John Savill

John Savill is a Windows technical specialist, an 11-time MVP, and an MCSE for Private Cloud and Server Infrastructure 2012. He's also ITIL certified and a CISSP. John is the author of the popular FAQ for Windows and a senior contributing editor to Windows IT Pro, as well as the author of The Complete Guide to Windows Server 2008 (Addison-Wesley) and Microsoft Virtualization Secrets (Wiley). John's blog is available at http://www.savilltech.com/blog.

Articles by John Savill
Data Protection Manager for Virtualized Workload Protection 
Microsoft System Center 2012 SP1 Data Protection Manager helps protect your virtual machines and the data that resides on them.
Fix an Unbootable Surface RT
You bought Microsoft's latest tablet but now it's not working? Learn how to make that Surface RT turn on.
New Features in Windows Server 2012 R2
Find out the major new features of Windows Server 2012 R2.
Will Windows 8.1 Be Free? 1
Will 8.1 be free?
Windows 8.1 Application Compatibility
Will Windows 8.1 work with your Windows 8 applications?
Top New Windows 8.1 Features 1
Learn the top new Windows 8.1 features
Will 2012 R2 Wave Ship at the Same Time?
Find out ship plans for the 2012 R2 wave.
Scalability Limits for System Center 2012 VMM SP1
Learn the scalability limits for System Center that have changed with SP1 for Virtual Machine Manager 2012.
Storage for Hyper-V Replica
Understand the storage that can be used for Hyper-V Replica.
Virtual Machine Change not Replicating to Hyper-V Replica
Learn why Hyper-V Replicas are separate virtual machines from the source.
Hyper-V Replica Trust Group
Learn how to use Hyper-V Replica Trust Groups.
File Classification
Windows Server 2012 File Classification Infrastructure 
Learn how the Windows Server 2012 File Classification Infrastructure feature automates data control and organization.
Remote Server Management
Windows Server 2012 Remote Server Management 
Windows Server 2012's new Server Manager helps organizations move to a true remote management methodology.
Stop Server Manager from Automatically Launching
Learn how to stop Server Manager automatically launching at log on by using Group Policy
Create an Operations Manager Override
Learn how to create a System Center Operations Manager override.
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System Center 2012 SP1 Orchestrator is the foundation of System Center and quite literally allows any process to be completed automated across any number of systems in the datacenter and even beyond into the cloud. It can be quite daunting to figure out how to get started and what is the right way to create runbooks that can be reused in the future. In this class, participants will learn the key concepts of how runbooks actually work, best practices to creating runbooks, and advanced troubleshooting techniques.

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