The Ops Team is a new weekly show where 4 Technical Evangelists specializing in IT Operations get together to give you the deets on their 4 areas of expertise: Microsoft Azure/Cloud, On-premises datacenter technologies, Enterprise Mobility / Windows and DevOps. This week on The Ops Team, Rick, Matt and Simon make it into the studio, whilst ‘the new guy’,…
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Microsoft Mechanics: Hybrid Infrastructure Automation with Azure Resource Manager Templates
Here’s a new video series I am participating in with the larger Microsoft engine: Microsoft Mechanics… I was on deck to work with Corey Sanders on explaining Azure Resource Manager and ARM templates. Turned out great – have a look and SUBSCRIBE to the YouTube channel to keep up to date as new episodes kick…
Can’t make it to Microsoft Ignite? Here’s the details on the LiveStream
On a recent countdown show, we talked about the general format of the Live Stream. I thought it deserved a little more detail and highlights on the schedule. Since I’m not presenting at Microsoft Ignite this year – my way of contributing during the event centers around this livestream. I’ve been working overtime with my team…
New Azure Planned Maintenance logs and Premium Storage details
A while back I chatted with Drew McDaniel about G-Series machines on Azure and he teased about Premium Storage (SSD based) availability in Azure. Well – that was enough to pique my interest, so I invited him back to talk about it in more detail. He talks about Premium Storage and some more details on…
High Level Docker Overview – for IT Pros
A while back I shot a quick video with Madhan Arumugam and Ross Gardler talking about what this containerization technology is all about. Looking for information to understand the concepts and options yourself? Have a look at this High Level explanation / whiteboarding of container technologies and their advantages over individual processes and traditional IaaS…
Azure IaaS Week for IT Pros: Day 4 Speaker Lineup
I talked about this event I’ve been wrangling speakers for a while back, so I thought I’d put together a quick little post brokenhh down by DAY with all the details about speakers and their sessions in one spot. I’ve been capturing these quick intros for each speaker with details about their session and also…
Azure IaaS Week for IT Pros: Day 3 Speaker Lineup
I talked about this event I’ve been wrangling speakers for a while back, so I thought I’d put together a quick little post broken down by DAY with all the details about speakers and their sessions in one spot. I’ve been capturing these quick intros for each speaker with details about their session and also…
Azure IaaS Week for IT Pros: Day 2 Speaker Lineup
I talked about this event I’ve been wrangling speakers for a while back, so I thought I’d put together a quick little post broken down by DAY with all the details about speakers and their sessions in one spot. I’ve been capturing these quick intros for each speaker with details about their session and also…
Azure IaaS Week for IT Pros: Day 1 Speaker Lineup
I talked about this event I’ve been wrangling speakers for a while back, so I thought I’d put together a quick little post broken down by DAY with all the details about speakers and their sessions in one spot. I’ve been capturing these quick intros for each speaker with details about their session and also…
Hyper-v Extensible Switch in Windows Server 2012 R2
http://video.ch9.ms/ch9/6a41/9456d129-867c-4e06-830b-51c0d41f6a41/BobCombsHyperVSwitchWS2012R2_mid.mp4 A while back, when Windows Server 2012 was codenamed “Windows Server 8”, I sat down and talked with Bob Combs, a Sr. Program Manager on the Windows Core Networking Team about the newly released “Hyper-V Extensible Switch”. Well, now that Windows Server 2012 R2 has been released and planning has already begun for whatever…