What's New in Private Cloud with System Center 2012 R2 VMM
Didn’t make it to TechEd this year? Don’t worry! This month, we’ll be releasing a new article series that highlights the Best of...
View ArticleBest of TechEd 2013: Windows Azure - New Choices and Flexibility for Stopped VMs
Didn’t make it to TechEd this year? Don’t worry! This month, we’ll be releasing a new article series that highlights the Best of...
View ArticleMigrating VMs from VMWare to Windows Azure and Hyper-V
Today, Yung Chou and I are back in our Build Your Private Cloud in a Month series to discuss virtual machine migration steps –...
View ArticleWhy R2? Software Defined Networking with Hyper-V Network Virtualization
Recently, my team of fellow IT Pro Technical Evangelists are published a series of articles on Why Windows Server 2012 R2? that highlights the key...
View ArticleStep-by-Step: File Server Disaster Recovery in the Clouds with Windows Azure...
File servers are a key foundational workload in most organizations. In addition to providing shared folders for document collaboration, storage and...
View ArticleStep-by-Step: Live Migrate Multiple (Clustered) VMs in One Line of PowerShell...
A while back, I wrote an article showing how to Live Migrate Your VMs in One Line of Powershell between non-clustered Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V hosts using...
View ArticleTechNet Radio: (Part 4) Building Your Hybrid Cloud
Continuing the "Building a Hybrid Cloud" series, Keith Mayer and Jennelle Crothers walk us through managing cloud foundations with Windows Server 2012 R2....
View ArticleStep-by-Step: Getting Started with On-demand Private Clouds using Windows...
As I’ve been traveling and speaking to IT Pros about the great scalability, resiliency and offerings in our Microsoft Azure public cloud platform, there’s...
View ArticleAccelerating DevOps with the Cloud Using Microsoft Azure
Have you heard about DevOps? Enterprise IT organizations are increasingly driven by business demands for faster, better solutions delivered more quickly...
View ArticleStep-by-Step: Quickly Build IaaS Server Farms in the Cloud
Last week, I wrote an article about using the new Azure Preview Portal and new IaaS Resource Group Gallery templates to provision an entire cloud-based...
View ArticleAuto-provisioning Azure Virtual Networks with PowerShell and XML
A few weeks ago, I wrote about Auto-Provisioning a New Active Directory Domain Controller in the Azure Cloud using the new VM Agent custom script extension via...
View Article12 Steps to Build Highly Available Linux Servers in the Cloud on Microsoft Azure
Linux is certainly a first-class workload on the Microsoft Azure cloud platform, and it's super-easy to get started with Linux + Azure to build a highly...
View ArticleMigrating Ubuntu Linux Virtual Machines to Microsoft Azure from Amazon AWS
A short time ago, I assisted an organization with defining a process for migrating web applications and data running on Ubuntu Linux virtual machines to...
View ArticleEnd-to-End IaaS Workload Provisioning in the Cloud
In prior articles, we've discussed Azure Automation, Azure VM Agent extensions and PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) as individual tools and...
View ArticleEnd-to-End IaaS Workload Provisioning in the Cloud (Part 2)
This article is Part 2 of a two-part series on automating the end-to-end provisioning process for IaaS workloads running on the Microsoft Azure cloud...
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