Hi, all,

Christa Anderson here with your latest blogs from Windows Server and System Center MVPs. It must be spring: Microsoft Management Summit is this week in Las Vegas (with several MVPs presenting or participating in Birds of a Feather sessions) and several MVPs announced that they were renewed as MVPs on April 1. Seattle even had a sunny Easter weekend, which we enjoyed immensely once we recovered from the shock.

Let’s start with the resources the WSSC MVPs are announcing this week. Get the latest System Center content, and read new KB articles and a new RDS wiki about Hyper-V, storage, and RemoteDesktop Services. If you’d like to check out the Global Service Monitor for monitoring the health of Web applications, you can get a free trial. Like books? You may be interested in a freeeBook on how to build a Hyper-V cluster for under $2000, and if you download a trial of Windows Server, you can win your own copy of the Hyper-V Installation and Configuration Guide. Need to decorate your workplace? Get the latest VMM poster. If you prefer your posters portable, get the Posterpedia app for your Windows 8 device.

For those who like learning from their peers or hearing about in-person meetings, there are several options for you. Contribute to a discussion about application virtualization. Review the most frequently asked questions from a recent TechDays event, and there’s a new Windows Management User Groupin the Netherlands, led by some of the MVP community.  Eastern Europeans will want to know about upcoming conferences in Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia, and Slovenia, and there’s a SCVMM training event in Ireland. Of course, be sure to check out our MVP-led sessions at MMS.

Need technical how-to or advice from the MVP community? If you’re working on your PowerShell, learn how to enable the Active Directory recycle bin or configure IPv6 and the Firewall. If you manage Group Policy from the desktop, you may be interested in this blog about the effects of installing IE10 on the management workstation. Learn about Remote Desktop Services in the second installment of an article series coauthored by the coauthor of the Windows Server 2008 R2 Remote Desktop Services Resource Kit. Small Business Server experts may be interested in these migrationguides, and be sure to check out the latest in a series on the top 10 new features of Configuration Manager 2012 SP1. If you’re exploring the private cloud, be sure to check out these blogs on using App Controller, Hybrid Cloud, and Marnix Wolf’s roundup of new and updated management packs.

For international resources, keep up with Group Policy with the latest installation of the Big Group Policy Troubleshooting Guide (in German). See videos on using Server Manager and Directory Services with Windows Server 2012 (Spanish).

Last but not least, MVP Edvaldo Cardoso has been mentioned several times by the MVP community for his newly published book on System Center Virtual Machine Manager. Check it out!

These are just a few highlights of what’s new. Be sure to check out the complete list of blog articles lies below!

Cluster

Robert Smit

• #Update latest System Center and Management related content #sysctr #scvmm
• #scvmm VMM 2012 SP1 book published @edvaldocardoso
• #Windows Server 2012 #Active Directory #Recycle.bin #ws2012 #ADRecovery Get-ADForest
• Global Service Monitor and System Center Advisor Support for Windows Server 2012 #GSM #SCA #WS2012
•  Microsoft MVP Award Renewal for 2013 @MVPAward #MVP13 #MVPBuzz #Tee13
•  #techdaysnl Recap #ATE #MVP13 Most Important Questions #MIQ
• #Update latest System Center and Management related content #sysctr #scvmm #configmgr  

Directory Services

Leonardo Ponti 

• VIDEO -Server Manager con Windows Server 2012
• VIDEO – Novedades Directory Services Windows Server 2012
•  {Artículo en Revista} “Version de Schema” Active Directory
• Administra fácilmente Active Directory con Lepide Active Directory Manager
• Comparando herramientas Lepide Active Directory Management y Reporting vs hyena v9.2 by LeoPonti
• Comparando el generar una OU y delegacion de permisos desde “Lepide Active Directory Manager and Reporting” vs “Hyena” 

Roberto di Lello

• Windows Server 2008, Que funcionalidades de Terminal Server nos brinda nuestro Active Directory {Parte 1} {ReView}
• Windows Server 2008, Que funcionalidades de Terminal Server nos brinda nuestro Active Directory {Parte 2} {ReView}
• MVP Directory Services 2013 ! Gracias a todos! 

Group Policy

Darren Mar-Elia

• WARNING: Installing IE 10 on your Windows 7 Workstation Removes IE Maintenance Policy from Group Policy

Matthias Wolf

• Der große Group Policy Troubleshooting Guide - Teil 2/3 

Hyper-V

Aidan Finn

• MVP Book: Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 Cookbook
• Comparing Methods To Implement Converged Fabrics For Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V
•  KB2770917 – WS2012 Hyper-V Backup Fails On NetApp
• KB2786376 – EventID 412 and EventID 257 Logged After install Of W2008 R2 In A WS2012 Hyper-V VM With VHDX
• Exploring Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Worker Process Security
• Building A Hyper-V Cluster For Under $2,000–Free eBook By Altaro
• KB2770440 – Poor Performance With RemoteFX Enabled On AMD Powered WS2012 Hyper-V Hosts
• KB2796995 – Offloaded Data (ODX) Transfers Fail On A Windows 8 or Windows Server 2012 Computer
• Event: System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager SP1 Training
• How Would I “Attend” TechEd/MMS If I Was An IT Manager?
• Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Live Migration Does Not Support Passthrough Disks 

Carsten Rachfal

• CeBIT 2013 eine kleine “videoelle” Nachlese  

Hans Vredevoort

• Chance to win Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Installation and Configuration Guide
• Making Virtual Machine Manager 2012 SP1 Networking Work 

Thomas Maurer

• Microsoft Server Posterpedia Windows 8 App
• Poster: Networking in Virtual Machine Manager 

Remote Desktop Services

Freek Berson

• TechNet: RemoteFX vGPU Setup and Configuration Guide for Windows Server 2012
• KB: WritePrinter() with RAW data fails to print with TS Easy Print (kb2827141)
• Part 2 in our series on VDI in Windows Server 2012 now online on Microsoft TechNet Magazine
• Free Microsoft Virtual Academy course “Using Microsoft VDI to Enable New Workstyles Jump Start” 

Greg Shields

• Application Virtualization Vote: Yea or Nay?  

Small Business Server

Amy Babinchak

• SMBKitchen Project document update
• Microsoft Partner Opportunities
• Introducing Phil Elder 

Damir Dizdarevic

• Lepide Event Log Manager–All in one place
• My sessions on upcoming events and conferences 

Elvis Gustin

• Migrate from SBS 2008 or 2011 (Part 1)
• Migrate from SBS 2008 or 2011 (Part 2) 

System Center Cloud and Datacenter Management

Daniele Grandini

• Network discovery reference (#sysctr #scom) 

Flemming Riis

• Rebuilding Demo / Lab once again
• Hyper-V Replica and Data Protection Manager
• Hyper-V Replica is for everyone (note1)
• Windows 2012 Cluster Data Protection Manager
• Virtual Machine Manager Error 801 

James van den Berg

• Support and Feedback on #Microsoft Technet WiKi site #sysctr #Hyperv #Cloud #WindowsAzure #SCVMM and More…
• A Great Cookbook Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 by MVP @edvaldocardoso #SCVMM
• Poster : System Center 2012 SP1 Virtual Machine Manager Networking and Config. #SCVMM #sysctr
• System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Upgrade Assessment Tool #sysctr
• #WindowsAzure Virtual Network Services for Hybrid #Cloud with System Center 2012 SP1 #sysctr 

John Joyner

• Consume private cloud resources using App Controller 

Marin Frankovic

• SCVMM 2012 SP1 Cookbook 

Marnix Wolf

• New Book: Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 Cookbook
• SCOM Certificate Enrollment Issue
• Updated MP: Monitoring JEE (Java Enterprise Edition) Application Servers
• SCOM 2012 Sizing Helper: Updated Or Not?
• New Dutch Community! Windows Management User Group Nederland (WMUG)
• Base OS MP Version 6.0.6989.0 Imported? And Now Some Reports Are Partially Empty?
• Free eBook: Building a Hyper-V Cluster for Under $2000
• VMM 2012 SP1 Networking Poster
• A Blog To Reckon With…
• MMS 2013: BOF 01–Cloud & Datacenter Management Roundtable
• OM12 SP1: Extended Network Monitoring 

System Center Configuration Manager

Kent Agerlund

• Awarded Most Valuable Proffesional– MVP 2013
• Getting ready for MMS 2013 

Peter Daallmans

• My top 10 new features of ConfigMgr 2012 SP1 – part 9
• Update ConfigMgrBlog.com blog app released
• Re-awarded as a Configuration Manager Microsoft MVP
• Introducing the Windows Management User Group Netherlands (WMUG NL)
• Coming up next; Microsoft Management Summit 2013 

Other

Edward Horley

• Some PowerShell IPv6 and Adv. Firewall cmdlets 

Helge Klein

• Windows Offline Files: Problems and Solutions 

Marcelo de Moraes Sinsic

• Using VMM 2012 to create Servies Templates with Windows 2012 in private cloud
• Server Application Virtualization with the VMM 2012 App-V Server