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CLICK ON THE BELOW LINK FOR THE UPDATED POST   How to Create/Configure a NIC Teaming on Server 2016/ 2012 Physical or VM's How to create/ enable a NIC Teaming on Windows Server 2012 /R2 NIC Teaming Overview NIC Teaming, also known as load balancing and failover (LBFO), allows multiple network adapters on a computer to be placed into a team for the following purposes: Bandwidth aggregation Traffic failover to prevent connectivity loss in the event of a network component failure  This feature has been a requirement for independent hardware vendors (IHVs) to enter the server network adapter market, but until now NIC Teaming has not been included in Windows Server operating systems. More Info: Windows Server 2012 R2  http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh831648.aspx NIC Teaming Step  by Step I've made this tutorial on a Hyper-V 2012 Virtual Machine with Server 2012 R...

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 !...

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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Deploying DHCP on Windows Server 2012 R2       Guide 1.0        David Acevedo Step By Step to deploy Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol    Open your Server Manager Dashboard Click on Manage then Add Roles and Features   it will appear the Wizard Click Next   Select Role-Based or feature-based installation and Next Select a server from the server pool and Next. Note:     In my case is the DC01 but you can have multiple servers   add them the roles/features and you don’t need to access the remote servers. This helps you to consolidate administration. Select   DHCP Server and all required features for DHCP click Add Features and Next If this alert appears before you proceed   you should set your IP Static . Click Start button and wr...

Deploying Active Directory Domain Services 2012 R2         Guide 1.0 David Acevedo Step By Step to deploy Active Directory Domain Services   Open your Server Manager Dashboard Click on Manage then Add Roles and Features   it will appear the Wizard   Click Next   Select Role-Based o feature-based installation and Next Select a server from the server pool and Next. Note:     In my case is the DC01 but you can have multiple servers   add them the roles/features and you don’t need to access the remote servers. This helps you to consolidate administration. Select Active Directory Domain Services and all required features for ADDS click Add Features and Next . Next on Features Tab Next on AD DS Now Install   (I recommend to select the Auto Restart ) Now you are Installing AD DS No...