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Have you heard about IaaS, SaaS, PaaS, Private- and Public cloud? Do you know what it means and how this technology can help your customers, your company and your business? As with any journey, many different challenges are ahead. Join us with a journey to the cloud where you will learn more about Microsoft Public and Private cloud offerings.
During this journey we will cover following topics:
By the end of this day you will have knowledge about Microsoft’s cloud strategy and know why “We’re all in”.
Have a look at the Agenda and registration
Forward-thinking companies continue to grapple with the realities of moving to the cloud. For every benefit comes a concern, for every answer a question. There are myriad considerations to resolve before actually pulling the plug on local storage and local hosting. Is cloud-based e-mail secure? How will I control access? Will I have access to e-mail archives? What happens if the hosting provider goes out of business or suffers a catastrophic failure? What’s my back-up plan? Read more… Software Licensing: Track Software Usage with MAP Toolkit 5.0 Tracking software usage for large enterprise customers can be a challenge. This new tool helps provide more accurate assessments.
Office Communications Server 2007 R2: Backup and Restore Your OCS 2007 R2 Contacts Export your OCS 2007 R2 contacts to an XML file with the Dbimpexp utility, and save yourself valuable time and effort.
30/09 Managed Self Service Business Intelligence with PowerPivot (English) PowerPivot is Microsoft's offering in the Managed Self Service Business Intelligence space. It is one of the most facinating BI software releases in the last couple of years and it will dramatically change the way business people and IT departments develop and implement BI solutions. In this demo-driven session Frederik will position the product and show you how to build an end-to-end BI solution starting from PowerPivot for Excel all the the way to publishing it to SharePoint.
Speaker: Frederik Vandeputte – MVP SQL Server – SQLUG
02/09 SCOM : Devenez Operations Manager : rédigez des rapports personnalisés Operations Manager est installé et configuré et vos Management Packs sont chargés et réglés. Votre manager vous demande à présent de lui envoyer des rapports de performance hebdomadaires, des rapports mensuels sur la disponibilité des applications professionnelles, etc. – mais aucun rapport n’est disponible. Que faire ? Apprenez comment utiliser l’Authoring Console, le studio SQL BI et d’autres solutions pour créer vos propres rapports. Alexandre Verkinderen, OpsMgr MVP, propose une approche axée sur la pratique pour commencer à créer des rapports dans Operations Manager et démontre la facilité d’emploi au moyen d’exemples clairs.
14/09 Forefront Identity Manager 2010 : aperçu technique et déploiement Microsoft vient de sortir la version Forefront Identity Manager 2010, et nous vous présentons le produit dans ce webcast. Nous vous donnons un aperçu technique de Forefront Identity Manager 2010 pour que vous ayez une vue globale du produit et de ses possibilités. Nous traitons aussi les bases du déploiement pour différents scénarios, de façon à ce que vous puissiez apprendre comment déployer et configurer efficacement Forefront Identity Manager pour des scénarios courants.
07/10 Communications Server 14 – Quoi de neuf – Clients et fonctionnalités Faites l’expérience du nouveau Communicator « 14 » de Microsoft, sur 3 écrans (PC, navigateur, téléphone mobile), et découvrez les nouveaux téléphones IP « Aries » avantageux. Découvrez le client nouvellement reconfiguré, qui est adapté à l’évolution de Communicator pour fournir une seule interface pour vos besoins en communication. Découvrez également les investissements réalisés dans la messagerie instantanée, la présence, la visioconférence et la collaboration, les communications audio et vidéo, l’expérience des personnes et l’intégration d’Office, etc. Examinez de plus près les nouveautés en matière de dispositifs dans Microsoft Communications Server « 14 ». Nous présenterons et démontrerons les fonctionnalités et les avantages d’une nouvelle série de téléphones IP « Aries » à bas prix. Examinez les nouveaux périphériques USB que nous avons ajoutés à notre portfolio et apprenez-en plus sur les différentes plateformes pour appareils mobiles que nous projetons de prendre en charge.
02/09 - SCOM: Leer aangepaste rapporten op te stellen U hebt Operations Manager geïnstalleerd en geconfigureerd, en uw Management Packs zijn geladen en afgesteld. Uw manager vraagt u nu om hem wekelijkse prestatierapporten te bezorgen, maandelijkse rapporten over de beschikbaarheid van de professionele toepassingen, enz. – maar geen van die rapporten bestaat al. Wat nu? Leer tijdens deze sessie hoe u met Authoring Console, SQL BI Studio en andere oplossingen uw eigen rapporten kunt creëren. Alexandre Verkinderen, OpsMgr MVP, stelt een praktische methode voor om rapporten te creëren in Operations Manager en demonstreert de gebruiksvriendelijkheid van het programma aan de hand van duidelijke voorbeelden.
14/09 Forefront Identity Manager 2010: technisch overzicht en implementatie Microsoft Forefront Identity Manager 2010 is onlangs uitgekomen, dus stellen we u dit product voor in deze webcast. We bezorgen u een technisch overzicht van Forefront Identity Manager 2010 zodat u een algemeen beeld hebt van het product en zijn mogelijkheden. En verder bespreken we ook de basisimplementatieprocedures voor verschillende scenario’s, zodat u Forefront Identity Manager zelf efficiënt kunt implementeren en configureren voor courante scenario’s.
30/09 Managed Self Service Business Intelligence met PowerPivot PowerPivot is de bijdrage van Microsoft aan de Managed Self Service Business Intelligence omgeving. Dit is een van de meest fascinerende BI-softwarereleases van de laatste jaren die een revolutionaire ommekeer zal teweegbrengen in de manier waarop zakenmensen en IT-afdelingen BI-oplossingen ontwikkelen en implementeren. In deze demosessie zal Frederik het product positioneren en u laten zien hoe u een end-to-end BI-oplossing opbouwt, te beginnen met PowerPivot voor Excel tot en met de publicatie in SharePoint.
07/10 Communications Server 14 – De nieuwigheden – Clients en functionaliteiten Maak kennis met de nieuwe Communicator “14” van Microsoft, op 3 schermen (pc, browser, mobiele telefoon), en met de nieuwe goedkope “Aries” IP-telefoons. Ontdek de nieuw geconfigureerde client die werd aangepast aan de nieuwigheden van Communicator om één enkele interface te bieden voor uw communicatiebehoeften. Ontdek eveneens de inspanningen die geleverd zijn op het vlak van instant messaging, aanwezigheid, conferencing en samenwerking, audio- en videocommunicaties, ervaringen van mensen en integratie van Office, enz. Bekijk de nieuwe voorzieningen in Microsoft Communications Server “14” in detail. In deze sessie stellen we aan de hand van demonstraties de nieuwe functionaliteiten en voordelen voor van een nieuwe reeks goedkopen “Aries” IP-telefoons. Kom te weten welke nieuwe USB-randapparatuur we aan ons portfolio hebben toegevoegd en kom meer te weten over de verschillende mobiele telefoonplatforms die we in de toekomst willen ondersteunen.
12/10 Forefront Threat Management Gateway met SP1: nog beter dan voorheen Tijdens deze sessie duiken we in de nieuwe functies die TMG SP1 aanbiedt om het product nog beter te maken.
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VMMSSP (also referred to as the self-service portal) is a fully supported, partner-extensible solution built on top of Windows Server 2008 R2, Hyper-V, and System Center VMM. You can use it to pool, allocate, and manage resources to offer infrastructure as a service and to deliver the foundation for a private cloud platform inside your datacenter. VMMSSP includes a pre-built web-based user interface that has sections for both the datacenter managers and the business unit IT consumers, with role-based access control. VMMSSP also includes a dynamic provisioning engine. VMMSSP reduces the time needed to provision infrastructures and their components by offering business unit “on-boarding,” infrastructure request and change management. The VMMSSP package also includes detailed guidance on how to implement VMMSSP inside your environment. Important: VMMSSP is not an upgrade to the existing VMM 2008 R2 self-service portal. You can choose to deploy and use one or both self-service portals depending on your requirements. The self-service portal provides the following features that are exposed through a web-based user interface:
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Contrary to what Kermit says (you know you get that reference), it can be easy being green, and you can do so without going overboard with spending or crazy new initiatives that otherwise wouldn’t make sense if they weren’t considered part of the green spectrum. You don’t have to spend a ton of money to reduce your carbon footprint. You don’t have to completely rearrange your IT infrastructure. You can simply continue to do some of the things you were already doing to save money. Read more…
Featured Articles Going Green – Does Your Company Care? Take a good look at your organizations’ priorities and policies, and you may discover you're going green just by trying to save some green. Is Greener Always Better? The green trap is real. Going green with your IT environment requires a clear set of goals, target metrics and execution.
One of my colleagues created a 6 part screencast on how to use MAP.
The MAP toolkit has been around for years. MAP is a powerful inventory, assessment, and reporting tool that can securely run in small or large IT environments without requiring the installation of agent software on any computers or devices. The new version, MAP 5.0, has some exciting new features to help with discovery and software usage.
In this screencasts series we take a quick tour of MAP 5.0. :
To learn more about MAP please take a look at the following:
The Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 5.0 is an agentless tool designed to simplify and streamline the IT infrastructure planning process across multiple scenarios through network-wide automated discovery and assessments. This Solution Accelerator performs an inventory of heterogeneous server environments and provides you with usage information for servers in the Core CAL Suite and SQL Server, SQL Server 2008 discovery and assessment for consolidation, Windows 2000 Server migration assessment, and a readiness assessment for the most widely used Microsoft technologies—now including Office 2010.
What's new with MAP Toolkit 5.0?
Download the MAP Toolkit 5.0 now: Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 5.0
Last week during the VDI day I still mentioned that we only supported 64 virtual machines running on a clustered Hyper-V infrastructure. Well we’ve changed the support limits of virtual machines running in a clustered environment towards 1000 VM’s per cluster and still a max of 384 VM’s on each node.
Below you can find the table that explains the max limit for failover clusters. Have a look at the full table on the TechNet library
The following table lists the maximums that apply to highly available servers running Hyper-V. It is important to do capacity planning to ensure that there will be enough hardware resources to run all the virtual machines in a clustered environment. For more information about requirements for failover clusters and Hyper-V, see Hyper-V: Using Hyper-V and Failover Clustering (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=129063).
Nodes per cluster
16
Consider the number of nodes you want to reserve for failover, as well as maintenance tasks such as applying updates. We recommend that you plan for enough resources to allow for 1 node to be reserved for failover, which means it remains idle until another node is failed over to it. (This is sometimes referred to as a passive node.) You can increase this number if you want to reserve additional nodes. There is no recommended ratio or multiplier of reserved nodes to active nodes; the only specific requirement is that the total number of nodes in a cluster cannot exceed the maximum of 16.
Running virtual machines per cluster and per node
1,000 per cluster, with a maximum of 384 on any one node
Several factors can affect the real number of virtual machines that can be run at the same time on one node, such as:
Last week we organized a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure day together with Citrix. We’ve published the sessions onto TechNet Edge.
In this session we will guide you through the desktop virtualization strategy and show you how Citrix and Microsoft will help you reduce the costs of Managing your virtual desktop infrastructure. We will answer questions like: “Will desktop virtualization really fit every user?”
Speakers: Jurgen Van Duvel & Andreas Van Wingerden
In this more technical session we will drill down into the Microsoft virtualization architecture of VDI and determine what key questions need to be asked and answered around required components, networking, capacity and end user experience. In the second part of the Presentation we will drill down into the Citrix components of our joint VDI solution. You will learn what the different key components are and how to setup your own test environment.
Speaker: Arlindo Alves – http://blogs.technet.com/b/aralves/
In the second part of the Presentation we will drill down into the Citrix components of our joint VDI solution. You will learn what the different key components are, what they add on top of the Virtualization back-end. By then end of this session you will be geared up with the knowledge to setup your own test environment.
Speaker: Andreas Van Wingerden - Citrix
Hyper-V poster is a great visual tool to help in the understanding of the key features and components. It highlights key Hyper-V components including:
Download the Hyper-V Poster
One of the greatest concerns IT managers voice over moving to cloud computing is security. How secure will my data be when stored in the cloud? How secure is the data in transit? Those are indeed valid questions and concerns. While technology vendors and cloud computing service providers have gone considerable distances to protect data and assuage any customer worries, data security remains the prevailing concern. Read more…
Featured Articles Compliance Reporting: First Step in Controlling Client Cloud Access Establishing secure access is a logical first step to extending the enterprise into the cloud. Improve your auditing and compliance reporting by using NAP and IPsec to control client access through DirectAccess.
Cloud Computing: Where to Start When You Have Already Started The issues and opportunities surrounding SOA, SaaS, and cloud computing effectively amplify the conversational divide between business and IT, in part because of the newness of the architecture and the technology. Find guidance on linking the technical opportunities presented by these new models to the needs of the organization.
Windows Azure: Getting to Know the Runtime Environment There’s a lot to learn in developing apps for a new platform like Windows Azure. Here’s a step-by-step tale of one developer’s experience creating and deploying a sample application.
Desktop Image Management: Build a Better Desktop Image Building and maintaining corporate desktop images is a core IT task, but it doesn’t have to be overwhelming. Here are some ways to streamline the process.
IT-ShortTalk: Thursday 10 June 2010 - 19u00 – 21u30
Titel: Messaging on-premise – in the cloud Abstract: During this session Ilse will shed some light on the pro’s and con’s of on-premise or in the cloud messaging. She will highlight all that exchange 2010 can bring you and the BPOS suite has to offer. It will be a great opportunity to ask you questions on this very hot subject and network with people facing the same questions. Speaker: Ilse Van Criekinge Registration required: http://ittalksshorttalk.eventbrite.com Where: conxion.be (The offices are next to the Sportcentrum) - Hoogstraat 134 – 136 8540 Deerlijk
Titel: Messaging on-premise – in the cloud
Abstract: During this session Ilse will shed some light on the pro’s and con’s of on-premise or in the cloud messaging. She will highlight all that exchange 2010 can bring you and the BPOS suite has to offer. It will be a great opportunity to ask you questions on this very hot subject and network with people facing the same questions.
Speaker: Ilse Van Criekinge
Registration required: http://ittalksshorttalk.eventbrite.com
Where: conxion.be (The offices are next to the Sportcentrum) - Hoogstraat 134 – 136 8540 Deerlijk
2) IT-FullTalk: Saturday 19 June 2010 - 10u00 – 17u30
Titel: Migrating Exchange 2003/2007 to exchange 2010 Abstract: During this session Ilse will guide us through the on premises upgrade of an existing exchange infrastructure to the latest and greatest exchange 2010. As always this session will be all practical do it your self. Speaker: Ilse Van Criekinge Registration required: http://ittalksfulltalk.eventbrite.com Entry fee: 15€ for food and drinks all day what you need: As with all your session you will need to bring: your own laptop 64 bits virtualization capable. HyperV or VMware workstation / Server / Player (pre-installed and opperational) A power socket cable with multiple outlets A network cable of 5m or more Where: conxion.be (The offices are next to the Sportcentrum) - Hoogstraat 134 – 136 8540 Deerlijk
Titel: Migrating Exchange 2003/2007 to exchange 2010
Abstract: During this session Ilse will guide us through the on premises upgrade of an existing exchange infrastructure to the latest and greatest exchange 2010. As always this session will be all practical do it your self.
Registration required: http://ittalksfulltalk.eventbrite.com
Entry fee: 15€ for food and drinks all day
what you need: As with all your session you will need to bring:
This new white paper discuss how you can run SQL server workloads on our Hyper-V (R2) infrastructure.
The tests in this white paper demonstrate that Hyper-V provides the performance and scalability needed to run SQL Server workloads in consolidation scenarios. As an example, the following diagram compares OLTP workload performance of 8 stacked native instances and 8 stack virtual instances.
You can read the details of the results and analysis in the whitepaper.
The Infrastructure Planning and Design team has released an updated guide for Microsoft SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 R2.
The Infrastructure Planning and Design (IPD) guide for Microsoft SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 R2 helps organizations address key design decisions and confidently plan the efficient implementation of a SQL Server infrastructure. The tasks addressed in this guide help technical decision makers identify the appropriate SQL Server roles needed as well as determine the infrastructure components, server placement, and fault-tolerance configuration necessary to meet planning requirements. By using this guidance, organizations can make efficient planning and optimal design decisions for their SQL Server infrastructures.
Download the IPD Guide for Microsoft SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 R2 at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=160982
A couple of weeks ago we organized a Best of MMS event together with our local MVP’s and SCUG user group. We’ve published all the sessions onto the Belux page on TechNet Edge
Session 1: Belgian Best of MMS: System Center State of the Union
In a year packed with new management product releases, MMS 2010 will provide the latest technical updates on Desktop, Datacenter, Device and Cloud management features and solutions from Microsoft. In this session we will give you an overview of the different announcements made at MMS.
Session 2: Belgian Best of MMS: The top 20 “Must Have“ customizations in Operations Manager This session will look at the 20 most common configuration changes or customizations that we implement in our consulting engagements. At the end of this session, attendees will leave with the knowledge of how to optimize their Operations Manager installation. This session will walk through the 'eureka' configurations that all customers love and utilize on a frequent basis within their environments. If you want to be much more efficient in your day to day work, you will not want to miss this session. Speaker: Alexandre Verkinderen http://www.scug.be/blogs/
Session 3: Belgian Best of MMS: Introduction into Service Manager Service Manager is about to RTM – are you ready? Learn more about the capabilities, how to design and deploy a Service Manager infrastructure. After this session you will have insight in how Service Manager works and how to implement it in your infrastructure. Speaker: Kurt Vanhoecke System Center Service Manager
Session 4: Belgian Best of MMS: Technical Introduction to Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2010 The release of DPM 2010 is just a few weeks after MMS 2010, so this session (the 1st in a 4 part series) will cover installing a new DPM 2010 server, and then provide an overview of the core capabilities and enhanced protection/recovery scenarios. Speaker: Mike Resseler System Center Data Protection Manager
Session 5: Belgian Best of MMS: Systems Management in Midsized Organizations with System Center Essentials 2010 For organizations up to 500 PCs and 50 servers, Microsoft is releasing System Center Essentials 2010 (SCE) to provide service monitoring, software deployments and updates, and management of physical and virtual machines. This single product is designed for midsized organizations, so this session will be full of demonstrations as we look at each of the major aspects of SCE 2010, including server and client monitoring, software deployment and patching, virtualization management and migration, and how to get started with easy setup and configuration. Come see it here first Speaker: Mike Resseler Blog Mike
Session 6: Belgian Best of MMS: Opalis IT Process Automation: Introduction & Technical Overview This session will walk you through the Opalis workflow designer demonstrating along the way how to integrate System Center products with other IT tools to create automated processes. You will also see how Opalis customers have automated best practices for incident management, provisioning and change management Speaker: David De Backer – Technology Advisor Microsoft Belux
Session 7: System Center Configuration Manager vNextIn this session we present Microsoft’s vision for user-centric client management, and demonstrate improvements from Configuration Manager 2007. This session promises to be very interesting. We demonstrate a functioning product to showcase some of these major improvements, so you know you can't miss it!Speaker: Kenny Buntinx - System Center Configuration Manager
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The Beta 2 for the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 5.0 is now open.
Join the beta review program and help influence the development of the toolkit. To participate, register for the MAP Toolkit 5.0 Beta 2 at Microsoft Connect.
The MAP Toolkit 5.0 is an agentless tool designed to simplify and streamline the IT infrastructure planning process across multiple scenarios through network-wide automated discovery and assessments. This Solution Accelerator performs an inventory of heterogeneous server environments and provides you with usage information for servers in the Core CAL Suite and SQL Server, SQL Server 2008 discovery and assessment for consolidation, Windows 2000 Server migration recommendations, and a readiness assessment for the most widely used Microsoft technologies—now including Office 2010.
Is your organization spending valuable resources planning its IT infrastructure? Participate in the MAP Toolkit 5.0 Beta 2. Take an early look at this release, and provide timely feedback to help ensure that the MAP development team builds the tool to best meets your needs.
Kim Cameron is Chief Architect of Identity in the Identity and Security division, where he works on establishing a user-centric identity architecture for the Internet, and ensuring Active Directory, Federation Services, Identity Lifecycle Manager, CardSpace and Microsoft’s other identity products become its leading implementations.
Cameron blogs at www.identityblog.com, where he published the Laws of Identity.
Forefront Identity Manager 2010: from identity synchronization to identity management
The session will provide a technical overview of Forefront Identity Manager (FIM) 2010. The product’s architecture will be covered, with emphasis on the new components that have been layered on top of the synchronization engine of its predecessor, ILM 2007. Live demos will be given in order to show how easily and effectively FIM 2010 can automate identity management processes within complex organizations, which require much more than pure data synchronization. Speaker: Federico Guerrini
Editor’s Note: Keeping Tabs on Remote Offices
With the myriad challenges you face every day as an IT manager, keeping a corporate network running that supports all sorts of remote offices has got to rank somewhere near the top. You have all the standard challenges—providing the right applications, ensuring certain performance and service levels, maintaining bandwidth and capacity planning, ensuring a rock-solid backup and disaster recovery plan—and now you have to do it from miles away. And there’s often no one at the remote office who “speaks IT.” Read more...
Read-only domain controllers are new features of the Active Directory Domain Services in the Windows Server 2008 R2 and they represent a fundamental change to how you’d typically use domain controllers.
Windows Server 2008 R2 Server Core: Securing the Branch Office Connection
Windows Server 2008 R2 allows you to make fundamental changes to how you can deploy and leverage domain controllers (DCs) in remote environments.
We will provide you with an overview Data Protection Manager 2010 and Thread Management Gateway 2010 including some real-life demos.
Note that we won't be exploring these products in all their glory but instead we focus on the requirements when deploying Exchange 2010.
Configuring DPM 2010:
We will go through a quick overview of the new features of DPM 2010 and what you need to be aware off when deploying DPM for Exchange. But more importantly we will show you in a demo how to perform backups of Exchange 2010 Databases and how to restore Database, Mailbox and Items.
Configuring TMG 2010:
Again we will go through a quick overview of the new featues of TMG 2010 and what you need to be aware off when deploying Exchange 2010. A demo will show you how easy it is to publish Exchange services such as Outlook Web Access, Autodiscover, Activesync, Exchange Control Panel, etc.
In addition if you have any questions you would like the speaker to address during the sessions please don't hesitate to submit them to info@pro-exchange.be
Agenda:
18:00 Reception (there will be sandwiches and drinks)
18:45 Session 1: Configuring DPM 2010
19:45 Session 2: Configuring TMG 2010
20:30 Closing with Q&A and drinks
When:
Monday the 7th of June 2010
Where:
We will be hosting this meeting at the offices of Avanade in Medialaan 38, 1800 Vilvoorde
VMST 3.0 helps customers more effectively—and safely—manage the workflow of updating their offline virtualization environment. Using VMST 3.0, customers can now service:
· Offline virtual machines in a SCVMM library.
· Stopped and saved state virtual machines on a host.
· Virtual machine templates.
· Offline virtual hard disks in a SCVMM library by injecting update packages.
· Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V host clusters.