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...

To be effective, Private Clouds need to embrace the virtualization technologies that you have currently deployed in your datacenter and permit you to manage them as a single compute fabric, rather than getting locked in to separately managing silos of virtualization technologies. Don’t get me...

When designing your virtualization ho st framework for your Private Cloud, it's important to select platforms that use widely supported standards and provide cost-effective solutions for elastically scaling a resilient compute foundation. With this criteria in check, you'll be able to grow your compute...

When planning network infrastructure for a Private Cloud, there’s a number of technologies to consider and leverage in Windows Server 2012 . At many of my events, IT Pros have lots of questions on when to use various network technologies in their overall Private Cloud design, such as: Teaming...

Thanks for your interest in the Microsoft TechEd "Cloud Challenge" and Windows Azure Infrastructure Services ! This contest has ended , and we've selected winners for each prize below. Congratulations To Our Winners! Congratulations to our winners listed below! All winners have been individually...

With Windows Azure, you can easily deploy and run Windows Server and Linux virtual machines on your own virtual network in the cloud. These capabilities can be really useful for several scenarios, such as: building virtual lab environments, piloting new software in the cloud, deploying hybrid IT applications...

UPDATE: The recorded version of this training is now available at http://aka.ms/JS417 ... Hope you enjoy! ------------ Are you already certified as an MCSA on Windows Server 2008 and looking to upgrade your certs to Windows Server 2012? This week, we've released a new Jumpstart online training...

In today's TechNet Radio show, I'm back with Wally Mead , Senior Program Manager from the System Center Client Management team and all-around ConfigMgr Guru. Tune in as we discuss the new capabilities in Service Pack 1 of System Center 2012 Configuration Manager for managing Windows 8 clients, deploying...

In today's TechNet Radio show, I'm back with Wally Mead , Senior Program Manager on our System Center Client Management team, to dive deeper into the following enhancements in Service Pack 1 for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager: Site Hierarchy Expansion - Standalone Primary to CAS+Primary...

In today's TechNet Radio show, Wally Mead , Senior Program Manager from the System Center Client Management team and all-around ConfigMgr Guru, joins me to discuss the recently announced features found in System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Service Pack 1. What's New in System Center 2012 Configuration...

The Windows Server 2012 " Early Experts " Challenge free online study group has received a ton of interest and positive feedback. Over the coming weeks, we'll be targeting study and hands-on resources together for preparing for Microsoft Certification Exam 70-410, Installing and Configuring Windows Server...

UPDATE: By popular demand, these Hands On Labs have been extended to September 30th, 2012! Good news! Until September 30th, we are making available online over 100 of the most popular TechEd North America Hands-on Labs. Accessing the virtual environments and manuals is really easy ... Steps to...

In my Private Cloud talks with IT Pros, how best to virtualize Microsoft Exchange workloads, regardless of underlying hypervisor, has been a recurring hot topic area of discussion. At Microsoft Tech Ed 2012, Jeff Mealiffe, Senior Program Manager on the Exchange team and responsible for Exchange virtualization...

Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO, will be sharing Microsoft news today at a live press conference in San Francisco, California at Noon PT / 3 PM ET. Live streaming coverage of the event will be provided for those unable to attend in-person. Tune in here for live streaming coverage of the event.

Microsoft Learning partnered with the Microsoft Server and Tools team and Developer and Platform Evangelism (DPE) to deliver the “ Windows Server 2012 Jump Start: Preparing for the Datacenter Evolution ” on June 20-21, 2012. Thanks to an amazing product and a phenomenal team effort, this...

Windows Server 2012 provides a dynamic, highly available and cost-effective server platform for the modern datacenter and the cloud. Its impact scales from a few servers all the way to multitenant-aware, multisite environments in the largest organizations. Windows Server 2012 is one of the most significant...

Microsoft Learning, the Partner teams, and the Microsoft Office team are bringing an exciting opportunity to learn the planning and deployment steps for Office 365 and also prepare you for the new Office 365 certification exams. As organizations recognize the benefits of providing users with anywhere...

In today's enterprise environments, it is becoming increasingly necessary to integrate data from a variety of sources. As SQL Server continues its march into the enterprise, the days of focusing 100% on one platform are over. At a bare minimum, we need to be able to communicate with DBA's for other platforms...