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Can your hardware run Hyper-V 3.0 in Windows 8 and Server 2012?

Note: Learned after this post that SLAT is only *required* for Client Hyper-V on Windows 8... not Server 2012. Awesome! You may be running Hyper-V great on Windows Server 2008 R2 and want to upgrade to Server 2012, or maybe want some Hyper-V goodness in Windows 8 (finally!). But before

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My Take on Windows Server 2012 Licensing FAQ

Here's the licensing summary and the long official licensing FAQ, but I've tried to summarize the important stuff. I find the new licensing much easier to understand then ever before. I issue no guarantees on my ability to correctly read a Microsoft licensing document: Server 2012 only has two editions:

winadmin

HRNUG Jan 2012: Developer + Sysadmin

Presentation on Improving Your System Management and Virtualization Skills Below is a summary of a talk I gave to Hampton Roads .NET User Group in January 2012. 1st Part: Tools Developers Should (but don't) Talk About Developers are usually busy being great developers and just what their systems to work.

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Lync 2010 Virtualization Support Summary

Taken from the Deployment Guide and the Server Virtualization Guide: If you decide to go virtual, Lync only supports Hyper-V R2 or ESX 4.0 platforms. Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V is NOT supported as "A number of enhancements that are critical for running virtualized Lync Server media workloads were implemented

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Using Windows Server 2008 as a client desktop

There are many other posts about the pros/cons of Windows Server 2008 as a client machine/desktop/laptop/workstation. Mostly false claims of faster-then-Vista performance, etc. I'm using it on a laptop in x64 strictly for training purposes (not as my main OS) and had to work out these

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TechEd 2008 ITPro: BOF911 The Physical Datacenter in a Virtual World

I'm hosting my 2nd year of a TechEd ITPro Birds-of-a-Feather session. Didn't attend this BoF last year? Read my post session summary. It's on Wednesday, June 11th at 4:30pm to 5:45pm in S330 E (vCalendar Apt.) The datacenter is rapidly changing as we shift to