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
Downloading Surface Pro Drivers

A. Where there were originally some problems getting the Surface Pro drivers to use in your own images they are now available in the Windows Update Catalog.

Unable To Run 32-bit OS on Azure IaaS
Find what OSs Windows Azure IaaS can run on.
Deploying KB2775511
To deploy or not to deploy KB 2775511 for Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2 SP1?
Use Single Cert Certificate with Azure IP
Fix certificate problems related to the Azure Integration Pack.
Checking Your SMB Version
Learn how to check which version of SMB is being used with a single PowerShell command.
Migration of virtual machine storage between Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V hosts
Windows Server 2012 Storage Live Migration 
Windows Server 2012 introduces migration of virtual machine storage between any Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V hosts, without downtime. Find out how to get the most out of the storage live migration feature.
Migrating Virtual Machine Storage
All storage for virtual machines on a specific disk can be moved with a single line of PowerShell.
Using ReFS with SQL Server
Can ReFS be used with SQL Server?
Don't Use ReFS with Hyper-V
Can ReFS be used with Hyper-V?
Run ReFS on Other OSs?
Where can ReFS be used outside of Windows Server 2012 if at all.
Convert NTFS to ReFS
Can you convert NTFS to ReFS?
Storage Space Disk Problems Solved
Working with Storage Spaces when you run out of physical disk space.
Clustering a Storage Space
Understand how Storage Spaces can be used in a Failover Cluster.
Hidden Windows 8 Keyboard Options
There are more Windows 8 keys available than you can see!! Check out these Windows 8 onscreen keyboard hidden shortcuts.
Sharing Same Folder with NFS and SMB
Understand how NFS and SMB can be used on the same folder.
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Mastering System Center 2012

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Current Issue

May 2013 - The NameTranslate object is useful when you need to translate Active Directory object names between different formats, but it's awkward to use from PowerShell. Here's a PowerShell script that eliminates the awkwardness.

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