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Windows Server 2012 R2 NIC Teaming (LBFO) Deployment and Management Guide
NIC teaming, also known as Load Balancing/Failover (LBFO), allows multiple network adapters to be placed into a team for the purposes of bandwidth aggregation, and/or traffic failover to maintain connectivity in the event of a network component failure. This guide describes how to deploy and manage NIC Teaming with Windows Server 2012 R2.
Windows Server 2012 R2 Preview Test Lab Guide
Microsoft test lab guide for setting up a base configuration using Windows Server 2012 R2 Preview.
TLG: Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V Network Virtualization with System Center 2012 R2 VMM Provides instructions to create the Windows Server 2012 R2 Network Virtualization with System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) test lab, using computers running Windows Server 2012 R2.
Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2012 TechNet Library Documentation This download is an Adobe® PDF of the entire contents of the Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2012 section of the Microsoft TechNet Library, for the convenience of Windows Server users who have limited Internet access, or require a portable version of the Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2012 documentation. The PDF is 116 MB, and 7,970 pages in length. Highlights of the PDF include the following. Date Published: 11/27/2013
TechNet Series
In The Cloud. What's new in 2012 R2 Cloud Insights from Brad Anderson
- Beginning and Ending with Customer-specific Scenarios
- Making Device Users Productive and Protecting Corporate Information
- People-centric IT in Action - End-to-end Scenarios Across Products
- Enabling Open Source Software
- IaaS Innovations
- Service Provider & Tenant IaaS Experience
- Identity Management for Hybrid IT
- Hybrid Networking
- Cloud-integrated Disaster Recovery
- Enabling Modern Apps with the Windows Azure Pack
- PaaS for the Modern Web
VMware or Microsoft? – The Complete Series by Microsoft Evangelists Kevin Remde, Chris Avis, Keith Mayer, Brian Lewis, Matt Hester, Tommy Patterson, Jennelle Crothers, Yung Chou, Dan Stolts
- What is a “Purpose-Built Hypervisor?
- Simplified Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012 Host Patching = Greater Security and More Uptime
- Reducing VMware Storage Costs WITH Windows Server 2012 Storage Spaces
- Does size really matter?
- Let’s talk certifications!
- Virtual Processor Scheduling
- FREE Zero Downtime Patch Management
- Agentless Protection
- Site to Site Disaster Recovery with HRM
- Destination: VMWorld
- Get the “Scoop” on Hyper-V during VMworld
- VMWorld: Key Keynote Notes
- VMWorld: Did you know that there is no extra charge?
- VMWorld: A Memo to IT Leadership
- Moving Live Virtual Machines, Same But Different
- Not All Memory Management is Equal
- Can I get an app with that?
- Deploying Naked Servers
- Automated Server Workload Balancing
- Thoughts on VMWorld
- Shopping for Private Clouds
- Dynamic Storage Management in Private Clouds
- Replaceable? or Extensible? What kind of virtual switch do you want?
- Offloading your Storage
- VDI: A Look at Supportability and More!
- Agentless Backup for Virtual Environments
- How robust is your availability?
- VM Guest Operating System Support
- How to license Windows Server VMs
- Comparing vSphere 5.5 and Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V At-A-Glance
- Evaluating Hyper-V Network Virtualization as an alternative to VMware NSX
- VMware or Microsoft? What does Availability mean in YOUR Cloud?
- Comparing Microsoft’s Public Cloud to VMware’s Public Cloud via Blain Barton
- Community Follow-up to Comparing vSphere 5.5 and Windows Server 2012 R2
Windows Server Launch Blog Series - The Complete Series by Microsoft Evangelists Kevin Remde, Chris Avis, Keith Mayer, Brian Lewis, Matt Hester, Tommy Patterson, Jennelle Crothers, Yung Chou, Dan Stolts, Robert Borges, Rob McShinsky
- Windows Server 2012 R2 Launch Blog Series #WhyWin2012R2 – Introduction
- Why Windows Server 2012 R2 Rocks!
- Where Are All The Resources For Windows Server 2012 R2?
- Implementing Windows Server 2012 R2 Active Directory Certificate Services Part 1
- Implementing Windows Server 2012 R2 Active Directory Certificate Services Part 2
- Step-by-Step: Automated Tiered Storage with Storage Spaces in R2
- iSCSI Target Server – Super Fast Mass Server Deployment
- Why Windows Server 2012 R2: Reducing the Storage Cost for your VDI Deployments with VHD De-duplication for VDI
- Importing & Exporting Hyper-V VMs in Windows Server 2012 R2
- What’s New in Windows Server 2012 R2 Lessons Learned Week 1
- “Replica Replica”
- Fast Migrations (on compression and RDMA)
- What’s New in Active Directory
- Scale-out File Server in Windows Server 2012 R2
- Workplace Join
- What’s New in R2 - The Executive Interviews
- Get Mobile With Windows Server 2012 R2 Using Work Folders
- Storage Quality of Service
- What’s New in Windows Server 2012 R2–Lessons Learned Week 2
- Backup Windows Server 2012 R2 to Windows Azure
- Why R2? Automated Server Self-Provisioning and Remediation with Desired State Configuration (DSC) in PowerShell 4.0
- What’s New in Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials
- Why Move To R2Configuring Hyper-V for multiple subnets with only one NIC Step-By-StepSoftware Defined Networking in Windows Server 2012 R2
- Building certificates for Windows Server 2012 R2/Windows Azure Backups
- Windows Server 2012 & Windows Azure Hyper-V Recovery Manager
- Windows Server 2012 R2 Brings Improvements to DNS and DHCP Management
- Why Server 2012 R2? – Remote Desktop Sessions and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
- Step-by-Step: Extending Server Manager in Windows Server 2012 R2 with custom PowerShell tools
- Hyper-V Integration Services
- Gen 2 Virtual Machines / not available
- Shared Virtual Hard Disk / not available
- Automatic Virtual Machine Activation / not available
Windows 8.1 / Windows Server 2012 R2 Mini-Blog Series
Server 2012 R 2 Lab Guide - Step by Step by Tommy Patterson
- Including Dual Boot Instructions - Part 1
- Storage - Part 2
- Continuously Available File Server -Part 3
- Hyper-V Over SMB - Part 4
Lab Ops by Andrew Fryer
- Lab Ops – part 1 Introduction
- Lab Ops 2–The Lee-Robinson Script
- Lab Ops part 3 – Storage in Windows Server 2012R2
- Lab Ops 4–Using PowerShell with Storage
- Lab Ops 5 - Access Rights in PowerShell
- Lab Ops 6 – Setup VDI in Windows Server 2012R2
- Lab Ops 7 – Setting up a pooled VDI collection in Windows Server 2012 R2
- Lab Ops 8 –Tidying up
- Lab Ops 9 - an Introduction to Failover Clustering
- Lab Ops10 - Scale Out File Servers
- Lab Ops11 - Server Core
- Lab Ops12 - A crude but effective Domain Controller
- SQL Server Advent Calendar 13 – Grouping Sets
- Lab Ops14 - Putting Applications into the VDI Template with MDT
- Lab Ops15 - Combining MDT with Windows Update Services
- Lab Ops16- System Center setup
- System Center: Use the right tool for the right job
- Lab Ops part17 - Getting Started with Virtual Machine Manager
- Lab Ops18 - Getting started with Software Defined Networking
- Lab Ops 19 – Software Defined Networking - where’s my stuff
Windows/Hyper-V Server 2012 R2
Quick Reference for Upgrading to Windows Server 2012 R2 TechNetWindows Server 2012 R2 Portal Wiki
Windows Server 2012 R2: Exploring Storage Tiering via Redmond Magazine
Windows Server 2012 R2: a godsend for grumpware via PC Pro
What's New in Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V Live Migration
A First Look at Windows Server 2012 R2 Storage (Part 1)
Part2
How to Design Converged Networks via Aidan Finn
Part2
How to Design Converged Networks via Aidan Finn
Windows Server 2012 R2 Licensing via Aidan Finn
WS2012 R2 Hyper-V Virtual Receive Side Scaling (vRSS) In Action via Aidan Finn
Comparing TCPIP , Compressed, and SMB WS2012 R2 Hyper-V Live Migration Speeds
via Aidan Finn
The Effects of WS2012 R2 Storage Spaces Write-Back Cache via Aidan Finn
WS2012 R2 Hyper-V Virtual Receive Side Scaling (vRSS) In Action via Aidan Finn
Comparing TCPIP , Compressed, and SMB WS2012 R2 Hyper-V Live Migration Speeds
via Aidan Finn
The Effects of WS2012 R2 Storage Spaces Write-Back Cache via Aidan Finn
Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V Feature List Glossary via Aidan Finn
Configuring Cluster-Aware Updating in Windows Server 2012 via Aidan Finn
Configuring Jumbo Frames in WS2012R2 Hyper-V VMs via Aidan Finn
Windows Server 2008 R2: Overlooked Features via Aidan Finn
Configuring Cluster-Aware Updating in Windows Server 2012 via Aidan Finn
Configuring Jumbo Frames in WS2012R2 Hyper-V VMs via Aidan Finn
Windows Server 2008 R2: Overlooked Features via Aidan Finn
Windows/Hyper-V Server 2012 R2: First Impressions via Altaro Hyper-V
How to Migrate a Cluster from Hyper-V 2012 to Hyper-V R2 via Altaro Hyper-V
Windows Server 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Recovery from Network Disconnects TechNet
Import Windows 2008 R2 VM into Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V WindowsITPro
Windows Server 2012 R2 Failover Clustering WindowsITPro
PC and Mac Client Support for Windows Server 2012 R2 with Windows Server Essentials
Import Windows 2008 R2 VM into Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V WindowsITPro
Windows Server 2012 R2 Failover Clustering WindowsITPro
PC and Mac Client Support for Windows Server 2012 R2 with Windows Server Essentials
What’s New, R2? – Networking: 802.1X Authentication via Chris E. Avis
What’s New, R2? – BitLocker: New updates and Why would I use it on a Server? via Chris E. Avis
Performing an in place upgrade of Server 2008 R2 to Server 2012 R2 via Chris E. Avis
Multi-tenant Site-to-Site (S2S) VPN Gateway with Windows Server 2012 R2
Step-by-step for Storage Spaces Tiering in Windows Server 2012 R2 via Jose Barreto
Updated Links on Windows Server 2012 R2 File Server and SMB 3.02 via Jose Barreto
Windows Server 2012 R2: Which version of SMB protocol (SMB 1.0, SMB 2.0, SMB 2.1, SMB 3.0, SMB 3.02) you are using? via Jose Barreto
Automatic SMB Scale-Out Rebalancing in Windows Server 2012 R2 Jose Barreto
Networking configurations for Hyper-V over SMB in Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2 via Jose Barreto
Selecting the number of nodes for your Scale-Out File Server Cluster Jose Barreto
Windows Server 2012 R2 Preview Hyper-V Shared Virtual Hard Disk and Storage QoS via Tamer Sherif Mahmoud
Welcome to Hyper-V 2012 R2 (Part 1) via VirtualizationAdmin
Windows Storage Server 2012 R2 — Improved DFS Replication
All the new Windows Server 2012 R2 features into a single pptx vNext.be
Windows Server 2012 R2 Storage: Elden Christensen Interview Petri
Multi-Tenant VPN with Windows Server 2012 R2
Understanding Networking with Hyper-V
Monitoring Windows Server 2012 R2 Work Folders Deployments
Recovering Virtual Machines in Hyper-V Server 2012 R2: Part 3 Hey, Scripting Guy! Blog
Step-by-Step: Spin-up a Windows Server 2012 R2 Lab in the Cloud - Faster than you can download the bits! Keith Mayer
Configuring Faster Live Migration in Windows Server 2012 R2 Ben Armstrong
Faster Live Migration in Windows Server 2012 R2 Ben Armstrong
Faster Live Migration with Compression in Windows Server 2012 R2 Ben Armstrong
How to Publish Lync Server 2013 Web Services with Windows Server 2012 R2 Web Application Proxy Doug Deitterick
Lync Server 2013 Now Supported on Windows Server 2012 R2 Doug Deitterick
Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V Best Practices (In Easy Checklist Form) Server & Tools Blogs
Top 8 Improvements Found in Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V Replica CANITPRO
Step-By-Step: Enabling Hyper-V for use on Windows 8.1 CANITPRO
What's changed in Windows 2012 R2 on RDS VanBragt.net
Windows Server 2012 R2 Work Folders–The On-Premise Solution for Controlling Sensitive Data TechNet
What’s New, R2? – BitLocker: New updates and Why would I use it on a Server? via Chris E. Avis
Performing an in place upgrade of Server 2008 R2 to Server 2012 R2 via Chris E. Avis
Multi-tenant Site-to-Site (S2S) VPN Gateway with Windows Server 2012 R2
Step-by-step for Storage Spaces Tiering in Windows Server 2012 R2 via Jose Barreto
Updated Links on Windows Server 2012 R2 File Server and SMB 3.02 via Jose Barreto
Windows Server 2012 R2: Which version of SMB protocol (SMB 1.0, SMB 2.0, SMB 2.1, SMB 3.0, SMB 3.02) you are using? via Jose Barreto
Automatic SMB Scale-Out Rebalancing in Windows Server 2012 R2 Jose Barreto
Networking configurations for Hyper-V over SMB in Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2 via Jose Barreto
Selecting the number of nodes for your Scale-Out File Server Cluster Jose Barreto
Windows Server 2012 R2 Preview Hyper-V Shared Virtual Hard Disk and Storage QoS via Tamer Sherif Mahmoud
Welcome to Hyper-V 2012 R2 (Part 1) via VirtualizationAdmin
Windows Storage Server 2012 R2 — Improved DFS Replication
All the new Windows Server 2012 R2 features into a single pptx vNext.be
Windows Server 2012 R2 Storage: Elden Christensen Interview Petri
Multi-Tenant VPN with Windows Server 2012 R2
Understanding Networking with Hyper-V
Monitoring Windows Server 2012 R2 Work Folders Deployments
Recovering Virtual Machines in Hyper-V Server 2012 R2: Part 3 Hey, Scripting Guy! Blog
Step-by-Step: Spin-up a Windows Server 2012 R2 Lab in the Cloud - Faster than you can download the bits! Keith Mayer
Configuring Faster Live Migration in Windows Server 2012 R2 Ben Armstrong
Faster Live Migration in Windows Server 2012 R2 Ben Armstrong
Faster Live Migration with Compression in Windows Server 2012 R2 Ben Armstrong
How to Publish Lync Server 2013 Web Services with Windows Server 2012 R2 Web Application Proxy Doug Deitterick
Lync Server 2013 Now Supported on Windows Server 2012 R2 Doug Deitterick
Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V Best Practices (In Easy Checklist Form) Server & Tools Blogs
Top 8 Improvements Found in Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V Replica CANITPRO
Step-By-Step: Enabling Hyper-V for use on Windows 8.1 CANITPRO
What's changed in Windows 2012 R2 on RDS VanBragt.net
Windows Server 2012 R2 Work Folders–The On-Premise Solution for Controlling Sensitive Data TechNet
Videos
Top Picks from TechEd 2013: A Virtualization Medley Sessions on virtualization
Edge Show 74 – Virtualize Enterprise Workloads with Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V
New features of Hyper-V via John Savill
TechNet Live!: Windows Server 2012 R2 Overview Recording!
Jump Starts: Recorded sessions on Windows Server 2012 R2, System Center and PowerShell
Edge Show 81 – What’s New in Windows Server 2012 R2 Failover Clustering Ch9
Virtual Labs
Books
Free ebook: Introducing Windows Server 2012 R2 Preview Release
Free ebook: Introducing Windows Server 2012 R2 Technical Overview
Radio
TechNet Radio: (Part 3) What’s New in 2012 R2: Enabling Modern Business Applications
RSAT
Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) for Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1 Preview, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012, and Windows Server 2012 R2 Preview
Posters
Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V Component Architecture Poster and Hyper-V Mini PostersWhat's New in Windows/Hyper-V Server 2012 R2
Generation 2 Virtual Machines VT Technology BlogNew Features in Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V VT Technology Blog
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