Security is something that is at the top of everyone’s mind, but what if your A/V software actually causes an issue with some of the software you’re running? If that’s the case then there’s probably an exclusion you need to make to keep things safe, secure and working smoothly. Luckily Microsoft’s own Jeff Patterson and Tony Soper have put together a pretty comprehensive list of ALL the AV exclusions you might want to configure for Windows Server, including AD, OpsMgr, ConfigMgr, Hyper-V, SQL, WSUS, MED-V, DPM, App-V and much much more. You can check it out on our TechNet Wiki below:
Windows Anti-Virus Exclusion List
Microsoft recently posted a video tour of several data centers where the company stores the data and software for services like Hotmail, Bing, Xbox Live, Windows Live SkyDrive, Exchange and Office 365.
You can watch the embedded video below.
Dublin has become a key cloud computing gateway to Europe and beyond for U.S. companies due to several factors, including the city’s location, connectivity, climate and ready supply of IT workers. Dublin’s temperature is ideal for data center cooling, allowing companies to use fresh air to cool servers instead of using huge, power-hungry chillers to refrigerate cooling water.
This allowed Microsoft to design and build one of the world’s most efficient data centers, a huge facility that hosts the company’s cloud services for Europe and operates entirely without chillers. At 550,000 square feet, it is also one of the world’s largest data centers.
Amazon opened a data center in Dublin in December of 2008 to house the European availability zones for its EC2 cloud computing services. The company recently acquired a 240,000 square foot building in Dublin which will be converted into an expansion data center.
The company’s property moves reflect the rapid growth of its European cloud computing operation, which was chronicled by Netcraft in December.
Source: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2011/08/07/lightning-in-dublin-knocks-amazon-microsoft-data-centers-offline/
The commercial aircraft giant is using the software giant’s technology to create a virtual tour of the next-generation Boeing 737 plane, using Kinect, Silverlight Deep Zoom, and Windows 7 Touch and Azure.
Digital marketing agency Wire Stone created Boeing 737 Explained, an interactive marketing tool to help Boeing pitch the aircraft to potential buyers. While Wire Stone is based in the Silicon Valley, the Boeing Kinect work took place at the agency’s Seattle office.
In what is being billed as an early commercial non-entertainment use of Kinect, Wire Stone says it integrated Kinect and other Microsoft technology for Boeing to use in trade shows and other venues that can support massive displays where Boeing 737 Explained can be viewed in real-world dimensions.
From selling jetliners to training surgeons, it is already apparent that Kinect has applications beyond games.
The 737 project uses the technology behind Kinect motion controller for Xbox 360 to let a viewer move around and explore the 737.
With Kinect, Boeing is able to turn a dry, technical pitch into a virtual tour of the aircraft.
“If we look at all the approaches that we use to communicate about the 737, most of them are very analytical, enabling us to talk about the financial operating costs, maintenance costs and other attributes,” Diana Klug, Director of Marketing for Boeing Commercial Airplanes, said in a statement. “We wanted to take the marketing for the 737 to the next level, and the set of tools that we had did not allow us to convey the full range of new features and improvements that we’ve made to the product.”
Using Kinect and other Microsoft technology, stone created Boeing 737 Explained, an interactive marketing to help Boeing to pitch the aircraft to potential buyers.
Here is Microsoft's case study on the project.
Opalis Integration Server Topics
TechNet Webcast: Opalis Webcast Series 1 of 3: Introduction and Technical Overview
TechNet Webcast: Opalis Webcast Series 2 of 3: Designing and Configuring Process Automation
TechNet Webcast: Opalis Webcast Series 3 of 3: Extensibility - "No Integration Pack, No Problem"
System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 Topics
System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2
System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 Using Templates
How Do I: Add a Virtual Machine Host to System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008?
How Do I: Setup a Template in Virtual Machine Manager 2008 and Reduce the Time Taken to Deploy New Virtual Machines?
System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Topics
TechNet Webcast: Introducing Operations Manager 2007 R2
TechNet Webcast: Automating Virtual Infrastructure Management with PRO Tips in System Center
Hyper-V Server – How to setup a High Availability Cluster with just one copy of Windows Server 2008
How Do I: Create a cluster on Hyper-V?
How Do I: Implement Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V High Availability and Quick Migration?
How Do I: Build a highly available virtualization cluster with Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 and Hyper-V?
How Do I: Configure a Cluster Shared Volume to support Live Migration with Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 and Hyper-V?
Two new partner labcasts are now available to partners free of charge via the Partner Learning Center, offering deep technical content on the Microsoft Private Cloud and Opalis:
· 50506A: Microsoft Private Cloud and Datacenter Management (based on the content for the in person partner bootcamp events which took place in FY11)
· 50507A: Designing and Automating Workflows with Opalis Integration Server