Join me as I welcome Sr. Service Engineering Manager, George Holman to the show as he shares with us how his team used Windows Server 2012 to help scale and improve the performance of Microsoft.com . Tune in as he describes the noticeable difference between...

Its IT Time and in today’s episode Blain Barton walks us through the necessary steps and considerations you should think about when upgrading from Windows Server 2008 to Windows Server 2012 . Tune in as he lays out the necessary hardware and disk...

Multi-city east coast Azure series registration is now available! In this series we are focusing on Windows Azure, join us for a day of learning the new Microsoft Cloud. This is your opportunity to dive into different scenarios for ‘on-demand’...

We have reached the end of our 3-part series, in today's session we de-provisioned the virtual machines and then performed a brief walk through of the cost analysis. You can review the slides here:

Join us for this three-part Webcast series designed to help you understand the true ROI for ‘on-demand’ infrastructure scenarios and walk away with real-world proof of concepts that you can implement in your production environment. Registration...

As promised, here is the recording to part 1 of our Live Webinar series: Building Virtual Machines in the Microsoft Cloud: Deployment to Cost Analysis. This series wraps up this Friday, so remember if you joined us to kick off your lab environment you...

In today's TechNet Radio show, I had the distinct pleasure of welcoming Principal Program Manager, Mark Lawrence to discuss how Microsoft IT used Windows Server 2012 Dynamic Access Control to help secure and improve access management to key infrastructure...

Windows Azure Infrastructure Services (IaaS) for IT Professionals Join us for Four Series of interactive weekly Webcasts designed to help you understand the true ROI for ‘on-demand’ infrastructure scenarios and walk away with real-world proof...

Are you virtualizing your servers? Yes, of course! Are you spending less time managing your servers as a result? Hmm … No! Server Virtualization is Great, But … Server virtualization has been a great set of technologies to reduce our...

Today’s blog post in our “Build Your Private Cloud in a Month” series is the fourth of a 5-part mini-series we’re calling “Deploying Private Cloud Workloads”. This week we ( Kevin Remde , Blain Barton and I) are going...

Hey folks, just wanted to let you know of some upcoming pro camp events for the GA, SC, NC, and AL states. Columbus, GA we will be hosting an afternoon session on May 2nd so for those of you in the area please register here to attend! Macon, GA...

Learn about Windows Server 2012, Hyper-V, Windows Azure, and more in this IT Pro Camp hosted at Mercer University in Macon, GA. You can register here: http://mercer-microsoft-camp.eventbrite.com/

Windows #Azure Infrastructure as a Service has reached General Availability! Now is the time to begin thinking through how the Microsoft cloud can help you further your business as well as strengthen your professional skills. The full announcement can...

Our series is in full swing and now its time to walk through the installation of System Center 2012 VMM to begin managing our VMware, Hyper-V, and Xen hosts, virtual machines, and templates. Assuming you have Server 2012 installed already, plenty of disk...

In this “Cloud Challenge”, IT Pros will spend a few minutes of their time to complete a couple easy tasks that gets them started with Windows Azure: Activate a FREE 90-Day Windows Azure Trial Subscription Build A Virtual Network on...

Keith Mayer and Yung Chou kicked off our "Build a Private Cloud" series on Monday with this new TechNet Radio episode where they talk through many of the topics involved in Private Clouds and Virtualization environments. Check out the episode here: ...

Here are all the parts of the series for Windows Server 2012 virtualization. The Hyper-V Primer – 20+ Days of Server Virtualization You Want to Hot-Add What?! – 20+ Days of Server Virtualization Virtual Memory Management: Dynamic...

As our virtualization environments continue to grow with VMware, Hyper-V, and Xen Servers we need to take a new look at the management capabilities we require to properly do the job of VM administration. In order to achieve a single pane of glass across...

Chris Avis released the latest post in our series and this time he takes on performance monitoring in Hyper-V environments. Great step by step instructions for inspecting your environment with tools already in the toolbox: http://blogs.technet.com...

Keith Mayer tackles the challenge of locating VHDs, especially good for those who inherit virtual environments from previous admins, or just for a quick scan to see what all is out on the storage. This post is complete with PowerShell cmdlets and scripts...

I've been out on the road delivering events and writing my first Windows 8 app, so today I am catching up on the blog series underway with our team. Here are the articles from last week concerning high availability: Brian Lewis started off last week...

To build upon my recent post for virtualization networking, Harold Wong, explains the details behind NIC Teaming, as well as some PowerShell cmdlets on the subject. Take a look here: http://blogs.technet.com/b/haroldwong/archive/2013/03/15/server-virtualization...

Virtualization Experts Series continues with Live Storage Migration explained by Brian Lewis. This step by step article shows the how, why, and what of moving virtual machine disks from one physical location to another, and the Powershell command is thrown...

Our blog series on virtualization has gotten off to a good start. For today’s article we discuss network virtualization in Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V. For the basics, virtual machines need to be presented with a network port in order to gain access...

Here's a little snippet from the great article Keith Mayer just published in the series: "In this article, we’ll walk through the process of connecting Windows Server 2012 and Hyper-V Server 2012 to common iSCSI storage arrays. Because most of...