I just found out about this and had to pass it on! John and I have been colleagues for years and I am certain that this will be an incredible training. This intensive one week event is designed to give attendees the skills required to architect, deploy and manage a Microsoft centric environment. By the...

TechEd 2013 North America will take place June 3-6 in New Orleans. TechEd is Microsoft’s premiere conference for IT Professionals and Enterprise Developers, offering the most comprehensive technical education across Microsoft's products, solutions, tools, and services. I have had the privilege...

Being able to protect your Private cloud is one of the more important things you can do. With so many moving parts how do you approach this. If you are leveraging System Center 2012 for the many other components of your infrastructure, than I would highly recommend you look at Data Protection Manager...

To download a copy of a slide deck: Click on the bottom right of the PowerPoint to “View full-size presentation” In the new browser window go to the menu and click File –> Download a copy Session 1: System Center 2012 SP1 and Azure IaaS Overview Session 2: Upgrade To Windows Server 2012 Session 3...

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...

Want to go to MMS on Microsoft’s dime?  Want a chance to win free stuff?, Want to have your knowledge tested?  Then take on the: Microsoft Trivia Challenge! How does it work? Download. Play. Win.  Go here to sign up: Microsoft Trivia Challenge   between January 15, 2013 through March...

For the second year, Catapult Systems is thrilled to announce the return of System Center Universe 2013 …this year with more galaxies!  Last year’s event focused on the System Center 2012 release.  This year’s event will offer usage based scenarios and presentations covering System Center 2012...

The Microsoft Solution Accelerators team is pleased to announce that the System Center Cloud Services Process Pack is now available for download. Download the System Center Cloud Services Process Pack. The System Center Cloud Services Process Pack is Microsoft’s Infrastructure as a Service solution built...

MMS that is.  If you were like me you may not have been able to make MMS, but wanted to see the sessions.  Well guess what you can!  Check out DIGITAL MMS! If you missed a session or were you unable to register for MMS before the record-breaking sell out this year? No problem, join us...

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So I have been quiet for a long time since I have been somewhat quiet over the past few months.  Well it has been a whirlwind, so if your interested read on.  Business Tale: So my career side I have decide to take a bit of change inside of Microsoft and step away from technical evangelism for...

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...

Everyone loves to get an early Christmas present well this year, Veeam has a great gift you can unwrap today.   Today they announced a holiday gift for VMware vExperts, VMware Certified Professionals, VMware Certified Instructors, VMUG members, Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals, and Microsoft...

System Center Operations Manager 2012: Infrastructure and Application Performance Monitoring http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9792430 System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012: Building Your Cloud Infrastructure http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9792431 System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012: Building...

Happy Friday everyone and welcome to Part 4, where we welcome the talented Mr. Kevin Remde to the series for his first post.  In Kevin’s post he quickly  defines what cloud is and then he takes you on a great tour of what to expect from the System Center Products coming soon.  From SCOM...

Today you can find part 3 on John Weston ’s blog again.   John does a great job of outlining all the things you think of before you go to the cloud, from your server infrastructure, to DR, to awareness of Azure.  Great post!  If you are looking for Hyper-V, Windows Server 2008 R2...

Today Microsoft released new evaluation versions of the System Center 2012 family of products.  It is your opportunity to download and enjoy the amazing experience of using System Center.  When I think of System Center I immediately think of Virtual Machine Manager, Configuration Manager, and...

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 had another great chance to talk with Jason on Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM 2012). We touch on the new additions to version 4 of DPM that IT Pros will like. We also discuss Jason's new book " Data Protection for Virtual Data Centers" , that covers best practices on...

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...

I had yet another chance to sit down and chat with my good friend Jason at TechEd in Atlanta.  Jason Buffington, Sr. Technical Product Manager for System Center at Microsoft, discuss the latest Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (OpsMgr 2012). we talk about the  new additions to OpsMgr...

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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