
C:\driverquery.exe /v | findstr Running

 

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