One of the biggest advantages of the Private Cloud is the ability to offer self-service to your Line of Business owners. That way they can deploy and manage their services more quickly and efficiently. To gain this ability, you need a way to take all...

Check out Travis Wright’s Blog and lean more about the System Center 2012 Orchestrator Integration Pack for Active Directory Beta. The Integration Pack for Active Directory is an add-on for System Center 2012 Orchestrator that enables you to...

From all of us at Microsoft Management Summit 2012 , we would like to wish you and yours Happy Holidays! It’s a special time of year for all of us as we spend time with our families, reflect on the past year, and look forward to what 2012 has in...

Hi Everyone, We have previously looked at how we enable application self-service , a standardized approach to deploying applications , and how we monitor applications across private and public clouds . And today we are going to explore the various...

It’s become pretty evident to most of us in the enterprise management space that the theme of late has been “consolidation.” Over the years, we have given IT Pros a LOT of different tools to attack specific problems. In our zeal to solve...

In this episode of TechNet Radio, Distinguished Engineer and Lead Architect for Windows Server, Jeffrey Snover, discusses storage management in Windows Server 8 with Senior IT Pro Evangelist, Chris Henley. Jeffrey explains that customer success is predicated...

The idea for this blog started one rainy Saturday afternoon when my 5-year-old daughter hopped on the computer and pulled up her favorite online game. It was amazing how quickly she’s learned to use a computer. And, for the most part, she learned...

A few weeks ago we provided an overview of some of the new features and advancements we have made with Windows Server 8 Hyper-V. Today, I would like to turn the topic focus to High Availability (HA). As customers host more and more critical workloads...

Hi everyone, System Center 2012 delivers the capability to manage your applications across both on-premises Private Clouds and also in the public cloud with Windows Azure. This capability allows you to choose which location is best suited to your needs...