Cloud Platform System: Cloud-in-a-box delivering the best...
Microsoft’s Cloud Platform System (CPS) embodies the core tenets of our modern cloud infrastructure offerings of high scalability, enterprise-grade and hybrid. Leveraging Microsoft’s vast experience in...
View ArticleAnnouncing the MultiPoint Services Role in Window Server vNext Technical Preview
Hello! I am Tanmay Bhagwat, a Program Manager on the Remote Desktop team working on Windows MultiPoint Server, Remote Desktop Session Host, Desktop Experience, and Azure RemoteApp. With the release of...
View ArticleWorld-class partners. Local experts. Customized cloud.
Microsoft has extended its Cloud OS Network to 100+ service providers delivering cloud services from over 600 local datacenters combined with Azure enabled scenarios. If you’re like most organizations...
View ArticleAzure Batch Preview
I am excited to announce the preview of Azure Batch, a new Azure platform service that provides job scheduling and large-scale resource management for developing and delivering Big Compute applications...
View ArticleUsing Azure PowerShell to Manage Azure Batch Account
Azure Batch is a new Azure platform service that provides job scheduling and large-scale resource management for developing and delivering Big Compute applications native in the cloud. For more Azure...
View ArticleEMM Game-Changing Announcement #1
If Enterprise Mobility is important to your organization, this post includes some calendar-worthy dates. Over the last couple weeks I’ve been hinting at some big announcements – a number of big...
View ArticleEMM Game-Changing Announcement #2
As you likely noticed, over the last couple weeks I’ve been hinting at some big“events” and earlier today I discussed the first one: Confirmation of the General Availability (GA) dates for the upcoming...
View ArticleManage the PowerShell DSC Extension in the Azure Preview Portal
If you haven’t yet started using the Azure Preview Portal and are a fan of PowerShell DSC and the Azure PowerShell DSC Extension (announced in August here), now just might be the time to start. We are...
View ArticlePowershell DSC ResKit Wave 8: Now with 100+ Resources!
The DSC Resource Kit Wave 8 has landed! You can find it right here.This wave contains an astounding 48 resources, our largest release ever! We just went from 90 resources released via the Resource Kit...
View ArticleWindows Server Storage Sessions from TechEd Europe 2014
This blog post includes a list of the Storage-related sessions from TechEd Europe 2014 in Barcelona, Spain.You can use it during the conference to help plan the sessions to attend and after the...
View ArticleAutomatic RMS Protection of non-MS Office files using FCI and the Rights...
File Classification Infrastructure (FCI) is a built-in feature on Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012, and Windows Server 2012 R2 that helps IT admins to manage their organization's data on...
View ArticleMicrosoft Contributes Next Generation Server Design to Open Compute Project
Today I will be giving a keynote address at the Open Compute Project (OCP) European Summit, where I’ll announce the contribution of the 2nd-generation Open CloudServer (OCS v2) specification. In...
View ArticleOpen Server Summit includes keynotes from AMD, Dell, Diablo, HP, Huawei,...
The server market is busier than ever. You’re probably following how virtualization evolved into clouds and how everything is now software-defined. Behind the buzzwords, there is amazing new...
View ArticleThe Securest of the Containers
In this episode, we look at a topic that has, in the past, been pretty tough for IT and ISV's to solve: Securing corporate data throughout the workflow process. The solution is a secure container, but...
View ArticleSuccess with Enterprise Mobility: Containing Corporate Data
There was an interesting survey recently published by Ovum that looked at enterprise end users and their concerns about bringing their own devices into work (BYO). The research revealed that the number...
View ArticleConvertFrom-String: Example-based text parsing
IntroI’m sure most of you are familiar with the powerful tools for text parsing available in PowerShell. A presentation at the PowerShell Summit a couple of weeks ago provides a good overview of these...
View ArticleNovember 5th 2014 webcast for delivering applications from the cloud to your...
Please join us on November 5th, 2014 for an overview webcast all about Azure RemoteApp. In this webcast, we will discuss delivering applications from the cloud with Azure RemoteApp. This scalable,...
View ArticleTesting Windows Server and the Scale-Out File Server – What should your lab...
With the release of Windows Server Technical Preview, a common question comes to the surface again. What kind of lab hardware do I need to play with it?Ideally, you would get one of those new Cloud...
View ArticleSuccess with Enterprise Mobility: Secure Browser
A few weeks ago I wrote about the importance (and, for many vendors, the difficulty) of protecting at the app layer (via MAM in Intune). The first app that every organization wants to protect is e-mail...
View ArticleWindows 10 Technical Preview: Hot Add / Remove of Network Adapter
There are a number of new features and functionality for Hyper-V in the Windows 10 Technical Preview.One of these features is that you can now add and remove network adapters from running virtual...
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