Earlier this year the Heartbleed OpenSSL vulnerability came to light, and many products from many different vendors were affected. Heartbleed is a very serious vulnerability, and you should conduct a thorough audit to validate all of your software and hardware components are not affected. My bet is that many of...
A couple of months ago when upgrading one of my Nutanix clusters to vSphere 5.5 U1 I started to see what appeared to be random loss of connection to my NFS datastores. All VMs on the datastores would become inaccessible, then a few minutes later, access would be restored. As...
Session: DCIM-B395 Building a Web-Scale Private cloud (without losing your cool) by Steve Poitras, Nutanix (@StevenPoitras). This was a good session showing how the combination of the Windows Azure pack, Hyper-V, and Nutanix enable large scale-out private clouds. You can check out the full video and slide deck of the session here on...
Session DCIM-B368: Malware hunting with Sysinternals Tools. This was a great session by Mark Russinovich on how to use his Sysinternals tools to find and rid your system of malware. He had a number of demos showing exactly how his tools find, and then can be used to remove the...
Session DCIM-B386: Mark Russinovich and Mark Minasi on Cloud Computing. Mark and Mark are probably easily the top two speakers each year at TechEd. Between their delivery style and technical content, you can't beat them. This session had zero slides, and was more of a Q&A format. Minasi asked Russinovich...
Session: DCIM-B349. Software defined storage with Windows Server 2012 R2 and System Center 2012 R2. This was a jam packed session with tons of content on each slide. Great in-depth talk about what's new in the 2012 R2 wave which came out last year. I only captured 25% of the...
Session: DCIM-B344, Network Turning for Specific Workloads. This was a great session, with a ton of Q&A during and after the main presentation was over. I'd highly encourage you to watch the full video on Channel 9 when it is uploaded to get all of the goodies. The session notes...
Session: WIN-B323 Deploying Windows 8.1 in the Enterprise This was a high level session by two Dell employees covering some tips about deploying Windows 8.1 in the enterprise. OSD Planning and Reference Build Application compatibility: Antivirus, third party encryption, Office (32-bit or 64-bit), IE enterprise mode Enterprise Mode in IE...
Breakout Session DCIM-B412: Effortless Migration from VMware to Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V If there was any session at TechEd that could initiate the self-destruction sequence for my VCDX certification, I think this session would be at the top of the list. That being said, it was a good session...
Breakout session: DCIM-B378 This was a great session which covered a multitude of NIC features (VMQ, RSS, SR-IOV, etc.), when to use them (or not), which features are compatible with each other, and other Hyper-V networking topics. Historical topology for Hyper-V was discreet NICs for different traffic types (management, storage,...
Session: DCIM-B317 The Cloud OS is transforming IT to address new questions: Mobility, apps, big data, cloud. Provide a cloud platform regardless of the datacenter that it is deployed on (Azure, partner, on-prem). Cloud OS enables nodern business apps, empower people centric IT, unlock insights on any data, and transform...
Microsoft TechEd 2014 is in full swing and this is the first general session that I'm attending. It will cover what's new in Exchange, both in Office 365 and on-prem. As usual during conference this is live blogging, directly from content presented in the session. So editing is minimal, and...