Podcast Thursday: How Machine Learning Makes You More Secure
In this episode of the ITC Podcast, I look at the topic of cloud-based Machine Learning and the big things it can do to set your mobile strategy apart right now. I’m joined again by Alex Simons, and...
View Article“The RPC server is unavailable” with Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter
When I first tried to perform a physical to virtual migration with the Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter 3.0– I immediately hit this error message:After a bit of poking around, I was able to figure...
View ArticleFlashback Friday–Play your strongest hand…
Last weekend I was looking for a deck of cards, and I discovered this deck in one of my desk drawers:Virtual Server 2005 R2 and Windows Server 2003 R2 – Play your strongest hand. How things have...
View ArticleWe Really, REALLY Want You to Use the Services You Purchase
What’s better than purchasing the Enterprise Mobility Suite (EMS)? Purchasing EMS and getting professional services included from a partner of your choice to help you start using the service as quickly...
View ArticleAoE: Castle Siege - Connection Error
[Warning! This blog post is nothing to do with Hyper-V or virtualization. It is Friday night and I am playing computer games!]It has been a long busy week of working on Hyper-V – and now it is time...
View ArticleSmbStorageTier.ps1: A simple way to pin files to tiers in Scale-Out File Servers
Storage Spaces Tiering Storage Spaces has an interesting new feature introduced in Windows Server 2012 R2: you can create a single space using different types of disk (typically HDDs and SSDs) and it...
View ArticleHeads Up: Hey, Scripting Guy! Blog Series
Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. This week, the week of Oct. 19, I begin a special series of Hey Scripting Guy blog posts where we will be talking about why upgrade to Windows PowerShell 4.0....
View ArticleUnveiling The Microsoft Cloud Platform System, powered by Dell
Yes!!! At last we can talk about what we have been working on for close to 18 months - “San Diego” - that was the code name for what is now “Microsoft Cloud Platform System” (CPS), which was announced...
View ArticleBig News Day for Microsoft Cloud
This morning Satya and Scott presented on Microsoft’s strategy for cloud. If you missed it you can watch the recording here:http://news.microsoft.com/2014/10/20/cloud-event-webcast/You can also read...
View ArticleCloud Platform System: Azure Innovation Now in Your Data Center
Yesterday was an exciting day with the announcement of the Microsoft Cloud Platform System (CPS). It’s fantastic to finally take the wraps off of the result of a close engineering partnership between...
View ArticleTest Drive the new Microsoft Remote Desktop Beta app for Android
Hello, my name is Ayesha Mascarenhas, and I work on the Remote Desktop team. Today, I would like to tell you about the new Microsoft Remote Desktop Beta app we released on Google Play. Those of you...
View ArticlePowerShell DSC Does Exchange!
One of the more complex products to deploy and configure has just been made easier with the release of the xExchange PowerShell DSC Resource Module. Mike Hendrickson, the creator of these resources,...
View ArticleGetting Ready for TechED Europe 2014
Next week I will be in Barcelona, talking about all the cool stuff we are doing with virtualization in the next release of Windows Server. Here are my session details:Title: CDP-B225 Software Defined...
View ArticleWindows Server Technical Preview – Storage Survival Guide (links to articles,...
This blog post offers a collection of links to the publicly available content for those experimenting with the Windows Server Technical Preview, with focus in Storage. Blog posts about the Windows...
View ArticleCome see Windows Server Technical Preview sessions at TechEd Europe next week!
Hi folks, Ned here again. I will be presenting at TechEd Europe in Barcelona Oct 28-31, with my focus on Storage Replica. There are plenty of great presentations on our latest Windows Server 2012 R2...
View ArticleStorage Spaces Survival Guide (Links to presentations, articles, blogs, tools)
In this post, I'm sharing my favorite links related to Storage Spaces in Windows Server 2012 R2. This includes TechEd Presentations, TechNet articles, Blogs and tools related to Storage Spaces in...
View ArticleBest Practices for Windows Server 2003 End-of-Support Migration Part 5
Assessment – Application Considerations We’ve reached our fifth blog post! We are still talking about assessment, but this week, we’re going to focus on Assessment as it relates to reviewing your...
View ArticleBig Announcements on the Way!
Quick update to the Enterprise Mobility community: Over the next couple weeks I’m going to be blogging about some major announcements that will be game-changing in the Enterprise Mobility Management...
View ArticleUnderstanding ATQ performance counters, yet another twist in the world of TLAs
Hello again, this is guest author Herbert from Germany. If you worked an Active Directory performance issue, you might have noticed a number of AD Performance counters for NTDS and “Directory Services”...
View ArticleStorage Quality of Service Guide Released for Windows Server Technical Preview
As part of the Windows Server Technical Preview released a few weeks ago, we announced the evolution of the Storage Quality of Service (Storage QoS) feature. Now, in addition to that TechNet page with...
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