The Microsoft Virtual Academy team would like to announce the release of the Understanding Microsoft’s High Availability Solutions course. This course covers the best ways to provide continual availability to all applications, services, servers and VMs in your datacenter. The modules will cover all the...

  The Microsoft Virtual Academy team would like to announce the release of the System Center Configuration Manager 2012 course. This course provides an overview of the new System Center Configuration Manager 2012 (SCCM) product. After completing this course you will understand the features that...

The December MVA TechNet Radio show is now live. The show covers what’s happen in the Academy now and what is coming down the line. This show focuses on the System Center Virtual Manager 2012 and System Center Configuration Manager 2012 courses. Get a sneak peek of what’s in these course. what Consumerization...

In the previous two posts the focus was on management of Microsoft Windows based products , either in a physical or virtual configuration, by using the System Center products. However, the modern datacentre is not all Windows based servers and contains a variety of different hosts that all require management...

The old adage “A watched pot never boils” could be applied to your servers. “A watched server never goes wrong”, that server always decides to doing something right before those critical moments, just as you are leaving for the day, just before the game starts, just as your food arrives, it never does...

Do you find yourself looking at your machine room and wondering “Why are there so many machines in there?” Often it’s just a question of having to run legacy applications or applications that are just too time consuming and expensive to consolidate onto other machines. One possible solution to this is...

This demonstration shows how to configure various user roles that have access to perform different tasks in Operations Manager. It also reviews how to deploy Operations Manager agents through the Operations Console. Configuring User Roles and Deploying Agents

A team of IT Pro Evangelists from the US including:  Kevin Remde , Matt Hester , Chris Avis , Chris Henley , and Yung Chou is delivering a 20-part webcast series on Microsoft Virtualization Solutions starting January 14, 2009. The objectives of this series is not only to help you develop technical...

Not everyone can make it to TechEd each year and not everyone can go to the North America show. This year it was held in Orlando, Florida from June 10-13, 2008. I was fortunate to be there and I took the TechNet Spotlight camera crew with me to record a selection of sessions. Hope you enjoy them…. [Promotion...