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I have to start by saying that I am totally blown away…what a year…everything, and I mean everything at Microsoft is changing, evolving and integrating like never before… I think that never before ,means in this case, that that we are at a point in time were it is ALL coming together in a new era of computing and a new era for Microsoft. Every product in the lineup is new and improved..and that means everything! Windows, (8 and 2012), Office, Office 365, SQL, Visual Studio, Exchange, System Center...
Many customers in the past have asked for this feature…and I know that there are even some products that have tried to fill this gap…now it is just a part of group policy on our Windows 8 machines… Essentially, you can control your organization’s machines and network stack to ensure that your machines do not connect to your internal corporate network and the internet for example…basically not allowing that bridge to occur. This is another great Windows 8 security feature…amongst many may more… Some...
Windows 2012 is packed with features, one of the very cool ones is online backup. What this feature essentially does is enables you to back up the contents of a server to Azure. As we will see in the post. Windows Azure Online Backup is a two-part process. First it requires that you sign up for a subscription to the service and then install the management software (Windows Azure Online Backup Agent that supports Windows Azure Online Backup and the Windows Server Backup feature). You can perform these...
http://blogs.technet.com/b/windowsserver/archive/2012/07/09/windows-server-2012-final-release-timing.aspx Today Microsoft is kicking off an exciting week at our Worldwide Partner Conference in Toronto. Windows Server 2012 will be a focus of attention at the event, of course, and it is nearing final release. In fact, at the conference we are announcing that Windows Server 2012 will be released to manufacturing in the first week of August. The code will be complete and we will begin...
The other day, I was asked about how to manage and monitor applications from Development to Production…and how can we monitor the application in each of the standard development lifecycle environments…DEV, TEST, Staging and PROD (or whatever you might have in your environment…) System Center 2012 and the various components all come together to manage (Build, Scale, Update) and Monitor (Infra, Networking, Server Application Performance and Client Application Performance…amongst many other capabilities...
For anyone that is looking to lock down their systems, please take a look at the new SCM…just released to the download center! The Microsoft Security Compliance Manager has baselines and specific threats and Countermeasures for every setting for your servers (and Roles) and applications (at least the ones included in the tool, which is a lot). Once you build your baseline and any changes (you can compare the two) meaning that the Microsoft baseline recommendation and any specific changes you have...
I love my Windows Phone 7…it’s a great OS running on a Samsung Focus Flash Machine… Every time I take it out, people always ask about it…and I tell them that I also have a few other devices that I use (devices I gathered along the way…). One of them used to be this…IPhone…I don’t know exactly what happened…but…I just had to share…and ask if anyone has encountered something like this… Imagine, you are enjoying your smartphone…talking,listening to music…angry birds…and then ALL of a sudden…you hear...
With SCVMM 2012 (and the whole suite) coming out next month…there are a lot of super cool features that I think that ITPROs will really want to leverage… One of them, is Dynamic Optimization! During Dynamic Optimization, VMM migrates virtual machines within a host cluster to improve load balancing among hosts and to correct any placement constraint violations for virtual machines. Dynamic Optimization can be configured on a host group, to migrate virtual machines within host...
Hi there, Some of you might have seen my post in regards to Coreinfo.exe from sysinternals in regards to checking if your servers (CPUs) have SLAT (Second Level Address Translation) http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/cc835722 Just a quick update to something we found in the field for those of you that have the Hyper-V Role enabled…it turns out that the tool needs to be run without Hyper-V enabled in order to verify correctly if you have SLAT… In essence…you have two three options (good...
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Once upon a time…not soo long ago… “NEW ORLEANS, May 6, 2003 — In his keynote address today at the 12th annual Windows® Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC), Bill Gates, chairman and chief software architect at Microsoft Corp., will showcase a concept of a Dynamic Data Center (DDC)” http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2003/may03/05-06dynamicdatacenterpr.mspx I remember hearing about it for the first time, and thinking WOW…wouldn’t that be something…Imagine designing a system, with a tool...
Hey everyone! I know you are going to love this…for all of us that might still be on the keyboard with Windows 8…here it is…the full list of commands! And of course…that infamous Win + C for the charms
If you were looking for those server bits ( Datacenter Edition) you can find them here.. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/hh670538.aspx?ocid=&wt.mc_id=TEC_108_1_33 So, finished the installation, syspreped my first machine and I am ready to go… (you’ll find it in c:\windows\system32\sysprep\sysprep.exe) The First thing that you’ll see is the new Server Manager…Very Cool!! The new Server Manager, not only lets you see your servers in one place, but also lets you install Roles...
ISO almost downloaded…from the feel of it…it looks like a LOOOOOT of people were waiting to download the bits…(Read = ALLLOOOOT)…. It almost here, and may the installation begin…! It’s time to take a deep look at allll the new features: Dynamic Access Control Secure Boot Measured Boot New PKI Features New AD features New Group Policy Features New VDI features New Remote Desktop Features Hyper-V Features Powershell 3.0 Windows to Go (very very cool) and Muuuuuch much more… There...
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