Mar 15, 2016 | Windows Server 2012 |
The following is a short guide for promoting a Windows Server 2012 Machine to be a domain controller. This assumes that there is no existing forest or domain. My reason for doing this is to create a test enviornment using virtual machines on Oracle Virtual Box....
Nov 9, 2012 | Windows 2008, Windows Server 2012 |
Configuring Hyper-V on a Windows Server 2012 is really simple and straight forward. Its a very similar process on Windows Server 2008 R2 too. If you want to do this on virtual machine then you need to setup the VMware Workstation so it hides the fact a hypervisor is...
Nov 8, 2012 | Hyper-V, Windows 2008, Windows Server 2012 |
When working with new technology, if you are like me you might like to setup virtual machines to learn the technology and its new features. I use VMware Workstation as my virtual machine hypervisor, installed on a Windows 7 laptop. With the release of Windows Server...
Nov 7, 2012 | Windows Server 2012 |
I have been exploring Windows 2012 over the past week or so. Things look a little different to previous versions of Windows Server more on that later…This is just a short post to show how you go about shutting down or restarting a Windows 2012 server because on...
Nov 6, 2012 | Windows Server 2012 |
Over the past few weeks I have been doing some work with Windows Server 2012 and learned a few little tips and tricks that I’m going to share with you this week. Hence the title of the post. Windows 2012 Week. This week we are going to be looking at How to restart and...
Sep 4, 2012 | Windows, Windows Server 2012 |
I haven’t paid too much attention to this version of windows yet, but I have just been reading up on some of the Hyper-v improvements in Windows Server 2012. It does seem to have a lot of new features that could be useful for DBA running SQL Server in a virtual...
