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Post notifications to Microsoft Teams using PowerShell

Microsoft Teams, announced earlier today, is a new platform for chat based communication. I was very...

Author: Michael Greene Date: 11/02/2016

Monitoring your home IP security cameras with OMS Log Analytics

Summary: Monitor devices, like home IP security cameras, with OMS Log Analytics without installing...

Author: Tiander Turpijn [MSFT] Date: 10/23/2016

Taking backup of encrypted Azure VMs with ADE (Azure Disk Encryption) using Azure Backup in OMS

We see customers migrating or deploying workloads on Azure have started encrypting their virtual...

Author: Kandavel KR Date: 09/15/2016

ARM concepts in Azure Stack for the WAP Administrator – Troubleshooting IaaS in Azure Stack

Hello Readers! This blog is part 8 (and the last) of the series "ARM concepts in Azure Stack for the...

Author: Victor Arzate [MSFT] Date: 08/09/2016

Azure Stack API’s – Working directly with the Resource Manager API Layer (Technical Preview 1)

Introduction To work with the Azure’s Resource Manager, you have a number of options. For example,...

Author: Shawn Gibbs [MSFT] Date: 08/01/2016

ARM concepts in Azure Stack for the WAP Administrator – In-guest configuration with ARM, and technologies such as Virtual Machines Extensions, including PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC)

Hello Readers! This is part 7 of the blog post series “ARM concepts in Azure Stack for the WAP...

Author: Tiander Turpijn [MSFT] Date: 06/29/2016

Backup & Site Recovery (OMS)

We have recently announced the GA for our Backup & Site Recovery (OMS) in Azure Resource...

Author: Kristian Nese [MSFT] Date: 06/06/2016

Part 3: How to configure WDS, Unattend.xml file, Windows PE Image, and Nano Server image to deploy a Nano Server at-a-scale

Over a series of blog posts we will describe a solution for how to deploy Nano Server at scale using...

Author: Anders Ravnholt [MSFT] Date: 05/13/2016

Part 2: How to build a Windows PE and Nano Server image to deploy Nano Server at scale

Over a series of blog posts we will describe a solution for how to deploy Nano Server at scale using...

Author: Anders Ravnholt [MSFT] Date: 05/04/2016

Part 1: Nano Server Domain Join (Deployment-at-a-scale an introduction)

Over a series of blog posts we will describe a solution for how to deploy Nano Server at scale using...

Author: Anders Ravnholt [MSFT] Date: 05/02/2016

ARM concepts in Azure Stack for the WAP Administrator – Multi-tier applications

Hello Readers! This blog is part 6 of the series "ARM concepts in Azure Stack for the WAP...

Author: Victor Arzate [MSFT] Date: 04/29/2016

Microsoft Azure Stack Advanced Scenarios for TP1: Beyond the Basics

In the last post we deployed JSON templates and also VM Extensions to Windows and Linux VMs running...

Author: Victor Arzate [MSFT] Date: 04/27/2016

Microsoft Azure Stack Advanced Scenarios: Fundamentals

If you are testing the capabilities of Azure Stack Technical Preview, you will probably have been...

Author: Victor Arzate [MSFT] Date: 04/25/2016

Azure Automation & Hybrid Cloud Management: Automating deployment of a VM in Amazon Web Services

During our Cloud Roadshow events where I presented on Azure Automation there were a number of...

Author: Tiander Turpijn [MSFT] Date: 04/20/2016

Channel 9 Series on Operations Management Suite

Hello Readers, Jim Britt here after a very long time away from blogging . I wanted to take this...

Author: Jim Britt [MSFT] Date: 04/13/2016

Using the OMS Search API with native PowerShell cmdlets

In a hybrid cloud world where manageability of your resources is key, it’s important to have...

Author: Tiander Turpijn [MSFT] Date: 04/05/2016

ARM concepts in Azure Stack for the WAP Administrator - Packaging and publishing templates in Azure Stack

Hello Readers! This blog is part 5 of the series “ARM concepts in Azure Stack for the WAP...

Author: Bruno Saille [MSFT] Date: 04/01/2016

ARM concepts in Azure Stack for the WAP Administrator – Resource Deployment

Hello Readers! This blog is part 4 of the series "ARM concepts in Azure Stack for the WAP...

Author: Victor Arzate [MSFT] Date: 03/18/2016

Tool: ARM Template Checker for Microsoft Azure Stack

UPDATE 11/21/2016: This tool has now been superseded by the ARM Template Validator available here :...

Author: Bruno Saille [MSFT] Date: 02/26/2016

ARM concepts in Azure Stack for the WAP Administrator — Offers, Plans, and Subscriptions

Hello Readers! This blog is part 3 of the series "ARM concepts in Azure Stack for the WAP...

Author: Victor Arzate [MSFT] Date: 02/24/2016

ARM concepts in Azure Stack for the WAP Administrator — Cloud Service Delivery

Hello Readers! This blog is part 2 of the series "ARM concepts in Azure Stack for the WAP...

Author: Victor Arzate [MSFT] Date: 02/15/2016

ARM concepts in Azure Stack for the WAP Administrator–Introduction Post

You may have read about the first Technical Preview for Azure Stack, that was just released. This...

Author: Bruno Saille [MSFT] Date: 02/08/2016

Automation of Remote Console deployment for CPS Standard

For this post, we are glad to host Thomas Roettinger, Program Manager in Microsoft’s Private...

Author: Microsoft Private Cloud Solutions Team Date: 02/03/2016

Whitepaper – Architecting Hybrid Cloud Environments

IT is experiencing a rapid sea of change towards greater consumption of capacity and services...

Author: Ian Lucas (MSFT) Date: 01/19/2016

Introducing the updated JEA Helper Tool

Hello Readers! Just Enough Administration (JEA) is one of the very exciting security features coming...

Author: Bruno Saille [MSFT] Date: 12/20/2015

Microsoft and HPE partner to bring Azure in your datacenter with hyper-converged CPS Standard solution

Today at the Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s Discover 2015 conference in London, Microsoft and HP...

Author: Microsoft Private Cloud Solutions Team Date: 12/01/2015

Automated deployment of workloads: new solutions for centralized desktops

For this post, we are glad to host Thomas Roettinger, Program Manager in Microsoft’s Private...

Author: Microsoft Private Cloud Solutions Team Date: 11/16/2015

Windows Azure Pack Database as a Service and Websites available for deployment on Cloud Platform System Premium

For this post, we are glad to host Thomas Roettinger, Program Manager in the Microsoft Private Cloud...

Author: Microsoft Private Cloud Solutions Team Date: 11/16/2015

Creating and Connecting an ExpressRoute Circuit with Azure Resource Manager

Hi readers, it’s me again. I wanted to highlight that the Azure ExpressRoute documentation has been...

Author: Victor Arzate [MSFT] Date: 10/23/2015

Microsoft and Dell Extend Hybrid Cloud System Family with CPS Standard

One year and one day from the announcement of the Microsoft Cloud Platform System, we are happy to...

Author: Microsoft Private Cloud Solutions Team Date: 10/21/2015

Windows Server Containers, what are they and where do they fit?

There are a lot of questions to be answered around Windows Server Containers. Two top questions are...

Author: Shawn Gibbs [MSFT] Date: 10/05/2015

CPS Update 2 Released

As announced on September 16th, today Microsoft made available the second package of updates to...

Author: Microsoft Private Cloud Solutions Team Date: 10/01/2015

Microsoft CPS Pre-Validated For FedRAMP Compliance

Hello everyone, this is Filippo Seracini from the Microsoft Private Cloud Solutions team. I am here...

Author: Microsoft Private Cloud Solutions Team Date: 09/08/2015

Windows Azure Pack - Using the new AD Security Groups based Plan filtering feature in UR7

With the new Update Rollup 7 of Windows Azure Pack, we have a new feature that has been one of the...

Author: Shriram Natarajan (Azure Stack) Date: 08/12/2015

Security Threat Analysis – Using Operations Management Suite

This blog post is aimed at positioning Operations Management Suite (hereafter called OMS) in the...

Author: Tiander Turpijn [MSFT] Date: 07/20/2015

Whitepaper - Designing Your Network Infrastructure For Disaster Recovery

In the current cycle of customer validation during the last 12 months, we have been working with...

Author: Nader Benmessaoud [MSFT] Date: 07/05/2015

Private Cloud Health Feedback Request

For this post, we are glad to host Sarah Sinclair, Program Manager in Microsoft’s Private...

Author: Charles Satterfield Date: 06/17/2015

Extending Windows Azure Pack Using Service Management API

In the past 12 or more months I’ve worked quite a bit with Windows Azure Packs API layer, the...

Author: Shawn Gibbs [MSFT] Date: 06/15/2015

Microsoft and Nutanix

Hello Again! This is Vijay Tewari, Principal Group Program Manager for Private Cloud Solutions....

Author: Microsoft Private Cloud Solutions Team Date: 06/10/2015

Identity In Hybrid Cloud

IT is facing increased challenges in today’s world to keep up with users’ demands and...

Author: Uday Pandya Date: 06/08/2015

Self-service deployment of Microsoft workloads on Cloud Platform System (and other systems with Windows Azure Pack) – Part 4

For this post, we are glad to host Thomas Roettinger, Program Manager in Microsoft’s ECG CAT...

Author: Microsoft Private Cloud Solutions Team Date: 05/27/2015

Coming soon to a datacenter near you : Azure Stack

Hello Readers! Since the announcement of the upcoming release of Microsoft Azure Stack during the...

Author: Bruno Saille [MSFT] Date: 05/26/2015

Disaster Recovery for the Microsoft Cloud Platform System

We are glad to host Rochak Mittal, Senior Program Manager in the Azure Site Recovery (ASR) team. ASR...

Author: Microsoft Private Cloud Solutions Team Date: 05/20/2015

Tell us your thoughts on private cloud solutions and operations!

The Private Cloud Solutions team would like your feedback to help prioritize our investments in the...

Author: Microsoft Private Cloud Solutions Team Date: 05/14/2015

Updated White Paper - Enabling Database as a Service Enabling Database as a Service with the Microsoft Private Cloud Stack

Hello Readers, Just a quick note to let you know that the document from this blog post has just been...

Author: Bruno Saille [MSFT] Date: 05/13/2015

Ignite sessions now posted

We are back from Ignite and the excitement there was palpable. It was indeed a unique experience...

Author: Microsoft Private Cloud Solutions Team Date: 05/12/2015

SecureGUARD Unified Cloud Block platform overview

We are honored to host Helmut Otto, founder and managing director of SecureGUARD GmbH, and a...

Author: Microsoft Private Cloud Solutions Team Date: 05/05/2015

Cisco and EMC VSPEX with Microsoft Private Cloud Fast Track 4.0

We are honored to host as a guest blogger Rex Backman, from the data center solutions team at Cisco....

Author: Microsoft Private Cloud Solutions Team Date: 05/05/2015

Dell PowerEdge R630 Configuration for Microsoft Private Cloud Fast Track v4

We are honored to host Kristine Lindely, senior strategist in the Enterprise Solutions Group at...

Author: Microsoft Private Cloud Solutions Team Date: 05/05/2015

Cloud Solutions news at Ignite

Vijay Tewari is at Ignite and he joins us to tell us about some of the CPS-related news there....

Author: Microsoft Private Cloud Solutions Team Date: 05/04/2015

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