“The Elway Gazette”

Hi Community, here is my compilation of the most interesting technical blog posts written by members of the Microsoft MVP Community. The number of MVPs is growing well, I hope you enjoy their posts. @all MVPs If you’d like me to add your blog posts to my weekly compilation, please send me an email (flo@datacenter-flo.de) or reach out to me via Twitter (@FloKlaffenbach). Thanks!

Featured Posts of the Week!

Future Proofing Storage Acquisitions Without A Crystal Ball by Didier van Hoye

HYPER-V OVER SMB: SCALE-OUT FILE SERVER AND STORAGE SPACES by Thomas Maurer

How to Build a Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V Test Lab by Aidan Finn

System Center 2012 SP1 – Orchestrator: Integration Pack by Damian Flynn

Azure

Azure Neuerungen Vortrag bei Microsoft in German by Toni Pohl

Events

Future Proofing Storage Acquisitions Without A Crystal Ball by Didier van Hoye

Hyper-V

HYPER-V OVER SMB: SCALE-OUT FILE SERVER AND STORAGE SPACES by Thomas Maurer

Creating a NIC Team and Virtual Switch for Converged Networks by Aidan Finn

How to Build a Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V Test Lab by Aidan Finn

Using WS2012 R2 Hyper-V Storage QoS by Aidan Finn

What’s New in Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V Live Migration by Aidan Finn

Hyper-V Waiting to Merge by Jeffery Hicks

Office 

Spaß zum Wochenende: Word 5.5 für DOS kostenlos bei Microsoft in German by Nils Kaczenski

Office 365

Office 365 Tipp: Fehler bei dem Aufrufen der Beiträge im Blog in German by Kerstin Rachfahl

PowerShell

Friday Fun: Get Day of the Year with PowerShell by Jeffery Hicks

Creating Styling HTML Reports with PowerShell by Jeffery Hicks

An easy way to check if a variable or property has data in PowerShell by Jeff Wouters

Remove Group Policy Objects through PowerShell by Jeff Wouters

Backup Group Policy Objects through PowerShell by Jeff Wouters

Why PowerShell? by Shay Levy

#PSTip Create an empty folder/file using Desired State Configuration File resource by Ravikanth Chaganti

Custom DSC resource for managing hosts file entries by Ravikanth Chaganti

Sharepoint 

Review: Monitoring your SharePoint Farms with SmartTrack by BinaryWave by Andrew Connell

System Center Orchestrator

Monitoring System Center 2012 – Orchestrator with Orchestrator Health Checker by Damian Flynn

System Center 2012 SP1 – Orchestrator: Integration Pack by Damian Flynn

System Center Virtual Machine Manager

SC2012 R2 VMM Preview verwirft Windows Server 2012 R2 Preview NVGRE Gateway NAT Einstellungen in German by Daniel Neumann

CONNECT IPAM WITH SYSTEM CENTER 2012 R2 VIRTUAL MACHINE MANAGER by Thomas Maurer

Windows Server

PowerShell oneliner to find empty groups in Active Directory by Jeff Wouters

Putting The Scale Into The Scale-Out File Server by Aidan Finn

Windows Server 2012 R2 Has RTMd by Aidan Finn

Storage Spaces & Scale-Out File Server Are Two Different Things by Aidan Finn

Configuring Quorum on Storage Spaces For A 2 Node WS2012 (and WS2012 R2) Cluster by Aidan Finn

Adventures In RDMA – The RoCE Path Over DCB To Windows Server 2012 R2 SMB 3.0 Glory by Didier van Hoye

Mehr zu reservierten Namen in Active Directory in German by Nils Kaczenski

Right way to configure #ISCSI #initiator in #Windows Server 2012 R2 by Robert Smit

Tools

Dell announced the availability of vWorkspace PowerShell module beta by Ravikanth Chaganti