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Azure VM Compute Documentation project

Posted on March 24, 2016 by Rick

I’ve been in my new role now for just under 3 months now and today I can actually SHOW you a little bit about what I have been working on.  I’ve been the point person in Azure Compute Engineering on a large refactoring project of our Azure Compute documentation.  I’ve been collaborating with our awesome Documentation…

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New Year, New Responsibilities

Posted on January 4, 2016 by Rick

I’ve spent the last 11 years or so at Microsoft working in a field called “Evangelism” targeting individuals in the IT ecosystem, Partners and Online Communities.  Basically – I’d talk with anyone who works in IT in the broadest sense and talk about “Microsoft Stuff” as part of a broad platform. It’s been awesome and I am thankful…

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The Ops Team #006 – “The Pelican Brief”

Posted on December 10, 2015 by Rick

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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Using Azure Site Recovery to move Dev-Test workloads up to Azure

Posted on December 8, 2015 by Rick

Sound interesting? Tired of having to maintain a local DevTest lab or cobble one together on crappy hardware leftover in your office in order to support a project? How about thinking outside of the box and migrating that workload up to Microsoft Azure in order to run it on demand up in a secure public…

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Microsoft Mechanics: Hybrid Infrastructure Automation with Azure Resource Manager Templates

Posted on November 19, 2015 by Rick

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…

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The Ops Team #003 – “The Egg”

Posted on November 4, 2015 by Rick

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, Simon makes us all jealous talking about the phenomenal new Surface Book and…

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The Demise of SMB 1 in the Windows Stack

Posted on August 31, 2015 by Rick

With the passing of support for Windows 2003, something else quietly fades into the background… Support for SMB 1. My good friend Matt McSpirit has an issue with a file copy between servers in a datacenter. While daydreaming of it’s completion – his mind wanders and encounters three members of the engineering team who supported…

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Can’t make it to Microsoft Ignite? Here’s the details on the LiveStream

Posted on April 29, 2015 by Rick

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…

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Cool Stuff to do in Chicago During Microsoft Ignite

Posted on April 28, 2015 by Rick

As part of the Countdown to Microsoft Ignite show, Joey and I got a chance to do a whirlwind tour of Chicago.  We took along a camera crew and filmed at 25 different locations ranging from breweries, museums, restaurants, bars, public parks and coffee joints. This was an awesome experience organized by one of our…

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New Azure Planned Maintenance logs and Premium Storage details

Posted on February 19, 2015 by Rick

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…

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