Good afternoon everyone! Yesterday I introduced you to a fantastic series my good friend and System Center expert Cameron Fuller wrote on an exciting new technology called the Azure Monitoring Gateway. You can get a quick peak here: Cameron wrote two more posts taking your through step-by-step for the...

One of the great things I love about my job is the amount of really smart and talented folks I get to work with. This is so true with my good friend Cameron Fuller . Some of you may know Cameron and read is blog, he truly is a System Center expert. Often times, when I folks like Cameron are on the cutting...

Kevin Remde welcomes back Jeff Woolsey to the show for Part 2 of their three part “Virtualization: Did you Know…” series and in today’s episode they cover four more quick facts about Microsoft’s Virtualization solutions. [ 2:50 ] Did you know…”Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012 supports twice the physical...

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...

Here is the latest info on the Microsoft IT Camp series as we dive into how to get your datacenter ready for the cloud and beyond. Join us at a FREE Microsoft IT Camp for hands-on labs, demos, and interactive discussions with Microsoft technical experts. Here’s your chance to learn more about...

In today’s part Yung takes a look at how to use System Center 2012 SP1 to store VM’s in Windows Azure .  While Yung takes you through the process of how System Center can be used in storing in mind, there is one important thing to keep in mind.  One of the huge advantages of having System Center...

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...

Wow, I think today’s post just combined 3 of my favorite things, PowerShell, Virtual Machines, and Windows Azure !  Keith does a great job today showing how you can use PowerShell to create templates for your virtual machines in Windows Azure.  He even takes it a step further and shows you...

In part 12 Kevin took a look at how to use System Center and App Controller with Windows Azure.   In today’s topic Kevin takes on App controller again but showing how to working with Windows Azure Virtual Machines to make this happen.  Take a look at his post here: 31 Days of Servers in the...

The Solution Accelerators team just launched Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 7.0, Get it here: Download MAP 7.0 now. Get ready for Windows Server 2012 with the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 7.0. The latest version of the MAP Toolkit adds several new planning scenarios...

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...

In today’s post Kevin takes a fun look at his private cloud.  Wait not just his private cloud, but his private private cloud.  Almost like double secret probation. In the post Kevin does a great little screencast showing off his private private cloud. Check out Kevin’s post here: The Cloud...

In today’s post we have a guest to our series: Microsoft Partner Veeam .  They have also been joining us for our events around the country for a list of the events in my region take a look here: Register Now TechNet Events Present: A Day with Microsoft Virtualization, Hyper-V, SCVMM 2012 and SCOM...

Sometimes working with all of these technologies around the cloud you want to know how is that done?  Eventually you get to a point where you want to see what is behind the magic curtain.  In today’s post Kevin takes you on a tour of have he put is cloud environment together.  Some of...

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...

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 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...

Thank you to everyone taking time out of your St. Patricks day celebrations to spend 4 hours with my talking about the cloud and Microsoft’s offerings, I had a great time and lot of fun.  I hope everyone did as well.  I look forward to seeing all of you next time I am in the motor city. ...

Are you a student, do you know a student or are you going back to school and can you answer this question: Which DNS Zone resolves IP address to a fully qualified host names? A. Forward Lookup Zone B. Reverse Lookup Zone C. Stub Zone D. DNS Zone Well if you know the answer, then you’re...

Well my great friend and mentor Kerrie Meyler did it again.  She just recently released a book on System Center Operations Manager 2007.  I am still waiting for my copy, but I am sure all you system center gurus will love it!  If you have the book let me know what you think! You can get...

Good morning everyone, I want to mention we are still offering the discount for the TechNet Subscriptions.   Due to the continued success of the program, it is back again this year and the savings have been increased to 25%!!!!! Just Use TMSAM09 when ordering your new subscription. Click here...

Good afternoon we are getting ready to hit the road again, We have a great event set for the next few months, to talk about the elephant in the room: What is Windows Azure™? When should I use it? How does it apply to my job? We are going to spend some time on Azure, but instead of talking theory and...

As I have posted in the past we have a great program called Momentum that will help you with piloting Microsoft Technologies. (My previous post: Looking to gain Momentum for a Pilot of Microsoft Technologies? ) Well I am going to ask the same questions that I asked when the program first rolled out:...

On the heals of the announcement of the  RTM of System Center Mobile Device Manager (SCMDM), I am happy to announce part 3 of my 3 part radio interviews with the folks from the mobility group has gone live!!! I had a great opportunity to speak with 3 fantastic Windows Mobile experts from the product...

begin Julie Andrews visualization Windows Mobile 6, Active Sync, Mobile CRM, Mobile OOF, Mobile Device Center, System Center Mobile Device Center..... These are just a few of my favorite things. end Julie Andrews visualization :-) I had a great opportunity to speak with 3 fantastic Windows Mobile experts...