Tag: Windows

Windows Server 8 is officially named Windows Server 2012

Microsoft just announced on MMS 2012 that the next release of windows server will be named Windows Server 2012.

Monitoring Windows Server 8 Beta with SCOM 2012

If you are curious like me,  always want to try the latest technologies and have lab environment you probably tried to monitor Windows Server 8 with SCOM 2012. I was lucky and right after I’ve installed the SCOM agent on Windows Server 8 it became healthy. But Cameron Fuller (one of the greatest SCOM experts) didn’t had this luck and stumbled upon some issues. Of course these couldn’t stop Cameron and he found workaround. Read how exactly he fixed his issue on the link below.

http://www.systemcentercentral.com/tabid/143/indexid/92833/default.aspx?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+systemcentercentral%2Fblogs+%28Blogs+at+System+Center+Central%29

Backup is going to the cloud also

Windows 8 have this feature to backup the server to the cloud. Until today there was not so much information about that except that the data will be backed up to Azure storage. Thanks to Technet blogs we now have more information on the matter. I think the most interesting feature is that third party companies can develop their own Online Backup solution by using API. Click on the link and learn.

http://blogs.technet.com/b/windowsserver/archive/2012/03/28/microsoft-online-backup-service.aspx

Microsoft Solution Accelerators for the Datacenter and Private Cloud Module 5 Part 1

This is Session 1 of Module 5 from Microsoft Solution Accelerators for the Datacenter and Private Cloud series. This video focuses again on Security Compliance Manager. This tool gives you baselines for security that you can follow and apply in your Private Cloud environment. Session is level 100. Click on the link and watch.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/edge/Hh916312

SQL Server in the Private Cloud Part 1

SQL is one of the applications form Tier 1 that is chosen to be  virtualized. SQL 2012 was RTM-ed this month and Darmadi Komo is offering level 100 session about Microsoft SQL Server 2012 in Virtualization and Private Cloud. Click on the link and watch.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/edge/Hh858467