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Partly Cloudy and forecast for 2012

Published Tue, Nov 29 2011 10:32 | Thomas K.H. Bittner

As you may already know, there will be some essential changes with several Microsoft technologies in next version 2012 coming up. According to those changes infrastructure design will also need to be adjusted. As well dynamic computing architectures and...

Filed under: General, Storage, Exchange, Windows Server, Cluster, Hyper-V, System Center, SCVMM, Managed Services, Virtualization, File Services, NetApp, High Availability, Cloud Computing, Dynamic Computing

Best Practices for Microsoft Virtualization and Netapp Storage for Hyper-V

Published Wed, Aug 3 2011 8:45 | Thomas K.H. Bittner

A consolidated version of the former articles about this scenario has been published by ‘NetApp for Microsoft Environments’ Team. You’ll find the detailed documentation about NetApp Storage Best Practices for Microsoft Virtualization and NetApp Snap-Manager...

Filed under: General, Storage, Windows Server, Hyper-V, SCVMM, Disaster Recovery, Virtualization, NetApp, High Availability, Cloud Computing, Dynamic Computing

Architecting a Microsoft Private Cloud

Published Thu, Jul 14 2011 16:33 | Thomas K.H. Bittner

There are many definitions for cloud computing, but one of the more concise and widely recognized definitions comes from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). NIST defines five essential characteristics, three service models and four...

Filed under: General, Windows Server, Hyper-V, System Center, SCVMM, Hosting, Active Directory, Virtualization, Security, SCOM, SCCM, SCMDM, Opalis, Cloud Computing, Dynamic Computing, SCO

System Center, Cloud and Storage – Best Practise

Published Sat, May 28 2011 1:11 | Thomas K.H. Bittner

Watch the sessions from Alex Rauch and NetApp to get best out of virtualization and the Cloud: VIR201 Virtualization: State of the Union VIR327 Hyper-V Cloud Fast Track: A Reference Architecture for Private Cloud SIM335 Microsoft System Center Integration...

Filed under: General, Storage, Windows Server, Hyper-V, System Center, SCVMM, Tools, Virtualization, NetApp, SCOM, SCCM, SCMDM, Opalis, Cloud Computing

Update for Hyper-V BPA available

Published Fri, Feb 25 2011 9:03 | Thomas K.H. Bittner

There is now an update for Hyper-V BPA available which fixes a few issues and handles the new Dynamic Memory and RemoteFX features under Service Pack 1. This update is for Windows Server 2008 R2 with and without SP1. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2485986...

Filed under: General, Windows Server, Hyper-V, SCVMM, Hosting, Managed Services, Virtualization, High Availability, BPA, Security, Cloud Computing, Dynamic Computing

Secure Access to your Cloud Services

Published Tue, Feb 22 2011 17:06 | Thomas K.H. Bittner

Moving to the Cloud is going on and so we will have more and more On-Premise and Cloud environments living site by site. Securing access to Cloud Services will be more relevant for the future. A great article on this topic has been published by Yuri Diogenes...

Filed under: General, SQL, Storage, Exchange, Windows Server, Hyper-V, SharePoint, Mobile, System Center, SCVMM, DirectAccess, TMG, ISA Server, Hosting, Microsoft Online Services, Managed Services, Microsoft Provisioning Services, Office, UM, OCS, Migration, PKI, Certificate Service, Forefront, Virtualization, Network Services, File Services, Outlook, High Availability, Business Intelligence, Dynamics, CRM, DNS, Windows Client, BizTalk, Security, SCOM, SCCM, SCMDM, Cloud Computing, Dynamic Computing, Internet Explorer

Architecting iSCSI Storage for Hyper-V

Published Fri, Feb 18 2011 15:13 | Thomas K.H. Bittner

A very interesting article about this has been published here . How is Hyper-V supporting iSCSI technologies? How can iSCSI storage provided for guest systems? What is best practise configuration? How to achieve the best data throughput? This and other...

Filed under: General, SQL, Storage, Exchange, Windows Server, Cluster, Hyper-V, SharePoint, System Center, SCVMM, Disaster Recovery, Backup, Hosting, WSUS, Data Protection Manager, Migration, Virtualization, Network Services, File Services, High Availability, DFS, SCOM, SCCM, MED-V, SCMDM, Cloud Computing, Dynamic Computing, VDI

System Center Support Team Blogs List

Published Fri, Sep 3 2010 10:33 | Thomas K.H. Bittner

The App-V Team blog: http://blogs.technet.com/appv/ The WSUS Support Team blog: http://blogs.technet.com/sus/ The SCMDM Support Team blog: http://blogs.technet.com/mdm/ The ConfigMgr Support Team blog: http://blogs.technet.com/configurationmgr/ The OpsMgr...

Filed under: General, Mobile, System Center, SCVMM, WSUS, Data Protection Manager, Virtualization, App-V, SCOM, SCCM, MED-V, SCMDM, Opalis

Microsoft System Center LinkedIn Group

Published Sun, May 30 2010 12:44 | Thomas K.H. Bittner

This LinkedIn Group is for Microsoft System Center Products Specialists. If you work with any of the System Center Suite products SCCM/SCOM/SCDPM/SCVMM/SCSM/SCMDM, SC Essentials, App-V, Opalis or Microsoft Desktop Optimizaton Pack..., this is the group...

Filed under: General, System Center, SCVMM, Data Protection Manager, Virtualization

Best Practices Analyzer for Hyper-V available now

Published Mon, May 3 2010 13:34 | Thomas K.H. Bittner

You can use Hyper-V Best Practices Analyzer to scan a server that is running the Hyper-V role, and help identify configurations that do not comply with the best practices of Microsoft for this role. BPA scans the configuration of the physical computer...

Filed under: Hyper-V, SCVMM, Tools, Virtualization