Session: BRK3130 Note: This was a great beginner level session for those not familiar with encryption, certificates or PKI. If you are in that boat, I would urge you to find the session video and watch the whole presentation. If you are a security professional and already know about these...
Session: BRK2324 Shared secrets are easily breached Passwords are easily replayed and phished See previous "Microsoft Passport" session I blogged about for more info Security without convenience is dead in the water Keys are ideally generated in hardware TPM, software as last resort Single unlock gesture provides access to multiple...
Session: BRK3557: Baselining and Benchmarking AlwaysOn Availability Groups In this session the speaker went through what SQL AlwaysOn availability groups is, and why the customer wanted to use it. Then he went through how he setup his testing, RAID levels, and listed the SQL perform stats that he monitored during...
Session: BRK3455 Note: This session had very densely packed slides and lots of demos. So I've changed things up and just included screenshots for this write up. If you want to run Nano I encourage you to check out the video recording to see all of the demos. Voice of...
Session: BRK3487 Note: This session was jam packed with slides, text, and diagrams. The speaker was also flying through the material, so it was impossible to attempt to keep up. The session was very good, and quite technical. So if you deal with clustering in your daily job, check out...
Session: BRK2473 Note: This session was 50% about what's new in VMM 2012 R2, with 15-20 minutes on what's new in VMM 2016. My take away is that MS is trying to listen to customers and make the product easier to use. But don't expect any radical changes in VMM...
Session: BRK3461 Note: The focus of this session is on what's new in Hyper-V technical preview 2. It will NOT cover all the new features, or features in future server builds. The presenter all flipped through the slides very fast, so I didn't get all of the details. I recommend...
Session: Brk2493 Datacenter inflection points: Physical machines, machine virtualization; Infrastructure hosting - early cloud; services IaaS, PaaS, SaaS; Containers - DevOps Container Ecosystem: Container run-time; Container image; Image Repository Image Creation: When a container is created it is a sanboxed area in the host operating system. An app thinks it...
Session: BRK2461 Note: This was a great session with the right balance of technical content. Demo gods were not with the speakers, so a couple of demos failed. Definitely worth viewing the video of though! Voice of the customer: Reboots impact my business, server images are too big, infrastructure requires...
Session: BRK2333 This session focused on the new Microsoft Passport that is shipping with Windows 10 and Server 2016. This is different from the legacy "Passport" service that Microsoft used for past online services. These features are NOT available in down-level versions of Windows, such as Windows 8 or 7....
Session: BRK2459 Note: This session just gave a quick overview of each System Center component. They flashed a slide up with lots of bullet points and did several demos. There are deep dive sessions for most components throughout the week. So if you are interested, check those sessions out for...
Session: BRK2482 Technology landscape: Virtualization: VMs decoupled from hardware. Can't use TPM, UEFI, secure boot, etc. VM mobility, complex lifecycle, strong isolation. Cloud Computing: Treat your systems like cattle, not pets. Management process at scale. Distributed cloud. Service Providers: trust boundary between tenant and service provider. Governance, risk, compliance. Cloud...