{"id":317,"date":"2012-05-08T10:15:10","date_gmt":"2012-05-08T09:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/isg\/?p=317"},"modified":"2012-05-08T10:15:10","modified_gmt":"2012-05-08T09:15:10","slug":"windows-server-2012-virtual-labs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/isg\/?p=317","title":{"rendered":"Windows Server 2012 Virtual Labs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When it releases later this year, Windows Server 2012 will bring a stack of exciting new features and enhancements, like the fantastic multi-server management features of the new Server Manager, and of course PowerShell v3.0!<\/p>\n<p>If you want to get ahead of the curve on Server 2012, then there&#8217;s no better way that digging in and getting your hands dirty, although not everyone has a whole load of spare hardware to setup a test lab, and even if you do, then it&#8217;s sometimes difficult to know where to start, especially since pre-release software tends to be lacking some of the documentation that you might want to really explore a feature in depth.<\/p>\n<p>To that end, Microsoft have produced a load of\u00a0<a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windowsserver\/hh968267.aspx\">Windows Server &#8220;8&#8221; Beta Virtual Labs<\/a>\u00a0(put together before the Windows Server 2012 name was announced). These are self-contained modules focusing on the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Active Directory Deployment and Management Enhancements<\/li>\n<li>Configuring a Highly Available iSCSI Target<\/li>\n<li>Configuring Hyper-V over Highly Available SMB Storage<\/li>\n<li>Implementing Storage Pools and Storage Spaces<\/li>\n<li><strong>Introduction to Windows PowerShell Fundamentals<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>What&#8217;s New in Windows PowerShell 3.0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Managing Branch Offices<\/li>\n<li>Managing Network Infrastructure<\/li>\n<li>Managing Your Network Infrastructure with IP Address Management<\/li>\n<li><strong>Managing Windows Server &#8220;8&#8221; with Server Manager and Windows PowerShell 3.0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Online Backup Service<\/li>\n<li>Using Dynamic Addess Control to Automatically and Centrally Secure Data<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In addition, you might want to check out some of the\u00a0<a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/northamerica.msteched.com\/itproresources\">Resources for IT Professionals<\/a>\u00a0that Microsoft have published in relation to the TechEd conference that will start in a month in Orlando.<\/p>\n<p>(Thanks to my friend\u00a0<a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/alexandair\">@Alexandair<\/a>\u00a0for both of those links)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it releases later this year, Windows Server 2012 will bring a stack of exciting new features and enhancements, like the fantastic multi-server management features of the new Server Manager, and of course PowerShell v3.0! If you want to get &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/isg\/?p=317\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4741,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,13,8,27,25,5,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activedirectory","category-backup","category-filestore","category-haclustering","category-hyper-v","category-powershell","category-windowsserver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/isg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/isg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/isg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/isg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4741"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/isg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/isg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":319,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/isg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions\/319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/isg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/isg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/isg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}