“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
Yes indeed! Today Microsoft has made 4 new free virtual labs available. This gives you a great opportunity to try out some of the basic operations of some of the new suite of System Center tools. TechNet Virtual Lab: System Center Operations Manager 2012: Infrastructure and Application Performance Monitoring http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9792430 TechNet Virtual Lab: System Center … Continue reading Four NEW System Center 2012 Virtual Labs are LIVE
It’s the end of the month, and the last of our 30 days of cloudy goodness is here! In today’s blog post, one of the most genuinely certifiable gentlemen I know, Brian Lewis, points you to some resources to help you get on track for cloud readiness. And by you, I mean YOU. You need … Continue reading Cloud on Your Terms Part 30 of 30: Certification Tips To Get Your Career Ready For The Cloud
In today’s next-to-last installment of our cloud series, we have another guest author representing another great Microsoft partner: NetIQ. And in particular, they discuss a product of theirs called Platespin Migrate. Check out the Part 29 blog post HERE. And if you have missed any of the series posts, check out my summary post for … Continue reading Cloud on Your Terms Part 29 of 30: How Do I Get to Hyper-V?
Back in part 23 of our series I wrote about Windows Azure, and some of the tools that IT Pros have at their disposal for the sake of managing and monitoring it. One of those tools of course is PowerShell. And today in part 27, Matt Hester writes about how PowerShell (one of his favorite … Continue reading The Cloud on Your Terms Part 28 of 30: Cloud PowerShell
“Hey Kevin – Is the cloud just for big companies?”Absolutely not. Certainly some implementations (private clouds, for instance) make more sense in organizations that A) are able to take advantage of delivering IT as a Service for their business units, and B) can justify the kind of datacenter resources to support it. But small business … Continue reading Cloud on Your Terms Part 27 of 30: Windows Small Business Server (SBS) 2011 Essentials and the Cloud
Are you concerned that the cloud will eat your job? Perhaps. Every time there is a shift in how things are done based on improvements in technology or new options for efficiency, economics, scale… there is always someone crying foul. Or probably more appropriately, they’re worrying about what it means for their current situation. And … Continue reading Cloud on Your Terms Part 26 of 30: Office 365 will not get you fired
Microsoft has some pretty interesting new direction with regard to what “the cloud” can do. For example – how about an Internet-based service that let’s you monitor, manage, and deploy software to the workstations you’re responsible for? “Yeah.. I’d love to see that.” That’s what we have in the form of Windows Intune. Today in … Continue reading Cloud on Your Terms Part 25 of 30: Windows Intune
Back in part 2 of this 30 part series, John Weston introduced the topic of Hybrid Cloud. That is the combining of Public, Private, and or traditional IT into a system that works for you. Today in Part 24, he continues the discussion with a look at some examples of using public cloud services that … Continue reading Cloud on Your Terms Part 24 of 30: Hybrid for Public Cloud
You might recall that in April 2011 I introduced you (or perhaps re-introduced you) to Windows Azure in part 6 of my “Cloudy April” blog series. Windows Azure, in case you’ve forgotten (or have been living under a rock) is Microsoft’s Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering – allowing you to build applications and run … Continue reading Cloud on Your Terms Part 23 of 30: Windows Azure for the IT Professional
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