Active Directory |
Offline Domain Join (Djoin.exe) Step-by-Step Guide |
Active Directory |
Top 5 myths on Offline Domain Join |
Active Directory – Backup and recovery |
Active Directory Recycle Bin Step-by-Step Guide |
Active Directory – Backup and recovery |
Backup and Restore Considerations for Virtualized Domain Controllers |
Active Directory – Virtualization |
Introduction to Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) Virtualization |
Active Directory – Virtualization |
Safely Cloning an Active Directory Domain Controller with Windows Server 2012 – Step-by-Step |
Backup and recovery |
CSV backups fail when using Equallogic hardware VSS provider |
Backup and recovery |
Hyper-V Protection with DPM 2010 Beta – How to automatically protect new Virtual Machines on a Secondary DPM |
Backup and recovery |
Installing Protection Agents |
Backup and recovery |
Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2012: Protect Your Data |
Backup and recovery |
Optimizing virtual machine protection |
Backup and recovery |
Protecting Hyper-V Virtual Machines |
Backup and recovery |
Recovering virtual machines |
Backup and recovery |
Sample PowerShell scripts for enabling DPM 2010 auto-protection of Hyper-V |
Backup and recovery |
Shadow Copy Creation for Providers |
Cloud service |
Announcing Paid Preview of Windows Azure Hyper-V Recovery Manager |
Cloud service |
Global Service Monitor |
Disk – Online Virtual Hard Disk Resize |
Configure Online Virtual Hard Disk Resize |
Failover clustering |
Create a Failover Cluster |
Failover clustering |
Deploy an Active Directory-Detached Cluster |
Failover clustering |
Failover Cluster Step-by-Step Guide: Configuring Accounts in Active Directory |
Failover clustering |
Failover Clustering Hardware Requirements and Storage Options |
Failover clustering |
How to Enable CSV Cache |
Failover clustering |
How to Restrict Clustered Hyper-V Virtual Machines to Specific Cluster Nodes, Part 1 |
Failover clustering |
New-Cluster |
Failover clustering |
What’s New in Failover Clustering in Windows Server 2012 R2 |
Guest Failover Clustering |
Deploy a Guest Cluster Using a Shared Virtual Hard Disk |
Guest Failover Clustering |
Using Guest Clustering for High Availability |
Guest Failover Clustering |
Virtualization: Guest Failover Clustering with Hyper-V |
High availability |
Configuring Availability Options for Virtual Machines Overview |
High availability |
Hyper-V Windows 2012 : High Availability and Resiliency |
Hyper-V |
Checkpoint-VM |
Hyper-V |
Hyper-V Overview |
Hyper-V |
Migrate Hyper-V to Windows Server 2012 R2 from Windows Server 2012 |
Hyper-V |
What’s New in Hyper-V for Windows Server 2012 R2 |
Hyper-V |
What’s new in Hyper-V Replica in Windows Server 2012 R2 |
Hyper-V |
Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Best Practices (In Easy Checklist Form) |
Hyper-V |
Windows Server 2012 R2 Server Virtualization Technical Overview |
Live migration |
Configure Live Migration and Migrating Virtual Machines without Failover Clustering |
Live migration |
Virtual Machine Live Migration Overview |
Monitoring |
Deployment Guide for System Center 2012 – Operations Manager |
Monitoring |
Fabric Monitoring |
Monitoring |
How to Connect VMM with Operations Manager |
Monitoring |
How to monitor SQL Agent jobs using the SQL Management Pack and OpsMgr |
Monitoring |
Integrating VMM 2012 and OpsMgr 2012 |
Monitoring |
Monitoring Web Applications with Microsoft Monitoring Agent |
Monitoring |
Operations Manager Integration and PRO Improvements in SCVMM 2012 |
Monitoring |
SCOM 2012 R2 – What’s New Overview |
Monitoring |
SCOM AD Script Errors |
Monitoring |
Support for PRO |
Monitoring |
System Center Management Pack for VMM Fabric Dashboard 2012 R2 |
Monitoring |
Virtual Machine Network Monitoring the Easy Way, with Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012 |
Monitoring |
What’s New in System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager |
Network |
Configuring Ports and Switches for VM Networks in VMM |
Network |
Configuring Windows Server 2012 NIC Teaming to a Hyper-V Virtual Machine |
Network |
Connect-VMNetworkAdapter |
Network |
Everything you wanted to know about SR-IOV in Hyper-V |
Network |
How to Create a Host or a Physical Computer Profile to Provision a Hyper-V Host in VMM |
Network |
How to Create a Logical Network in VMM |
Network |
Hyper-V Virtual Machine very slow network – VMQ – Broadcom |
Network |
Hyper-V: Configure VLANs and VLAN Tagging |
Network |
Hyper-V: What are the uses for different types of virtual networks? |
Network |
Logical Networks (Part IV) – PVLAN Isolation |
Network |
Logical Networks (Part V) – Network Virtualization |
Network |
NIC Teaming in Windows Server 2012 – Do I Need to Configure My Switch? |
Network |
Set-VMNetworkAdapter |
Network |
Software Defined Networking – Hybrid Clouds using Hyper-V Network Virtualization |
Network |
Virtual Receive-side Scaling |
Network |
VMQ deep dive |
Network |
What’s New in Hyper-V Virtual Switch in Windows Server 2012 |
Network |
Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V and SR-IOV |
Network |
Windows Server 2012 NIC Teaming (LBFO) Deployment and Management |
Network |
Windows Server Gateway |
OS – Activation |
Activating virtual machines via Automatic Virtual Machine Activation in Windows Server 2012 R2 |
OS – Activation |
Automatic Virtual Machine Activation |
OS – Editions |
Windows Server 2012 Products and Editions |
P2V |
P2V Prerequisites in VMM |
Resource metering |
Chargeback with System Center 2012 SP1 tutorial |
Resource metering |
Enabling Chargeback in a Service Provider Cloud by Kristian Nese |
Resource metering |
Hyper-V Resource Metering Overview |
Resource metering |
Use PowerShell to Meter Resources on Hyper-V Windows Server 2012 |
resource optimization |
Guided Hands-on Lab: Dynamic Optimization and Power Optimization for an Elastic Private Cloud Fabric – Build Your Private Cloud in a Month |
Security |
Collecting Security Events Using Audit Collection Services in Operations Manager |
Storage |
Deploy Hyper-V over SMB |
Storage |
How to Assign SMB 3.0 File Shares to Hyper-V Hosts and Clusters in VMM |
Storage |
Hyper-V Offloaded Data Transfer Overview |
Storage |
Storage Quality of Service for Hyper-V |
Storage |
What’s New in Storage Spaces in Windows Server 2012 R2 |
Storage |
What’s New in Storage Spaces in Windows Server 2012 R2 – Write Back Cache |
Storage |
Why R2? Step-by-Step: Automated Tiered Storage with Windows Server 2012 R2 |
Storage |
Windows Offloaded Data Transfers Overview |
Storage |
Windows Server 2012 File Server Tip: Enable CSV Caching on Scale-Out File Server Clusters |
Storage – virtual disk VM |
Online Virtual Hard Disk Resizing Overview |
Storage – virtual disk VM |
Optimize-VHD |
Storage – virtual disk VM |
Resizing VHDX´s on running VM´s in Windows 2012 R2 Hyper-V |
Storage – virtual disk VM |
Virtual Machine Connection – Enhanced Session Mode Overview |
Storage – virtual disk VM |
Windows 8.1 / Windows Server 2012 R2 – VMConnect Enhanced Mode – RDP over VMBUS |
Storage – Virtual Fibre Channel |
Hyper-V Virtual Fibre Channel Design Guide |
Storage – Virtual Fibre Channel |
Hyper-V Virtual Fibre Channel Overview |
Storage – Virtual Fibre Channel |
Hyper-V Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) Operations Explained |
Storage – Virtual Fibre Channel |
Managing Virtual Fibre Channel in VMM |
Storage QOS |
Using WS2012 R2 Hyper-V Storage QoS |
Updates |
Managing Fabric Updates in VMM |
Updates |
Out-of-Band VM Updates with Guest Services in Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V |
Updates |
Requirements and Best Practices for Cluster-Aware Updating |
Updates |
System Requirements: Update Management |
Virtual Hard Disk Sharing |
Virtual Hard Disk Sharing Overview |
VM |
How to install integration services when the virtual machine is not running |
VM |
Hyper-V Dynamic Memory Overview |
VM – Generation 2 |
Generation 2 Virtual Machine Overview |
VM – Generation 2 |
Hyper-V generation 2 virtual machines |
VMM |
Creating Profiles and Templates in VMM |
VMM |
Custom Placement Rules and Availability Sets in SCVMM 2012 SP1 |
VMM |
Guided Hands-on Lab: Virtual Networking 101 with System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) |
VMM |
How to configure Availability Sets in Virtual Machine Manager |
VMM |
How to Configure Dynamic Optimization and Power Optimization |
VMM |
How to Configure Priority in VMM for a Virtual Machine on a Host Cluster |
VMM |
How to Configure the Library to Support Self-Service Users |
VMM |
How to Create a Self-Service User Role in VMM |
VMM |
How to Create and Deploy a Virtual Machine from an Existing Virtual Machine |
VMM |
Managing your cluster with SCVMM 2012’s Dynamic Optimization (DO) |
VMM |
Set-SCUserRole |
VMM |
Setting anti-affinity and affinity in Hyper-V 3 or SCVMM2012 |
VMM |
System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager (Part 1) – Introduction |
VMM |
System Requirements: Hyper-V Host Deployment to a Bare-Metal Computer |
VMM |
Using SCVMM Custom Properties |
VMM |
What’s New in VMM in System Center 2012 R2 |
VMM – RBAC |
Creating User Roles in VMM |
VMM – Self Service |
Configuring the Library to Support Self-Service Users |
Windows Azure |
Creating and Uploading a Virtual Hard Disk that Contains the Windows Server Operating System |
Windows Azure |
Windows Azure Virtual Machines – Gotcha’s! |
David Russell
January 7, 2014 at 21:32
Thank you for a really informative post / site – this is a great resource for 74-409 candidates and absolutely what I was looking for. I intend to study, sit and (hopefully) pass the exam and this will really help. Congratulations on your pass!
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Rory
January 9, 2014 at 13:52
This is a great resource. Thanks for putting it together.
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Wana Sturm
January 10, 2014 at 19:40
great work and helpfull for working enviromment, but will be hard to pass it with the 74-409 exams.
i really liked it and i will continue reading it.
thanks alot
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Karabo Calvin
January 28, 2014 at 11:08
Very great work , this is what i need for my exam. Thank you for putting this together and well done for passing your exam
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T.H. Cheng
February 4, 2014 at 21:37
Do you know what the passing score for this exam is?
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Bjorn Houben
February 4, 2014 at 21:50
I think same as always: 700
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Phabrikam
February 11, 2014 at 22:19
how long did it take to go thru all that material u posted?
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Phabrikam
February 11, 2014 at 22:20
a lot of it is redundant info i’ve already become familiar with via MCSA but looking to refresh and pass the hyperv cert
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Bjorn Houben
February 11, 2014 at 22:59
Well, not everyone preparing for this is an MCSA on Server 2012 (R2) yet 🙂
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Bjorn Houben
February 11, 2014 at 22:58
About 2 weeks I think.
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David Russell
February 28, 2014 at 18:08
Thanks again Bjorn for a fantastic resource, it has preved really helpful and i’d recommend others use this as a study tool too. I’m happy to report I passed today – not by a huge margin, but a pass is a pass! Time for a well earned beer.
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Bjorn Houben
February 28, 2014 at 22:04
Congrats, enjoy your beer 🙂
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Andrei Pi
March 11, 2014 at 08:22
Thanks for this 🙂
Do tell me please, as this will be my first exam….where can I find the exams structure? :S As in how many questions it will have and possibly if there is any practical test as well. Are the questions similar in structure like the ones on the self-assessment seen on the MVA @ the training videos?
Thanks again for the resources!
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Bjorn Houben
March 26, 2014 at 12:47
It probably has about 50 questions.
For more info, take a look here: http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en-us/exam.aspx?ID=74-409
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ispawnathome
March 26, 2014 at 13:29
Had a look at that, thanks though.
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Konstantin
March 12, 2014 at 10:25
Great post. A lot of links go to “Whats new in hyper-v virtualization” instead of right ones. For example all the links for “Resource Metering”
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vadman
May 7, 2014 at 09:07
Thanks Bjorn, This post was very helpful! I followed your study guide. Watch MVA series, Read all the links and practise some labs. Yesterday I passed with 860. Cheers!
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Bjorn Houben
May 7, 2014 at 09:49
Congratulations. Glad it was useful to you.
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SC
May 22, 2014 at 12:44
Thank for the effort – helped me pass the exam with a score of 900 🙂
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Bjorn Houben
May 22, 2014 at 12:53
Congratulations
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Bjorn Houben
May 22, 2014 at 13:20
Congrats
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Andrei Vornicu
May 29, 2014 at 10:55
Hi Bjorn
Thanks for these advices, i was able to pass this exam only after 1 week of learning and only the first 3 steps you have posted here. For anyone who has a little bit of knowledge about virtualization this exam is not that bad. The minimum score is 700 , and there are 45 questions in 2:30 hours.
Good luck to all and a great thanks to Bjorn
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Bjorn Houben
May 29, 2014 at 10:58
Congratulations on your pass and thanks for leaving a message.
Personally I though the first 3 steps did not provide me with enough insight. Maybe enough for the exam, but not for my own knowledge. So if you’re going to be working with this technology a lot more, be sure to keep learning 🙂
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CRM Junkie
June 4, 2014 at 07:02
Thanks Bjorn! I am preparing for this exam which is due in a week’s time. 🙂
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Bjorn Houben
June 4, 2014 at 07:13
Good luck with your preparations. If you have any questions, please let me know.
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Tim
July 1, 2014 at 05:31
I just passed the 74-409 with an 837. This was my first cert and I’m relatively new to virtualization outside of messing around w/ Hyper-V at home, and completely brand new to System Center.
I definitely felt like I under studied, since I only used the MVA course and about half of the veeam study guide.
To anyone studying for this, the resources Bjorn’s put up goes well above and beyond what’s required, I highly recommend going through all of the links he’s posted. Do that and this exam will be cake, even with no prior experience.
Thanks!
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Lewis
August 26, 2014 at 22:19
Can I share my resource for studying the 74-409 exam?
http://www.freemcptraining.com/mcts-74-409-server-virtualization-with-hyper-v-and-system-center/
I’m writing an online book for studying this exam – I’m about 15% of the way through but sharing as I go.
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Bjorn Houben
September 1, 2014 at 11:12
Thanks for sharing.
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Iam José Das Cenouras
January 8, 2015 at 05:32
What hardware did you use for the lab ?
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Bjorn Houben
February 3, 2015 at 10:38
I have 2 whiteboxes with 32GB of RAM and I7 processors
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Merti
October 17, 2015 at 18:26
Thanks for this extensive list; this is exactly what I was looking for.
I’m thinking about taking the 70-409 instead of the 70-412 to achieve the MSCA certification.
I already wanted to get a deeper Hyper-V knowledge and this exam also looks easier to me that the 70-412.
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Bjorn Houben
October 19, 2015 at 10:51
I’m glad it was useful to you. Thanks for leaving a comment and good luck with the certification.
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