This month, my fellow IT Pro Technical Evangelists and I are authoring a new articles series on 20 Key Scenarios with Windows Azure Infrastructure Services . You can catch the full series at http://aka.ms/CloudTop20 . In today's article in this series, we'll discuss extending our On-premises Datacenter...

Yesterday, I had a great time with the CincyPowerShell user group discussing security and delegation in PowerShell with PKI, code-signing certificates, PowerShell Remoting and PowerShell Web Access ( new with Windows Server 2012 ! ). In this article, I'm posting links to the PowerShell snippets...

So far in our Build Your Private Cloud in a Month series, we’ve prepared a scalable, resilient foundation and created our storage, network and compute fabric in System Center 2012 SP1 Virtual Machine Manager. Now …. we're ready to build some Private Clouds! In System Center 2012 SP1,...

Windows Azure Active Directory ( WAAD ), a cloud-friendly REST-based implementation of Active Directory for identity management of cloud applications, is now generally available for production cloud apps as a FREE service. WAAD provides consistent centralized identity management for Microsoft Office...

Another day, another great IT Pro virtualization event! :-) Last week, I was asked the following question by a concerned IT Pro at a hosting partner organization ... Q: I read an article where an attacker could potentially upload a malicious or compromised VMware VMDK, change the disk paths to...

During a recent virtualization event, an IT Pro posed a question regarding virtual machine saved state security in Hyper-V: Q: I read an article where a non-administrator was able to access VMware files such as the virtual machine disks and the virtual machine saved state and then able to view the...