Microsoft IT Camps are expert led, no cost, hands-on technical training events for IT professionals, centred on the issues and workloads you’re tackling in your environment today.

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Join us for a 1 day Windows Server 2012 IT Camp, gain deep technical insight into the new features and functionalities of Windows Server 2012. Hands-on labs, demos and interactive discussions with Microsoft technical experts covering the most popular Windows Server 2012 features:

• Server Virtualisation: Explore Hyper-V Scale, shared nothing migration, Hyper-V Replica, and what it can do for your organisation
• Storage: Bringing storage and SAN capabilities to everyone with Storage Spaces, thin provisioning, continuous availability file systems, and SMB 3.0
• Networking: Technologies to help scale throughput with in box NIC teaming, virtualised networking with extensible switch, and more
• Server Management and Automation: In box management tools to manage single server or groups of servers with Server Manager and automation with PowerShell
• Identity and Access: New functionality of Active Directory and how it enables Dynamic Access Control
• Virtual Desktop Infrastructure: Scalable VDI solutions with all the required technologies in box to power your VDI deployments
• Web and App Plat: Hosting class IIS web platform with new DoS protection, QoS guarantees, and dynamic IP blocking

We will update this post with registration links and dates/locations shortly.

To have the best experience bring your laptop running Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V with at least 30GB of free disk space and 4GB of RAM. You can still bring your laptop if it doesn’t run Windows Server 2012, you will use the Remote Desktop Connection Client 7.0 Update instead. This client is built into Windows 7, Windows 8 and is a free download for Windows XP SP3 and Windows Vista SP1 and SP2.