Adopting this exciting new computing paradigm provides a whole new landscape of technology and career direction for IT professionals. Microsoft Learning and the Microsoft System Center 2012 team have partnered to bring you an exciting opportunity to learn...

Private Cloud is the future of IT, and the future is now. Spend the day at our IT Camp and learn about Microsoft's virtualization solution, Hyper-V, the first step on your path to mastering Private Cloud. You'll embark on an interactive journey as you...

Microsoft System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager, a management solution for the virtualized data center, lets a system administrator manage virtualization hosts, networking, and storage resources. With Virtual Machine Manager 2012, you can optimize...

Have you built a private cloud lab with Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V and need to have some questions answered? Join our IT pro evangelists for this fun, interactive, Q&A online discussion...

Have questions about Microsoft's Private Cloud solutions? Listen to our IT Live Private Cloud Chat recorded recently. Download the Recording WMV | WMA Presented By Your East Region IT Pro Evangelists: John Baker - http://blogs.technet.com...

Deploying the infrastructure for a private cloud is just the first step. In today’s episode Sr. IT Pro Evangelist, John Baker previews for us the “Infrastructure and Application Performance Monitoring” Virtual lab. Learn how you can use System Center...

About This Video In today’s episode I preview the “Building a Service Template” Virtual lab. Learn how you can use System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 to delegate private cloud access to users and admins, as well as how to create a new private...

In this episode I preview the “Building Your Cloud Infrastructure” Virtual lab. Learn how you can use System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 to streamline network and storage resources that are allocated to virtual machines as well as how to create...

Microsoft’s Server & Tools Business division leaders participated in a webcast, “Transforming IT with Microsoft Private Cloud” where they announced the release candidate of System Center 2012 and simplified Microsoft’s private cloud management products...

Begin Your Evaluation The Microsoft private cloud experience is only a few clicks away in the TechNet Evaluation Center. The Microsoft private cloud evaluation includes a convenient single download of all System Center 2012 components, with Windows Server...

Microsoft Learning is hosting a brand new class in the popular “Jump Start” series. We received rave reviews from the last Microsoft Virtualization Jump Start delivered earlier this year and know this new course will be another smash.  Registration...

What is an IT Camp? It’s a FREE , fast-paced, fun half-day on System Center Virtual Machine Manager. We will go through the topics listed below, HANDS-ON, to get you quickly up to speed using System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012!! This is the second...

About This Video In todays’ episode, Sr. IT Pro Evangelist John Baker welcomes Microsoft Solutions Architect, Shawn LaBelle to the show. Tune in as they discuss Turnkey Private Cloud Datacenter Services. Learn which cloud delivered services is best for...

SCM 2 provides ready-to-deploy policies and DCM configuration packs based on Microsoft Security Guide recommendations and industry best practices, allowing you to easily manage configuration drift, and address compliance requirements for Windows operating...

In today’s episode, Alan Le Marquand discusses upcoming MVA courses on Private Cloud System Center 2012 scenarios such as Application Management, Orchestrator, Data Protection, Operations and Service Manager as well SQL Server 2012 and Windows Server...

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Have questions about Microsoft's Private Cloud solutions? If you attended one of our Live Private Cloud TechNet events, hopefully we inspired you to build out your own test environment with our downloadable evaluation products. If you did, you may need...

  These community events are free with great food including BBQ in Orlando and Greek Gyros in Sarasota and many giveaways including an XBOX Kinect and more. Best of all its FREE IT Knowledge! Community IT Pro Camps: Register Now!   Orlando IT...

About This Video In today’s episode I preview the latest System Center Configuration Manager 2012 Virtual Lab. Learn how you can become familiar with SCCM 2012 as you navigate around its console and test out its new capabilities for yourself. TechNet...

We know that Hyper-V virtual machines require booting from virtual IDE. Historically, in the physical world, SCSI can provide better performance than IDE.  Does that mean we’re giving up performance booting from virtual IDE? On the surface you’d...

I was working on my daughter’s Windows 7 computer last weekend and one of the first things I noticed was she hadn’t installed any updates for quite a while. It took a couple of update cycles to get her machine current.  Once it was, I noticed the...

Here's a great resource to get up-to-speed on the latest version of System Center 2012.    Virtual Lab System Center Operations Manager 2012: Infrastructure and Application Performance Monitoring System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012: Building...

Overview The Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 6.5 is an agentless, automated, multi-product planning and assessment tool for quicker and easier desktop and server migrations. MAP provides detailed readiness assessment reports and executive...

Overview If you’re prepping for a Hyper-V virtualization exam or you work with Hyper-V this is a great resource to have handy!!!!    This poster provides a visual reference for understanding key Hyper-V technologies in Windows Server 2008...

Exam 70-659: Windows Server 2008 R2, Server Virtualization Jump Start This 1-day online accelerated Jump Start training presents fundamentals and skills necessary to pass Exam 70-659: TS: Windows Server 2008 R2, Server Virtualization, and thereby earn...

In our Private Cloud roadshow event we have a session on Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V. We touch on VHD performance during the session but always get the question is there any hard performance data available. I came across this whitepaper that delves...

More Free Training: Join Symon Perriman (Technical Evangelist for Private Cloud) and Elden Christensen (Principal Program Manager Lead for Clustering) to understand how Windows Server 2008 R2 Failover Clustering with Hyper-V provides critical infrastructure...

What is an IT Camp? This will be a fast-paced, fun half-day on Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V. We will go through the topics listed below, HANDS-ON, to get you quickly up to speed using HyperV virtualization!! This is your first step to learning about...

PDFs of presentations at the “Accelerating Your IT Pro Career with Private Cloud” TechNet Events Session 1 - Getting Ready for the Cloud with HyperV Session 2 - The IT Pro's Heaven - The Private Cloud Session 3 - From...

Beta 2 of the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2012 is now available for download! New features and enhancements make large-scale desktop and server deployments smoother than ever! For System Center Configuration Manager customers, MDT 2012 Beta 2 provides...

Have questions about Microsoft's Private Cloud solutions? If you attended one of the Live Private Cloud TechNet events below, hopefully we’ve inspired you to build out your own test environment with our downloadable evaluation products. If you did, you...

Microsoft’s Virtual Academy Dean of students, Alan Le Marquand is back and in today’s episode he previews for us what’s coming down the course pipeline with regards to System Center 2012, Windows Server 2008 R2, Virtualization and the rest of Private...

This online book describes the fundamentals of TCP/IP in Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003. Overview This online book is a structured, introductory approach to the basic concepts and principles of the Transmission...

Overview This collection of two 2-hour online clinics and an 1-hour online clinic provides IT Professionals experienced in Windows 2000 Server or Windows Server 2003 with the knowledge and skills to implement and manage virtualization technologies...

Learn about the latest Microsoft Virtualization technologies, including Hyper-V and Windows Azure. Download Understanding Microsoft Virtualization R2 Solutions , written by industry expert Mitch Tulloch along with the Microsoft Virtualization team. ...