As you’ve heard, RTM of Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows 8.1 are now available for MSDN and TechNet subscribers. If you’re trying out Windows Server, the MVPs have you covered with tips on using PowerShell, optimizing Group Policy, advice for clustering, and even  tips on specing and building a lab based on a Hyper-V-based servert.

Happy reading!

Christa

Clustering

Robert Smit

• Implement Office 365 easy ? #Unattended Install #O365 with Group Policy #windows7 #windows12R2
• Specifications for SQL Server failover cluster instance #FCI #SQL #Server #winServ #CSV
• Windows Server 2012 R2 with SQL Server 2014 Failover Clustered Instance #Step-By-Step #AlwaysOn AvailabilityGroups What can go Wrong! Part 1

Directory Services

Jorge de Almeida Pinto

• (2013-09-04) Incorrect CSP Prevents Enrollment Of OCSP Response Signing Certificates
• (2013-09-05) Querying An Event Log Of One Or Multiple Computers For A String
• (2013-09-06) Duplicate SPN Breaks Trust Between Client/Server And Active Directory
• (2013-09-09) Windows 8.1 And Windows Server 2012 R2 Available For Subscribers
• (2013-09-11) Follow-Up On “AD DB Becomes Corrupted When W2K12 Hyper-V Host Server Crashes”

Roberto di Lello

• Windows Server 2008 R2: Implementando, configurando y administrando nuestro entorno de Directory Services para una Pequena Empresa (PYME) {ScreenCast}
• Windows 8.1 RTM, Visual Studio 2013 RC y Windows Server 2012 R2 RTM hoy
• Vulnerabilidad en Internet Explorer (todas las versiones) podría permitir la ejecución remota de código

File System/Storage

Dennis Martin 

• Demartek Evaluation of EMC VNX8000 and XtremSW Cache
• Demartek Interview: To Use 16Gbps Fibre Channel or Not - That Is The Question

Group Policy

Darren Mar-Elia

• Consolidating & Cleaning Up Group Policy — Best Practices

Hyper-V

Aidan Finn

• WS2012 R2 Hyper-V Virtual Receive Side Scaling (vRSS) In Action
• Comparing TCPIP, Compressed, and SMB WS2012 R2 Hyper-V Live Migration Speeds
• Event – TechNet Conference 2013 in Berlin
• The Effects Of WS2012 R2 Storage Spaces Write-Back Cache
• The Effects Of WS2012 R2 Storage Spaces Write-Back Cache On A Hyper-V VM
• Windows Server 2012 R2 & Windows 8.1 RTM Are Available On MSDN and TechNet
• Observing Dynamic Memory in Linux VMs on WS2012 R2 Hyper-V
• Windows Server 2012 R2 Licensing
• System Center 2012 R2 Is Required To Manage WinServ or Hyper-V 2012 R2
• HVRemote Updated To Support WS2012 R2 and Hyper-V Server 2012 R2
• Option To Select Physical GPU Is Unavailable In Hyper-V Settings

Carsten Rachfal

• Microsoft Virtualisierungs Podcast Folge 32: TechNet Conference 2013

Didier Van Hoye

• Preventing Live Migration Over SMB Starving CSV Traffic in Windows Server 2012 R2 with Set-SmbBandwidthLimit
• Windows Server 2012 R2 & Windows 8 .1 RTM Available on TechNet & MSDN Today
• Join me for aTechNet Live Meeting: Hyper-V Storage Efficiencies & Optimizations in Windows Server 2012 R2
• Mind the UNMAP Impact On Performance In Certain Scenarios

Thomas Maurer

• Connect Microsoft Hyper-V Network Virtualization Gateway in System Center Virtual Machine Manager
• Export and Import Virtual Machine Manager Templates
• Hyper-V Network Virtualization: NVGRE Offloading

PowerShell

Don Jones

• Microsoft's Ever Evolving Configuration Management
• System Center's MDM and BYOD Strategy

Jeff Wouters 

• Wake On Lan through PowerShell
• PowerShell function to get time server NTP settings from clients
• PowerShell – Error when you query Active Directory for the OperatingSystem attribute
• SCCM – Report all software in Add and Remove Programs for all computers
• Copy Active Directory group membership from user to user

Jeffery Hicks

• Building a Mini Hyper-V Server
• Mini Hyper-V: Hardware Build
• Mini Hyper-V: Setup
• Mini Hyper-V: Operating System
• PowerShell 4.0 A First Look
• Friday Fun: Get Friday the 13th
• Get Most Recent PowerShell Scheduled Job Result
• A Better PowerShell Get Scheduled Job Results

Ravikanth C

• Copying PowerShell modules and custom DSC resources using DSC
• Announcing PSReadLine – A bash-inspired readline implementation for PowerShell

Shay Levy 

• #PSTip How to configure storage quotas for a mailbox using PowerShell
• #PSTip How to find which mailboxes are over quota limits
• #PSTip How to prevent script execution for non-admin users
• #PSTip How to create a dynamic distribution group
• #PSTip Preview the members of a dynamic distribution group

Remote Desktop Services

Benny Tritsch

• Remoting Protocol Testing Methodology

Freek Berson

• Load balancing Remote Desktop Services Web Access & Gateway with KEMP Load Master for Azure
• Running Dell vWorkspace in Windows Azure
• KB: Error when you try to change the properties of a published RemoteApp in Windows Server 2012
• KB: A memory leak in the WmiPrvSe.exe process occurs when you use the RDS WMI provider in Windows 7 SP1 or Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1
• KB: The size of the "HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT" registry hive continuously increases on a Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1-based server
• Using User Profile Disks (UPD) in combination with predefining the Modern UI Start Screen on RDS 2012 (appsfolder.itemdata-ms)

Greg Shields

• The New Windows Admin: Employee or Freelance Contractor?

Setup, Deployment, and Patching

Mikael Nystrom 

• The Ultimate Event, Sweden, October–Do not Miss this!

Small Business Server

Amy Babinchak

• Ways to find technical information on Microsoft Servers you might not have known about

Elvis Gustin

• Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012R2 is coming
• Group Policy and WMI filtering for OS

Philip Elder

• A Small Windows Server 2012 Issue
• Windows Server 2012 and Essentials: Error 80073718 on Update(s)
• Windows Features Error: Windows couldn’t complete the requested changes 0x800F0906
• Why We Never Dedicate a NIC Port to a VM

Other

Edward Horley

• Cricket Liu presenting on IPv6 at Dyn Geek Summer Camp

Helge Klein

• Software Installation Very Slow without Internet Access

Richard Hicks 

• What’s New in Windows Server 2012 R2 DirectAccess
• DirectAccess Webinar on October 3, 2013