When you first start working with provision your private cloud, you will need to learn how to provision the physical hardware or bare metal of your environment.  Learning how to provision bare metal systems allows you to deploy physical systems to serve various roles.  In regards to the private...

When you are working with Windows Server 2012 and Hyper-V you will want to keep an eye on your servers to make sure they are running properly and they are maintained. In this post I am going to show some of the things that are built-in the server, specifically with PowerShell. More importantly you are...

As IT Pros, we absolutely love building with new technology! In February, my fellow IT Pro Technical Evangelists and I have been worked together on an article series for Migration and Deployment of Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, Windows Azure and System Center 2012 SP1 to help get you started. Here...

In today’s post Keith takes a look at a fantastic alternative to provide failover for your DHCP environments.  In prior versions of Windows Server you had the ability to cluster or use split scopes to provide failover.  In Windows Server 2012 , there are two new methods to provide this failover...

One of the new seucirty features in Windows Server 2012, is Dynamic Access Control.  This is a new way to secure your files and resources on your server.  It truly is a great new way to work through your server security.  Check out the article Brian wrote here: Dynamic Access Control  ...

One of the long awaited features for the Windows Server environment has been IP address management.  For years you have had to look at 3rd party products to do IPAM on our servers.  Well IPAM is now a built in a part of Windows Server 2012 and is a fantastic new feature to look at.  So...

One of technologies a lot of businesses are looking at is how to work with a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI).  VDI allows you to take a virtual guest system running a client OS run it on a “thin” client type of system.   While this may seem complicated, in Windows Server 2012 we make...

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Go get it @ http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9796988 . Here’s some bedtime reading while you watch the download, download. ======= A Microsoft private cloud dramatically changes the way your business produces and consumes IT services by creating a layer of abstraction over your pooled IT resources. This...

The Dayton IT Pro Camp is a FREE , daylong Camp for IT Pros featuring Microsoft Cloud Technologies. During the day, we will have presentations on Hyper-V, SharePoint, Office365 and Azure. In addition, we will have a cloud security presentation and presentations from the Vendors who have agreed to support...

In today’s post John   takes a look at one of the newest cloud technologies, Windows Intune.  John gives a brief tour of Windows Intune and hopefully you will get some ideas on how the tool can help you. Check out John’s post here: The Cloud on Your Terms Part 25 of 30: Windows Intune As I...

I got to spend some time with my good friends Chris and Blain on the IT Time “Halloween” episode we discussed  the Top 10 Scariest things an IT Pro can avoid when using Windows Server 2008 R2.    As you can tell the episode was a bit different.  Have fun! Check out the book: Windows...

Well we the Imagine Cup 2011 IT Challenge is back again and I have just one question for you?  Are you up for the Challenge ? If you answered yes, and if you are you a student, do you know a student or are you going back to school and can you answer a question like this then your ready for Round...

Technology is leaving the traditional business world behind. Learn how to leverage the right technology to jump start business growth and get ahead of the curve!  On November 2, 2011 from 9:00 AM to 4:30 PM (ET) in Blue Ash, OH  there will be a Tech Tune-Up to help brush up your skills on 4...

Well we are on the road again!  We are hitting the road and take a look at the events we are doing in the US at TechNet Events in the central US to see if you’ll be able to spend the day with us. “A day? I thought you guys usually do the 1/2-day TechNet Events.” Yeah, that was then. This is now...

I saw this case study and thought I would share, and it has some really good info into what goes into a private cloud.  Microsoft moves to the Private Cloud by planning, architecting, developing and managing the first Private Cloud solution within the Microsoft datacenter. The combination of shared...

One of the fun things I get to do everyday is point people to products and resources.  With IT there seems to be an ever changing world and transformation on the tools and resources we use almost happens daily. have a had a few folks ask where can I get the tools and resources to test some the new...

Talk TechNet is a twice weekly, one hour radio show for IT Professionals hosted by Senior Program Manager Keith Combs and myself.  Each episode focuses on a specific product or technology. Listeners are encouraged to call in and discuss the topic for the day, or ask questions to help unblock a deployment...

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Good afternoon and thank you to everyone who attended the event in Nashville!  I hope everyone had a good time.  As promised here are some resources and the Q/A from the event. I will also be placing the slides here: TechNet Slides: Transforming IT from Virtualization to the Cloud and here...

May 2 – Toronto | May 4 – Detroit | May 6 – Chicago | May 9 – Indianapolis | May 11 – Dallas | May 13 - Columbus The Springboard Series Tour is back! This 6 city tour brings the top product teams from Microsoft to you. We understand the questions and issues that IT pros deal with every day. How do I...

One of the great aspects of my job is I get to work with a lot of different user groups and meet lots of people from the IT Pro community.  Well I did my best to get a list of all the IT professional  user groups I work with in the Heartland territory (Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee...

If you have System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) 2007 then you know the wealth of data the tool provides.  However, getting a quick look into the data is not always the easiest. Guess what? The SCCM 2007 Dashboard is here to help!  In this screencast you will take a look at configuring...

If you have System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) 2007 then you know the wealth of data the tool provides.  However, getting a quick look into the data is not always the easiest. Guess what? The SCCM 2007 Dashboard is here to help!  In this screencast you will take a look at installing...

We are coming to a city near you and we want to see you at the events!  We are going to talk about Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010.  Come out and spend some time hearing how these products can rock your world!  Here are just a small sampling of the cities we are heading to, we are going...