This session was a firehose of information on the design considerations when building your private cloud based on Server 2012 R2. There are ton of new features in WS2012 and R2, so this was a high level roadmap on how to figure out what you want to implement. Bottom line...
This session was mostly a demo of VMM 2012, where the speaker also covered some enhancements in the upcoming R2 release. Many of the Hyper-V 2012 R2 features have already been covered in other sessions, so there wasn't a lot of new content. But he did a good walk through...
This session focused on how to manage a virtualized SQL workload with system center. By using VMM, Operations Manager, and other SC components, you can automate, monitor, and easily deploy new SQL instances in a cookie cutter manner. This session applies to you whether you use VMware or Hyper-V hypervisors....
This session was the first of day 2 at TechEd and presented by CJ Williams and Gabriel Silvia. He started off with a quick recap of Windows Server 2012 networking, with the remainder of the session on Windows Server 2012 R2 networking enhancements. Given all the major enhancements in 2012, the...
This is the first session of the week focused entirely on the new features in Hyper-V 2012 R2, due out later this year. Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012 saw monumental changes from prior versions, which were needed to keep up with the competition. Hyper-V in WS 2012 R2 builds on...
For the second session of the day is MDC-B206, what's new in System Center 2012 R2. Right on the heels of System Center 2012 SP1, which was a major update, R2 is right around the corner coming out later this year. This was an overview session, just touching on many...
This session was presented by Jeff Woosley, and covered the new features coming up in Windows Server 2012 R2. Windows Server 2012 was the biggest OSÂ release since Windows 2000, and R2 promises a boatload of new features. Intro Microsoft Cloud OS Vision Private Cloud - Windows Server + System Center...
Today is officially the first day of Microsoft TechEd 2013, and to kick off the day is the keynote session. Brand Anderson, from Microsoft started us off. Themes: Users and devices want great apps Major updates to nearly all Microsoft datacenter products What's new in Windows Ian McDonald, from Windows...
Welcome to Microsoft TechEd 2013 live blogging! I started off the conference by attending the all-day Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2012 SP1 session. Since this was a pre-con, it ran all day so a TON of content was presented. You can find tweets about this session at #TEPRC05. The...
It's that time of year again when VMware vExpert 2013 awards are handed out. Last year I was very surprised and honored that my blogging efforts got such recognition and that I made the 2012 list. Since then I've tried to do even more community work, and spent countless hours doing the vSphere 5.1 install...
Tonight VMware released vCenter 5.1.0 U1a, which is a bugfix re-release of U1. A day or two after vSphere 5.1 U1 was out there was a warning regarding multi-domain authentication when a user was in a lot of groups. You can check out important information about the 5.1 U1a release here....
For a recent project I've been configuring a Citrix NetScaler (which are wickedly cool) for load balancing of a web service over SSL. The web service is hosted on a Windows server using IIS, so I wanted to re-use the SSL certificate on the NetScaler. The steps to import IIS SSL certificate...