MVPDays Session – Designing Hyper-V the Right Way – Building a Cluster in < 20 Minutes
This was a session that I did in Vancouver in September of 2014 at MVPDays. Session –...
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Calgary IT Pro – Designing Hyper-V the Right Way
As requested by the attendees of the presentation tonight. Please find the links to...
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Windows 2003 End of Life (EOL) – Here comes trouble – Our First Windows 2012 R2 Domain Controller (Watch your Hotfixes)
Well we finally got the green light at one of my customers to upgrade them to Windows 2012 R2...
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Routing Mod for Johan’s Hydration Kit
I wanted to show a really cool routing Modification that I have built to Johan’s Hydration...
Read MoreOSDWeek with Johan Arwidmark and Dave Kawula
There are two main technical factors with implementing a new Operating System across your enterprise: Ensuring you have an infrastructure that can support the migration process, and acquiring the expertise to upgrade your end...
Read MoreDeploying Windows 8.1 to SMBs using Nomad Branch Step by Step
In the first post in this series, we created an OSD Task Sequence that is ideal for the SMB market. We touched on some of the automation options available with MDT, and were ultimately able to deploy operating systems to...
Read MoreDeploying Windows 8.1 to SMBs using Configuration Manager 2012 R2
This is the first post of a series that will walk you through the process to create a Task Sequence in Configuration Manager 2012 R2 that can be deployed for all scenarios (Bare Metal, Refresh, Replace). It uses MDT 2013 to...
Read MoreUpgrading to Windows 2012 Hyper-V – DR Site to Server 2012 and configuring Veeam Backup and Replication 7x for DR Replicas
For today’s mission I was tasked with building a DR Site for Hyper-V using Veeam Backup and Replication 7.x. I wanted to walk you through the steps that I took in order to accomplish this task. The Current Configuration...
Read MoreUpgrading from Windows 2008 R2 Hyper-V to 2012 R2 – NIC Configuration
In this post I will show you how to move a Hyper-V Virtual Machine from one Hyper-V Server to another without the use of Live Migrations. If find this technique very useful when I am swapping out hardware and just need a simple...
Read MoreUpgrading to Windows 2012 Hyper-V – IO Accelerator IOPS Testing
In this post I will show a server that we have taken from Server 2008 R2 and upgraded to Server 2012.This particular server had been in production for the past 2 years and ran all production workloads for this company. Now it is...
Read MoreDeploying Active Directory Replica DC to Azure
A lot of us have been setting up Hybrid Cloud (Azure) environments and one of the first things that needs to be done is setup a Replica Domain Controller. This post will show the steps that I followed to get this done. Before...
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