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Introducing Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 Free eBook:     Microsoft System Center is one of the three pillars of Microsoft’s Cloud OS vision that will transform the traditional datacenter environment, help businesses unlock insights in data stored anywhere, enable the development of a wide range of modern business applications, and empower IT to support users who work anywhere while being able to manage any device in a secure and consistent way. The other two pillars of the Cloud OS are, of course, Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows Azure, and Microsoft Press has recently released free Introducing books on these platforms as well. Whether you are new to System Center or are already using it in your business, this book has something that should interest you. The capabilities of each component of System Center 2012 R2 are first described and then demonstrated chapter by chapter. Real-world and under-the-hood insights are also provided by insiders at Microsoft who live and brea

CLICK ON THE BELOW LINK FOR THE UPDATED POST How to fix SCCM 2012 R2 Reporting Services Issue Issue: When users try to run reports it shows like the DefaultValue expression for the report  parameter  'UserTokeSIDs' contains an error.  Now you will be able to run your SCCM Reports !

Upgrade to Virtual Machine Manager 2012 R2 RTM  from 2012 SP1 Virtual Machine Manager doesn't support in-place upgrade, another bad new is the P2V utility is not supported on   VMM 2012 R2.  Now going over the process, it will be straight forward, as always I recommed you to have a back out plan.   Tasks: Uninstall SCVMM Management Server and Console  Retain Database on SQL Uninstall ADK 8.0 (It will require a Restart) Install ADK 8.1 with the same features.  [Note: After Install ADK8.1 you will be able to install  SCVMM 2012 R2 RTM] Step by Step  Uninstall VMM MS and Console  Retain Database  Uninstalled  Install VMM 2012 R2 RTM  Select the existing Database VirtualManagerDB Now it will be upgrading the Database  Done  Enjoy !  Thanks for watching! 

How to Install Roles and Features Offline to a VHD/VHDX in Windows Server 2012 R2 As you know there's a lot  of great things on this  new release, this new feature is so interesting to me because if you have Virtual Machine Templates on Hyper-V now you can modify them and made your installations really fast. In my scenario I have 3 VHD Templates Bronze Template (48GB for Print Servers/ Web Servers) Silver Template  (64GB for ) Gold Template  (72GB for DC's/ File Servers/ System Center Servers/ SQL Servers ) Step by Step to Edit/Modify a VHD/VHDX Offline  Go to Server Manager and Click on Mange and Add Roles and Features Select your VHD/VHDX After Selecting your Roles and  Features click Install Now you're done editing your VM Template/V HD  Follow me on twitter    @DavidiAcevedo

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System Center Virtual Machine Manager  2012 delivers the following infrastructure management capabilities: Provision your Physical and Virtual Infrastructure Support deployment and configuration of virtual servers and Hyper-V with Virtual Machine Manager. Manage VMware vSphere and Citrix XenServer using one interface. Automatically deploy Hyper-V to bare metal servers and create Hyper-V clusters. Provision everything from operating systems to physical servers, patches, and endpoint protection with Configuration Manager. Provision Private Clouds Use "create cloud" functionality in Virtual Machine Manager to aggregate virtual resources running on Hyper-V, vSphere, and XenServer into a unified private cloud fabric. Customize and assign private cloud resources to suit your organization’s needs. Deliver self-service capability for application owners to reque

Installing System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 SP1                          Download SCVMM 2012 Book SCVMM Project Plan Tasks Status Install  a VM Windows Server 2012 on Hyper-V Done Join Network/ Domain VMM01/ IP: Done Prerequisites (Roles and Features, ADK 8.0) Done Create Service Account  SVCVMM @ndic.com   (needs to be Domain Admin) Done Distributed Key Management  (CN=VMMDKM,DC=ndic,DC=.com)  Permissions to This  Object and all descendant objects. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg697604.aspx Done Install SQL Server 2012 SP1  (SQL 2012 SP1 Update SQLServer2012-KB2793634-x64) http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=36215 Done Install SCVMM 2012 SP1 with the service account SVCVMM @ndic.com Done Configuring SCVMM Done Adding Hyper-V C

How to Add a Hyper-V Failover Cluster on Virtual Machine Manager  2012 Go to Fabric   and then click on Add Resources Add Hyper-V Host  and Clusters In my Scenario I have my Hyper-V Cluster on a Trusted AD Specify the credentials for discover the Hosts Specify the hosts that you want to discover Now select the Hosts or Cluster Cluster Added. Next Post Configure SCVMM Networks    Thanks for watching ! 

How to Configure Virtual Machine Manager 2012 Networks At this point we need to configure the Logical Network s and VLANS Go to Fabric and expand Networking and select Logical Networks or just  click on Create Logical Network Now  assign a Name to the Logical Network and click Next Now assign the Network Sites with VLANS Click ok and close. Part 1  Installing SCVMM 2012    Thanks for watching !