Flo's Datacenter Report

Hi Community, here is my compilation of the most interesting technical blog posts written by members of the Microsoft MVP Community. The number of MVPs is growing well, I hope you enjoy their posts. @all MVPs If you’d like me to add your blog posts to my weekly compilation, please send me an email (flo@datacenter-flo.de) or reach out to me via Twitter (@FloKlaffenbach). Thanks!

Featured Posts of the Week!

A Converged Networks Design For Hyper-V On SMB 3.0 Storage With RDMA (SMB Direct) by Aidan Finn

Videointerview with Jose Barreto about SMB 3.0 by Carsten Rachfahl

IP Assignment Strategies For Hyper-V Replica by Aidan Finn

x86 Windows Server 2008 TS Gateway Migration To x64 Windows Server 2012 RD Gateway by Didier van Hoye

Azure

Exchange

Exchange 2013 Server Role Requirements Calculator available by Johan Veldhuis

Events

Group Policy

Hyper-V

Cisco Nexus 1000V für Hyper-V (Beta): Einrichtung in German by Nils Kaczenski

Whitepaper: Datensicherung für virtuelle Maschinen in German by Nils Kaczenski

Microsoft Virtualisierungs Podcast Folge 29: IT-Camp recorded in German by Carsten Rachfahl

IP Assignment Strategies For Hyper-V Replica by Aidan Finn

How Hyper-V Snapshots Work by Aidan Finn

Using Hyper-V Snapshots by Aidan Finn

A Converged Networks Design For Hyper-V On SMB 3.0 Storage With RDMA (SMB Direct) by Aidan Finn

KB2836402 – You Cannot Add VHD/X Files To Hyper-V VMs On WS2012 by Aidan Finn

Lync Server

Office 

Office 365

Fehlermeldung bei einer shared Mailbox/freigegebenen Postfach in German by Kerstin Rachfahl

Himmlische IT-Podcast Folge 27: Office 365 im Unternehmen in German by Kerstin

PowerShell

#PSTip Detecting if the console is in Interactive mode by Shay Levy

Measuring PowerShell scripts by Shay Levy

Scrub Up PowerShell Content by Jeffery Hicks

PowerShell Version Profiles by Jeffery Hicks

Test 64-Bit Operating System by Jeffery Hicks

Friday Fun: A PowerShell Tickler by Jeffery Hicks

Testing ASP.NET MVC4 Web API Endpoints with PowerShell by Adam Driscoll

Sharepoint

System Center Core

System Center App Controller

System Center Avisor

System Center Configuration Manager

System Center Dataprotection Manager

System Center Operations Manager

System Center Orchestrator

System Center Service Manager

System Center Virtual Machine Manager

Windows Server 2012 #HyperV and SMB 3.0 Best Practices with #SCVMM by James van den Berg

 SQL Server

#PSTip List SQL database mirroring partner using SMO by Ravikanth Chaganti

#PSTip Adding local users to SQL Server Logins using SMO by Ravikanth Chaganti

Windows Client

New Windows version: “Windows Blue” to be called Windows 8.1 by Alessandro Cardoso

Windows Server Core

IIS & Windows Authentication – Troubleshooting mit Negotiate & NTLM in German by Robert Mühsig

x86 Windows Server 2008 TS Gateway Migration To x64 Windows Server 2012 RD Gateway by Didier van Hoye

Installing & using the Windows Server Migration Tools To Migrate Local Users & Groups by Didier van Hoye

KB2838669–A Big Hotfix Bundle For WS2012 Failover Clustering by Aidan Finn

KB2836988 – May 2013 Update Rollup For WS2012 and Win8 by Aidan Finn

Videointerview with Jose Barreto about SMB 3.0 by Carsten Rachfahl

Tools

Real Time Performance Monitoring – VMTurbo Virtual Health Monitor by Lai Yoong Seng

Hi Community, here is my compilation of the most interesting technical blog posts written by members of the Microsoft MVP Community. The number of MVPs is growing well, I hope you enjoy their posts. @all MVPs If you’d like me to add your blog posts to my weekly compilation, please send me an email (flo@datacenter-flo.de) or reach out to me via Twitter (@FloKlaffenbach). Thanks!

Featured Posts of the Week!

The Dilbert Life Series – A Bad Manager’s Priorities by Didier van Hoye

Create Exchange 2010 Server Reports with PowerShell by Jeffery Hicks

Windows 2012 : Hyper-V Network design scenarios and setup – Part 1 by Alessandro Cardoso

Hyper-V Snapshots: What, When, and Why by Aidan Finn

Azure

#Microsoft #WindowsAzure #SQL Database Management Pack for System Center 2012 #sysctr by James van den Berg

Exchange

Create Exchange 2010 Server Reports with PowerShell by Jeffery Hicks

Events

If You Can, You Should Attend TechEd 2013 Europe by Didier van Hoye

The Dilbert Life Series – A Bad Manager’s Priorities by Didier van Hoye

PowerShell Summit 2013 session recordings by Shay Levy

Group Policy

Hyper-V

Windows 2012 : Hyper-V Network design scenarios and setup – Part 1 by Alessandro Cardoso

Hyper-V Replica [test environment] by Romeo Mlinar

Infrastructure as a Service (Iaas) Product Line Architecture by Lai Yoong Seng

Choosing Hyper-V Storage: Virtual Hard Disks by Aidan Finn

Hyper-V Snapshots: What, When, and Why by Aidan Finn

KB2698666 – Can’t Open Hyper-V Settings On W2008 R2 SP1 Hyper-V by Aidan Finn

Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V: Configure VM Processor Compatibility for Legacy Operating Systems by Thomas Maurer

Lync Server

Office 

Office 365

Office 365 Wave 15 stopped an Outlook 2007 client connecting by Nick Whittome

PowerShell

Why Doesn’t My Pipeline Work? by Jeffery Hicks

PowerShell Messagebox by Jeffery Hicks

Getting Top Level Folder Report in PowerShell by Jeffery Hicks

PowerShell – Is my NIC configured to register in DNS? by Jeff Wouters

Enable and disable MSI logging through PowerShell by Jeff Wouters

PowerShell function to check the property to an item by Jeff Wouters

Using Show-Command to make a simple UI for a non-PowerSheller by Adam Driscoll

Using PowerShell to Analyze Your PC’s Sleep & Wake Behavior by Keith Hill

Sharepoint

System Center Core

Microsoft Infrastructure-as-a-Service Product Line Architecture Guidance by Aidan Finn

System Center App Controller

System Center Avisor

System Center Configuration Manager

System Center Dataprotection Manager

System Center Operations Manager

System Center Orchestrator

System Center Service Manager

System Center Virtual Machine Manager

Video presentation: How to Design and Configure Networking in #SCVMM and #HyperV by James van den Berg

Test Lab Guides: System Center 2012 SP1 – Virtual Machine Manager #sysctr #SCVMM #Hyperv by James van den Berg

 SQL Server

#PSTip Verify if a SQL database is mirrored or not by Ravikanth Chaganti

Windows Client

Microsoft-Konto sicherer machen in German by Nils Kaczenski

Why Should I Use Windows 8 Client Hyper-V? by Aidan Finn

Tip: Legally Deploying Images Windows To OEM Licensed PCs by Aidan Finn

Windows Server Core

Videocast Scale-Out Fileserver erklärt – Teil 1 – Einrichten des Clusters in German by Carsten Rachfahl

Videocast Scale-Out Filerserver erklärt – Teil 2 – Storage einrichten in German by Carsten Rachfahl

Videocast Scale-Out Fileserver erklärt – Teil 3 – Einrichtung der Scale-Out Fileserver Rolle in German by Carsten Rachfahl

Scale-Out Fileserver erklärt – Teil 4 – Scale-Out Filerserver in Aktion und Ausschalten eines Nodes in German by Carsten Rachfahl

VMware Hypervisor Support Windows Server 2012 by Lai Yoong Seng

Tools

Virtual Machine Backup and Recovery: Five Critical Decisions by Thomas Maurer

Hi Community, here is my compilation of the most interesting technical blog posts written by members of the Microsoft MVP Community. The number of MVPs is growing well, I hope you enjoy their posts. @all MVPs If you’d like me to add your blog posts to my weekly compilation, please send me an email (flo@datacenter-flo.de) or reach out to me via Twitter (@FloKlaffenbach). Thanks!

Featured Posts of the Week!

Hyper-V Versus vSphere – Comparing Apples With Apples by Aidan Finn

The Exchange 2013 alphabet: Database Availability Group – part 2 by Johan Veldhuis

How to Convert a VHD File into VHDX by Aidan Finn

Great #Microsoft Fabric Management Architecture Guide #sysctr #SCVMM by James van den Berg

Azure

#Microsoft Technet Virtual LABS #Cloud #sysctr #WindowsAzure #WS2012 #Sharepoint by James van den Berg

Making a TestLAB with Windows Server 2012 – System Center 2012 SP1 – #WindowsAzure – Hybrid #Cloud #sysctr by James van den Berg

Exchange

Create Exchange 2010 Multiple Mailbox Reports with PowerShell by Jeffery Hicks

The Exchange 2013 alphabet: Database Availability Group – part 2 by Johan Veldhuis

Events

Group Policy

Hyper-V

MUST HAVE : Three Great Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Books to Learn from #Hyperv #MVPBUZZ by James van den Berg

Virtual Machine Import Wizard of Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Manager #Hyperv #WS2012 by James van den Berg

High-Performance, Highly Available File Share Storage for Server Applications #SMB #WS2012 #Hyperv by James van den Berg

#Microsoft Window Server 2012 Products and Editions Comparison #Winserv #Hyperv by  James van den Berg

#Microsoft Fabric Architecture Guide #Hyperv #SCVMM #WS2012 by  James van den Berg

Hyper-V Versus vSphere – Comparing Apples With Apples by Aidan Finn

How to Convert a VHD File into VHDX by Aidan Finn

Understanding Hyper-V Error Messages by Aidan Finn

Another WS2012 Hyper-V Converged Fabric Design With Host & Guest iSCSI Networks by Aidan Finn

KB2769588 – An Update That Adds 4-Node Failover Cluster Deployment Support In OEM WS2012 OOBE by Aidan Finn

Maintenance Windows For Patching A WS2012 Hyper-V Cluster Make No Sense To Me by Aidan Finn

How do I convert a Hyper-V pass-through disk to a VHDX disk? by Aidan Finn

Unable to Live Migrate Virtual Machine Running in Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V by Lai Yoong Seng

Lync Server

Office 

Office 365

PowerShell

PowerShell PopUp by Jeffery Hicks

Sharepoint

Creating and configuring a SharePoint 2013 search service application by Ravikanth Chaganti

System Center Core

Connecting the System Center Products for better integration by Marcelo Sinic

#Update System Center and Management related content #sysctr #scvmm #configmgr #scorc by Robert Smit

System Center App Controller

System Center Avisor

System Center Configuration Manager

System Center Dataprotection Manager

System Center Operations Manager

System Center Orchestrator

System Center Service Manager

System Center Virtual Machine Manager

How to install System Center 2012 SP1 Update Rollup 2 for VMM by Thomas Maurer

Great #Microsoft Fabric Management Architecture Guide #sysctr #SCVMM by James van den Berg

 SQL Server

#PSTip Failing over a mirrored SQL database using SMO by Ravikanth Chaganti

Windows Client

Windows Server Core

Storage Spaces Inside a Virtual Machine Is Not Supported by Aidan Finn

#PSTip Extending the default output property set for Active Directory objects by Shay Levy

Using RAMDisk To Test Windows Server 2012 Network Performance by Didier van Hoye

SMB Direct RoCE Does Not Work Without DCB/PFC by Didier van Hoye

AD-Anmeldedatum per csvde exportieren und in Excel darstellen in German by Nils Kaczenski

Tools

Hi Community, here is my compilation of the most interesting technical blog posts written by members of the Microsoft MVP Community. The number of MVPs is growing well, I hope you enjoy their posts. @all MVPs If you’d like me to add your blog posts to my weekly compilation, please send me an email (flo@datacenter-flo.de) or reach out to me via Twitter (@FloKlaffenbach). Thanks!

Featured Posts of the Week!

Interview with Didier Van Hoye about his Storage, Network and more by Carsten Rachfahl

The Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter (MVMC) and MAT Architecture #SCVMM #Hyperv #VMware by James van den Berg

April 24th–Windows 2003 Is 10 Years Old by Didier van Hoye

Create Exchange 2010 Individual Inbox Reports with PowerShell by Jeffery Hicks

Azure

#Microsoft System Center Advisor Connector for Operations Manager Preview #sysctr by James van den Berg

Exchange

Exchange 2013: e-Discovery tasks stay queued by Johan Veldhuis

Create Exchange 2010 Individual Inbox Reports with PowerShell by Jeffery Hicks

Events

Mastering new Microsoft Technologies while doing what you love by Kristian Nese

April 24th–Windows 2003 Is 10 Years Old by Didier van Hoye

Group Policy

Hyper-V

Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V: Configure VM Processor Compatibility via PowerShell by Thomas Maurer

Choosing Hyper-V Storage: Physical Disks by Aidan Finn

Creating High Availability Virtual Machine Using Powershell–Part 3 by Aidan Finn

The Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter (MVMC) and MAT Architecture #SCVMM #Hyperv #VMware by James van den Berg

Lync Server

Office 

Office 365

Videocast: Wie Sie die Standarddomain in ihrem Office 365 Plan ändern können in German  by Kerstin Rachfahl

PowerShell

#PSTip Changing SQL database AutoShrink property using SMO and PowerShell by Ravikanth Chaganti

#PSTip Enumerate Time Zones that support day light savings by Ravikanth Chaganti

#PSTip Get the AD site name of a computer by Shay Levy

#PSTip List all Active Directory constructed attributes by Shay Levy

Decompiling C# Code with ILSpy and PowerShell by Adam Driscoll

Sharepoint

System Center Core

System Center App Controller

System Center Avisor

System Center Configuration Manager

System Center Dataprotection Manager

System Center Operations Manager

System Center Orchestrator

System Center Service Manager

System Center Virtual Machine Manager

 SQL Server

#PSTip Enumerate all SQL Server instances in a network by Ravikanth Chaganti

Windows Client

Podcast – Talking Windows 8 Client Hyper-V With Run As Radio by Aidan Finn

Windows Server Core

SMB 3.0 Multichannel Auto Configuration In Action With RDMA / SMB Direct by Didier van Hoye

Interview with Didier Van Hoye about his Storage, Network and more by Carsten Rachfahl

Wie finde ich heraus ob mein ADFS 2.0 funktioniert? in German by Robert Mühsig

Tools

Hi Community, here is my compilation of the most interesting technical blog posts written by members of the Microsoft MVP Community. The number of MVPs is growing well, I hope you enjoy their posts. @all MVPs If you’d like me to add your blog posts to my weekly compilation, please send me an email (flo@datacenter-flo.de) or reach out to me via Twitter (@FloKlaffenbach). Thanks!

Featured Posts of the Week!

Migrate Hyper-V Cluster to Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V via Cluster Migration Wizard by Thomas Maurer

Windows Azure IaaS reaches GA by Thorsten Hans

Sharing roles with Hyper-V on the same physical host by Alessandro Cardoso

Server monitoring with System Center Advisor by Marcelo Sinic

Azure

Windows Azure IaaS reaches GA by Thorsten Hans

Installing and Configuring #WindowsAzure Backup agent part 1 of 2 Hybrid #Cloud by James van den Berg

Installing and Configuring #WindowsAzure Backup agent part 2 of 2 Hybrid #Cloud by James van den Berg

Exchange

#PSTip Count the number of mailboxes per department by Shay Levy

Redmond: where’s my Exchange Admin Center by Johan Veldhuis

Events

Group Policy

Hyper-V

Creating Virtual Machine Using Powershell–Part 2 by Lai Yoong Seng

Microsoft Hyper-V und System Center: Das Handbuch für Administratoren in German by Carsten Rachfahl

Migrate Hyper-V Cluster to Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V via Cluster Migration Wizard by Thomas Maurer

Sharing roles with Hyper-V on the same physical host by Alessandro Cardoso

Design Considerations For Converged Networking On A Budget With Switch Independent Teaming In Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V by Didier van Hoye

Lync Server

Office 

Word-Serienbrief mit Excel-Daten: Datum formatieren in German by Nils Kaczenski

Office 365

PowerShell

#PSTip PowerShell command-line switch shortcuts by Shay Levy

Sharepoint

System Center Core

System Center App Controller

System Center Avisor

Server monitoring with System Center Advisor by Marcelo Sinic

System Center Configuration Manager

System Center Dataprotection Manager

System Center Operations Manager

System Center Orchestrator

System Center Service Manager

System Center Virtual Machine Manager

Cannot remove Hyper-V Host from SCVMM by Thomas Maurer

 SQL Server

#PSTip Backing up SQL transaction log using SMO by Ravikanth Chaganti

#PSTip Restoring a SQL Database using SMO by Ravikanth Chaganti

Windows Client

Windows Server Core

My thoughts on 70-410 by Michael Bender

WebDeploy Port ändern oder wofür ist Port 8172 da? in German by Robert Mühsig

Corefig: Konfiguration für Windows-Core-Server in German by Nils Kaczenski

Tools

Other MVPs I follow

James van den Berg - MVP for SCCDM System Center Cloud and DataCenter Management
Kristian Nese - MVP for System Center Cloud and Datacenter Management
Ravikanth Chaganti - MVP for PowerShell
Jan Egil Ring - MVP for PowerShell
Jeffery Hicks - MVP for PowerShell
Keith Hill - MVP for PowerShell
David Moravec - MVP for PowerShell
Aleksandar Nikolic - MVP for PowerShell
Shay Levy - MVP for PowerShell
Adam Driscoll - MVP for PowerShell
Jeff Wouters - MVP for PowerShell and the man who had his own Newsletter Category before
Marcelo Vighi - MVP for Exchange
Johan Veldhuis - MVP for Exchange
Lai Yoong Seng - MVP for Virtual Machine
Rob McShinsky - MVP for Virtual Machine
Hans Vredevoort - MVP for Virtual Machine
Leandro Carvalho - MVP for Virtual Machine
Didier van Hoye - MVP for Virtual Machine
Romeo Mlinar - MVP for Virtual Machine
Aidan Finn - MVP for Virtual Machine
Carsten Rachfahl - MVP for Virtual Machine
Thomas Maurer - MVP for Virtual Machine
Alessandro Cardoso - MVP for Virtual Machine
Steve Jain - MVP for Virtual Machine
Robert Smit - MVP for Cluster
Marcelo Sinic - MVP Windows Expert-IT Pro
Michael Bender - MVP Windows Expert-IT Pro
Ulf B. Simon-Weidner - MVP for Windows Server – Directory Services
Meinolf Weber - MVP for Windows Server – Directory Services
Nils Kaczenski - MVP for Windows Server – Directory Services
Kerstin Rachfahl - MVP for Office 365
Matthias Wolf - MVP Group Policy
Robert Mühsig - MVP ASP.NET/IIS
Thorsten Hans – MVP Sharepoint

Hi Community, here is my compilation of the most interesting technical blog posts written by members of the Microsoft MVP Community. The number of MVPs is growing well, I hope you enjoy their posts. @all MVPs If you’d like me to add your blog posts to my weekly compilation, please send me an email (flo@datacenter-flo.de) or reach out to me via Twitter (@FloKlaffenbach). Thanks!

Featured Posts of the Week!

Is Live Migration Supported Pass Through Disk in Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V? by Lai Yoong Seng

KB2821052 – “0x000000D1″ Stop Error When Opening MPIO Snap-In WS2012 Computer by Aidan Finn

Prevent errors while using SPWebConfigModification by Thorsten Hans

Add drivers to Windows 8 ISO Image by Thomas Maurer

Azure

Windows Azure Recovery Services: Backup & Hyper-V Recovery Manager (Preview) by Thomas Maurer

First look at Microsoft #WindowsAzure Backup Services Preview by James van den Berg

Watch Now the Microsoft Management Summit #MMS2013 sessions on Channel 9 #sysctr #SCVMM #WindowsAzure by James van den Berg

#Microsoft System Center Management Pack for #WindowsAzure Fabric – Preview #sysctr by James van den Berg

Azure Access Control Service, Microsoft Account Login, JSON Web Token und ASP.NET – “ohne WIF-Magic” in German by Robert Mühsig

Exchange

Exchange Server 2013: Besser noch abwarten in Germany by Nils Kaczenski

The Exchange 2013 alphabet: Database Availability Group – part 1 by Johan Veldhuis

Events

MMS2013: SD-B303 How to Build Your Strategy For a Private Cloud by Didier van Hoye

Key Take Aways From MMS2013 by Didier van Hoye

Interview noch von der MVP-Summit 2013 mit Didier van Hoye MVP Virtual Machine by Kerstin Rachfahl

Group Policy

Hyper-V

Hyper-V Recovery Manager – Orchestration of Hyper-V Replica Failover by Aidan Finn

My Interview With SearchServerVirtualization – Getting Started With Hyper-V by Aidan Finn

Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Installation And Configuration Guide Is Shipping In Europe by Aidan Finn

KB2819564–Corruption Occurs When Merging Data Deduplication-Enabled VHDs In WS2012 by Aidan Finn

KB2821052 – “0x000000D1″ Stop Error When Opening MPIO Snap-In WS2012 Computer by Aidan Finn

KB2823643 – VMs Freeze At “Stopping” State After You Shutting Them Down On WS2012 Hyper-V Cluster by Aidan Finn

KB2823958 – Virtual Switch Extension Can’t Send Packets Separately Through Each NIC In WS2012 Hyper-V by Aidan Finn

vSphere Doesn’t Need Any Security or Bug Fixes by Aidan Finn (Aidan SMASH!)

Is Live Migration Supported Pass Through Disk in Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V? by Lai Yoong Seng

Creating Virtual Machine Using Powershell–Part 1 by Lai Yoong Seng

Iron Networks Announces Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Network Virtualization Gateway Appliance by Thomas Maurer

System Center 2012 SP1 – Virtual Machine Manager support for VMware vSphere ESX Hosts by Thomas Maurer

Lync Server

Office 

Office 365

PowerShell

#PSTip Refreshing service objects by Shay Levy

#PSTip Wait for a Service to reach a specified status by Shay Levy

File Age Groupings with PowerShell by Jeffery Hicks

Get CIMInstance from PowerShell 2.0 by Jeffery Hicks

Friday Fun: Get-Anniversary by Jeffery Hicks

Sharepoint

Prevent errors while using SPWebConfigModification by Thorsten Hans

System Center Core

Update Rollup 2 for System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 by Thomas Maurer

System Center App Controller

System Center Avisor

System Center Configuration Manager

System Center Dataprotection Manager

System Center Operations Manager

System Center Orchestrator

System Center Service Manager

System Center Virtual Machine Manager

Hyper-V Converged Fabric with System Center 2012 SP1 – Virtual Machine Manager by Thomas Maurer

The Most Under-Appreciated & Under-Used Feature Of VMM: VM Templates by Aidan Finn

Interview with Allessandro Cardoso about his book: System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 Cookbook by Carsten Rachfahl

 SQL Server

Windows Client

Add drivers to Windows 8 ISO Image by Thomas Maurer

Windows Server Core

The Death Of The Windows Service Pack … Or Is It? by Aidan Finn

Microsoft Virtualisierungs Podcast Folge 28: SMB 3.0 Teil 3 in German by Carsten Rachfahl

NIC Showing “Network Cable Unplugged” on Intel NIC by Lai Yoong Seng

#PSTip Discovering Active Directory FSMO Role Holders using PowerShell by Shay Levy

Tools

Analyzing Performance with Server Performance Advisor 3.0 by Marcelo Sinic

PowerGUI Script Editor gets full support for PowerShell 3.0 by Ravikanth Chaganti

Other MVPs I follow

James van den Berg - MVP for SCCDM System Center Cloud and DataCenter Management
Kristian Nese - MVP for System Center Cloud and Datacenter Management
Ravikanth Chaganti - MVP for PowerShell
Jan Egil Ring - MVP for PowerShell
Jeffery Hicks - MVP for PowerShell
Keith Hill - MVP for PowerShell
David Moravec - MVP for PowerShell
Aleksandar Nikolic - MVP for PowerShell
Shay Levy - MVP for PowerShell
Adam Driscoll - MVP for PowerShell
Jeff Wouters - MVP for PowerShell and the man who had his own Newsletter Category before
Marcelo Vighi - MVP for Exchange
Johan Veldhuis - MVP for Exchange
Lai Yoong Seng - MVP for Virtual Machine
Rob McShinsky - MVP for Virtual Machine
Hans Vredevoort - MVP for Virtual Machine
Leandro Carvalho - MVP for Virtual Machine
Didier van Hoye - MVP for Virtual Machine
Romeo Mlinar - MVP for Virtual Machine
Aidan Finn - MVP for Virtual Machine
Carsten Rachfahl - MVP for Virtual Machine
Thomas Maurer - MVP for Virtual Machine
Alessandro Cardoso - MVP for Virtual Machine
Steve Jain - MVP for Virtual Machine
Robert Smit - MVP for Cluster
Marcelo Sinic - MVP Windows Expert-IT Pro
Michael Bender - MVP Windows Expert-IT Pro
Ulf B. Simon-Weidner - MVP for Windows Server – Directory Services
Meinolf Weber - MVP for Windows Server – Directory Services
Nils Kaczenski - MVP for Windows Server – Directory Services
Kerstin Rachfahl - MVP for Office 365
Matthias Wolf - MVP Group Policy
Robert Mühsig - MVP ASP.NET/IIS
Thorsten Hans – MVP Sharepoint

Hi Community, here is my compilation of the most interesting technical blog posts written by members of the Microsoft MVP Community. The number of MVPs is growing well, I hope you enjoy their posts. @all MVPs If you’d like me to add your blog posts to my weekly compilation, please send me an email (flo@datacenter-flo.de) or reach out to me via Twitter (@FloKlaffenbach). Thanks!

Featured Posts of the Week!

I Was Honored With The Dell Rockstar Recognition by Didier van Hoye

Remote Desktop to Your Hyper-V Server From Android Tablet by Lai Yoong Seng

PowerShell Script that Relaunches as Admin by Keith Hill

KB2796995 – Offloaded Data (ODX) Transfers Fail On A Windows 8 or Windows Server 2012 Computer by Aidan Finn

Azure

#WindowsAzure Virtual Network Services for Hybrid #Cloud with System Center 2012 SP1 #sysctr by James van den Berg

Exchange

Events

I Was Honored With The Dell Rockstar Recognition by Didier van Hoye

Exchange 2013 CU1 has been release and now? by Johan Veldhuis

Group Policy

Hyper-V

Test Hyper-V VHD Folders with PowerShell by Jeffery Hicks

Dismount ISO or DVD From the VM By Using Powershell by Lai Yoong Seng

Remote Desktop to Your Hyper-V Server From Android Tablet by Lai Yoong Seng

Configure CPU Compatibility For Migration Using Powershell by Lai Yoong Seng

E-Book: Ein Hyper-V-Cluster für unter 2000$ in German by Nils Kaczenski

Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Live Migration Does Not Support Passthrough Disks by Aidan Finn

Can I Replicate Virtual Machines From iSCSI, Fibre Channel, SAS, Internal to … ? by Aidan Finn

End of Support Dates For Free Hyper-V Server by Aidan Finn

Converting Hyper-V VHD-files to VHDX using Windows PowerShell by Jan Egil Ring

Lync Server

Office 

Office 365

Office 365 Upgrades Are Coming by Aidan Finn

Himmlische IT Podcast Folge 26: Office 365 MVP Summit in German by Kerstin Rachfahl

PowerShell

#PSTip View Policy Settings with RSOP WMI classes by Shay Levy

#PSTip Detecting Wi-Fi adapters by Shay Levy

PowerShell Script that Relaunches as Admin by Keith Hill

Sharepoint

System Center Core

System Center App Controller

System Center Avisor

System Center Configuration Manager

System Center Dataprotection Manager

System Center Operations Manager

System Center Orchestrator

System Center Service Manager

System Center Virtual Machine Manager

Application virtualization servers with the App-V Server from VMM 2012 in Portuguese by Marcelo Sinic

 SQL Server

#PSTip List all fixed disk drives visible to SQL Server instance by Ravikanth Chaganti

#PSTip Change SQL Server MaxServerMemory configuration using SMO by Ravikanth Chaganti

Windows Client

How to activate Windows 8 Enterprise by Thomas Maurer

100% Pure Speculation – Will Windows “Blue” (“8.1”) Upgrade Require A New License? by Aidan Finn

You Have 365 Days To Replace Windows XP by Aidan Finn

Windows Server Core

Get Local Admin Group Members in a New Old Way  by Jeffery Hicks

How Old is the Admin Password by Jeffery Hicks

KB2796995 – Offloaded Data (ODX) Transfers Fail On A Windows 8 or Windows Server 2012 Computer by Aidan Finn

Cloning Domain Controller by Lai Yoong Seng

Tools

Other MVPs I follow

James van den Berg - MVP for SCCDM System Center Cloud and DataCenter Management
Kristian Nese - MVP for System Center Cloud and Datacenter Management
Ravikanth Chaganti - MVP for PowerShell
Jan Egil Ring - MVP for PowerShell
Jeffery Hicks - MVP for PowerShell
Keith Hill - MVP for PowerShell
David Moravec - MVP for PowerShell
Aleksandar Nikolic - MVP for PowerShell
Shay Levy - MVP for PowerShell
Adam Driscoll - MVP for PowerShell
Jeff Wouters - MVP for PowerShell and the man who had his own Newsletter Category before
Marcelo Vighi - MVP for Exchange
Johan Veldhuis - MVP for Exchange
Lai Yoong Seng - MVP for Virtual Machine
Rob McShinsky - MVP for Virtual Machine
Hans Vredevoort - MVP for Virtual Machine
Leandro Carvalho - MVP for Virtual Machine
Didier van Hoye - MVP for Virtual Machine
Romeo Mlinar - MVP for Virtual Machine
Aidan Finn - MVP for Virtual Machine
Carsten Rachfahl - MVP for Virtual Machine
Thomas Maurer - MVP for Virtual Machine
Alessandro Cardoso - MVP for Virtual Machine
Steve Jain - MVP for Virtual Machine
Robert Smit - MVP for Cluster
Marcelo Sinic - MVP Windows Expert-IT Pro
Michael Bender - MVP Windows Expert-IT Pro
Ulf B. Simon-Weidner - MVP for Windows Server – Directory Services
Meinolf Weber - MVP for Windows Server – Directory Services
Nils Kaczenski - MVP for Windows Server – Directory Services
Kerstin Rachfahl - MVP for Office 365
Matthias Wolf - MVP Group Policy
Robert Mühsig - MVP ASP.NET/IIS