• CentOS Linux Guests Now Supported Within Hyper-V

    The CentOS Linux distribution is now supported as a guest within Hyper-V. Please see Sandy Gupta’s blog post: http://blogs.technet.com/b/openness/archive/2011/05/15/expanding-interoperability-to-community-linux.aspx ==================================...
  • Hyper-V Fast Track with Cisco And NetApp

    At TechEd we announced a new addition to the Hyper-V Cloud Fast Track Program offered from Cisco and NetApp. Hyper-V Cloud Fast Track partner offerings provide flexibility and choice while reducing risk and increasing the speed of deployment. You can...
  • How To Configure SCOM To Monitor for Changes To The Domain Admins Group

    One of the demos that I do in my lab uses an Opalis workflow that is triggered by a SCOM rule watching the security event log on my domain controller for any changes to the domain admins group.  Once the alert gets triggered in SCOM, Opalis picks...
  • Using Opalis & SCOM To Protect Your Domain Admin Security Group

    In a previous post , I described how you can use SCOM to create a custom alert that watches the security group on your DC’s for changes to the “Domain Admins” security group. I mentioned in that post that I was using this as a backdrop for an Opalis demo...
  • Accelerate adoption of Microsoft private and public cloud platforms with MAP 6.0 Beta

    The Solution Accelerators team is pleased to announce the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 6.0 Beta. Join the MAP 6.0 Beta Members, bookmark this link to get the latest project details Planning your journey to the cloud just got a bit easier...