Antoine Leblond, CVP, Windows Web ServicesThis keynote focused solely on Windows 8 and the new UI, Metro. I'm starting to warm up to Metro, but I'm still skeptical at its acceptance in the enterprise on non-touch devices. If you want to watch the presention for yourself, you can watch the...
Yes, I'm now on twitter and tweeing a lot during TechEd 2012. You can check out my profile and tweets here.
This session was a very high level overview of the new Server 2012 feature, Dynamic access controls. Dynamic access controls significantly extends the file classification framework that exists in Server 2008 R2. This is a way cool feature, and already has nearly a dozen partner solutions lined up to even further...
Marcus Murray, Truesec, Microsoft MVPMarcus is a great speaker, and has been speaking at TechEd for a number of years. His sessions are always very popular and informative. He has a different style..no power point slides and nearly all live demos. This session explained what an APT (advanced persistent threat)...
Michael Leworthy, Senior Product Manager (Microsoft)Top Benefits of Windows Server 2012 Comphrehensive Cloud Platform - Complete virtualization platform, industry leading scalability, business continunity in a box. Cost savings and increased efficiencies - Reduced storage costs with storage spaces with other storage enhancements. Increased server/administrator ratio through Windows PowerShell and multi-machine...
Today is the first full day of TechEd 2012 in Orlando, and as usual it started off with a keynote session. Nothing earth shattering was announced. It was presented by Sayta Nadella, VP Server and tools business, Microsoft. Cloud OS - the new era 20 years of TechED - 1993...
This is the third and final article covering the content presented in the TechEd 2012 Configuration Manager 2012 pre-conference session, PRC04. Check out part one here and part two here. Software Updates Do not use WSUS for software updates. Poor reporting and you don't know the real status of the machines....
This is the second article covering the content presented in the TechEd 2012 Configuration Manager 2012 pre-conference session, PRC04. You can check out part one here and part three here. Migrating from ConfigMgr 2007 Do not do a 'big bang' migration and there's no reason to do so. Both environments (2007 and...
Today is the first day of Microsoft TechEd 2012, the annual mega Microsoft conference that I've attended for nearly 10 years. I attended a pre-conference session for Configuration Manager 2012. It was a good session with lots of great details. Because of the length of the session (about 6 hours)...
This series includes:VMware View 5.1 Installation Part 1 - View Connection ServerThis is the second installment in the VMware View 5.1 installation and configuration series. The first part covered the installation of View connection server and its SSL certificate. This post covers the optional component, View Composer 3.0. Composer is...
For those of you wishing to take the VMware Certified Advanced Professional  - Datacenter Design (VCAP5-DCD) for vSphere 5.0, the wait is now over! Registration is live for the VCAP5-DCD exam. This is a tough exam....not your granny's VCP5 exam! You must currently hold a VCP5 certification, or be a...
Along with the release of the server components of VMware View 5.1, VMware also updated all of their clients. You can download the clients here. Clients include: Mac, iPad, Ubuntu Linux, Windows (32-bit and 64-bit), and Android. On a security related note, the View 4.6.0.4914 client has a security vulnerability,...