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I always get asked when is the next IT Pro in-person event taking place. I want to give everyone a heads up that we are very close to having all the registration links for the West Region IT Camps available for the rest of this calendar year. With that said, there are a few that are already available and I want to make sure to get the information out to you now since the first few are taking place at the end of September.
Cloud OS Signature Series
This series of events takes place in 4 major cities in West Region – Irvine, CA, Seattle, WA, Denver, CO and San Francisco, CA. These events start with a keynote and then breaks out into three different tracks. The IT Professional Track is where our IT Camp content is being delivered. If you want to see the entire schedule for the day, please go the the Series Landing Page. I am including the dates and direct IT Professional track links for the four cities in this series below:
September 20, 2012: Irvine, CA September 27, 2012: Seattle, WA October 10, 2012: Denver, CO October 11, 2012: San Francisco, CA
We will be delivering the same IT Pro content at our IT Camps as well. In fact, in our regular IT Camps, we will have more time for Hands On Labs since we won’t have the main keynote and the DevOps session like there is in the Cloud OS Signature Series events. Below is the list of cities and their registration links. Currently, I only have the registration links for Los Angeles and San Diego, but I will update this blog post later today or first thing on Monday when I get the final list. I just want to get the word out about the Los Angeles and San Diego events since those are taking place on September 24th and 26th, respectively.
September 24, 2012: Los Angeles, CA September 26, 2012: San Diego, CA October 2, 2012: Mountain View, CA October 4, 2012: Tempe, AZ October 9, 2012: Redmond, WA October 15, 2012: Las Vegas, NV October 19, 2012: Portland, OR [NOTE - Date Change!!!!]October 22 , 2012: Tucson, AZ
New Locations!
November 26, 2012: Mountain View, CADecember 6, 2012: Bellevue, WA
Agenda
8:30 AM – 9:00 AM – Check In
9:00 AM – 10:15 AM – Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V
10:15 AM – 10:30 AM – Break
10:30 AM – 11:15 AM – Windows Server 2012 Storage
11:15 AM – 11:30 AM – Break
11:30 AM – 12:00 PM – Overview of Windows Azure IaaS
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM – Lunch
1:00 PM – 4:00 PM –Hands On Lab
Event Description
Windows Server 2012 has been Released to Manufacturing (RTM’d) with general availability on September 4th. This latest release of the Windows Server operating system, which has been heralded by industry analysts as the most impressive update to Windows Server since Windows Server 2000, includes sweeping enhancements across key areas: Virtualization, Storage, Networking and Management. In addition, we’ve also recently released a Preview of the new Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) capabilities in our Windows Azure cloud offering.
Please join us at an IT Camp near you for a hands-on technical discussion about implementing these new capabilities: Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V, Shared-Nothing Live Migration, Storage Pools and Windows Azure Virtual Machines. Bring your own laptop (requirements below) to participate in Hands-on Lab activities. Stay tuned for additional IT Camps this year where we’ll also target the new Networking and Management features.
To participate in the afternoon hands-on lab session, you will need to bring your own computer (laptop preferred) with the following minimum configuration:
Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V
With the introduction of Windows Server 2012, Hyper-V has definitely matured and will become a major force in the Hypervisor space. As virtualization becomes the norm in our customer’s datacenters, IT Professionals are becoming more concerned with Fault Tolerance, flexibility and scalability of the virtualization infrastructure. Needless to say, Microsoft has focused on these areas in Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V and in this session, we will get into the details of the following key enhancements:
Windows Server 2012 Storage
One of the most common uses of Windows Servers is for File and Print Services. Windows Server 2012 has huge improvements in the Storage capabilities as well. Storage Spaces happens to be one of these new capabilities that allows an organization to group different storage devices into a pool from which to create thinly provisioned volumes. Another new capability is data de-duplication that allows for storage savings by reclaiming physical space use on the hard drive by multiple copies of the same file. This session will focus on these two enhancements as well as continuously available file shares.
Overview of Windows Azure IaaS
When Windows Azure first released a few years ago, it was our Platform as a Service offering in the public cloud space. This too, has matured and we recently released a preview of Infrastructure as a Service offering in Windows Azure. This new offering allows an organization to host a Virtual Machine with various Operating Systems (including Linux) and different applications such as Active Directory Domain Controllers or SharePoint Server as an example. These VMs in Azure can also be connected with PaaS instances in Azure or on-premises infrastructure. This session will provide an overview of this new capability and how to get started.
Hands On Labs
The Hands On Labs will focus on providing hands on experience configuring the different aspects of Windows Server 2012 that was discussed in the morning sessions as well as configuring IaaS capabilities in Windows Azure.
Cheers!
I know this is more of a developery sort of thing, but developers write the cool stuff that runs on the platforms we all know and love.
The Silicon Valley Code Camp is coming up on October 6th and 7th in of course….Silicon Valley. According to the SVCC Website, there are currently *215* Sessions being made available from a who’s who of well known speakers. You might think that being in Silcon Valley that there wouldn’t be much that applies to the world of Microsoft, but there are actually a lot of great session being delivered that developers can leverage when working on a Windows platform -
We will even have our very own Scott Guthrie on site! He is delivering a two-part session - “Windows Cloud Walkthrough” Sessions with Scott Guthrie. If you want to know what is going on with Microsoft and the cloud, there is no better person to hear it from than ScottGu.
Now I don’t want to take anything away from the great speakers and sessions that are going to be delivered, but I think the coolest part of the event will be seeing the Microsoft Mustang – the Microstang – a customized Ford Mustang complete with Windows 8 powered touch console, XBox 360, rear windshield projection screen and more….
Register for the Silicon Valley Code Camp right now!
Our monthly User Group meeting will be held at the Lincoln Square Center in Bellevue, across from the Bellevue Square Mall at 6:00pm. The meeting will be held in Room 15104, (15th floor, room 104) at the Microsoft's office in Lincoln Square Center.
Due to the security requirements, non-Microsoft employees must be escorted to the building by a Microsoft employee. We will have a sign on the 2nd floor elevator with instructions and/or contact phone number.
Our guest speaker in September will be Steve Schwartz. The topic of his presentation is "Roadmap to the Cloud for Messaging, Collaboration, and Communications."
Steve is one of the leading industry experts in the cloud technologies. He started his cloud services business way before most of us ever heard the term “cloud computing”, over a decade ago. He is considered a pioneer in the Hosted Exchange business, having worked with Microsoft in 1999 on the very first project to document how to deliver Hosted Exchange 2000. In 2006, Steve started Chinook Communications to provide hosted Messaging, Collaboration, and Communications services utilizing the Microsoft cloud services platform.
In his presentation Steve will discuss the typical pain points companies are faced within IT and Telecommunications. These include issues around security, disaster recovery, reliability, leveraging new technology, and reducing costs. The session will then detail how leveraging the cloud for messaging, collaboration, and communications on a Microsoft platform can help address some of these common issues. Finally, the session will present a common roadmap for how to migrate to the cloud in a phased approach that minimizes user disruption. An approach that gradually phases in changes while having an immediate positive impact on the business by providing more effective communications at reduced costs.
Steve’s bio is available here.
Agenda:
6:00pm-6:30pm: Welcome!
6:30pm-7:45pm: Roadmap to the Cloud for Messaging, Collaboration, and Communications
7:45pm-8:00pm: Wrap-up
-Cheers!
Good Day Folks!
I recently did a series of Bootfests and Installfests in the Western US. At these events, we talked about and then performed installs to customer machines for a variety of Microsoft Operating Systems. We had several options to work with and I want to provide more information here on what I did to build the USB memory sticks that we used and the different install methods we used.
The USB Stick We Used
For the workshops, I provided a loaner 32gig USB Memory stick that was bootable. I configured it with the bits for Windows 8 and Windows 2012 so that we could move some files around and boot to install either operating system.
USB Stick Configuration
To make the USB stick bootable, I performed the following steps -
Have available the installation media for your operation system (in this example I used Windows 8). If this is in .ISO form, extract everything from the .ISO and place into an easy to find folder. More specifically, you need to ensure you have access to the \boot folder. In this folder you will have the bootsect.exe application which we will use later in the prep
Insert Stick in available port Open an Admin level CMD prompt > diskpart > list disk (to identify the disk number of the USB stick. In my example below, it is Disk 6)
Insert Stick in available port
Open an Admin level CMD prompt
> diskpart
> list disk (to identify the disk number of the USB stick. In my example below, it is Disk 6)
> sel disk # (where # is the Disk # of your USB stick.) > list disk (to confirm we selected the correct disk #)
> sel disk # (where # is the Disk # of your USB stick.)
> list disk (to confirm we selected the correct disk #)
*Warning* This next command will wipe out a disk without confirmation! Do not execute without ensuring you have selected the correct disk! > clean > cre par pri (creates a primary partition on the selected disk) > sel part 1 (selects partition 1 on the selected disk)
*Warning* This next command will wipe out a disk without confirmation! Do not execute without ensuring you have selected the correct disk!
> clean
> cre par pri (creates a primary partition on the selected disk)
> sel part 1 (selects partition 1 on the selected disk)
> active (sets selected partition to be the active partition)
> format fs=ntfs quick (performs a quick format of the active partition) > assign (assigns a drive letter) > exit Leave your CMD prompt open Open My Computer or Disk Management and identify the drive letter of the USB stick Remember the installation media and the /boot folder above? At the CMD prompt, execute the following - > <path>\boot\bootsect.exe /nt60 <drive letter of USB stick:> (where <path> is the directory you dropped your installation media in)
> format fs=ntfs quick (performs a quick format of the active partition)
> assign (assigns a drive letter)
> exit
Leave your CMD prompt open
Open My Computer or Disk Management and identify the drive letter of the USB stick
Remember the installation media and the /boot folder above? At the CMD prompt, execute the following -
> <path>\boot\bootsect.exe /nt60 <drive letter of USB stick:> (where <path> is the directory you dropped your installation media in)
Once the bootcode is updated on the USB stick, you can now copy all of the installation media files to the USB stick. It is then a simple matter of rebooting your machine, pressing whatever magic buttons are required by your particular computer so you can boot to USB and then proceed with installation as normal!
In our classes, some people noted that I had some extra folders on my USB stick. Here is what the root of our USB sticks looked like -
You will notice a folder called \NOMOVE in the root. This was just a reminder to me not to delete or move this directory when changing operating systems on the USB stick. In this folder I create additional folders for each operating system I would want to install from USB. I then copy all of the installation files from an .ISO or CD/DVD to the appropriately name OS folder. When I want to install a different OS from USB, I simply move all the files from the root (excluding NOMOVE) back to it’s OS folder. I then move all of the files from the OS folder I want to install over to the root.
If you have a 16gig stick, you can get at least 3 different OS installs on the same stick.
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I apologize for the short notice on these events folks, but I have some cool hands-on meetups that I am organizing for a few locations in my coverage area. If you are in Boise, Portland, Seattle (primarily Eastside), or San Francisco…read on!
Do you have a need to use more than one operating system on the same machine? Would you like to be able to check out an operating system before permanently installing it to a system? Would you like to provide better portability, better isolation, and tremendous ease of use to your existing dual or multi-boot environment? Would you just like to experience how to install a Windows operating system from scratch? Well.....This event is for you!
Chris Avis, Technical Evangelist with Microsoft Corporation is hosting a Bootfest/Installfest at local Microsoft offices over the next couple of months!
Depending on the location, the events will consist of a Bootfest + Installfest, or just an Installfest.
BootFest - (10a - 12noon) - We will introduce you to as well as walk you through the process of doing a "Boot to VHD" of a Microsoft operating system. This process allows us to take an operating system that was created with a virtualized environment (ie; Windows Server 2008 R2 running as a guest virtual machine on a Windows Hyper-V server) and boot that VHD file natively! The booted operating system has access to all of the native hardware and can actually be moved from machine to machine for portability. Since the resulting operating system and all installed applications as well as user data is stored in a single file, it is isolated from any other operating system(s) you have installed.
Installfest - (1p - 4pm) - For the Installfest, we will be providing the bits to install Windows Server 2012 natively or via "Boot to VHD" to hardware you provide (see hardware requirements below). We will also have a brief presentation introducing Windows Server 2012 and new features. There will also be plenty of time for Q&A if you have questions about Windows Server 2012 or anything else Microsoft related
For our Bootfest, we will provide Boot to VHD files to allow booting to one of the following Microsoft Operating Systems
Please note - These are TRIAL versions and will expire after approximately 120 - 180 depending on the operating system. We do not recommend using these in production. Please use only for learning and training.
System Requirements for BootFest (Boot to VHD) -
***Other VERY IMPORTANT qualifiers*** -
System Requirements for InstallFest -
If you would like to attend, please register with one of the links below -
I am now covering NorCal and I will be in the area at least once a month going forward. For my first trip out, I will be heading to the Pacific IT Pros User Group that meets at the Microsoft sales Office. they will be meeting on Tuesday, August 7th at 6:30pm. If you are interested in attending, please RSVP here so they can get a count of folks and plan accordingly. The address is listed below -
San Francisco, CA Microsoft Office 835 Market Street, Suite 700 San Francisco, CA 94103
I would really enjoy meeting with you at the PacITPros meeting and talk about what Microsoft is doing and more importantly, what you are doing! I am also very interested in know what events (User Groups, MeetUps, etc) to get involved with to get a feel for the area. if you have any suggestions, please comment below!
( Note - To be clear, I am still covering PacWest area as I always have. NorCal was just added to the plate for this fiscal year.)
Due to the security requirements, non-Microsoft employees must be escorted to the building by a Microsoft employee. We will have a sign on the 2nd floor elevator with instructions and/or contact phone number. Please feel free to contact Chris Avis of Microsoft on his cell at 425-647-3440 if you need assistance.
Our guest speaker will be David Tesar of Microsoft. The topic of his presentation is "Enable Consumerization of IT."
People are increasingly buying their own devices and want the freedom to work and communicate anywhere, anytime, on the device they choose. Opportunities exist to enable greater productivity, hire great employees and keep them happy, but also a responsibility to properly secure and manage devices and data. See how your company cannot afford to block these opportunities and if you do nothing are you sure your data is safe? Learn how Microsoft can help you responsibly enable this vision to “Consumerize the IT” inside your company.
David's bio is available here.
6:30pm-7:45pm: Enable Consumerization of IT
Some time ago, I sat down with Alan Sugano, President for ADS Consulting Group, Inc., to talk about Virtualization, Hyper-V, and Exchange. Alan discusses best practice for big infrastructure projects. Watch the interview for insights on how to keep a small footprint and protect the host.
You can also view this interview directly at the TechNet site - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/video/bytes-by-technet-alan-sugano-and-chis-avis.aspx
I had an opportunity to sit down with Jeremy Moskowitz, Chief Propeller-Head for Moskowitz, Inc. and Founder of PolicyPak Software, to discuss Verbose vs. normal status messages, Group Policy and App locker and more.I have knownJjeremy for many years now and his knowledge of Group Policy is as deep as anyone I know. Jeremy provides practical information for admins on how they can use App locker to put the smackdown on evil software using white listing and policy settings. Don’t get pinned down, watch this interview for winning tips!
You can also view this directly at the TechNet site - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/video/bytes-by-technet-jeremy-moskowitz-and-chis-avis.aspx
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There is one final IT Camp remaining in the West Region. Harold Wong will be near Salt Lake City, UT on June 21st at Neumont University. Many thanks to MVP Craig Berntson for helping drive this!
Location
10701 S. River Front Pkwy., Suite 300 South Jordan, Utah 84095
Registration for the IT Camp is open: https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032514701&Culture=en-US
The format of the event is the same as the other IT Camps taking place in May and June in the West Region. I am including the agenda below to be safe. Also, to participate in the Hands-On Lab in the afternoon, you will need to bring a computer that meets the following minimum requirements:
x64 compatible processor with Intel VT or AMD-V technology
Operating System is Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows 8
4GB RAM (8 GB preferred)
At least 40GB of free disk space (75 GB preferred)
No Drive encryption (such as Bit Locker) enabled
Agenda and abstracts of Sessions
8:00 AM – 8:30 AM Check-In and Welcome
8:30 AM – 9:30 AM: The State of Microsoft Virtualization today with a look towards the future
As virtualization continues to grow; Microsoft is continuing to grow our capabilities in this space. In this session, we will look at the current state of Hyper-V capabilities while also peering into the horizon with some key enhancements in Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012 Beta. We will also share what you need to do today in Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 to prepare for the future.
9:45 AM – 10:45 AM: Vision (Double-Take) Presentation
Come and see how your organization can benefit from no-downtime physical and virtual migrations. With Double-Take Move, you can migrate from anywhere into Hyper-V while users are online and productive. See how Double-Take provides real-time data movement on any hardware platform into a Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Hyper-V environment. And this can all be accomplished through the ease of use benefits and integration with System Center 2012 (free download here). Microsoft and Vision – providing the tools you need for fast and easy migrations.
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM: Open Topics
12:00 PM – 12:45PM: Lunch
12:45 PM – 2:15 PM: Open Topics
2:30 PM – 4:00 PM: Hands-On-Lab: Configure Hyper-V settings in Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 and Windows Server 2012 Beta
Virtualization is core building block in cloud computing today. We will walk you through configuring Hyper-V settings in Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 which then translates into configuration of Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012 Beta. You will see that the skill sets for today translates very well into the future. The second portion of the hands on session will entail working with the Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Hyper-V Virtual Machines provided by Double-Take to get experience with their solution and how it integrates with System Center 2012.
A couple months back, I attended the Windows Connections conference in Las Vegas. I had the pleasure of meeting and interviewing some great IT Folks while I was there. One of those is Mike Crowley, Technical Team Lead for Planet Technologies, Inc. Mike is an Exchange and Office 365 expert and we spent some time talking about planning for and migrating mailboxes from on-premise to the cloud. Mike provides some real life experience about performing these migrations at a university and the challenges of keeping people connected while the migration takes place. We also briefly discuss the challenges of granting access with non-Windows devices like iPhones, iPdas, Android devices and other mobile platforms.
About Mike Crowley -
Mike Crowley is a Technical Team Lead on infrastructure technologies for Planet Technologies, Inc. as well as a Technical Instructor for Academy of Computer Education. Passionate about his field, Mike has taken advantage of many industry certifications. As such, he holds numerous credentials from Microsoft Certified Trainer to several MCITP competencies. Mike is also a Microsoft MVP award winner for Exchange Server.
In the past 10 years, Mike has architected and implemented many Microsoft-based solutions, largely centered on messaging and directory services. Mike has led projects from 100k seat Exchange Server deployments, to cloud services migrations to complete infrastructure overhauls across government and private sectors as well as education.
Mike also holds the title of “New father” which may prove to be his most challenging engagement yet! You can contact Mike via his blog at http://mikecrowley.us or directly via mike [at] mikecrowley.us
About Chris Avis -
Before he applied to Microsoft in 1994, Chris freely admits that he hadn’t heard of Bill Gates or his global little computer company. That’s all changed now. Chris is an enthusiastic TechNet presenter who gets a huge rush when audience members realize, "I didn’t know I could do that!" If you’re lucky enough to see Chris in action, prepare to be entertained. He tells jokes, shows funny pictures and ensures that learning new technologies is always fast-paced and engaging. He’s even working on some simple magic tricks, just to keep it fresh. Chris cites his father as his role model and would only trade in his IT badge for a second career as a limo driver. It would be fun peeking into the lives of people who "can’t or don’t want to drive themselves around," says Chris
Join Chris Avis, Senior IT Pro Evangelist for Microsoft, and Mike Crowley, Technical Team Lead for Planet Technologies, Inc., as they discuss Exchange. Mike delves into planning and migrating University faculty and students from on-premise to the cloud, as well as transitioning to Office 365. IT Pros will appreciate the insights on migration planning and how to handle unmanaged devices using ActiveSync. Great Interview!
This Wednesday, Jun 6th 2012, we will have our monthly Windows Networking User Group Meeting at Lincoln Square in downtown Bellevue, WA.
Zubair Alexander of SeattlePro Enterprises will be the speaker at the June meeting. He will talk about the new features in Windows Server 2012 Beta, formerly known as Windows Server 8 Beta. The title of his presentation is "What’s New in Windows Server 2012 Beta?"
Some of the topics that will be included in his presentation are the new Windows Server 2012 interface and how to navigate around, the new features in Server Manager, including the Server Manager Dashboard, storage spaces, and server groups.
Will Windows Server 2012 live up to its hype? Will it be the VMware killer as some experts have suggested? Find out for yourself. The list of new features in Windows Server 2012 is mind boggling. Zubair will give you an overview of some of the exciting new features in Windows Server 2012 related to Virtualization, File System, RDP, SMB Support, Security Auditing, BitLocker, Smart Cards, Active Directory Domain Services and much more. He will also talk about the Data De-duplication feature which can reduce 1TB of data on your server down to only 50GB.
Zubair's bio is available here.
6:30pm-7:45pm: What's New in Windows Server 2012 Beta?
To show appreciation to all of the members of the user group for their support, there will be food and drink provided at this meeting! Please RSVP so we can get a final count and know what to have ordered.
Thank you very much to everyone that came out to the Mountain View, CA IT Camp today! As promised, here are the slides for the Microsoft portion of the session. Be sure to grab them as there are several slides in this deck that were not in the presentation delivered on-site. If you have any questions, please feel free to shoot me an email (best way) chris.avis@microsoft.com or catch me on Twitter – @chrisavis.
I have also rounded up a few other resources that are relevant to our discussion -
Windows Server Team Blog - Introducing Windows Server “8” Hyper-V Network Virtualization: Enabling Rapid Migration and Workload Isolation in the Cloud
Build Windows 8 Blog - Bringing Hyper-V to “Windows 8”
Windows Server “8” beta Main Site
Download a VHD of Windows Server “8” Beta
Join Harold Wong Senior IT Pro Evangelist, Microsoft and Mike Pfeiffer Director Unified Communications, Interface Technical Training as they talk Exchange 2010. You won’t want to miss the recipe tips from Mike’s Microsoft Exchange 2010 PowerShell Cookbook. Also, Mike shares his experience in gaining his Master Exchange 2010 certification. This interview is a must watch for any IT Pro interested in obtaining their MCM!
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Home Page:http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/edge/bytesbytechnet.aspx
In order to submit your application today you need a token which is something I can help you get.
What do you need to do to get a token? Here are the key steps:
1. Create a great application or game and get it ready.
2. Let me know about it by contacting me via email – chris.avis@microsoft.com
3. I’ll help you register so you can get your application through our Application Accelerator Labs where the app will get reviewed to confirm it is done and conforms to the Metro guidelines and certification requirements.
This is a great opportunity to not only be first to market with your app, but also to get feedback from a Microsoft Services Engineer to make your app great. If you are serious about creating an application this is a chance that you probably don’t want to pass up.
In addition, our team is holding a series of events and office hours to help you – we want to make sure you have what you need to be successful. You can come learn more about how to build apps for Windows 8 or show up and build your app with one of our evangelists or others in your community available to help you if you need it. You can find more information about our events and availability at…
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We had great success with the IT Camps we started in March! Thank you all for the support of the events. We have a new series of IT Camps coming up in May and June. The will be essentially the same format with a few subtle tweaks:
The events will start at 8:30 AM and end at 4 PM (versus 8 AM – 12 PM) We will have a Hands-On component as part of the afternoon agenda You get to help pick the content / topic of discussion for a good portion of the presentation slots (and maybe even get to present yourself if you want) We will only have two “official” presentations – one from Microsoft and one from Vision (Double-Take)
To participate in the afternoon session, you will need to bring your own computer (laptop preferred) with the following minimum configuration:
•x64 compatible processor with Intel VT or AMD-V technology •OS that is either Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows Server “8” Beta •4GB RAM (8 GB preferred) •At least 40GB of free disk space (75 GB preferred)
•It is also important that the machine you use for the hands on sessions does *NOT* have any encryption enabled (this applies to Bitlocker as well as ANY 3rd party encryption)
Just like the last round, we really want you to dive the open discussion we have at the IT Camps. To effectively do this, we need you to submit your suggestion for topics now. You can either email them directly to me or feel free to add a comment to this post. I look forward to your topic suggestions!
To register, please visit the appropriate links for your city.
Date City MS Evangelist Vision Presenters May 15, 2012 Denver, CO Harold Wong Mike Stewart & David Paquette May 17, 2012 Mountain View, CA Chris Avis & Harold Wong Greg Ross & David Paquette May 22, 2012 Los Angeles, CA Harold Wong Greg Ross & David Paquette May 23, 2012 Irvine, CA Harold Wong Greg Ross & David Paquette May 24, 2012 Portland, OR Chris Avis Mike Stewart & David Paquette May 29, 2012 San Francisco, CA Chris Avis Greg Ross & Doug White May 30, 2012 Phoenix, AZ Harold Wong Greg Ross & David Paquette May 31, 2012 Redmond, WA Chris Avis & Harold Wong Greg Ross & Doug White June 5, 2012 Albuquerque, NM Harold Wong Mike Stewart & David Paquette June 7, 2012 Boise, ID Chris Avis Greg Ross & David Paquette
The Los Angeles Event registration link is currently broken. I am checking into this and will update the page shortly.
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8:30 AM – 9:30 AM: Future of Virtualization: What’s new with Hyper-V in Windows Server “8”
As virtualization continues to grow, Microsoft is continuing to grow our capabilities in this space. This session will focus on some key enhancements in Hyper-V in the upcoming version of Windows Server “8”.
Come and see how your organization can benefit from no-downtime physical and virtual migrations. With Double-Take Move, you can migrate from anywhere into Hyper-V while users are online and productive. See how Double-Take provides real-time data movement on any hardware platform into a Hyper-V environment. And this can all be accomplished through the ease of use benefits and integration with System Center 2012. Microsoft and Vision – providing the tools you need for fast and easy migrations.
2:30 PM – 4:00 PM: Hands-On-Lab: Configure Hyper-V Settings in Windows Server “8” Beta
With the release of Windows Server “8” Beta, this is a great opportunity to get some hands-on with the new server product and start working the new capabilities of Hyper-V. In addition to this, Vision will also have Virtual Machines (VMs) that you can import and get hands on experience with their products.
Vision / Double-Take Presenters are:
Doug White – Senior Product Manager Double-Take Products David Paquette – Product Manager Double-Take Products Mike Stewart – Solution Architect Greg Ross – Solution Architect
Session Details Our guest speaker will be Greg Lindsay. Greg is a technical writer for the Windows Server Networking documentation team at Microsoft. The topic of his presentation is "IP Address Management (IPAM) in Windows Server 2012." IPAM in Windows Server 2012 Beta is a new built-in framework for discovering, monitoring, auditing, and managing the IP address space used on a corporate network. IPAM provides for administration and monitoring of servers running Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) and Domain Name Service (DNS). IPAM includes:
· DNS and DHCP server, zone, and scope discovery
· Custom IP address display, reporting, and management
· Audit of server configuration changes
· IP address tracking
· Monitoring and management of DHCP and DNS services
IPAM provides a single management platform for IP address administration on the network, replacing manual tools and scripts. IPAM also allows for optimized utilization and capacity planning, enables tracking and forecasting of IP address utilization, and provides reporting for forensics and change management.
Greg's bio is available here.
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