Features Removed or Deprecated in Windows Server 2012 R2

Want to know where your feature is gone...or will be in next Windows release.
Be prepared and read carefully.

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Can not install DPM 2012 R2 with PDT 2.5.2708

If the installation of DPM 2012 R2 failed during your PDT deployment, enter the System Center Serial Number into your Workflow.XML and the installation will work !

The Integration packs you need for Orchestrator 2012 R2

The whole System Center 2012 R2 Integration Packs

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The PowerShell Plugin v 1.2

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Robocopy Integration Pack

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Text Manipulation Pack

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System Center 2012 R2 Deployment Toolkit PDT

Yes Microsoft has released the next perfect PDT Tool. With this tool you can Setup a whole System Center envrionment in 2 h (depends on the Server IOPS and CPU) on physical or virtual boxes. But even better than in 1 Week with manuel keyboard and download sessions! The scripts can also deploy the new Azure Pack 2013 and SQL Cluster !!! Great work and thank you to Rob Willis and his team.

Get the latest release here

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Hyper-V Gen 2 Converter

For all of you searching how to convert Gen1 to Gen2 Hyper-V VMs during migration from Windows Server 2012 to Windows Server 2012 R2. Here you can find the Convert-VMGeneration.ps1 tool from John Howard. A perfect how to is attached on the link.

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