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As you plan your migration to Hybrid Cloud, you may find that your organization has certain specific configuration settings and tools that are required for each new VM being provisioned. Creating your own custom VM images provides an easy way to embed these customized settings into your own library of operating system images so that you aren't spending additional time manually customizing each VM post-provisioning.
In today's article in our Modernizing Your Infrastructure with Hybrid Cloud series, Blain Barton walks us through the steps of preparing a custom VM image that we can leverage for quickly building new VMs on Microsoft Azure.
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How much can I really expect to save by migrating workloads to the Cloud? In today's article in our Modernizing Your Infrastructure with Hybrid Cloud series, Dan Stolts shows us how to easily answer this question by using the new Microsoft Azure IaaS Cost Estimator Tool.
Microsoft Azure IaaS Cost Estimator Tool
Whether your current environment is running server workloads on physical servers or virtual machines hosted on Hyper-V, VMware or Amazon AWS, this tool can help you analyze the real CPU, memory, disk and network requirements for each workload and use "What If?" cost analysis to estimate costs for running those workloads in the cloud as Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines.
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In today's episode in our Modernizing Your Infrastructure with Hybrid Cloud series, Yung Chou and I demonstrate ways in which you can manage and automate your hybrid cloud environment. Join us for this demo-heavy session as we showcase System Center, Microsoft Azure and Azure Pack, as well as PowerShell for Azure, PowerShell DSC for configuration management and Azure Automation for automated runbooks.
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Windows Server 2003 End-of-Support is quickly approaching on July 14th, 2015 ... does your organizations still have Windows Server 2003 servers running key infrastructure services, such as Active Directory, DNS and DHCP? The process for migrating these key services to Windows Server 2012 R2 may be easier than you think!
In today's article in our Modernizing Your Infrastructure with Hybrid Cloud series, Tommy Patterson steps through the general process for migrating Active Directory, DNS and DHCP services from Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2012 R2. Along the way, he also provides links to additional helpful tools and resources.
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When migrating to Hybrid Cloud, developing automated standards for provisioning and managing application workloads is key to accelerating the predictable deployment of new business solutions. As you begin developing scripts and workflows, being able to do so with consistency across on-premises datacenters and public cloud platforms is important to promote reusability and agility when migrating these workloads.
In today's article in our Modernizing Your Infrastructure with Hybrid Cloud series, follow along with Yung Chou and I as we walk through the steps to get started with Windows PowerShell and the Azure PowerShell module for automating both Azure Pack private clouds and Microsoft Azure public clouds via the tenant service management API. We'll provide PowerShell code snippets so that you can easily try this out in your own Hybrid Cloud, too!
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In today's article in our Modernizing Your Infrastructure with Hybrid Cloud series, Blain Barton is back to walk us through using the Microsoft Exchange Server Deployment Assistant tool to define a step-by-step checklist for migrating legacy Exchange Servers to Office 365.
In today's article in our Modernizing Your Infrastructure with Hybrid Cloud series, Tommy Patterson is back again to help us with options for easily migrating existing legacy file servers to Windows Server 2012 R2.
Join Tommy as he explains leveraging tools such as Distributed File Servers (DFS) namespaces, Robocopy, and the Server Migration Tools kit to quickly move and modernize Server Message Block (SMB) file server workloads to Windows Server 2012 R2. When considering moving SMB shared folders to the Microsoft Azure public cloud, be sure to also check out this article from Jessica DeVita on our new Azure Files cloud platform feature.
In today's episode of our Modernizing Your Infrastructure with Hybrid Cloud series, Blain Barton and Tommy Patterson discuss how to get started migrating server workloads to Windows Server 2012 R2 and Microsoft Azure. Join us for this great session on server migration from on-premises to the cloud or a combination of both. Learn which option is best for your organization as well as what tools are available to make this process as efficient as possible.
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In today's article in our Modernizing Your Infrastructure with Hybrid Cloud series, follow along with Dan Stolts as he provides an overview of the various options and considerations for migrating existing SQL Server databases to the Microsoft Azure cloud platform, along with step-by-step examples.
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Lots of organizations may have web servers running on Windows Server 2003 today. With End-of-Support for Windows Server 2003 quickly approaching on July 14, 2015, your migration plan should include migrating these web servers to either Windows Server 2012 R2 or Microsoft Azure Websites. Migration of existing web applications can involve several considerations, but there's also tools available to help streamline this process. When migrating to Azure Websites, you can also benefit from new capabilities that you may not currently have today, such as improved availability, a financially-backed Service Level Agreement, one-click scalability, and a super-easy way of managing roll-forward and roll-back of web application or web site changes.
In today's article in our Modernizing Your Infrastructure with Hybrid Cloud series, Blain Barton walks us through the steps for migrating existing web sites and web applications to Windows Server 2012 R2 and Microsoft Azure. Along the way, he also explores tools, such as the Azure Websites Migration Assistant, that can help accelerate your migration steps.
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