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At 10:00 AM on Sunday, January 20, 2013, Keith Mayer posted Part 20 of 31 in the 31 Days of Servers in the Cloud Blog Series .  Below is a small excerpt from his blog. Extending an on-premise Windows Server Active Directory ( AD ) infrastructure into the cloud is an important topic to consider when...

At 6:00 AM on Saturday, January 19, 2013, Kevin Remde posted Part 19 of 31 in the 31 Days of Servers in the Cloud Blog Series .  Below is a small excerpt from his blog. Back in Part 10 of our “ 31 Days of Servers in the Cloud ” series, my good friend Bob Hunt wrote up an excellent step-by-step for...

I am a bit late getting this post out, but I guess better late than never. My fellow IT evangelists and I decided it would make sense to do a 31 day blog series during the month of January on Windows Azure IaaS. Each day, one of the team members will post an article on a topic that is related to Windows...

I know this is super short notice, but I did want to let everyone know that I have some Windows 8 / Windows Server 2012 Installfests and Boot 2 VHD Events that I will be hosting in my territory (Phoenix / Tempe, Irvine, Los Angeles and Denver) over the course of the next 30 days (with a few more to come...

We recently announced the Customer Technology Preview (CTP) of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) capabilities in Windows Azure.  As part of that capability, Linux is one of the supported guest Operating Systems in the Virtual Machine (VM).  The key to success however, is not just spinning...

I know that a large percentage of Microsoft customers are using VMware as their primary virtualization platform today.  I also believe a good percentage of these customers are using Hyper-V as a secondary hypervisor in lab, test and possibly lower impact production environments.  In fact, I...

Yesterday, Microsoft announced the Surface: A new family of PCs for Windows!  Straight from the press release ( http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/press/2012/jun12/06-18announce.aspx ), here are the highlights. Advances in Industrial Design Conceived, designed and engineered entirely by Microsoft...

I just realized that I never posted my Part 2 for the May / June IT Camps in West Region.  I am very sorry for that so I want to get the information out right now. First, I do have the PPT Presentation that Vision Solution delivered as I have been asked to provide that.  I am embedding right...

I’m totally excited to be in Orlando for TechEd 2012!!!  Okay, I’m excited to be at TechEd, but not necessarily enjoying the humidity in Orlando.  There is sooooo much going on this year and I can’t wait to hear the feedback from attendees on the sessions.  Think about this … we recently...

The Windows Server 2012 team has worked with a group of MVPs to deliver a series of Windows Server 2012 all day events.  Since I’m based in the US, I am focusing on the ones taking place in my country, but there are a bunch taking place in different countries across the world. Not everyone who wants...

At the end of September, the Field based IT Pro Evangelists in the US got together and worked to build out our Microsoft Private Cloud solution in our lab.  We called it ITProsRock.com.  The environment consists of 5 Dell R710 Servers.  We virtualized all the core infrastructure servers...

I was able to work with Craig Berntson (MVP in Salt Lake City) to add an additional IT Camp to the West Region Schedule.  The additional event will take place on June 21st at Neumont University located at 10701 S. River Front Pkwy., Suite 300 South Jordan, Utah 84095 Registration for the IT Camp...

Thank you to everyone who made it to the IT Camp events in Denver on May 15th and Los Angeles on May 22nd!  We had some great interaction and questions from the folks in attendance at both events.  I promised I would post the deck that I presented once I received approval to do so.  I...

I’m sure all you tech geeks like me have already started testing Windows 8 Consumer Preview and Windows Server 2012 (“8”) Beta by installing it onto bare metal or even into a Virtual Machine (VM).  If are using Hyper-V, you may have noticed some “quirky” behavior.  Fear not, for there is an...

I have been taking advantage of the Boot to VHD capability that is available with Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 to boot to multiple installations of Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 without having to repartition my hard drive.  This capability is awesome and super useful.  With the...

I had the opportunity to participate in the Cloud Intelligence Conference in Anaheim, CA on March 13, 2012.  I presented two sessions and part of the Keynote with Buck Woody (also with Microsoft).  I wanted to follow up and post my PowerPoint decks from my two break out sessions as well as...

      I am sure those of you who have downloaded and installed Windows Server “8” beta and have been using System Center 2012 Release Candidate realize that the two are not necessarily compatible.  This does make a lot of sense considering System Center 2012 is just about...

I’m sure most IT Geeks out there are quite aware of this already, but just to be “safe”, I thought I would post a quick reminder that the Windows 8 Customer Preview is now available ! Go ahead and grab it here: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/iso Unfortunately, I’m...

In the West Region, Chris Avis and I are hosting a set of events in the March and May / June timeframe. In November 2011, we tried out a new format for events which we called IT Camps. This new format included the ability for the attendees to select the topics that would be discussed. We are evolving...

Microsoft held a great event called Microsoft Private Cloud Day where changes to System Center 2012 were announced.  If you missed the live stream, you can watch it on demand starting at 10:30 AM PST today. With the current shipping versions of System Center products (and previous), we have always...

Sorry I’m a bit late with the recap for the Phoenix / Tempe Event last week. For the summary of Cloud Computing and what a Private Cloud really is compared to On Premise datacenters, Public Clouds and Hybrid Clouds, please see my recap from Los Angeles . I do want to repost the links for the PPT decks...

*****************   Updated on 11/16/11 to include link for Forefront Identity Manager PPT Deck Presentation    *************************** A big thank you to all who made it to the TechNet Event in the Los Angeles Office on Monday morning!!! There were three presentations given...

I was working the System Center Booth yesterday and today at the Interop Conference in New York.  During the course of these last two days, I’ve had quite a few people ask me for a single place to get all the links to download trial versions of the current products as well as the beta versions of...

In the West Region, we are holding our first TechNet Event Series in August 2011 in six different cities (Irvine, Tempe, Denver, San Francisco, Bellevue and Lehi – Salt Lake City).  Title : TechNet Events Presents: Building a Private Cloud Abstract: Cloud Power!  What are the options? ...