Yesterday the big news from Microsoft was the announcement of and new details around the new System Center 2012 product, delivered via live Webcast. I was very happy to be able to watch the webcast with John Weston and 88 of our closest friends in Saint Louis during our TechNet Event.“I wasn’t able to see … Continue reading In case you missed it: The Private Cloud Webcast
Today during the “Private Cloud Day” live webcast event, Microsoft announced a pretty big change in how we think of and purchase the System Center suite. Bottom-line.. it’s no longer a separate set of products, but it is just one product: System Center 2012. (Well.. actually two.. but different only in terms of licensing.) In … Continue reading Breaking News: New System Center 2012 Licensing Model Announced
This question was asked by Aubrey M at our Kansas City TechNet Event last week… “If you have PRO enabled between SCOM 2007 R2 and SCVMM, how will that affect the upgrade process for these two systems?” (For those of you who haven’t heard of PRO, check out this resource.) The short answer is that … Continue reading Impact on PRO when upgrading SCOM and SCVMM to System Center 2012 (So many Questions. So Little Time. Part 4.)
I was asked this question last week at our TechNet Event in Kansas City. “What is Microsoft’s best practice recommendation for web server deployment to support a web site that has variable demands from day-to-day? Network Load-Balancing? Private Cloud? Clustering?.. or something else?” -Don G. That’s a very big question, Don. To answer it … Continue reading Web Server Recommendations (So Many Questions. So Little Time. Part 3.)
This Tuesday, January 17, 2012, Microsoft is holding a special Private Cloud webcast. “Special? What’s so special?” I’ll tell you why. Well, actually I can’t tell you all the details (because I don’t know them), but what I can tell you is that you’ll learn a lot. The webcast features Satya Nadella – President, Server and … Continue reading Private Cloud Day–A Big Deal and a Big Event
Here are another set of really good questions from our TechNet Event on Tuesday in Kansas City. These came all on the same slip of paper, from the same person. --- “How will Windows 8 / Server 8 change Microsoft Virtualization?” In Windows Server “8” there are a great many improvements in Hyper-V; many more … Continue reading What’s new in Windows Server “8” Virtualization? (So many questions. So little time. Part 2.)
It’s another snowy day up here in Minneapolis, but earlier this week I had the pleasure of traveling down to tropical Kansas City. Overland Park, KS, to be more specific. And on that particular day we decided to try something new. We (John Weston and I) asked our attendees to write down questions, topic areas, … Continue reading So Many Questions. So Little Time (part 1)
CHEAP TRAINING! “What? Huh? Cheap? Training?” Yes, I thought that would get your attention. Due to the great response for past deliveries of this sort of all-day live virtual classroom training, Symon Perriman and Phil Helsel will be delivering two more full-day courses on Microsoft Virtualization. Here are the details (UPDATED - Additional event in … Continue reading NEW: Microsoft Server Virtualization “Jump Start” training
Those of you who also get the TechNet Flash e-mails already know this… We’ve announced a 15% discount offer for new TechNet Professional Subscriptions.“From now until February 29th, 2012 Microsoft TechNet Flash subscribers will receive a 15% discount on a new Microsoft® TechNet Subscriptions Professional”The discount code to use to get 15% off is TNFLA12The … Continue reading BREAKING NEWS: TechNet Subscription Discount!
“For ‘Windows’? Which versions?” Pretty much every supported version of Windows is impacted**, so read on. This is important. Yesterday Microsoft released an advisory, and today Microsoft released a security patch outside of its normal release cycle, or “out of band”; meaning: not on the 2nd Tuesday of the month. So you know that this … Continue reading URGENT: Out-of-Band Security Update Released Today for Windows
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