This morning, Brad kicked off TechEd 2013 with the keynote and laid out how we “are now delivering on our vision with a wave of enterprise products built with this cloud-first approach: Windows Server & System Center 2012 R2 and the update to Windows Intune bring cloud-inspired innovation to the enterprise, and enable hybrid scenarios that cannot be duplicated anywhere in the industry.”

Brad published a new article on his blog this morning that we really think you should go read:

TechEd 2013: After Today, Cloud Computing is No Longer a Spectator Sport 

If you haven’t had a chance to see and hear his keynote you can go see it here, Microsoft TechEd 2013 Brad Anderson Keynote. The Video should be available in about 24-48 hours from the date of this post.

We are super excited about Windows Server and System Center 2012 R2. We hope you are too!

Thanks,

Kevin Beares
Senior Community Lead
Windows Server and System Center

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Thought I would share an article or two from the Ask Premier Field Engineering Platform Team Blog.

I think everyone love’s checklists that you can just run through to make sure you didn’t miss anything and that your environment is good to go, right?  Well, how about this, Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Best Practices (In Easy Checklist Form)? A checklist that uses real world best practices for Windows Server 2012 on Hyper-V Replica, Cluster Aware Updating (CAU), Network Virtualization and the Hyper-V Extensible Switch?  They promise to keep the list fresh and will be posting updates when they have them. So, try to make sure you subscribe to the feed for their blog.

As you know or maybe not, we have written about the issue about Slow Login and Slow Boot numerous times over the last year in an effort to address numerous tiny little issues that can impact a systems time to startup.  Well, the Supportability Team has put together a collection 90 hotfixes for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Systems. This is a huge accomplishment and I believe will address a lot of the issues that customers have had with their Boot times. Here is the link to the post from the ASK PFE Platforms team, Slow Boot Slow Login (SBSL) Hotfix Rollup for Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 Available Today!

You can also go read the KB from the support team directly here, An enterprise hotfix rollup is available for Windows 7 Sp1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1.

Hope you find these article helpful.

Kevin Beares
Senior Community Lead
Windows Server and System Center Group

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Swing over the System Center Team Blog and get all of the details on MMS, 2013. Microsoft Management Summit (MMS) 2013 Registration Now Open. In Travis Wright’s own words, “You don’t want to miss out on five days of hands on labs, presentations, and community events with Microsoft engineering leaders, MVPs, and other industry veterans!”

I know that the System Center team and the System Center MVPs go all out at this event every year. Having done a tour of Europe a number of years ago with Wally Meade presenting for the Best of Management Summit, we were challenged boiling down all the materials into a single day.

Thanks,

Kevin Beares
Senior Community Lead – Windows Server and System Center Group

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If you’re interested in learning how Microsoft technologies work—for example, Windows Server, Exchange Server, Windows Azure, and SharePoint Server 2013—this is the Windows Store app for you.

Enjoy! Kevin

Hi, we’re Martin McClean and Brian Lich from the Windows Server Information Experience team.

Server Posterpedia is a Windows Store app designed for Windows 8 and Windows RT that brings graphical content together with content from TechNet and MSDN. It enables you to learn about Microsoft technologies by providing deep links to Microsoft content from within a Windows Store app. Today we’re pleased to announce that Server Posterpedia v2 is available in the Windows Store. The following features are available in version 2:

• Image hotspots that allow you to get content specific to a part of the poster (new).
• Semantic zoom that enables easy navigation of the different groups (new).
• A full-screen viewing mode without the chrome and hotspots (new).
• The ability to share a link to a poster through email (new).
• App bar buttons specific to each poster.
• Technical content for Hyper-V, Active Directory, Remote Desktop Services, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008, Exchange Server 2010, Exchange Server 2007, SharePoint Server 2010, Windows Azure, SQL Server, Lync Server 2010, and Office 2013.

Server Posterpedia is updated frequently with new content, so be sure to download any app updates when you’re notified.

If you’re running Windows 8, you can get this app from the Windows Store:
https://aka.ms/sposterpedia

If you’re not running Windows 8 yet, check out this video that illustrates the app’s features and functionality:
https://aka.ms/sposterpediavid

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