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Steps before upgrading:

1. Make backups from all servers (physical and virtual);
2. Reconfigure all hyper-v Virtual Machines (servers and/or clients) so that they didn’t start up automatically;
3. Delete all snapshots from Virtual Machines (servers and/or clients) on the Hyper-v server;
4. Delete unnecessary software, services and so on;
5. Check eventviewer on critical events and solve them first before you go to the next step;
6. Deïnstall any antivirus and Intel Pro software;
7. Place DVD (or bootable USB-key  provided with the right OS) and open an elevated prompt;
8. Run D:\support\adprep\adprep.exe /forestprep (in my case my DVD is drive D);
9. Run D:\support\adprep\adprep.exe /domainprep (in my case my DVD is drive D);
10. When there aren’t errors until this moment you can start the setup.exe in the root of the DVD;
11. Follow the prompts and select Upgrade existing Windows installation. The setup will check your system if it’s compatible and report on any issues;
12. Upgrade stage is provided. In my case this took more than 3 hours;
13. Log in, start up all Virtual Machines and upgrade the HyperV Integration Services for each Virtual Machine
14. Reboot the Virtual Machines after the process of installing Integration Services;

See also separate article about upgrading Integration Services on all the Virtual Machines. This article includes simple video’s.

After upgrading my server on which was installed the Hyper-v role (from W2K8 to W2K12 Datacenter edition) you have to upgrade every host on this server so that the Integration Services are also up-to-date.

The steps I did:

1. Logon to the server
2. Start Hyper-v Manager
3. Select one-by-one the hosts and start them up, login and follow the steps directed in the video’s. See links below.

Klik hier voor filmpje voor een Windows server 2012 host

Klik hier voor filmpje voor een Windows server 2008 R2 host

I spent a lot of time to find were this feature was hidden. Therefore I wrote this post. I ‘m using multi monitors and the most difficult thing is how to pin a program to open or starts on monitor 1 or 2. I found a cool program and installed this. But in the install phase there was a warning “The Windows multi-monitor taskbar is currently enabled and may cause issues when the DispalyFusion Multi-Monitor Taskbar is enabled. Would you like to disable the Windows multi-monitor taskbar“. Click for original warning.

So I was in a testing period of the program mentioned above so I like to know how to establish the original function of Windows 8 multi-monitor taskbar. And here is the clue: Right click Taksbar en chose Properties. The following screen apears. Screen 1: The function is disabled. Screen 2: The function is enabled (default Windows 8).

Disabled multi-monitor in Windows 8

Disabled multi-monitor in Windows 8

Ik liep even tegen DNS aan en was wat aan het nakijken. Ik wist het wel, maar kon het nergens vinden. DNS server opgenomen in Active Directory Domain Services Integration is sneller, beter beheerbaar etc.

Op TechNet liep ik tegen dit leuke artikel aan. Onderaan dit artikel zegt Microsoft Directory-integrated replication is faster and more efficient than standard DNS replication!

The email address associated with your Microsoft account can’t be changed is the error I got when I tried to rename my hotmail account in an outlook.com account.

Read answers from Microsoft here.