Windows Server 2012

Michael Otey discusses Hyper-V Replica as an option for protecting business-critical virtual machines from site or system outages.

Aidan Finn explains how to orchestrate and order the failover of virtual machines in a Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V cluster using Cluster Group Sets.

DSC configurations require logical thinking through the steps necessary to make changes to a server’s configuration. Learn my process for developing a DSC configuration.

Aidan Finn describes a common WHEA error that can be found in Hyper-V and provides a workaround.

Aidan Finn shows us how to implement Storage Spaces inside a Windows Server 2012 R2 Azure virtual machine to aggregate the capacity and performance potential of multiple data disks.

Aidan Finn serves up tips for working with Offloaded Data Transfer (ODX) to enhance storage transfers in Windows Server and Hyper-V.

Aidan Finn shows us how to boot a Hyper-V virtual machine off of a network by using the preboot execution environment (PXE).

Learn how to downsize to an ‘extra small’ server core Microsoft Azure VM in this how-to by Russell Smith.

Learn how to get started with Microsoft’s free Security Compliance Manager (SCM) tool and how it can be used to manage security and Group Policy settings.

Aidan Finn shows us how to manually install a guest operating system (OS) in a Hyper-V virtual machine (VM).