What’s New in Windows Server 2012, Episode 10: AD Recycle Bin’s New GUI

http://youtu.be/IVCCv4fAhrg

In this episode I will show you how to use the new GUI interface for the Active Directory Recycle Bin inside of AD Administrative Center, discuss the benefits and limitations of this tool, and how to manage it. I’ll also cover some common gotcha’s such as uninstantiated parents.

What’s New in Windows Server 2012, Episode 8: Active Directory Promotion Changes

http://youtu.be/MvqUFgNSFww

In the next few episodes we will be covering some active directory topics. This one is specifically about promoting a new domain controller in 2012. This process has changed. DCPROMO is no longer the way you’ll go about doing this. You might want to give this one a gander πŸ™‚

What’s New in Windows Server 2012, Episode 6: What the #$@% Happened To My Stuff??

http://youtu.be/iftWBuDKqvY

I should have made this episode 1 or maybe 0. If you don’t watch any other videos in this series and you work with Windows Server you *should* watch this one. In this episode I cover just simple things like how to use the interface, what the role of the mouse is in WS2012, where the start button went, etc. In other words – there the #$@% is my stuff?

Hotfix Rollup for Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7

I don’t have the official link yet but today we are releasing a hotfix rollup for Win7 and WS08R2. This will contain over 90 Hot Fixes!! The KB will be 2775511. So watch for it!

More information:

This rollup contains the LAST 90 hotfixes that were released post of SP1 for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. The hotfixes included in this rollup improve performance and system reliability. I recommend you apply this hotfix rollup as part of your regular maintenance routine and build processes for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 computers.

What’s New in Windows Server 2012, Episode 5: Server Manager – Multi Remote Server Mgmt

http://youtu.be/Euzk52FXlWM

Tonight I continue my Server Manager series with a discussion about managing multiple servers remotely. Sorry about the audio, sounds like a vacuum running in the background. πŸ™ I am on the road and don’t have my normal headset. I filmed this last night but tonight I picked up a portable headset so tomorrow’s video will have a lot better quality. I just finished filming it and it sounds a TON better. It is encoding now… Thanks everyone, appreciate you watching!