Kevinsul's Azure Site Recovery Musings

My blog devoted to my current role at MSFT - Azure Site Recovery in all of its wonder!

Latest Azure Site Recovery LyncUp – Hosted by Me!!!

Starting earlier this month, my team and I have been conducting regular ‘LyncUp’ sessions where...

Author: Kevinsul Date: 04/02/2015

Azure Site Recovery for VMware and Physical Servers is now available as Public Preview!

Hooray! Go here for details:...

Author: Kevinsul Date: 03/26/2015

ASR + Azure Traffic Manager + Azure Automation = Better Together!

The following demonstration shows an example of how one can architect a failover solution for a...

Author: Kevinsul Date: 02/06/2015

Migration Accelerator now supports Linux…

We just updated the current preview release of the Migration Accelerator to also allow the migration...

Author: Kevinsul Date: 01/13/2015

DPM Now Supports Windows Server 2012 R2 Deduplication

This is ‘kinda’ a big deal. Well, really, a very big deal, IMO. Check out the blog announcement...

Author: Kevinsul Date: 01/06/2015

New Microsoft Virtual Academy Series on Business Continuity ‘stuff’

Hello and Happy New Year! I hope everyone had a good holiday/start to the new year. Over the break,...

Author: Kevinsul Date: 01/05/2015

Using the Microsoft Migration Accelerator to migrate production workloads to Azure for testing…

Hopefully you know by now that we released the preview version of the Microsoft Migration...

Author: Kevinsul Date: 12/14/2014

My favorite places to go to get primed on what ASR can do…

The following are what I have found to be the best places to go to learn, evaluate, and test our...

Author: Kevinsul Date: 12/05/2014

Kevinsul has changed roles…

After many years as a Datacenter TSP, I have moved to one of the most exciting groups within our...

Author: Kevinsul Date: 11/18/2014

Fun with Hyper-V Replica in WS2012 RC

HVR Failover Runbook The other day, I was messing around with the new Hyper-V Replica feature in my...

Author: Kevinsul Date: 06/21/2012

Trouble with CM 2012 App Catalog Web Site…

So I ran into an issue I have run into now twice so in case there is a third time, I can refer back...

Author: Kevinsul Date: 04/10/2012

How to set up Round-Robin IR Assignment in Service Manager Using Orchestrator–a Basic Example…

In discussing the use of Service Manager for ITIL Service Desk needs, I have had a few customers...

Author: Kevinsul Date: 01/10/2012

Demonstration video on how to install Hyper-V to a Bare Metal Server from VMM 2012

One of my peers, Carmen Crincoli,  on the State/Local Government side shot a short video...

Author: Kevinsul Date: 01/08/2012

One last EDU Webcast–Quest/MSFT Desktop Virtualization

One of my last webcasts for EDU where I team up with our good friends over at Quest Software...

Author: Kevinsul Date: 10/14/2011

Kevinsul is now working in his own backyard…

…or to put it another way, I have taken a role with my local US Microsoft district, known internally...

Author: Kevinsul Date: 10/03/2011

Tune in and Listen to me tell of the Awesomeness that is the Microsoft Private Cloud

If you have nothing better to do on October 11, between 12PM – 1PM Central, why not tune in to my...

Author: Kevinsul Date: 09/13/2011

Hello Again–It’s been a while–Again!

It has been a great while since I have been a regular ‘blog poster’ and am looking to change that...

Author: Kevinsul Date: 09/13/2011

Creating a ‘ConfigMgr Remote Control’ Task within Service Manager

In System Center Service Manager, as an analyst works on incidents and other items that are related...

Author: Kevinsul Date: 06/29/2010

Simple DCM Example Using a PS Script to Detect Compliance issues with Local Administrators Group Membership

One way I like to use this blog is to post responses to questions I get from my customers. ...

Author: Kevinsul Date: 02/15/2010

How-To Information on How to Install and Configure ConfigMgr for Testing ReLoaded

A while back, I posted a few articles on this blog that contained ‘no frills’ steps on...

Author: Kevinsul Date: 01/07/2010

Microsoft Acquires Opalis

This is a pretty significant acquisition.  Opalis offers some great IT automation processes...

Author: Kevinsul Date: 12/11/2009

My teammate Michael Greene created this link - https://bit.ly/edtech-virt – to reference when looking...

Author: Kevinsul Date: 12/02/2009

Some webcasts that I have done recently…

So if you want to see some webcasts that I have done recently on the topic of System Center and the...

Author: Kevinsul Date: 12/01/2009

Trick/Tip: Assigning a Default Maintenance Window to Systems that do not already have one Assigned in ConfigMgr

So a few weeks ago, Mr. Joseph Corey at Carnegie Mellon University presented on how they use...

Author: Kevinsul Date: 04/13/2009

LABMAN 2009 Scheduled for June 8 – 10 @ Notre Dame

LABMAN 2009 is slated for June 8-10 and will be held at the University of Notre Dame.  I have...

Author: Kevinsul Date: 04/13/2009

EDU Windows Admins unite at the WinHED Conference!

So I know I blog about once, oh, I don't know, every 2-3 months now!  :)  Anyway, I aim to...

Author: Kevinsul Date: 02/23/2009

Links/Resources for System Center Workshop at HECC 2008

Here are some links to some useful resources to help you further evaluate System Center and other...

Author: Kevinsul Date: 11/11/2008

So you went and hosed up SQL Reporting Services by Removing OpsMgr Reporting...

So maybe I am the only one that has done this, but I have been dumb enough to now have done this...

Author: Kevinsul Date: 07/23/2008

Looking for training/more information on ACS in OpsMgr?

Technorati Tags: OpsMgr, ACS, Operations Manager, SecureVantage Our good partners, SecureVantage are...

Author: Kevinsul Date: 07/09/2008

SteadyState 2.5 Now Available (Now Supporting Vista)

Coming off the LABMAN conference from a few weeks ago, I know many in the EDU community rely on disk...

Author: Kevinsul Date: 06/18/2008

Configuration Manager 2007 SP1 has RTM'd and ready for download!

The ConfigMgr homepage may not be up to date yet but here is the direct download link to download...

Author: Kevinsul Date: 05/23/2008

Announcements from MMS 2008

So I normally do not regurgitate generic technical information that you can find on one of a...

Author: Kevinsul Date: 05/05/2008

To Package or not to Package - that is the question...

So on a topic that is not by any means new, however one in which I have been getting a lot of...

Author: Kevinsul Date: 04/14/2008

QMX for Configuration Manager has RTM'd

Finally - the extensions to manage non-windows clients with SMS has now released for ConfigMgr! For...

Author: Kevinsul Date: 04/14/2008

"Data Center Tours" for my EDU customers...

So starting this month, my associates and I on the EDU technology team (Michael Greene -...

Author: Kevinsul Date: 03/13/2008

Protecting your SoftGrid SFT Files from ending up in the wrong hands...

So I don't know if this is documented anywhere, but a customer of mine was looking for a way to...

Author: Kevinsul Date: 02/05/2008

MSI Utility for SoftGrid and roll-up hotfix released...

Go here for more info and a link to download the MSI utility:...

Author: Kevinsul Date: 01/17/2008

I have updated my 'Q&C' Steps to build SCCM in a lab...

I have posted a new article that is more 'RTM-friendly' which may help in quickly building up the...

Author: Kevinsul Date: 01/11/2008

The Quick and Cheap Steps to Perform a Lab Installation of Configuration Manager 2007 RTM

Pre-Requisites: The below instructions assume that you have two machines (virtual or physical). One...

Author: Kevinsul Date: 01/07/2008

Upcoming MDOP Webcast Featuring Northeastern University

If you are a College/University and are interested to find out how one of your peers uses the MDOP...

Author: Kevinsul Date: 11/16/2007

DCM Config Packs are coming...

Keep watching this link: https://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/scp/configmgr07.aspx... DCM...

Author: Kevinsul Date: 11/11/2007

OpsMgr 2007 SP1 RC1 Now Available on Connect...

SP1 for OpsMgr 2007 has been released in RC-1 form as of this weekend. Go to...

Author: Kevinsul Date: 11/05/2007

And the Exchange 2007 MP for OpsMgr 2007 is....

...NOW AVAILABLE:...

Author: Kevinsul Date: 10/15/2007

For those who can't wait for SoftGrid 4.5 to 'Machine Target' their Apps...

And for those who cannot wait for SoftGrid 4.5 to 'Machine Target' and/or the upcoming MSI Utility...

Author: Kevinsul Date: 09/24/2007

Announcing the 'Windows Installer Utility for MSFT Application Virtualization' (and why you should care)

Today we made a fairly subtle announcement around a little utility due to release later this...

Author: Kevinsul Date: 09/11/2007

Multicast OS Deployments - At Last (and in-the-box with Windows Server 2008)

One of the gazillion new and improved features of the soon to be released Windows Server 2008 is...

Author: Kevinsul Date: 08/28/2007

Let the good times roll - SCCM 2007 has RTM'd!!!

You can now download evaluation bits of ConfigMgr 2007 RTM here:...

Author: Kevinsul Date: 08/28/2007

Filtering out what gets sent to the ACS Database

I have had more then a few of my (mostly HED) customers ask whether or not it is possible to limit...

Author: Kevinsul Date: 08/23/2007

Snazzy new banner on my blog...

For those of you visiting this blog versus aggregating from an RSS reader (and I know that there are...

Author: Kevinsul Date: 08/23/2007

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