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Best sessions over Windows Server 2012 R2 that is related to the File Server, the SMB 3.0 features and its associated scenarios like Hyper-V over SMB and SQL Server over SMB

Step-by-step instructions for Windows Server 2012 R2 File Server and SMB 3.0 (and related topics)

• TechNet – Deploy a Guest Cluster Using a Shared Virtual Hard Disk

TechEd 2013 presentations (with video recording) on Windows Server 2012 R2 File Server and SMB 3.0 (and related topics)

• MDC-B333 – Storage and Availability Improvements in Windows Server 2012 R2 (includes overview of new SMB, Storage Spaces and Clustering features in Windows Server 2012 R2)
• MDC-B335 – Understanding the Hyper-V over SMB Scenario, Configurations, and End-to-End Performance (includes new SMB features in Windows Server 2012 R2)
• MDC-B311 – Application Availability Strategies for the Private Cloud (includes details on the Shared VHDX feature in Windows Server 2012 R2)
• MDC-B331 – Upgrading Your Private Cloud with Windows Server 2012 R2 (includes details on upgrading a File Server clustering to Windows Server 2012 R2)
• MDC-B218 – Storage Spaces: What’s New in Windows Server 2012 R2 (includes details on the new Tiering and Write-back Cache features in Storage Spaces)
• MDC-B342 – Reduce Storage Costs with Data Deduplication (includes details on how to use Deduplication with live VHD files in a VDI scenario)
• MDC-B336 – Cluster in a Box in 2013: How Real Customers Are Making Their Businesses Highly-Available with… (updated view of the CiB solutions)
• MDC-B330 – Hyper-V – What’s New in Windows Server 2012 R2 (include overview and/or demos of Storage QoS and Live Migration over SMB and Shared VHDX)
• MDC-B357 – What’s New in Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 – Virtual Machine Manager (includes overview of VMM management of Storage Spaces, Scale-out File Servers and Shared VHDX)

Overview articles on Windows Server 2012 R2 File Server and SMB 3.0 (and related topics)

• TechNet – What’s New for SMB in Windows Server 2012 R2
• TechNet – Virtual Hard Disk Sharing Overview
• TechNet – What’s New in Failover Clustering in Windows Server 2012 R2
• TechNet – What’s New in Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012 R2
• Windows Server Blog – Storage Transformation for your Datacenter

More sessions http://blogs.technet.com/b/josebda/archive/2013/06/26/updated-links-on-windows-server-2012-r2-file-server-and-smb-3-0.aspx