NGINX is growing....

Nginx overtakes Microsoft as No. 2 Web server after Apache:
http://www.infoworld.com/t/application-servers/nginx-overtakes-microsoft-no-2-web-server-183079?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

IPv6 explained

Nicely explained IPv6 routing and subnetting. Note that this is from a free IT training site for Microsoft exams 70-640 and others

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcPEOxILIcs&feature=share&list=PL1l78n6W8zyoC2_VVQSLeZT6rkRkUlOY_

System Center 2012 links

http://blogs.technet.com/b/musings_of_a_technical_tam/archive/2012/07/08/system-center-2012-self-study-guide-complete-edition.aspx

https://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/tracks/system-center-virtual-machine-manager-2012-

Unattended install of RODC on Windows 2008 core

Example from Microsoft: [DCInstall] CriticalReplicationOnly=No ReplicaDomainDNSName=contoso.com UserDomain=contoso.com UserName=contoso\administrator Password=your-password DatabasePath=c:\windows\ntds LogPath=c:\windows\ntds SYSVOLPath=c:\windows\SYSVOL SafeModeAdminPassword=your-safemode-password RebootOnCompletion=Yes The command for DC promotion is Dcpromo /useexistingaccount:attach /unattend:c:\rodc.txt

roll back AD domain functional level

In Windows 2008 R2 you can rise and lower domain level as you wish or almost: see limitations

Windows 2008 - create application partition

An obscure use of DNS to create AD DS custom application partition: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc725739.aspx http://youtu.be/9VzoXwVhChg This might be useful to limit partition replication to a list of certain domain controllers for example. PS: visit http://www.technoblogical.com/windows-server-2008/ for more videos

eSATA for the lab

eSATA is indispensable for home hyper-v Lab, based on a regular laptop (that you do not want to format or something) and a HDD connected via eSATA. You can install your hyper-v host on external HDD without any speed compromise. On my Samsung R580 there is eSATA. I have also a regular SATA HDD 2T and HDD docking IcyBox Works fast and I have 4 Windows 2008R2 servers running in my evaluation lab. I d not need to buy a separate PC for that.