Degraded perfomance on hosts virtual nic when using nic teaming in Server 2012
Hi, We have two HP ML 350 G6 with HP NC375T running Windows Server 2012 RC. These servers are connected to a D-Link DGS-3120-24TC using LACP on all four ports on each server. Lets call them Host A and...
View ArticleSetting up a lab environment without a public IP
Windows Server 2012 RC I'm not sure if I'm missing something, but I'd like to test things like NPS, RRAS and VPN in a test environment. Now, I suppose I could just configure a public IP on one side,...
View ArticleBug in MMC using WPF dialog with combo box
Hi all, I'm testing the administration for a product I'm working on and have come across an interesting bug in the RC. The administration is performed using a snapin for the MMC (v3) and utilises some...
View ArticleStorage Spaces SAS MPIO
Hi, I've configured a Storage Spaces cluster using two servers connected to one JBOD using 2 SAS HBA each to connect to each half of the enclosure. Now I would like to know if there's anything that...
View ArticleNew Start menu is slowing me down in Server 8
Microsoft have taken quite a bold move with the Start menu, taking away the old start button and just having the metro Start menu. I have been playing with Windows Server 8 and Windows 8 consumer...
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Remove 'stuck' device
I have two physical servers that are configured the same with the same hardware components, network connections, features installed, etc. Through our KVM I can map a USB drive to the environment. I...
View ArticleWinServer2012+WinXp
Hi everyone Will the Windows Server 2012 support Windows XP clients? Thanks
View ArticleWindows Server 2012 and Hyper-V physical hard disks
I am migrating my hardware from Win2008R2 to Windows Server 2012 ... Using Hyper-V, in win2008r2 I mounted a physical array to my VM (after offlining the device on the host OS). No problem. However, in...
View ArticleThe WS-Management service cannot process the request
When I try to use my Windows 7 Server manager to connect to windows 2012 server, I get this message: The WS-Management service cannot process the request. The resource URI...
View ArticleSet-MsmqQueueManager breaks msmq service
Set-MsmqQueueManager -JournalQuota 5000 -MsgLogStore 'D:\Logs\MSMQ' -MsgStore 'D:\Logs\MSMQ' -TransactionLogStore 'D:\Logs\MSMQ' Hi, this is command I do to conifgure log folders on msmq. However after...
View ArticleServer manager problem retrieving data
I've been setting up my lab with server 2012 RC and I have a frustrating problem in server manager. When adding domain controllers and after running the initial BPA scan I get the following error in...
View ArticleWindows Server 2012 - Memory Limits
What is the Memory Limits on Windows Server 2012 editions??
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WSB not allowing optmized backup of deduplicated volumes
Have tried this on a couple of different servers now. I have a Win2012 RTM guest on a Win2012 host. The guest has a deduplicated volume and the dataset has shrunk from roughly 250gb to 150gb due to...
View ArticleAre you excited about the Windows Server 2012 release?
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View ArticleStorage Space Parity
I'm trying to wrap my head around the differences between a multidisk pool using mirroring and one using parity. From a storage point of view presumably 2 copy mirroring keeps a copy of each file on 2...
View ArticleStorage Spaces Enclosure Awareness
Hi, I'm currently testing Storage Spaces using a Data On Storage DNS-1660D SAS enclosure connected using LSI 9207-8e. I can see the drives just fine and add them to a pool but Storage Spaces doesn't...
View ArticleProcessor Disappears
I have a twin quad core dl140 G3 with 2 e5310 intel processors. When I first install the system it shows 2 sockets 8 cores and 8 logical processors When I install the hyper-v role, the second...
View ArticleIssues remoting into HyperV2012
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winserver8gen/thread/77403d3f-10b3-4eb0-9b5d-1f84ea6540e5 I'm seeing the same issue. Is there something documented somewhere to get a Win7 to remote...
View ArticleMigrating File Services from Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2012
Hi, In the planning phase for migrating an existing 3-node file cluster running Windows Server 2003 to a new Windows Server 2012 file cluster a few questions have turned up: 1) The existing cluster is...
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Hypervisor processor startup failed
I recently did an in-place upgrade of a Dell PowerEdge 2900 from Windows 2008 R2 SP1 to Windows 2012 RC (Build 8400). This server runs the latest BIOS available and has two dual-core CPUs installed...
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