In Edge Show 148, Taylor Brown, Microsoft Senior Program Manager, tells about Windows Containers on Ch9 Live at Ignite 2015. Taylor clarifies and demystifies different technical aspects of Windows Containers and answers many of the frequently asked questions (FAQs) that are not found anywhere else. More specifically we cover: [00:33] What are containers?[01:32] Can you forget about containers and just keep using virtualization?[03:00] Does containerization help with hardware density and utilization?[03:50] What is the difference between Windows Server containers and Hyper-V containers?[05:17] Where is Microsoft using Windows Containers?[05:58] Can you run Windows Containers on Nano Server?...
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In Edge Show 148, Taylor Brown, Microsoft Senior Program Manager, tells about Windows Containers on Ch9 Live at Ignite 2015. Taylor clarifies and demystifies different technical aspects of Windows Containers and answers many of the frequently asked questions (FAQs) that are not found anywhere else. More specifically we cover: [00:33] What are containers?[01:32] Can you forget about containers and just keep using virtualization?[03:00] Does containerization help with hardware density and utilization?[03:50] What is the difference between Windows Server containers and Hyper-V containers?[05:17] Where is Microsoft using Windows Containers?[05:58] Can you run Windows Containers on Nano Server?...
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For Edge Show 147, Rick Claus chatted with Mark Russinovich, CTO of Azure and technical guru extraordinaire, at Channel 9 Live at Microsoft Ignite. Listen in for some cool insight into what has Mark excited about the Azure platform and what he believes are some of the most important updates to the platform with our recent round of releases. Connect with the Edge Team: Follow @tnedgeFollow @MattMcSpiritFollow @dtzarFollow @SimonsterFollow @RicksterCDN Facebook
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For Edge Show 147, Rick Claus chatted with Mark Russinovich, CTO of Azure and technical guru extraordinaire, at Channel 9 Live at Microsoft Ignite. Listen in for some cool insight into what has Mark excited about the Azure platform and what he believes are some of the most important updates to the platform with our recent round of releases. Connect with the Edge Team: Follow @tnedgeFollow @MattMcSpiritFollow @dtzarFollow @SimonsterFollow @RicksterCDN Facebook
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At Microsoft Ignite, Simon May had the chance to sit down with the authors of Enterprise Mobility Suite Managing BYOD and Company-Owned Devices from Microsoft Press, Yuri Diogenes and Jeff Gilbert to talk through the unique book. The pair also worked on a poster that draws out the entire enterprise mobility architecture (and which IT pro doesn't need posters for her office??) You can get the book here from Microsoft Press
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At Microsoft Ignite, Simon May had the chance to sit down with the authors of Enterprise Mobility Suite Managing BYOD and Company-Owned Devices from Microsoft Press, Yuri Diogenes and Jeff Gilbert to talk through the unique book. The pair also worked on a poster that draws out the entire enterprise mobility architecture (and which IT pro doesn't need posters for her office??) You can get the book here from Microsoft Press
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In Edge Show 145 on Ch9 Live at Ignite 2015 we get a practical view of DevOps people, process, and products from real world experiences inside of Microsoft with Brian Harry, Corporate Vice President of Microsoft Developer Division and Donovan Brown, Senior Program Manager at Microsoft. More specifically we cover: [01:25] Tell me some success stories of how Dev and Ops working together has produced great business results?[04:30] Is it really possible to have more change and more stability?[07:47] How have you seen the TFS / VSO product team culture change when going through a DevOps transformation?[13:25] How does technical debt impact teams?[16:33] What are some of the higher value add thi...
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In Edge Show 145 on Ch9 Live at Ignite 2015 we get a practical view of DevOps people, process, and products from real world experiences inside of Microsoft with Brian Harry, Corporate Vice President of Microsoft Developer Division and Donovan Brown, Senior Program Manager at Microsoft. More specifically we cover: [01:25] Tell me some success stories of how Dev and Ops working together has produced great business results?[04:30] Is it really possible to have more change and more stability?[07:47] How have you seen the TFS / VSO product team culture change when going through a DevOps transformation?[13:25] How does technical debt impact teams?[16:33] What are some of the higher value add thi...
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In Edge Show episode 144, Matt meets with Jonobie Ford, Senior Program Manager on the Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) team, to discuss a number of key capabilities coming to VMM with Update Rollup 6 (UR6), specifically focusing on 2 highly requested features. The first is Azure IaaS virtual machine management from within the VMM console! The second is support in VMM Service Templates, for Generation 2 Hyper-V virtual machines! If you're currently using VMM, and you're also using, or thinking about using Azure IaaS virtual machines, UR6 should be very interesting to you! Useful Links: Blog: October 2014 Announcements for Windows Server ContainersBlog: Windows Server and Hyper-V ContainersBlog...
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In Edge Show episode 144, Matt meets with Jonobie Ford, Senior Program Manager on the Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) team, to discuss a number of key capabilities coming to VMM with Update Rollup 6 (UR6), specifically focusing on 2 highly requested features. The first is Azure IaaS virtual machine management from within the VMM console! The second is support in VMM Service Templates, for Generation 2 Hyper-V virtual machines! If you're currently using VMM, and you're also using, or thinking about using Azure IaaS virtual machines, UR6 should be very interesting to you! Useful Links: Blog: October 2014 Announcements for Windows Server ContainersBlog: Windows Server and Hyper-V ContainersBlog...
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In this episode Rick does a quick intro and then gets out of the way for Mark Russinovich, CTO of Azure to announce the General Availability of Premium Storage. High performance SSD backed durable storage paired up with the new Ds series of virtual machines and you get industry leading performance of 64k+ IOps for your most demanding workloads. Useful Links: The blog post where Mark Russinovich breaks down the technology on how this all works. Connect with the Edge Team: Follow @tnedgeFollow @MattMcSpiritFollow @dtzarFollow @SimonsterFollow @RicksterCDN Facebook
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In this episode Rick does a quick intro and then gets out of the way for Mark Russinovich, CTO of Azure to announce the General Availability of Premium Storage. High performance SSD backed durable storage paired up with the new Ds series of virtual machines and you get industry leading performance of 64k+ IOps for your most demanding workloads. Useful Links: The blog post where Mark Russinovich breaks down the technology on how this all works. Connect with the Edge Team: Follow @tnedgeFollow @MattMcSpiritFollow @dtzarFollow @SimonsterFollow @RicksterCDN Facebook
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In Edge Show episode 142, Matt meets with Jose Barreto to discuss a key capability within Microsoft's software-defined storage (SDS) solution, Storage Quality of Service (QoS). Jose talks about where Storage QoS fits within the overall SDS solution, explains how it all works, and shows a cool PowerShell-driven demo of QoS in action. Jose also gives us a sneak peek into what the storage team will be delivering at Microsoft Ignite. If you're interested in storage, Jose has got you covered! Useful Links: Microsoft Azure BackupBlog: Azure Backup - Support for backup of Azure IaaS VMsBlog: Preview of DR for VMware VMs and Physical Servers to Azure using ASRSystem Center Operations Manager - Azur...
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In Edge Show episode 142, Matt meets with Jose Barreto to discuss a key capability within Microsoft's software-defined storage (SDS) solution, Storage Quality of Service (QoS). Jose talks about where Storage QoS fits within the overall SDS solution, explains how it all works, and shows a cool PowerShell-driven demo of QoS in action. Jose also gives us a sneak peek into what the storage team will be delivering at Microsoft Ignite. If you're interested in storage, Jose has got you covered! Useful Links: Microsoft Azure BackupBlog: Azure Backup - Support for backup of Azure IaaS VMsBlog: Preview of DR for VMware VMs and Physical Servers to Azure using ASRSystem Center Operations Manager - Azur...
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In Edge Show 141, learn how to use the new Chef Provisioning capabilities to provision machines and applications to Microsoft Azure in this demo heavy interview with John Keiser from Chef. John walks through all the steps you need to get this running yourself as well as helpful insights from one of the engineers responsible for developing this functionality. More specifically we cover: [09:25] What is the history behind Chef provisioning and why does it exist?[02:19] Were there other names to Chef provisioning and why did it change?[03:03] Demo: Format of a Chef provisioning recipe[05:00] Demo: setup pre-requisite steps to be able to use Chef provisioning[07:04] Demo: editing the provision...
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In Edge Show 141, learn how to use the new Chef Provisioning capabilities to provision machines and applications to Microsoft Azure in this demo heavy interview with John Keiser from Chef. John walks through all the steps you need to get this running yourself as well as helpful insights from one of the engineers responsible for developing this functionality. More specifically we cover: [09:25] What is the history behind Chef provisioning and why does it exist?[02:19] Were there other names to Chef provisioning and why did it change?[03:03] Demo: Format of a Chef provisioning recipe[05:00] Demo: setup pre-requisite steps to be able to use Chef provisioning[07:04] Demo: editing the provision...
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This Episode of the Edge show is focused on Enterprise Mobility and Simon May invited Fabian Uhse from the WorkFolders product team into the studio to talk about the iPad app for WorkFolders. If you aren't familiar with work folders, it's a really nice solution to use your existing Windows Server 2012 R2 File server infrastructure to enable sharing - across the internet - from those servers. Giving you the best of the cloud and making the best use of your on-prem investments. Fabian also gives us a sneak peak at the upcoming iPhone app too! For more news and information on enteprise mobility check out Simon's Blog. Connect with the Edge Team: Follow @tnedgeFollow @dtzarFollow @SimonsterFoll...
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This Episode of the Edge show is focused on Enterprise Mobility and Simon May invited Fabian Uhse from the WorkFolders product team into the studio to talk about the iPad app for WorkFolders. If you aren't familiar with work folders, it's a really nice solution to use your existing Windows Server 2012 R2 File server infrastructure to enable sharing - across the internet - from those servers. Giving you the best of the cloud and making the best use of your on-prem investments. Fabian also gives us a sneak peak at the upcoming iPhone app too! For more news and information on enteprise mobility check out Simon's Blog. Connect with the Edge Team: Follow @tnedgeFollow @dtzarFollow @SimonsterFoll...
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In Edge Show episode 139, Rick introduces the newest member of the Edge Team, Matt McSpirit, who walks us through the key features and functionality of Azure Site Recovery, with a specific focus on Hyper-V to Azure protection for SMBs. If you're using Hyper-V, but don't have System Center, and you're looking at a streamlined solution for disaster recovery, Matt's got you covered. Useful Links: Tutorial: Set up Protection Between an On-Premises Hyper-V Site and AzureMicrosoft Virtual Academy - Microsoft Business Continuity (Clustering, Backup & Azure Site Recovery)Azure News: Check out my monthly roundup of IT Pro related Azure newsSign up for the Azure Security JumpStart taking place Ap...
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In Edge Show episode 139, Rick introduces the newest member of the Edge Team, Matt McSpirit, who walks us through the key features and functionality of Azure Site Recovery, with a specific focus on Hyper-V to Azure protection for SMBs. If you're using Hyper-V, but don't have System Center, and you're looking at a streamlined solution for disaster recovery, Matt's got you covered. Useful Links: Tutorial: Set up Protection Between an On-Premises Hyper-V Site and AzureMicrosoft Virtual Academy - Microsoft Business Continuity (Clustering, Backup & Azure Site Recovery)Azure News: Check out my monthly roundup of IT Pro related Azure newsSign up for the Azure Security JumpStart taking place Ap...
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In Edge Show episode 138, see a demo of how Docker machine can provision to Azure and hear a little bit about the future of Docker client for Windows in this interview with Ahmet Alp Balkan, Software Engineer at Microsoft. More specifically we cover: What does Docker Machine do and how does it relate to Microsoft?[01:36] Demo: Provisioning an Azure VM using Docker Machine Mac client[05:55] Demo: What is running in the Docker machine in Azure[08:06] Demo: Running Docker commands after Docker machine provisioned[09:44] What can you do with Docker and Windows? When is the Docker client for Windows going to be released?Docker Machine to Azure documentationNews: Check out the February 2015 Micr...
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In Edge Show episode 138, see a demo of how Docker machine can provision to Azure and hear a little bit about the future of Docker client for Windows in this interview with Ahmet Alp Balkan, Software Engineer at Microsoft. More specifically we cover: What does Docker Machine do and how does it relate to Microsoft?[01:36] Demo: Provisioning an Azure VM using Docker Machine Mac client[05:55] Demo: What is running in the Docker machine in Azure[08:06] Demo: Running Docker commands after Docker machine provisioned[09:44] What can you do with Docker and Windows? When is the Docker client for Windows going to be released?Docker Machine to Azure documentationNews: Check out the February 2015 Micr...
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In Edge Show episode 137, Rick has brought back Drew McDaniel and Kenaz Kwa to talk about Premium Storage and Planned Maintenance Updates. If you are curious as to the details about planned maintenance and how it may have affected your machines - Kenaz gives you all the details. If Performance, disk IOps and supped up virtual machines are more your style - Drew has you covered on that side of the coin. Useful Links: Planned Service Updates detailsPremium Storage documentation (Preview)Azure News: Check out my monthly roundup of IT Pro related Azure newsConnect with the Edge Team: Follow @tnedgeFollow @dtzarFollow @SimonsterFollow @RicksterCDN Facebook
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In Edge Show episode 137, Rick has brought back Drew McDaniel and Kenaz Kwa to talk about Premium Storage and Planned Maintenance Updates. If you are curious as to the details about planned maintenance and how it may have affected your machines - Kenaz gives you all the details. If Performance, disk IOps and supped up virtual machines are more your style - Drew has you covered on that side of the coin. Useful Links: Planned Service Updates detailsPremium Storage documentation (Preview)Azure News: Check out my monthly roundup of IT Pro related Azure newsConnect with the Edge Team: Follow @tnedgeFollow @dtzarFollow @SimonsterFollow @RicksterCDN Facebook
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In this episode of The Edge Show Simon May talks aboutAzure RemoteApp with Eric Orman, Senior Program Manager from Microsoft's Azure RemoteApp team about what Azure RemoteApp can do. They take a look at a very real world use case with QuickBooks 2015 and walk through how it's implemented inside Azure RemoteApp. Ever wanted to know when you should use Azure RemoteApp in the cloud vs Hybrid? This is the episode for you! For what's new this month in Enterprise Mobility and Windows take a look at http://aka.ms/mobilityedge Connect with the Edge Team: Follow @tnedgeFollow @dtzarFollow @SimonsterFollow @RicksterCDN Facebook
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In this episode of The Edge Show Simon May talks aboutAzure RemoteApp with Eric Orman, Senior Program Manager from Microsoft's Azure RemoteApp team about what Azure RemoteApp can do. They take a look at a very real world use case with QuickBooks 2015 and walk through how it's implemented inside Azure RemoteApp. Ever wanted to know when you should use Azure RemoteApp in the cloud vs Hybrid? This is the episode for you! For what's new this month in Enterprise Mobility and Windows take a look at http://aka.ms/mobilityedge Connect with the Edge Team: Follow @tnedgeFollow @dtzarFollow @SimonsterFollow @RicksterCDN Facebook
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In Edge Show episode 135, interview on Microsoft's new updates to Application Insights including app performance monitoring and other telemetry with Rahul Bagaria, Program Manager at Microsoft. More specifically at [00:40], we cover: What are the big changes which have recently happened with Application Insights?[02:20] How is application performance monitoring different now than utilizing the existing microsoft monitoring agent?[03:36] What is all of the telemetry you get if you use only the status monitor agent?[04:33] Demo: Installing and configuring the status monitor agent on an Azure VM[07:31] Demo: How you might be able to automate the agent installation to multiple nodes utilizing t...
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In Edge Show episode 135, interview on Microsoft's new updates to Application Insights including app performance monitoring and other telemetry with Rahul Bagaria, Program Manager at Microsoft. More specifically at [00:40], we cover: What are the big changes which have recently happened with Application Insights?[02:20] How is application performance monitoring different now than utilizing the existing microsoft monitoring agent?[03:36] What is all of the telemetry you get if you use only the status monitor agent?[04:33] Demo: Installing and configuring the status monitor agent on an Azure VM[07:31] Demo: How you might be able to automate the agent installation to multiple nodes utilizing t...
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In Edge Show episode 134, Rick is getting back in touch with on-premises technologies that are still very close to his heart. This episode has Rick reaching out to Ben Armstrong from the Hyper-V team to talk about all things new in Hyper-V found in the Technical Preview 1 of Windows Server. Ben outlines 2 or 3 big things and a bunch of "popcorn". ;) Useful Links: Get your own copy of Technical Preview 1 from the Eval Center.What's new in Technical Preview from TechNetCatch up with Ben Armstron on his Virtualization blog.Connect with Ben on Twitter: Follow @VirtualPCGuy Connect with the Edge Team: Follow @tnedgeFollow @dtzarFollow @SymonPerrimanFollow @SimonsterFollow @RicksterCD...
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In Edge Show episode 134, Rick is getting back in touch with on-premises technologies that are still very close to his heart. This episode has Rick reaching out to Ben Armstrong from the Hyper-V team to talk about all things new in Hyper-V found in the Technical Preview 1 of Windows Server. Ben outlines 2 or 3 big things and a bunch of "popcorn". ;) Useful Links: Get your own copy of Technical Preview 1 from the Eval Center.What's new in Technical Preview from TechNetCatch up with Ben Armstron on his Virtualization blog.Connect with Ben on Twitter: Follow @VirtualPCGuy Connect with the Edge Team: Follow @tnedgeFollow @dtzarFollow @SymonPerrimanFollow @SimonsterFollow @RicksterCD...
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In this episode of The Edge Show Simon May talkes about Azure AD SaaS apps integration with Eran Dvir, Senior Program Manager from Microsoft's Identity team about what Azure AD SaaS app integration can do. We talk through and show new capabilities around adding your own, custom SaaS appsWe take a look at how Azure AD SaaS apps can help you manage access to shared, corporate apps such as Twitter accounts.We take a look at what integration with HR systems looks like (hint, Nirvana!);For what's new this month in Enterprise Mobility and Windows take a look at http://aka.ms/mobilityedge Connect with the Edge Team: Follow @tnedgeFollow @dtzarFollow @SymonPerrimanFollow @SimonsterFollow @RicksterC...
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In this episode of The Edge Show Simon May talkes about Azure AD SaaS apps integration with Eran Dvir, Senior Program Manager from Microsoft's Identity team about what Azure AD SaaS app integration can do. We talk through and show new capabilities around adding your own, custom SaaS appsWe take a look at how Azure AD SaaS apps can help you manage access to shared, corporate apps such as Twitter accounts.We take a look at what integration with HR systems looks like (hint, Nirvana!);For what's new this month in Enterprise Mobility and Windows take a look at http://aka.ms/mobilityedge Connect with the Edge Team: Follow @tnedgeFollow @dtzarFollow @SymonPerrimanFollow @SimonsterFollow @RicksterC...
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In Edge Show episode 132, Rick pulls out some contacts from the Azure IaaS Engineering team to talk about the recent spat of Announcements in the Azure IaaS Space. We have Khalid Mouss talking about the new Docker container image in the VM Gallery, Sung Hsueh talking about KeyVault and Drew McDaniel rounding things up with our largest VM sizing to date. Useful Links: New Azure VM Size - The G series is LIVE and (as of January 15th) largest VM in the Cloud.Azure KeyVault Service - Cloud Hosted HSM (Hardware Security Module) backed service now available.Cool Video on the KeyVault service - available here.One Stop Shop Docker Image now available in the Azure VM GalleryAzure News: Check out my ...
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In Edge Show episode 132, Rick pulls out some contacts from the Azure IaaS Engineering team to talk about the recent spat of Announcements in the Azure IaaS Space. We have Khalid Mouss talking about the new Docker container image in the VM Gallery, Sung Hsueh talking about KeyVault and Drew McDaniel rounding things up with our largest VM sizing to date. Useful Links: New Azure VM Size - The G series is LIVE and (as of January 15th) largest VM in the Cloud.Azure KeyVault Service - Cloud Hosted HSM (Hardware Security Module) backed service now available.Cool Video on the KeyVault service - available here.One Stop Shop Docker Image now available in the Azure VM GalleryAzure News: Check out my ...
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In Edge Show episode 121, learn more about Microsoft's new public preview of release management service connected to Visual Studio Online (VSO) and see demos of it in action with Claude Remillard, Principal Group Program Manager at Microsoft. More specifically at [00:46], we cover: Claude's role and background[01:30] What does Microsoft Visual Studio Release Management do?[05:20] What are the differences between the on-premises Release Management product and Release Management as a service? What are some of the futures enhancements planned for the Release Management service?[07:30] Demo: Where to setup the Release Management connection to VSO[08:38] Demo: Release Management Global Variable...
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In Edge Show episode 121, learn more about Microsoft's new public preview of release management service connected to Visual Studio Online (VSO) and see demos of it in action with Claude Remillard, Principal Group Program Manager at Microsoft. More specifically at [00:46], we cover: Claude's role and background[01:30] What does Microsoft Visual Studio Release Management do?[05:20] What are the differences between the on-premises Release Management product and Release Management as a service? What are some of the futures enhancements planned for the Release Management service?[07:30] Demo: Where to setup the Release Management connection to VSO[08:38] Demo: Release Management Global Variable...
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In this episode of The Edge Show, Rick introduces a special interview by Larry Larson from Channel 9 talking with Mark Russinovich, CTO of Microsoft Azure about the Storage Outage that took place November 18th. Mark provides insight into what happened, how it was resolved and how the Azure team is actively working to improve the customer experience on the Azure platform as a result. The Full Blog post on the Root Cause Analysis over on the Azure blog. BlogPost: Details on the RCA (Root Cause Analysis) of the Azure Storage Outage of November 18th. We're taking a break for the holiday season. We'll be back with a new Meaner and Leaner EdgeShow format in the new year! Connect with the Edge Tea...
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In this episode of The Edge Show, Rick introduces a special interview by Larry Larson from Channel 9 talking with Mark Russinovich, CTO of Microsoft Azure about the Storage Outage that took place November 18th. Mark provides insight into what happened, how it was resolved and how the Azure team is actively working to improve the customer experience on the Azure platform as a result. The Full Blog post on the Root Cause Analysis over on the Azure blog. BlogPost: Details on the RCA (Root Cause Analysis) of the Azure Storage Outage of November 18th. We're taking a break for the holiday season. We'll be back with a new Meaner and Leaner EdgeShow format in the new year! Connect with the Edge Tea...
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In this episode Symon interviews Claus Joergensen (Principal Program Manager) and Ned Pyle (Senior Program Manager) about replication enhancements coming in the next version of Windows Server. Claus first talks about Shared-Nothing Storage Spaces, which provides storage for a failover cluster using direct-attached storage, rather than a SAN. Next Ned talks about the new Storage Replica feature which provide a native synchronous replication solution for multi-site clusters and disaster recovery. The interview with Claus about Shared-Nothing Storage Spaces begins at [06:45]: What were the main storage design goals for this release?How does a scale-out file server work?How does DAS-only storag...
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In this episode Symon interviews Claus Joergensen (Principal Program Manager) and Ned Pyle (Senior Program Manager) about replication enhancements coming in the next version of Windows Server. Claus first talks about Shared-Nothing Storage Spaces, which provides storage for a failover cluster using direct-attached storage, rather than a SAN. Next Ned talks about the new Storage Replica feature which provide a native synchronous replication solution for multi-site clusters and disaster recovery. The interview with Claus about Shared-Nothing Storage Spaces begins at [06:45]: What were the main storage design goals for this release?How does a scale-out file server work?How does DAS-only storag...
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In this episode of The Edge Show - Simon May talks to Adam Bresson from the Enterprise Mobility Technical Product Marketing team at Microsoft about Identity and what has changed and is changing in Azure AD. Check out the Technical interview After the break! [05:57] News: New MVA courses and events, DevOps OSS Best Practices , Modernize your data center jump start Windows Store in Windows 10 Surface Pro 3 takes to the air again Identity Manager Public preview RSA Secure ID in AD FS Connect with the Edge Team: Follow @tnedgeFollow @dtzarFollow @SymonPerrimanFollow @SimonsterFollow @RicksterCDN Facebook
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In this episode of The Edge Show - Simon May talks to Adam Bresson from the Enterprise Mobility Technical Product Marketing team at Microsoft about Identity and what has changed and is changing in Azure AD. Check out the Technical interview After the break! [05:57] News: New MVA courses and events, DevOps OSS Best Practices , Modernize your data center jump start Windows Store in Windows 10 Surface Pro 3 takes to the air again Identity Manager Public preview RSA Secure ID in AD FS Connect with the Edge Team: Follow @tnedgeFollow @dtzarFollow @SymonPerrimanFollow @SimonsterFollow @RicksterCDN Facebook
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In this special interview with Brazilian Java developers Bruno Souza and Edson Yanaga at TechEd Europe 2014 we discuss some tips on how developers and operations might break down some cultural and technical barriers. They also briefly give their insight on what they found interesting about Microsoft coming from a heavy open source background and community. More specifically at [05:45], we cover: What have you found interesting from Microsoft at the conference?[13:46] As Developers, what would you say it would be nice if an IT Pro would do or not do?News: Live MVA Event: Azure IaaS for IT Pros December 4-5th DevOps MVA Courses recorded now available http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/tr...
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In this special interview with Brazilian Java developers Bruno Souza and Edson Yanaga at TechEd Europe 2014 we discuss some tips on how developers and operations might break down some cultural and technical barriers. They also briefly give their insight on what they found interesting about Microsoft coming from a heavy open source background and community. More specifically at [05:45], we cover: What have you found interesting from Microsoft at the conference?[13:46] As Developers, what would you say it would be nice if an IT Pro would do or not do?News: Live MVA Event: Azure IaaS for IT Pros December 4-5th DevOps MVA Courses recorded now available http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/tr...
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In this episode of The Edge Show - we're pulling one of the best interviews from TechEd Europe channel 9 live stage from Barcelona. Corey Sanders joins Rick on stage to talk about all sorts of Azure announcements that came out leading up to and including the Keynote. Check out the Technical interview After the break! [07:07] News: Office for Android was announced for release in early 2015Skype for Business name announced and hints at new capabilities in 2015MDM (Mobile Device Management) capabilities into Office 365"Clutter" announced for Office365 subscribersSkype Translator signup now open for the beta. Special Announcement [46:00]: Register for "Azure IaaS for IT Pros we...
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In this episode of The Edge Show - we're pulling one of the best interviews from TechEd Europe channel 9 live stage from Barcelona. Corey Sanders joins Rick on stage to talk about all sorts of Azure announcements that came out leading up to and including the Keynote. Check out the Technical interview After the break! [07:07] News: Office for Android was announced for release in early 2015Skype for Business name announced and hints at new capabilities in 2015MDM (Mobile Device Management) capabilities into Office 365"Clutter" announced for Office365 subscribersSkype Translator signup now open for the beta. Special Announcement [46:00]: Register for "Azure IaaS for IT Pros we...
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In this episode Symon interviews Elden Christensen, Principal Program Manager Lead for Failover Clustering, to discuss the latest enhancements in the next version of Windows Server. Failover Clustering provides high-availability and disaster recovery for Hyper-V virtual machines, SQL databases and other roles. The interview with Elden begins at [04:30]: What were the main high-availability design goals for this release?How do rolling upgrades work?What are the new compute resiliency features?How has network resiliency improved?What is a node quarantine?How has storage resiliency improved?How does a DAS cluster work?How does storage replication work?What is the cloud witness?What are the imp...
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In this episode Symon interviews Elden Christensen, Principal Program Manager Lead for Failover Clustering, to discuss the latest enhancements in the next version of Windows Server. Failover Clustering provides high-availability and disaster recovery for Hyper-V virtual machines, SQL databases and other roles. The interview with Elden begins at [04:30]: What were the main high-availability design goals for this release?How do rolling upgrades work?What are the new compute resiliency features?How has network resiliency improved?What is a node quarantine?How has storage resiliency improved?How does a DAS cluster work?How does storage replication work?What is the cloud witness?What are the imp...
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Get a recap of the top announcements heard here at TechEd Europe for the IT Pro audience and hear our fun highlights with the entire Edge Show team: David Tesar, Simon May, Symon Perriman, and Rick Claus.
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Get a recap of the top announcements heard here at TechEd Europe for the IT Pro audience and hear our fun highlights with the entire Edge Show team: David Tesar, Simon May, Symon Perriman, and Rick Claus.
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In this episode Symon interviews Kenneth Hansen (Principal Program Manager Lead) and Hemant Mahawar (Senior Program Manager) on the PowerShell team to discuss Desired State Configuration (DSC), and how it can be used in the datacenter. DSC is a new management platform in Windows PowerShell that enables deploying and managing configuration data for software services and managing the environment in which these services run. The interview with Kenneth and Hemant begins at [07:20]: Why is compliance important in the modern datacenter?Why is automation important in the modern datacenter?What exactly is Desired State Configuration?What is its relationship to PowerShell?What is a DSC resource?How ...
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In this episode of The Edge Show - Rick catches up with some of his Azure RSS feeds and comes across this little announcement and blog post by Beth Cooper, Program Manager on the Azure Automation team. After a quick exchange of emails - I managed to get her to come down and give us a tour of this cool option and tell us how anyone in the community can contribute their own Runbooks! Beth's full blog post can be found here. The TechNet Script Gallery can be found here - specifically under Windows Azure / Automation.Submit your requests and get ideas for scripts to write in the Azure Automation User Voice.Script Gallery documentation Guidelines along with some tips and tricks for writing RunBo...
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See why Azure resource manager is so important for anyone who uses Azure, an enabler of a key DevOps practice using infrastructure and configuration as code, and learn about how it works in this demo-heavy interview with Kevin Lam, Principal Program Manager at Microsoft. We also demo the newly released Role Based Access Control (RBAC) feature inside of Microsoft Azure. More specifically at [06:23], we cover: What is Azure Resource Manager? Resource Groups, Management Layer, RBAC, Deployment Templates[10:12] Demo: PowerShell to view and download deployment templates[11:28] Demo: Viewing the deployment template from the gallery[12:00] Demo: Understanding some deployment template fundamentals[...
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In this episode - we have a cool announcement about some new offerings in the Azure IaaS VM space. Rick managed to get a quick interview with Kenaz Kwa, Program manager on the Microsoft Azure Runtime Team - part of the IaaS compute team. Kenaz talks about the release of the new D-Series virtual machines in IaaS: They are approximately 40-50% faster CPU wise then previous VMs sizesThey have double the memory to core ratioThey can be up to 5 time faster disk performance on the non-persistent disks.After chatting for a bit - Kenaz does a demo of the provisioning and also some raw performance on the disk with IOmeter. Short, sweet and to the point. You can read the FULL details (including pro...
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In this episode Symon interviews Charlie Satterfield, a Senior Program Manager on the System Center Operations Manager team, to discuss the new Management Pack (MP) for System Center Virtual Machine Manager. This MP shows centralized and more detailed information about the virtualization infrastructure which is managed by SCVMM. This includes the Hyper-V hosts, clusters and virtual machines running on them, as well as the relationships between these objects. Get the Management Pack here: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=43707 The interview with Charlie begins at [03:55]: [04:55] What exactly is a Management Pack and how does Operations Manager use it?[05:00] How does...
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Gene Kim gives great practical advice and insight to IT Pros / Operations about DevOps in this special interview on the Edge Show. Want to be the Kung-Fu operations master of your DevOps future? Get a glimpse of what it might look like. More specifically at [06:43], we cover: Reference to the TechNet Radio interview with Jessica DevitaWhat are some common objections you see from IT / Operations who are resisting or ignoring this DevOps transformation going on in the industry?[09:19] What are some practical tips you might recommend an IT/Ops person to start working with Developers?[11:54] Do you see Ops helping out with feedback loops (part of the second way) even while you're making progr...
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In this show we take a first look at new features and functionality in the Azure RMS sharing application that enable you to share anything with anyone, safely and securely on any storage platform. Guiding us through is @TheRMSGuy Dan Plastina, Group Manager for RMS (and before you ask that means he manages development of the products). Dan and Simon May also talk through how the RMS team get feedback and some of the surprises we've had and some of the improvements to the on-prem infrastructure you can deploy to support your protection efforts. In the technical interview that starts at [04:50], we cover: [05:16] The customer advisory board[09:49] Not just Office documents[12:00] Demo: sharin...
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Learn how to get started running Docker on top of Microsoft Azure IaaS and understand some fundamentals of Docker in this demo-heavy interview with Andrew Weiss, ASSC Consultant at Microsoft. After you've got the fundamentals down from this interview you might want to check out the more advanced topic of running Kubernetes on Microsoft Azure for container cluster management. More specifically at [07:25], we cover: What is Docker?[09:32] How does Docker relate to anything Microsoft?[10:28] Demo: Getting started Docker commands, Azure cross-platform CLIGetting the Azure image listCreate the Ubuntu Linux + Docker VM[16:34] Recap of what just happened and options on where to deploy contain...
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Learn how to get started running Docker on top of Microsoft Azure IaaS and understand some fundamentals of Docker in this demo-heavy interview with Andrew Weiss, ASSC Consultant at Microsoft. More specifically at [07:25], we cover: What is Docker?[09:32] How does Docker relate to anything Microsoft?[10:28] Demo: Getting started Docker commands, Azure cross-platform CLIGetting the Azure image listCreate the Ubuntu Linux + Docker VM[16:34] Recap of what just happened and options on where to deploy containers[17:45] Why run your Docker containers on Azure versus locally?[19:03] Demo: Provisioning an application on top of Docker (in containers) on Azure Show the Docker VM in the new Azure p...
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In this show we take an exclusive look at Azure AD Connect to implement hybrid identity. Jen Field (Senior Program Manager Azure AD Fabric) takes us through using the new deployment tool to deploy Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS), Directory Sync (DirSync / AAD Sync), Azure AD and the accompanying SSL certificates. These are components that you'll commonly deploy for Office 365, Windows Intune and more. In the technical interview that starts at [05:10], we cover: [05:30] What does it do?[07:29] Demo: Getting Started[07:48] Demo: Prerequisite installation[08:46] Demo: Connecting to Azure AD[09:54] Demo: Express Settings[10:17] Demo: Customize the deployment[11:01] Demo: Select you...
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In this episode Symon interviews Joseph Chan, a Principal Program Manager Lead on the System Center Operations Manager team, to discuss the new features of System Center Advisor (http://www.SystemCenterAdvisor.com). Advisor sends logs to Azure so that they can be quickly analyzed to provide real-time operational intelligence to rapidly filter actionable information about a datacenter's security, compliance, system updates, antimalware and more through new Intelligence Packs. The interview with Joseph begins at [08:00]: -[08:25] What is System Center Advisor, and what is new in the preview?-[09:50] What was included in the original release of Advisor?-[10:25] How is the Preview program doi...
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See how the new Azure Portal lights up an end-to-end development and operations experience through all phases of the application lifecycle in this demo-heavy session with Stephen Siciliano, Senior Program Manager at Microsoft. In the technical interview that starts at [04:52], we cover: [05:45] What ways can the new Azure portal help with "DevOps user experiences"?[06:44] Demo: New team project[08:10] Demo: Editing code inside the portal[10:22] Demo: Code differential from commits[11:00] Demo: Setting up continuous integration (CI) and continuous deployment (CD) with Azure Websites[12:24] What are some recommended practices for setting up staging environments and branching?[13:37...
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In this episode Symon interviews Daniel Savage, Principal Program Manager Lead on the System Center Operations Manager team, to discuss the new dashboards and visualizations available in Update Release 2 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2929891). These widgets provide more detailed information about alerts, health, images, classes, SLAs, performance, websites, PowerShell, state, and topology. For more information about the new widgets, visit http://blogs.technet.com/b/momteam/archive/2014/04/24/new-widgets-and-dashboard.aspx. The interview with Daniel begins at [09:05]: -[09:40] How does Operations Manager analyze and display data?-[10:35] What is the difference between a widget and a dash...
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In this episode Simon May interviews to Nasos Kladakis, Azure Identity PM and finds out about Azure AD Premium including how you can find out what cloud apps are being used inside your organization and then how to protect access to them with Azure AD SaaS applications. Nasos also announces the preview of Azure App Proxy and a cool new report that combines big data learning from Microsoft Security Response Center with your AD accounts to provide a potentially infected devices report. Finally in this monster session Nassos explains how you can try Azure AD Premium. Before that though Simon and Rick talk through the news. [00:00] The news [07:08] The interview [07:48] Azure SaaS apps [10:10] C...
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Learn how to get started running a Puppet infrastructure on top of Microsoft Azure IaaS and understand the fundamentals of how Puppet works in this demo-heavy interview with Ross Gardler, Senior Technical Evangelist in Microsoft Open Tech. More specifically at [04:55], we cover: What is Puppet?[06:13] Demo: Provisioning a Puppet master from the Azure gallery VM image[08:44] Demo: Provisioning a VM with the Puppet agent installed[10:58] Can the agent communicate over the public IP of the cloud service or on an internal Azure vNet as well?[11:55] Demo: Endpoints which need to be configured to communicate with the Puppet Master[12:40] Demo: Logging into the Puppet Master console[13:48] Demo: C...
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Ever wonder what Mark Russinovich is working on? Interested in his last personal "Beer Money" Tech Support incident was and how he solved it? Where does he get his ideas for his top ranking "Case of the unexplained..." sessions? Rick Claus interviews Technical Fellow Mark Russinovich from the CH9 Live Stage during TechEd in Houston. Catch Some TechEd Sessions Mark delivered at TechEd. TWC: Pass-the-Hash: How Attackers Spread and How to Stop ThemMark Russinovich and Mark Minasi on Cloud ComputingPublic Cloud Security: Surviving in a Hostile Multi-Tenant EnvironmentTWC: Malware Hunting with Mark Russinovich and the Sysinternals ToolsCas...
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In this episode Symon interviews Robert Reynolds (Principal Program Manager Lead) and Walter Oliver (Senior Program Manager) on the Windows Azure Pack (WAP) team, to discuss how WAP can be extended to 3rd party systems. The Windows Azure pack is a collection of Microsoft Azure technologies that run in your datacenter, and integrates with System Center and Windows Server to help provide a self-service portal for managing services such as websites, Virtual Machines, Service Bus, cloud resources, web sites, SQL, and more. For more information about the Windows Azure Pack, visit: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/products/windows-azure-pack/default.aspx The interview wi...
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In this episode Simon May interviews talks to David Alessi and Mike Danoski both Senior Support Engineers for Windows Phone about MDM in Windows Phone 8.1 and they take a look at using Windows Intune and Configuration Manager to deliver assigned access to a Windows Phone 8.1 device. Before that though Simon and Heike talk through the news. [00:00] The news [06:50] The interview [07:25] Intros [08:09] What happens when a call comes in to Microsoft Support [10:00] Assigned Access [10:43] Assigned Access Demo [14:03] Assigned Access on a device Windows Phone 8.1 MDM Protocol white paper link Having watched this edition for The Edge show you probably want to go watch Windows Phone 8.1 Ente...
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In this episode Simon May interviews talks to David Alessi and Mike Danoski both Senior Support Engineers for Windows Phone about MDM in Windows Phone 8.1 and they take a look at using Windows Intune and Configuration Manager to deliver assigned access to a Windows Phone 8.1 device. Before that though Simon and Heike talk through the news. [00:00] The news [06:50] The interview [07:25] Intros [08:09] What happens when a call comes in to Microsoft Support [10:00] Assigned Access [10:43] Assigned Access Demo [14:03] Assigned Access on a device Windows Phone 8.1 MDM Protocol white paper link Having watched this edition for The Edge show you probably want to go watch Windows Phone 8.1 Ente...
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Learn why IT Pros should care about DevOps and clear up some common misconceptions in this special episode of the Edge Show with Morgan Webb and I. More specifically at [08:36], we cover: Why should IT Pros even care about DevOps?[11:18] How does DevOps involve the business, development, and IT?[12:20] What are the three P's of DevOps?[13:22] Does Microsoft believe your company should go hire a "DevOps Engineer"?[16:48] The Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) graphics framework we developed[17:20] Open Source product Ecosystem related to DevOps[19:00] Microsoft product Ecosystem related to DevOps[20:54] How can the Cloud OS help as a hosting platform even if you have open sour...
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Rick Claus interviews Distinguished Engineer Jeffrey Snover from the CH9 Live Stage during TechEd about how to become a "Differentiated IT Pro". There is some great advice from someone who has done it all in the IT Industry and is considered the father of PowerShell. Listen in as we talk about areas to invest in your technical development as well as some breaking news for automation and configuration of Windows and Linux boxes in your datacenter. A parting thought: Treat your servers as Cattle, not as Pets... Catch Some TechEd Sessions Jeffrey Snover delivered and co-delivered at TechEd. Windows PowerShell Unplugged with Jeffrey Snover A Practical Overview of Desi...
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In this episode Symon interviews Matt McSpirit, a Senior Product Marketing Manager on the Windows Server & Management Team, to discuss the features and benefits of version 2.0 of the Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter (MVMC 2.0). The MVMC is a free Microsoft-supported, stand-alone solution for converting VMware virtual machines from VMware hosts to Hyper-V or Windows Azure. Get it here: http://aka.ms/mvmc. The interview with Matt begins at [10:40]. [11:05] What is the Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter (MVMC)?[11:40] How is the MVMC licensed?[12:10] What is the new in MVMC version 2.0?[12:55] Which versions of Hyper-V are supported as the dest...
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Get insight from DevOps experts in this panel interview shot live at TechEd NorthAmerica 2014 on the Channel 9 stage. On the panel we have Richard Seroter, Mickey Gousset, and Bradley Millington and we specifically cover these questions: [02:08] When have you seen Development, Operations, and the Business people work well or not together?[05:37] Are you seeing companies bring in new "DevOps" titled employees or are they hiring from existing employees? Why?[08:05] How does the Microsoft Azure team utilize DevOps principles in regards to people?[11:52] How are you seeing infrastructure as code making an impact with DevOps?[14:30] Where do you see process helping or hindering with D...
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In this episode Simon May interviews Chris Hallum from the Windows team about BitLocker pre-boot PIN in Windows 8.1 and they answer the question of why you probably don't need a pre-boot PIN any longer. BitLocker in Windows 8.1 and also potentially in Windows 7 when running on modern UEFI enabled hardware no longer need a pre-boot PIN because of enhancements in UEFI and also other components of Windows that make it harder for some common attack vectors to succeed. Here's how the episode breaks down for those time skippers: [08:26] : Interview [09:08] : Device Encryption vs BitLocker [12:23] : Protecting Devices with Pre-Boot Auth [13:46] : Why did we have pre-boot auth in the past? [16:50] ...
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See how to monitor global application availability with Application Insights in this demo-heavy interview with Principal Program Manager Vlad Joanovic. Vlad shows us how entirely from the cloud service Application Insights provides you can in minutes start monitoring availability of your website without need to install any agents or modify any code. Application Insights is a free preview right now connected to your Visual Studio Online account. In the technical interview that starts at [06:33], we cover: [07:33] What are the options to monitor availability and performance from Application Insights?[08:57] Demo: Availability Dashboard and creating a new application[10:35...
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It is hard to believe "the Edge Show" got started back in 2007 at TechEd Barcelona. Here we are, 100 episodes later and we're still going strong. The team members might have changed over the years, but the concept is still essentially the same - get relevant and interesting IT Pro technical content from members of the engineering teams, technical marketing teams and various executives and technical fellows in short digestible episodes that you can watch wherever and whenever you like. We decided to mix it up a little and reflect back on some of the more funny things that took place over the years, including the mandatory blooper clips to kick things off. But wait - there is more ...
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Evaluate your vms and servers to migrate to Microsoft Azure in this interview with Program Manager Mike Switzer. Mike digs into the Azure migration assessment capabilities for your entire environment using the free Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit. In the technical interview that starts at [06:12], we cover: How does the MAP toolkit work to do discovery of machines on the network?[08:24] Demo: Excel report of readiness for Windows and Linux machines to be migrated to Azure[11:12] Demo: presentation of data in the MAP toolkit GUI[14:19] Demo: Utilization reporting and Azure calculationsHow does it factor in the processor speed with a translation to Azure VM sizes?How often does the ...
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In this episode of the Edge show Simon May and David Tesar talk through the announcements from Build last week, including Windows 8.1 Update, Windows Phone 8.1, Cortana, the new Azure portal, Azure Express Route expanding to include BT and Verizon and the end of Windows XP support and how one bank dealt with it. David highlights his upcoming Microsoft Virtual Academy Jump Start for DevOps and Simon gives a shout out the MVA competition being run for UK residents where you can get a MVA Superheros T-Shirt! [10:40] Headline things for IT Pros [11:02] Usability, UI improvements [12:50] Pinning modern apps to the taskbar [13:13] Task bar previews [14:40] Modern app keyboard...
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In this episode Symon interviews John Howard, a Senior Program Manager on the Hyper-V Team, to discuss the features and benefits of Generation 2 Virtual Machines in Windows Server 2012 R2. Generation 2 Virtual Machines offer a variety of security and configuration benefits, taking advantage of the latest advances in hardware and driver virtualization. [00:30] What is a Generation 2 VM?[02:05] How does Generation 2 differ from Generation 1?Demo at [02:20] showing the differences between the different generations.[05:10] How does PowerShell differ when managing the different generations?[06:20] Why did Microsoft decide to create a new VM "generation&qu...
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In this episode Rick took the opportunity of a "captive" audience with Ned Pyle from his previous interview to ask him the age old question: "When should I use a Scale Out File Server vs a Traditional File Server Cluster". Ned chuckled and conceded that he gets asked this question ALL THE TIME. Check out the hopefully clear and definitive answer Ned provides. WARNING: Whiteboarding will take place. News: Windows Azure becomes Microsoft Azure Cyber threats to Windows XP and guidance for Small Businesses and Individual Consumers Microsoft becomes the first global public cloud provider in China with the general availability of Microsoft Azure Connect with ...
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In this episode Symon interviews Eamon O'Reilly, a Principal Program Manager Lead in System Center, to discuss the features and benefits of the Service Management Automation (SMA) in the Windows Azure Pack (WAP). SMA provides automation of administrative tasks (such as deploying virtual machines) through the WAP management portal, and integrates with System Center and Windows Server, while running on PowerShell workflows.. In this interview that starts at [07:05], we cover: [07:30] Why is automation important? [08:35] What are Microsoft's different automation solutions? [09:25] What is Service Management Automation?[10:05] What is the Windows Azure Pack? Demo ...
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In this episode of the Edge show Simon May and Rick Claus talk through the latest developments in the Microsoft world including an Office project called Oslo and the Concept of the Office Graph, the think about Life in the Digital Crosshairs or how Microsoft develops secure software and finally apparently Windows XP has almost reached it's end of service! Who knew there was only one patch Tuesday left for Windows XP...Simon and Rick apparently. In the interview for this episode Simon May talks to Adam Hall from the Cloud and Enterprise group (you'll have seen him on the TechEd main stage) about Hybrid Identity, which is the concept of extending your on-premises single-version-of t...
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Learn how you can utilize Chef to deploy Windows Azure resources in this DevOps interview with Senior Technical Evangelist Ross Gardler from MS Open Tech. Ross spends most of the time demoing how to initially deploy a Linux Chef server on Windows Azure, configure the Chef server, and connect the Chef client to the server - all using Chef knife-azure commands. More specifically at [07:28], we cover: [09:25] What is Chef used for?[10:20] Why is Microsoft integrating Windows Azure with Chef?[11:27] Demo: Deploying a new Windows Azure VM which runs Chef [15:40] Is there a gallery virtual machine image image which contains a Chef server?[13:45] Default.rb file to configure the Chef server[19:30]...
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In this episode of the Edge Show, Rick sits down with Ned Pyle - Senior PM on the File Server team to talk about changes to DFS in Windows Server 2012 R2 and how we've changed the staging and cloning capabilities. You might remember Ned from the "Ask DS" blog where he was a main contributor for the Directory Services team while working as a top level support engineer. Simon and Rick cover off some interesting bits from the interwebs, including: Active Directory Premium for Windows AzureNew Datacenters for Azure now available in JapanOneDrive is now liveAzure Express Route - aggregate traffic over private Equinix datacentersJump to Rick's interview with Ned here [11:14]....
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In this episode Symon interviews Bradley Bartz (Principal Program Manager Lead, Windows Azure) and Nagender Vedula (Principal Group Program Manager, System Center), to discuss the features and benefits of the Windows Azure Pack (WAP). The Windows Azure Pack is a collection of Windows Azure technologies that runs in your own datacenter, integrating with System Center and Windows Server to provide a self-service portal for managing services such as websites, virtual machines, SQL Server and more. In this interview that starts at [03:50], we cover: [04:40] What is the Windows Azure Pack? [05:30] Demo [10:00] Which Windows Server and System Center components are required for the WAP?...
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In this episode of the Edge show Simon May and Symon Perriman talk through what's new at Microsoft this week including highlights such as Microsoft's New CEO announcement, Symon Perriman and Matt McSpirit's upcoming jumpstart Virtualizing Your Data Center with Hyper-V and System Center, Microsoft and NBC's end-to-end live streaming of the Winter Olympics entirely in the cloud, including encoding, transcoding and streaming, for the first time in history. They then switch gears and look at some tools for Information workers and IT admins with announcements that Office 365 now supports PowerBI ( very cool technology for visualizing data) and Office 365 users can protect their user account...
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In this episode of the Edge show Simon May and Rick "Server Hugger, Cloud Lover!" Claus talk through some stuff that Microsoft released this week including the General Availability of Hyper-V Recovery manager. The Lync update for Windows Phone and iOS devices and the change of name from SkyDrive to OneDrive and OneDrive for business. Oh and one more thing, an IT Manager who's taken his Nokia Lumia1020 to the skies with a UEV. In the interview for this episode Rick talks to Gabriel Sliva about vRSS or virtual receive side scalling that lets your VMS really use all the bandwidth available to them Connect with the Edge Team: Follow @tnedgeFollow @SimonsterFollow @SymonPerrimanFo...
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In this special episode, the Edge Show welcomes new team member Simon May, a technical evangelist focusing on Enterprise Client. Simon joins the team from the United Kingdom, having worked as an evangelist there for several years. Also learn about what's coming up next for each of the "Channel 9 - The Edge News Team" - with the David Tesar, Symon Perriman, Rick Claus and "the new guy" Simon May. In the interview for this episode Symon talks with Michael Leworthy, a Senior Product Marketing Manager, to discuss server management with Configuration Manager. Since System Center 2012 R2 now includes every System Center component (SCOM, SCVMM,&...
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In this episode, Rick interviews Abhishek Gupta - a program manager in Microsoft Open Source Technology Center who works on the Linux Integration Services team. He goes through the new release functionality, availability for various distributions as well as previewing the new Generation 2 VM capabilities for Linux Guests. Some great reference information as well as demos showing off Linux Integration Services 3.5 goodness. News: Best Practices for Operating your Hybrid Cloud from Brad Anderson at "In the cloud" blog.Mixed Tape for Best Blog Posts for 2013 from the Ask PFE blog.Linux Integration Services v 3.5 available for download bl...
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In this episode, Rick interviews Abhishek Gupta - a program manager in Microsoft Open Source Technology Center who works on the Linux Integration Services team. He goes through the new release functionality, availability for various distributions as well as previewing the new Generation 2 VM capabilities for Linux Guests. Some great reference information as well as demos showing off Linux Integration Services 3.5 goodness. News: Best Practices for Operating your Hybrid Cloud from Brad Anderson at "In the cloud" blog.Mixed Tape for Best Blog Posts for 2013 from the Ask PFE blog.Linux Integration Services v 3.5 available for download bl...
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Dig into learn Windows Azure Traffic Manager and get the inside scoop in this interview with Principal Program Manager NK Srinivas. NK spends most of the time showing demos of how to use and configure traffic manager around three real world scenarios and also lets you know some of the future features of the service. In this interview that starts at [02:20], we cover: What is traffic manager used for?[04:04] Demo: Improving the end-user performance with Windows Azure Traffic Manager (WATM) [08:07] Are the cloud services that you can select as endpoints limited to a single subscription? [09:12] How did we come up with 300 seconds as the default DNS TTL?[10:30] How do you properly co...
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Learn the inside scoop on Windows Azure active directory premium in this interview with Senior Product Marketing Manager Nasos Kladakis. Nasos gives lots of demos of the new premium features and compares with the standard free functionality. In this interview that starts at [05:14], we cover: What is new with Windows Azure Active Directory since our Edge Show interview #69 on WAAD[06:40] What functionality is available in Windows Azure Active Directory Premium?[07:29] Demo: How to signup for the premium features?[08:40] Demo: How to configure a custom sign-in management portal?[09:30] Is there a way to reset the password in Windows Azure AD and have the password sync back to on-premise...
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Learn about the new Java (JEE) application performance monitoring (APM) capabilities provided by System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager as Symon interviews Program Manager Chris Herrman. This new Management Pack provides deep application health and performance insight and code-level analysis for Java applications. In this interview that starts at [12:15] we cover: Why does Microsoft invest in the Open Source community?[13:45] What is "DevOps" and how does it add agility to the application lifecycle?[15:30] What is Application Performance Monitoring (APM)?[16:30] How does APM differ from traditional Operations Manager monitoring?[16:45] What are the benefits of APM for IT pr...
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Get the inside scoop on how we put on the TechNet V-Labs infrastructure from the Lead Architect who constructed the solution. Did you ever wonder what happens when you launch one of the online labs? Well - listen to Corey Hynes from HOL Systems talk about what gets done and the technology used to pull it off. In this interview that starts at [09:56] Try out on of the TechNet V-Labs! News: Brad Anderson's blog - In The Cloud - Success with Hybrid Cloud Get the XBOX One SmartGlass app Nokia Bluetooth 4.0 LE Availability - details here Control Office Apps remotely with Windows Phone. Control your Essentials Role on Windows Server with "My Server 2012 R2" a...
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Learn the inside scoop on new capabilities around the new Microsoft Rights Management capabilities which have connections to Windows Azure AD in this interview with Sr. Program Manager Tejas Patel. We ask common questions, demo the iOS remote desktop client, and chat about some of the VDI enhancements in Windows Server 2012 R2. In this interview that starts at [13:14], we cover: Why do you even need rights management?[T015:00] What's new from Microsoft with rights management?[16:55] Demo Configuring the Office 365 service to Microsoft Rights Management [17:40] Activating the rights management service[18:58] Enabling IRM within SharePoint Online[20:05] Adding a workgroup with an information ...
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At [00:05] Symon Perriman meets with Elden Christensen, a Principal PM Manager on the Server Clustering team, to talk about new high-availability features in Windows Server 2012 R2. In this interview we cover: [00:55] What are the new improvements around Cluster Validation?[02:15] What are the networking changes and how has converged networking influenced this?[03:50] How has interoperability improved with Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV)?[04:55] How are Hyper-V clusters treated differently?[06:25] What is a "Shared VHDX" and why it is important for guest clusters?[08:25] Demo: Failover Cluster Manager enhancements[09:30] Demo: New quorum model with a dynamic witness disk[1...
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Learn the inside scoop on new capabilities around Linux integration with System Center 2012 R2 in this interview with Principal PM Manager Michael Kelley. Understand the System Center 2012 R2 integration points with various versions of Linux and see demos of it in action! In this interview that starts at [05:32], we cover: Why does Microsoft continue to invest in Linux?[07:40] What Linux distributions do we support?[09:35] How do we make Linux distributions work on Hyper-V?[12:33] What integration points does Linux have with System Center and the private cloud?[13:33] Demo: How does System Center Virtual Machine Manager interact with Linux VMs?[17:02] Demo: How does the Windows Azure Manage...
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Learn the inside scoop on the new Windows Remote Desktop App for iOS, Mac OSx, and Android in this interview with Sr. Product Manager Adam Carter. We ask common questions, demo the iOS remote desktop client, and chat about some of the VDI enhancements in Windows Server 2012 R2. In this interview that starts at [02:22], we cover: Why are we doing this? [03:55] Demo Microsoft RDP Client on iPad [04:20] Configuring the Remote Desktop published list from Windows Server 2012 R2 VDI deployment [05:18] Connecting up to Excel remote app and zoom, keyboard, list of other applications, switch to other applications [07:10] Playing YouTube video over RDP [07:52] Connecting up to Windows Desk...
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At [06:34] Symon Perriman meets with Won Huh, a Product Marketing Manager on the System Center team, to talk about the integration of Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) and Operations Manager (SCOM) in System Center 2012 R2. In this release, improved integration across these components has enabled new capabilities and scenarios for infrastructure provisioning and monitoring. First Won provides an introduction of the integration between VMM and SCOM and describes the requirements for configuration and cross-component communication. Next Won describes how VMM can take advantage of alerts and information sent from SCOM to respond to real-time infrastructure changes. The...
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Once again Rick chats with Brad Anderson, Vice President of Windows Server and System Center about wrapping up the 9 part blogging series from his "In The Cloud" blog. This is the third and final behind the scenes episode looking at the three planning pillars used to guide the development of Windows Server 2012 R2 and System Center 2012 R2. The whole blog series can be viewed at his "In The Cloud" blog. My interview with Brad kicks off after the news around the [07:32] mark. News: TechEd countdown show RETURNS Create SharePoint developer environments on Azure AppLocker design guide released Blog post on how Windows Phone devs can leverage web se...
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