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Installing and running SQL Server 2012

The new SQL Server 2012 is the first SQL Server product that can be actively installed on a Windows Server Core. Windows Server 8 is also the first operating system on which you can employ switching features between the Server Core and the Server Full implementations. Now, although SQL Server 2012 can be installed on a Windows Server 8 Core (or a successful copy of Windows 8 installation) directly from the command line or configuration file, the easier way would be by installing it first on Windows Server 8 Full with GUI and then later switching the OS to Windows Core.

So in taking a look at how you can go about achieving the same, the team with Windows 8 and support has formulated a simple guide as given below.

Starting Windows Server 8 Setup

1. To first begin with installing Windows Server 8 with GUI, you will need to choose the same option from the setup wizard, “Install .NET Framework 3.5 Feature”. Following which, click on “Add Roles and Features” from the “Server Manager” and then continue with the wizard. Make sure that your operating system has active access to the Internet as it will need it to install this same feature.

(NOTE: .NET Framework 4.5 is already installed on the server by default)

1. You can now proceed with installing all SQL Server 2012 features on your Windows Server 8 in the same way you would do so on any other Windows OS.
2. After the successfully completing the installation, you can then start with the necessary configurations graphically.
3. Now, once after you have configured and tested your SQL Server instance, go ahead and try switching your OS to Windows Server Core. Do so by getting on your “Server Manager” and select “Remove Roles and Features” from the “Manage” menu.

(NOTE: The Server Manager in Windows 8 has separate interfaces for removing and adding server roles and you cannot do both at

Installing and running SQL Server 2012

the same time as you were able to do in the previous versions of Windows)

1. Next up, from the “Remove Roles and Feature” wizard, clear “Graphical Management Tools and Infrastructures” and “Server Graphical Shell” check boxes then click on “Next”.
2. After the server is newly restarted, you will see the command prompt only. Type “msconfig” into the command prompt and then hit “Enter”.
3. You can also easily switch back to your main Windows 8 installation with GUI by selecting option 12 “Restore Graphical User Interface (GUI)”.

Your SQL Server instance is now running on Server Core and you can connect to it remotely with Management Studio. Happy computing! For more help and support, visit OmniTechSupport.com.

Windows 8 Refresh and Reset features

In Windows 8, Microsoft incorporates two interesting features called Refresh and Reset computer. These features assist the user in repairing all Windows issues either by relaxing the settings or by resetting almost everything. Performing these actions will take your Windows 8 settings to default or reset Windows 8 to its factory settings by wiping away all installed apps and information kept by you.

The Refresh and Reset features

This feature restores every setting in Windows to their prior setting, but without removing your paper work, music or other files along with it. The Reset PC function even reinstalls your operating system and wipes out everything including your files. However, there is an option where you will be asked whether to keep Windows installation or recovery media during the Reset pr Refresh PC operation. While launching these functions, you may receive a message like this; “Insert media: A few files are lacking. Your Windows set up or recuperation media will give you these files”. Though everyone has this Windows 8 installation setup media, it is advised to change the default settings so that you may reset Windows 8 without having to insert this set up or recovery media.

Start Reset PC operation without set up or bootable media

• In the Windows 8 root drive, create a folder named Win8, i.e., if your Windows 8 drive is “C”, then create the folder under “C” drive.
• Insert your Windows 8 installation media, search for the source folder and copy install.wim file to the Win8 folder, created in the first step.
• Launch elevated prompt. For this, in Start screen, type CMD and then to launch the Command Promptwith admin rights.
  

  Windows 8 Refresh and Reset features

  Simultaneously, press Ctrl+ Alt + Del keys. For additional information on this, Google on how to run a program with admin rights.

• Execute the following command in the elevated prompt:

eagentc.exe /setosimage /path C:Win8 /target c:Windows /Index 1

• Close the Command Prompt.

That’s it! This is how you Reset or Refresh the Windows 8 PC without the use of any bootable media or set up media. If you have any further clarifications on Resetting or Refreshing the Windows 8 PC, consult with the Windows 8 support team. Thank you for your time!

Absence of DVD Blu-Ray Support

Microsoft sure seems to be making a lot of advances and changes with the upcoming Windows 8 operating system. And as such, a lot of you might already be aware of the company’s decision in dropping DVD playback and support from the new operating system. Well, here is another development which claims that Windows 8 has been confirmed to ship its final release without the DVD and Blu-Ray support as well.

Now while it is technically a regression and it is sure to make those of you still familiar with having to install DVD support on your Linux operating systems using third party repositories smile, it is still a major change.

Absence of DVD Blu-Ray Support on the new Windows 8 Installation

Many of you might as well still remember how you had to manually enable DVD playback after having successfully installed Linux on your computers. This was because distributions based out of US were unable to include the required “libdvdcss”. However, smaller distributions were more liberal and included the same. And at the end, multiple articles detailing the steps in enabling the same DVD playback support on one’s computer started flooding the web.

So, in taking this under consideration, one can wonder if Microsoft’s decision is a kind of poetic justice that Windows users will now have to jump through. Microsoft explains its stand on the building concern by reasoning that it is to cut costs efficiently since DVD Blu-Ray support has been declining anyways.

How to Add/Enable DVD Blu-Ray Support on your copy of Windows 8 Installation

Well, for those of you who wish to enable the same support for your copies of Windows 8 installation, the team at Microsoft explains

Absence of DVD Blu-Ray Support

that you will have to buy/install Windows Media center, or rely on one of the many third party solutions. The same will also apply with support for DBV-T/S, ISDB-S/T, DMBH and ATSC.

The Benefit?

Chances are, a lot of us Windows enthusiasts can take this as a good sign of something larger within the company for it have been incredibly willing to cut crust from their operating system, even if it meant support for hardware. As far as the entire industry goes, it is obvious that optical media are on their way out. Apple never even supported Blu-Ray to begin with, and with more laptops being sold without an optical drive, it only makes sense to start phasing it out.

Let’s face it; it has never been a particularly good storage medium, in terms of capacity, reliability, and speed, has it now?

Windows 8 Benefits

Windows 8, the latest culmination of Microsoft’s foray into modern operating system and all things mobile, promises a cohesive, single user experience across a variety of versatile devices. With active cross platform integration, Smartphone’s, tablets and desktops, users will finally be able to unite under the singular “Metro” user interface. And with it, the convenience of metaphorically sharing the same experience, irrespective of device or location has the capability to make employee collaborations simpler and more productive.

Windows 8 installation and its benefits

In our present world where work is increasingly a thing you do rather than a place you go to, direct access to everything you need regardless of the context that you are in, plays a crucial enabler. And as such, Windows 8 should in turn increase your computing mobility, communication between different office locations and also desk workers and in-the-field employees will find it easier to participate and operate.

Additionally, there will also be benefits for senior management and C-level executives as well. A successful Windows 8 installation should make it easier for you to work the way you want with access to office productivity and line of business applications on the go (a task that the iPad and other devices have failed in accomplishing so seamlessly).

Microsoft’s primary aim for a platform with Windows 8 installation was in streamlining application accessibility. And with the new operating system, this is possible by allowing users to get applications delivered in a method that is most convenient to the situation.

Apps can now be installed locally or delivered centrally via available virtualization or streaming technologies. And the key to all this

is simple, that these applications look and feel the same. And obviously in the Microsoft context, you get the massive benefit of a fully

Windows 8 Benefits

integrated collaboration suite that can now run across multiple device form factors consistently.

In considering NBN’s website for example, Australia had in 2011 ranked 21 out of 34 countries in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development under terms of broadband download speeds.

Australia is one of few developed nations with necessary political capital behind a nationwide broadband network. And with the NBN project underway, Australia is still a step ahead. But once fully executed, the countrywide fibre services will place all of its Internet users on an equal plane, a win-win invitation for both consumers and enterprises.