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,...
There are a variety of ways to create a trusted SSL certificate in the Windows world, but this article will focus on an internal network that has a Windows Server 2008 R2 Certificate Authority and member servers. This guide will show you how to create a custom Microsoft CA SSL...
Update: Slightly changed the discussing regarding the required certificate template type. The key to creating a certificate that will work with View is enabling the "allow private key export" option on the certificate. A "computer" or "web server" certificate will work, IF this option is enabled when the certificate is...
Yesterday, May 16, 2012 VMware released View 5.1, which has many nice improvements over View 5.0. You can find a link to all the latest documentation here. If you are licensed for View, you can download the bits here. The most exciting feature to me is CBRC, which can help...
Similar to my post on how to create custom Cisco UCS ESXi 5.0 installation media, I thought I would tackle the same problem for HP ProLiant servers. Yes, HP does provide regularly updated ESXi installation media that bundles in their drivers, but it doesn't always have the latest security patches....