UPDATED: March 2018 If you have worked on Windows 8 or newer, you will know that Microsoft has removed the F8 boot functionality. They did this to decrease boot times. What is odd is that they applied this logic to servers; I would not have. Regardless the F8 Safe Mode Read more…
In a word, VM’s. The only difference (other than price) is the number of VM’s you can use. Data Center provides unlimited and Standard provides 2. Below is Microsofts conciese explaination of the differences in the versions which I copied from: microsoft.com/licensing/about-licensing/windowsserver2012.aspx#tab=2 Datacenter Datacenter edition is ideal for customers that Read more…
I recently took a full day Windows Server 2012 course and I prep’d for it by installing the Beta and making the following list of questions, which Microsoft staff answered at various points during the day: Q: Can HyperV live migrate without System Center 2012 A: Yes, just right click Read more…
This video covers many important features of HyperV version 3 which will be included in Windows Server 2012 as well as Windows 8 desktop, such as: the new VHD format is VHDx and supports upto 16TB multiple VHDx’s can be “pooled” into one virtual disk, up to 64TB in size Read more…