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Windows Server 2012 In Your Small Business – Part 4

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Today I’m going to highlight a few features that all revolve around Hyper-V. They are: – Live Migration – VM Import – Hyper-V Replica Live Migration If you’ve been working in virtualized environments for any period of time, you’ll likely agree the migrating a VM from one host to another used to be a tedious … Read more

Windows Server 2012 In Your Small Business – Part 3

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This is probably the coolest feature I’ve ever seen, in any piece of software. If you don’t feel the same by time you’re done reading this, then perhaps you’ll agree it’s easily the coolest and easiest way to provide users with remote access to network resources. DirectAccess was introduced in the last generation of Windows … Read more

Windows Server 2012 In Your Small Business – Part 2

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To be honest, I didn’t think I would ever write something praising IIS. I use Apache, though I know alternatives like lighttpd and nginx exist. But Apache is tried, tested, and proven to work. It certainly has its flaws (all software do), but it works well and to my liking. Upon seeing what IIS 8 … Read more

Windows Server 2012 in your Small Business – Part 1

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Windows Server 2012 was released just a few short weeks ago, and from what I’ve seen and read it is a significant improvement over the venerable Windows Server 2008 R2. While deploying Windows Server 2012 in a small business environment may seem like overkill, I have reason to believe it’s actually a very smart decision … Read more