This video is part of the Microsoft Virtual Academy (MVA) on Windows Azure Virtual Machines. In this module you will learn about Virtual Machine Disks and Images as well as how you manage Persistent Disks. We also cover durability and availability of Window Azure Disks and Images, Virtual Machine Sizing and the Disk Caching feature in Windows Azure Virtual Machines.
Watch it at Microsoft Virtual Academy: Windows Azure Virtual Machine Disks and Images | TechNet Video
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This video is part of a Microsoft Virtual Academy (MVA) module on VDI. This module is part of the Windows Server 2012: Virtual Desktop Infrastructure course and shows the new Application Virtualization (App-V) 5.0 tool, and how App-V 5.0, and how Application Connection Groups are used to deploy connected applications such as Microsoft Outlook 2010 and Microsoft Lync 2010.
Watch it at Microsoft Virtual Academy: Application Virtualization (App-V) 5.0 | TechNet Video
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This video is part of the Microsoft Virtual Academy (MVA) module on Dynamic Access Control. This module is part of the Windows Server 2012: Identity and Access course and covers the new and enhanced capabilities in Windows Server 2012 help you make it easier and less costly to ensure secure access to valuable digital assets and comply with regulations. This video shows how to create a permission entry for a data file.
Watch it here Microsoft Virtual Academy: Expression-Based Access Control | TechNet Video
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This video is part of the Microsoft Virtual Academy (MVA) on Windows Azure Virtual Machines. This module helps you understand what Windows Azure Virtual Machines are, what workloads are supported and includes discussion on the different images that are available as well as comparing and contrasting the differences between Windows Azure Virtual Machines and the existing VM Role in Windows Azure.
Watch it at Microsoft Virtual Academy: Windows Azure Virtual Machine Overview | TechNet Video
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This video demonstrates switching a Windows Server 2012 computer from Server Core mode (no UI) to Server with a GUI mode.
Watch it here Convert Windows Server 2012 Core mode to Server with a GUI mode | TechNet Video
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This video is part of the Microsoft Virtual Academy (MVA) module on Dynamic Access Control. This module is part of the Windows Server 2012: Identity and Access course and covers the new and enhanced capabilities in Windows Server 2012 help you make it easier and less costly to ensure secure access to valuable digital assets and comply with regulations. This video shows how to add an auditing rule to specific files.
Watch it at Microsoft Virtual Academy: Expression Based Auditing | TechNet Video
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Together, the Tabular Model and Power View are the latest new Business Intelligence features in SQL Server 2012. Together, they mark a paradigm shift in Business Intelligence towards self-service Business Intelligence. Provisioning self-service Business Intelligence is more than pretty graphs, however. How can you use optimise the Tabular Model, so that the users have the best support for ‘self-service’ business intelligence? Using demos, we will see how the Tabular Model and Power View can work best together, in order to provide the best service to the users.
Watch it here at Visualizing the Tabular Model with Power View | TechNet Video
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This video is part of the Microsoft Virtual Academy (MVA) module on Remote Desktop Services. This module is part of the Windows Server 2012: Identity and Access course and covers the new and enhanced capabilities in Windows Server 2012 help you make it easier and less costly to ensure secure access to valuable digital assets and comply with regulations. This video shows how to deploy DirectAccess. Watch it at Microsoft Virtual Academy: Easy Server Setup | TechNet Video
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This video is part of the Microsoft Virtual Academy (MVA) module on Remote Desktop Services. This module is part of the Windows Server 2012: Identity and Access course and covers the new and enhanced capabilities in Windows Server 2012 help you make it easier and less costly to ensure secure access to valuable digital assets and comply with regulations. This video shows how to use the Web access console, Publish RemoteApp programs, test a published program, disconnect a session and create a Remote Desktop Services collection.
Watch it at Microsoft Virtual Academy: End User Experience | TechNet Video
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In this module you will learn how System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 (SP1) App Controller (SCAP) can be used as a web-based self-service portal to manage your private cloud, public cloud and connect to 3rd party hosters. SCAP has been improved in many areas, including it connections to VMM, new ways of controlling access, better Active Directory users and groups integration, improvements in operating remote desktops, and easier manageability of virtual machines to make checkpoints, scale apps, and perform upgrades. Additionally you will learn about how the Service Providers Foundation (SPF) feature can allow management of any 3rd party virtualization infrastructure using the oData protocol with REST.
Watch it here Microsoft Virtual Academy: App Controller in System Center 2012 SP1 | TechNet Video
This video is part of the Microsoft Virtual Academy (MVA) module on Security Compliance Manager. This module is from the Using Solution Accelerators to Prepare for Windows Server 2012 course. In this video you will see how to customize and deploy baselines, and learn how to develop strategies for monitoring and compliance.
Watch it at Microsoft Virtual Academy: Security Baselines for Windows Server 2012 | TechNet Video
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This video gives a quick demonstration for adding a boot image to Windows Deployment Services in Windows Server 2012. Watch it at Adding a boot image to Windows Deployment Services in Windows Server 2012 | TechNet Video
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As an IT Pro, Cloud Computing in general, is a great opportunity to do more strategic things in your job. To be strategic, you need to know what Windows Azure is and you need to know about your new role in the application lifecyle. At the same time, there are new skills to learn, new technologies and new approaches to building, deployment and maintaining applications. This video covers all these things, showing you how to do some ITPro tasks and really focus in specifically on those area that you need to master.
Watch it here at Windows Azure Insights for the Enterprise IT-pro | TechNet Video
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In this module you will learn how System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 (SP1) Configuration Manager (SCCM) has improved device support, added a personalized application experience, simplified management, integrated security and compliance all with reduced infrastructure complexity. You will see how SCCM can take real-time actions based on System Center Endpoint Protection information. It now has improved integration as a distribution point for Windows Azure, and it supports Windows 8 Apps, Application Virtualization (App-V), Windows To Go, Windows Embedded, Android & iOS devices, Mac OS, Linux and Unix including AIX, HP-UX, RHEL, Solaris & SUSE. Additionally you will learn about metered connection support, phone distribution tokens, the self-service portal for apps, and the ability to auto-update enterprise apps.
Watch it here Microsoft Virtual Academy: Configuration Manager in System Center 2012 SP1 | TechNet Video
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Since April 2012 the latest version of Configuration Manager was released. A new milestone on the Configuration Manager roadmap is Service Pack 1. Let’s have a look which great new stuff this Service Pack brings us.
Watch it here at Discover Great Reasons to move to ConfigMgr 2012 SP1 | TechNet Video
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This video covers the Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V support for remote file storage using SMB 3.0. This introduces a new first-class storage option for Hyper-V that is a flexible, easy to use and cost-effective alternative to block storage. The video details the basic requirements for Hyper-V over SMB and outline the specific enhancements to SMB 3.0 to support server application storage, including SMB Transparent Failover, SMB Scale-Out, SMB Multichannel, SMB Direct (SMB over RDMA), SMB Encryption, SMB PowerShell, SMB performance counters and VSS for SMB File Shares. It concludes with a few suggested configurations for Hyper-V over SMB, including both standalone and clustered options.
Watch it here Hyper-V over SMB: Remote File Storage Support in Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V | TechNet Video
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In this module you will learn how System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 (SP1) Endpoint Protection (SCEP) now supports Windows Server 2012 and SQL Server 2012. See the single administrator experience for simplified endpoint protection and management, real time Endpoint Protection information, and the new and improved Endpoint Protection client. Then you will find out how SCEP can use malware-driven operations, uses client-side merging for antimalware policies, and has integrated optimizations for Windows Embedded clients. Finally you will see the improved operations and reporting, new architectural changes to simplify Software Update Point setup, and faster delivery of definitions through software updates.
Watch it here Microsoft Virtual Academy: Endpoint Protection in System Center 2012 SP1 | TechNet Video
This video covers the significant investments that Microsoft is making in our Windows Azure Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) strategy. The video discusses the details about how the platform works when you provision, deploy, and manage Virtual Machines and Applications in Windows Azure.
Watch it here Windows Azure IaaS: how it works | TechNet Video
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All the System Center products are excellent products as standalone products… But the magic really happens when you combine them! Watch this video to find out the true power of joining the forces of the different products to give you even more insight in your environment. We’ll go over the different options to integrate the different products and find out how the different products are related to each other.
Watch it here at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/video/system-center-products-better-together
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Learn how to license your private cloud; including server management and virtualization, as well as migrating servers to third party hosting companies. Products covered include Windows Server 2012 and System Center 2012. Watch it here at Licensing the Private Cloud | TechNet Video
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Windows Azure Web Sites is a simple and powerful hosting platform that allows developers to easily build and rapidly deploy web applications on Windows Azure using their favorite languages, frameworks, and tools. This video demonstratea how you can use this new technology to build, deploy, and run everything from classic ASP sites to modern ASP.NET MVC 4 web applications using both new and familiar tools including Visual Studio 2010, Visual Studio 2012, and WebMatrix.
Watch it at Web sites on Windows Azure | TechNet Video
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This video is part of the Microsoft Virtual Academy (MVA) on Windows Azure Virtual Machines. In this module you will learn how to connect Virtual Machines in Windows Azure. This module includes cross-premise connectivity, an overview of the Windows Azure Virtual Network feature and related scenarios, Virtual Machine Names and DNS, and coverage of protocols, endpoints, load balanced sets and custom probes used to monitor the health of Windows Azure Virtual Machines.
Watch it at Microsoft Virtual Academy: Windows Azure Virtual Networks | TechNet Video
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The 2012 sees Analysis Services splitting into two: the Multidimensional model, which is basically the Analysis Services of cubes and dimensions that we’re all familiar with, and the new Tabular model which is very similar to PowerPivot. This session will cover what’s new in Analysis Services 2012 Multidimensional, provide a brief overview of the Tabular model, discuss their relative strengths and weaknesses and help you decide which one is appropriate for your project.
Watch it at What’s new in Analysis Services 2012? | TechNet Video
This video gives a quick demonstration of installing the Windows Deployment Services Role in Windows Deployment Services.
Watch it at Installing the Windows Deployment Services Role in Windows Server 2012 | TechNet Video
This video explains real-world guidelines, expert tips, and guidance to get the most out of your SQL Server 2012 implementation. Watch it here at SQL Server 2012 Best Practices | TechNet Video