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IT Roundtable – 9/17/2013
Presented by Bob Miller, Micah Howard, Doug Whiteley
Agenda
• Upgrading: The $10,000 Question
• What’s New?
• Interactive Live Server 2012 Demo
• Interactive Server 2012 R2 VM Demo
Upgrade: When is the time right?
• Have you upgraded yet?
• If not, how will you know when?
• Nobody wants to get burnt!
• Typically people wait for SP1
• Let somebody else pay the dues
• What is your upgrade path?
• In Place Vs. Direct Upgrade
Introducing Server 2012
• What’s new in Windows Server 2012?
• First big step to the cloud for Windows Server
• Datacenter / Standard/ Essentials 25 / Foundation (OEM) 15
• What’s improved in Windows Server 2012?
• Actually it’s more like what has not been improved
• October 18 GA, November 1st Purchasing
• Pricing updates…? 28% ?!? Really?!? At least the CALs are the same
What’s New? Start with the big ones
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Windows PowerShell Cmdlets for Active Directory Replication and Topology More cmdlets,
approximatly 2,400 -- enough said.
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GUI for Recycle Bin Microsoft introduced the Active Directory Recycle Bin in Windows Server
2008 R2, but it was limited by its Windows PowerShell-only exposure. This time it gets a GUI.
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UI for Fine-Grained Password Policies Also gaining a GUI are fine-grained password policies.
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Windows PowerShell History Viewer You see the Windows PowerShell commands that
correspond to actions you perform in the Active Directory Administrative Center UI.
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Active Directory-Based Activation (ADBA) The good: ADBA eliminates the need for a Key
Management Service server. The bad: Only forthcoming Windows 8 computers can leverage
ADBA. Seriously, Microsoft?
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Flexible Authentication Secure Tunneling (FAST) The nickname for FAST is "Kerberos
armoring," if that tells you anything. It isn't enabled by default and requires clients that
support it. Think you'll be using it anytime soon?
What’s New from Technet
Users and Groups
The following functionalities
are new in users and groups
management:
•User groups management
•Office 365 distribution
groups management
•You can now create user
groups and add user
accounts to them. User
account permissions can be
managed through their user
group memberships.
•If your server is integrated
with Office 365, you can
manage your Office 365
distribution groups from the
dashboard.
What’s New from Technet
Server Storage
The following
functionalities are new in
Server Storage:
•Folder management on a
second server in a
Windows Server 2012 R2
Essentials Preview
network.
•Server Folder quota.
•You can create shared
folders on a secondary
server while keeping the
same Universal Naming
Convention (UNC) path
prefix.
•You can specify a space
quota for a Server Folder.
You receive an alert, when
a Server Folder size grows
beyond its defined quota.
What’s New from Technet
Office 365 Integration
The following
functionalities are new in
Office 365 integration
with Windows Server
2012 R2 Essentials
Preview:
•SharePoint Libraries
management
•Office 365 Distribution
groups management
If your server is
integrated with Office
365, you can:
•manage your Office 365
SharePoint Libraries from
the dashboard.
•manage your Office 365
distribution groups from
the dashboard.
What’s New from Technet
Client Full System Restore Client Full System Restore You can create client
is supported by Windows restore service using the
Deployment Services.
Set up Client Restore
Service task and perform
client full system restore
over the network instead
of using an image saved
on a DVD.
What’s New from Technet
Mobile Devices
Mobile Devices
management can be
done through the
dashboard.
If your server is
integrated with Office
365, you can manage
your mobile devices using
the Exchange Active Sync
functionalities, such as
define email access from
a mobile device, set up
password policies, and
remote wipe of the
mobile device.
What’s Improved from Technet
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Virtual Snapshot and Cloning Support Active Directory and hypervisor snapshots
didn't mix before. Now they do, if your hypervisor supports VM Generation ID.
ADPREP Integrated into DC Promotion Can't recall the proper steps to promote a
member server to a DC? No worries, it's in there.
Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) Now In-Box Adding ADFS no longer
requires a separate installation. ADFS also gains multiple improvements. Watch
this space, because you'll be seeing and using more ADFS in the years to come.
Domain Join via DirectAccess One word: Nifty! Nine words: Computers can now be
domain-joined over the Internet. You'll need DirectAccess first. Trust me: You'll
want it.
Kerberos Constrained Delegation (KCD) Across Domains Another of those
capabilities you've probably never used, but probably will in the future. KCD was
first introduced in Windows Server 2003. Now it can span domains.
Group Managed Service Accounts (GMSAs) MSAs in Windows Server 2008 R2
made administering service accounts easier. GMSAs in this version extend their
support to clustered and load-balanced services.
Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V
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Shared VHDX for VM CSV Clustering
Increase AND decrease VHDX size live
Live Migration Compression / SMB Direction (RDMA + 10gb)
2012 to 2012 R2 Migration
New VM Version (2.0 for Win8/2012 R2)
Live Exports / Cloning
Extended Replica (3rd tier) + Replica Frequency Support (30/5/15)
Better Linux Support + Dynamic Memory
Automatic VM Activation
Storage QoS
Server 2012 R2 ReFS (Resilient File System)
• Introduced in 2012
• Subset of NTFS
• Crazy data limits
• 16Exabyte Files
• 1Yottabyte volume size (one quadrillion GB)
• CHKDSK no longer needed (on the fly repair)
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It writes data to a new area of the disk, one the write is confirmed successful it can free the old space
“Storage Spaces and ReFS complement each other. When coupled with a
mirrored Storage Space, duplicate copies of data will automatically be leveraged
by ReFS. With this configuration, if corruption were to be encountered, ReFS
can immediately leverage redundant data within Storage Spaces to expediently
address the issue”
Does not support Deduplication natively like NTFS
ReFS - Continued
Server 2012 Remote Desktop Services
• Under the hood improvements for RDS
• Centralized publishing for RemoteApp
• Big upgrades to RemoteFX
• DX11.1 support, more virtual screens
• Better hardware acceleration
• Session Shadowing has returned for R2
• Allows for Deduplication of collection VHD
Server 2012 / R2 Group Policy
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Remote Policy Updates Invoke-GPUpdate
More detailed RSOP reports
Faster Boot via hibernation
IE 10 support
• Policy Caching is new in R2
• IPv6 is supported in R2 better (about time right?)
Server 2012 R2 SMB 3.0
• Introduced in Server 2012
• SMB Transparent Failover
• Seamless failover without client interaction
• Requires client and server to support SMB 3.0
• SMB Scale Out Server
• Active/Active connectivity
• Mostly Hyper-V
• VSS for SMB File Shares
Server 2012 R2 Active Directory
• Virtual AD DS Domain Controller cloning
(Hyper-V)
• With or without configuration file
• Simplified deployment and upgrade
• Remotely prep domain and forest from 2012
Server GUI
• Adprep built in to GUI
• AD recycle bin GUI (server 2008 R2
functional level)
Server 2012 R2 Failover Clustering
• Cluster-Aware Updating
• Apply windows updates with no cluster
downtime
• Cluster migration from 2008 R2 to Server
2012
• VM drain (migrate VM’s from one node to
another)
Server 2012 R2 PowerShell 4.0
• Desired State Configuration!!
• Enabling or disabling server roles and
features
• Managing groups and user accounts
• Managing files and directories
• Managing registry settings
• Several hundred bug fixes
Server 2012 Demo
Hyper-V and more
Server 2012 R2 Demo
RTM VM
Links
• Resilient FS When should I use it?
• http://blogs.technet.com/b/askpfeplat/archive/2013/01/02/windows
-server-2012-does-refs-replace-ntfs-when-should-i-use-it.aspx
• Server 2012 R2 What’s New
• http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn250019.aspx
• Server 2012 What's New
• http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh831769.aspx