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Well, do you? “Yes!  And I bet you’re going to tell me to use Windows Azure .” You’re catching on!  In today’s article in our “ 20 Key Scenarios with Windows Azure Infrastructure Services ”, my friend Keith Mayer shares some excellent tips, resources, and a step-by-step for building a SharePoint...

Welcome to another installment of our May series of articles – “ 20 Key Scenarios with Windows Azure Infrastructure Services ”.  Today I’m going to describe a scenario, a problem, and then propose a solution.    The Scenario : Single Sign-On support using Active Directory , Windows Azure...

If you can extend your datacenter into the cloud using a secured network path and Windows Azure , it sure should follow that you can take advantage of cloud-based virtual machines to perform some of your more common infrastructure tasks.  For example: File Servers. “Yeah, I get it, Kevin. ...

“Hey Kevin… I would like to use Windows Azure as a location where I set up a SQL Server database mirror.  Is this something I can do?” Absolutely, yes!  In fact, it doesn’t even require anything fancy as far as setting up special connectors or site-to-site VPN in order to try this out (though...

So now that we’ve been talking about building virtual machines in Windows Azure , and extending your datacenter into “the cloud”, we need to actually make the connection.  But how does one actually build the Windows Azure Network, and then that subnet our local subnets? Keith Mayer gives us the...

As many of you may already know, this month my Microsoft US DPE Central Region teammates ( Matt Hester , Brian Lewis , and Keith Mayer ) and I are blogging about “ 20 Key Scenarios with Windows Azure Infrastructure Services ”. Throughout this month I’ll be adding links, making any updates...

This is going to be good!  The folks at the Microsoft Virtual Academy are once again hosting a full-day online training event on May 16, 2013 from 9am to 5pm Pacific Time.  The title: Windows Azure for IT Professionals . Make Windows Azure Your Datacenter! This Jump Start will help you understand...

“Hey Kevin.. How do I get high availability out of my SQL Server?” Cluster. Shared Storage. Windows Failover Clustering supports that. “But… I want my SQL Servers running in Windows Azure. And I don’t have shared storage in “the cloud”. But I still need...

Today’s installment of our “Build Your Private Cloud in a Month” series is the last of our 5-part mini-series we’re calling “Deploying Private Cloud Workloads”.  This week we ( Tommy Patterson , Blain Barton and I) gave you the details and demonstrated some of the key areas in System Center 2012...

Today’s installment of our “Build Your Private Cloud in a Month” series is the fourth of a 5-part mini-series we’re calling “Deploying Private Cloud Workloads”. This week we ( Tommy Patterson , Blain Barton and I) are going to detail and demonstrate some of the key...

Back in October of last year, in Part 5 of our “ 31 Days of our Favorite Things ” series, I wrote about Hyper-V Replica .  “With Hyper-V Replica you can easily create and maintain an off-line copy – a replica – of a virtual machine on a separate virtualization host.  This means, for example...

In part 7 of our " 20+ Days of Server Virtualization ”, Keith Mayer gives us some powerful PowerShell commands to turn on the iSCSI initiator, connect, and use iSCSI storage from our Hyper-V host.  Read His Article: Speaking iSCSI with Windows Server 2012 and Hyper-V

To kick off our series of “ 20+ Days of Server Virtualization ” articles, I’m going to introduce you to Hyper-V .  “Introduce?  It’s not new!” True.  But even though many of you may have heard of Microsoft ’s virtualization solution, you may not know much about it.  And so to start...

Welcome to March 2013!   Can you believe it?   March is already here!  And as you’re coming to learn, a new month means a new topic for our team’s series of blog articles. This month the topic is Server Virtualiaztion.  Specifically, we’ll be discussing and helping you learn...

Here it is!  The complete list of our “20+ Days of Server Virtualization” blog articles.  Through the month of March, I’ll be adding links, making any updates or changes.  So keep checking back for more, or keep watching my blog.  As before, I plan on adding my own blog post every...

Are you building a highly virtualized datacenter? “Yep.” Are you calling it a private cloud ? “Of course. Isn’t it?” No. Well, at least not if virtualization is ALL you’re doing. Part of the definition that Microsoft uses for a “cloud’ (which...

System Center 2012 contains a relatively new component that I don’t think many of you are familiar with. At least not yet. But if you saw my Part 12 and Part 13 articles in our “ 31 Days of Servers in the Cloud ” series, you know already know how to connect App Controller to your Windows...

As you know, we’ve been talking about Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) for the entire month. “Really?  I thought you were talking about Windows Azure and virtual machines.” Yes, that’s true.  And these virtual machines can be the foundation of or an extension of a Private Cloud outside of...

Download the Evaluation ISO Download the Evaluation VHD Windows Server 2012 is available.  It offers businesses and service providers a scalable, dynamic, and multitenant-aware cloud-optimized infrastructure.  Windows Server 2012 helps organizations connect securely across premises and helps...

Sure, we know that Windows Azure is Microsoft ’s cloud solution for Platform-as-a-Service (Paas) and now Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), becoming not only a platform for globally scalable applications, but also a foundation and an extension of your IT infrastructure.  But… “What is this going...

If you’re interested in the full list of articles in our “31 Days of Servers in the Cloud” Windows Azure Virtual Machines and IaaS series… “I’m interested in the links to the full series, Kevin.” I was just getting to that. Anyway… here it is. ENJOY...

“Yeah, Kevin… Tell me something more about Windows Azure .” How about today, in part 6 of our “ 31 Days of Servers in the Cloud ” I leave that job to my friend Yung Chou . His article today outlines the current state-of-the-art that is Windows Azure; not just for running...

System Center 2012 with SP1 is now available for MSDN and TechNet Subscribers. “What’s new with Service Pack 1, Kevin?” I’m so glad you asked.  Check out the “ What’s New in System Center 2012 SP1 ” page for all the details.  But in a nutshell, SP1 adds capabilities to fully manage the new...

It’s over! November ( Movember ?) is here! Now it’s time to sit back and soak in all of this great information! Below is a complete list (Thank you, Keith Mayer for compiling it) of links to our full 31 Days. Enjoy! 31 Days of our Favorite Things The Cloud OS Platform by Kevin...

Here it is! …the last day of the month, and the last day of our series of “ 31 Days of our Favorite Things ”! And today, my buddy Matt Hester is going to tell you why you should consider Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012 over VMware . In summary: Nothing and nobody scales to...