Hello folks, this will be the last post of the year and I just want to make sure I share a couple of books that some friends of mine recently released:

	Take advantage of numerous Hyper-V best practices for administrators Get to grips with migrating virtual machines between servers and old Hyper-V versions, automating tasks with PowerShell, providing a High Availability and Disaster Recovery environment, and much more A practical Cookbook bursting with essential recipes
	The essential administrator’s companion for the successor to DirectAccess Get to grips with configuring, enabling and deploying Unified Remote Access A quick start guide to have you up and running with Windows Server 2012 URA in no time

Great job guys, those are indeed a must read for 2013!

I also want to take a minute of your attention to let you know that the book that me, Tom Shinder and Deb Shinder were working on throughout this year is also available for pre-order here.

That’s it folks….I wish you a great 2013.

The news about the retirement of Forefront TMG 2010 was announced last September on this blog post. Since them I didn’t have I chance to write about it as I was engaged on so many other projects, however (and not intentionally) on that same day that this was announced, I was with Jim Harrison and Tom Shinder in Redmond for a happy hour (that turns out to be more like mourning TMG’s death type of moment), below you can see a little snap of this moment:

But honestly I don’t have a lot to say other than it was great working with TMG, it was great to be part of the great Forefront TMG 2010 book that we released via Microsoft Press, it was great to work with so many amazing minds that were part of this team. Although my relationship with the father of all that (Proxy Server) started in 1997, I only got certified in Proxy 2.0 in 2000 (see my Transcript here - transcript ID: 733651 - access code: mytranscript). Since them the relationship just got closer and closer…but, we work on the technology field and we need to move on as the market evolves. So, today (the last Friday of 2012) I want to share with you some tips from our MVP Deb Shinder. Take a look on what she wrote about this transition from TMG to another firewall solution:

• Considerations for Replacing your TMG Firewall (Part 1)
• Considerations for Replacing your TMG Firewall (Part 2)

As we move forward to a new year I want to wish you all a great 2013, full of accomplishment!

Stay safe!

Hello folks, just a quick update to announce Episode 3 and 4 of this Cloud Solutions Series:

Part 3 - Private Cloud Planning

Part 4 - Private Cloud IaaS

Stay tuned that next month we will release the last episode, which is about Private Cloud Identity Management.

Happy Holidays!