For all of you HP Bladesystem customers, here's a heads up that HP released v3.60 of their Virtual Connect firmware package. You can download the full Release Notes here. Take note that this release fixes a couple of security issues, so even if the bug fixes don't apply to you,...
VMware released a security advisory on June 14, 2012 and patch for a variety of virtualization products. Details of the affected products and the vulnerabilities are below. You can download the ESX(i) patches from here. VMware Product Running Replace with/ Product Version on Apply Patch ============= ======= ======= ================= vCenter any Windows...
This is one of those sessions that you sit back and just don't know what to say at the end, it's so good and so profound. The message is if your company hasn't yet gotten compromised, it will. Once a workstation is compromised, it takes on average only 24-48 hours...
This was a REALLY great session on the significant advances Microsoft has made in Windows 8 to increase its security posture. They claim whole classes of attacks have been mitigated by a combination of Windows 8 and hardware features such as UEFI and TPM. There are other security features that...
Brent Ozar, Microsoft Certified Solutions Master (MSCM), www.brentozar.comThis was a REALLY great session that was both practical and filled with great technical details and good take away information. #1 takeway is "TempDB is like a public toilet: You never know what's in there." LOL Clearly Brent Ozar knows his stuff,...
This was a great session on the new enhancements in App-V 5.0. The App-V 5.0 beta is now out, so you can give in a spin around the virtual block. Immediately you will see that both the admin console (which is now a web page) and the client feature the...
Denny Cherry, Independent Consultant (www.mrdenny.com @mrdenny)vExpert 2012, Microsoft Certified Master, MVPThis session covered some helpful tips for virtualizing SQL server, be it on Hyper-V or VMware. Yes you can virtualize SQL and still get excellent performance. But there are some special considerations that you need to be aware of. Most of the...
For those of you that didn't attend TechEd 2012, some of the content is available on Microsoft Channel 9. You can check it out here. Some killer content this year, so be sure to check out the sessions of interest to you and tune in!
This was a good session about Configuration Manager 2012, and the new (more modern) way to deploy applications to the enterprise. Gone is the 'package' model (well not gone, you can still use it) but in is the the new Application model. It's built for the 21st century and how...
This was a great session on the all new IPAM (IP address Management) feature that comes free with Windows Server 2012. Gone are the days of managing your IP address space with Excel spreadsheets. Say hello to automatic DNS, DHCP, AD server discovery so you can centrally track and manage...
Anthony Smith, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Microsoft Briton Zurcher, Senior Program Manager Lead, Microsoft Microsoft has had roaming profiles for over a decade, but in today's world they are no longer adequate and come with a lot of headaches. Microsoft UE-VÂ (User Environment Virtualization) transforms the roaming profile into a sleak...
Yigel Edery, Principal Program Manager, MicrosoftJoshua Adams, Senior Program Manager, MicrosoftThis was a high level overview of various Hyper-V enhancements that make Windows Server 2012, cloud ready, according to Microsoft. It walked the audience through some architectural considerations when deciding on what technologies you should look at. Windows Server 2012...