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TechNet Radio: IT Time: PowerShell 3.0 – Working with Active Directory DS Module

ChrisCaldwell, TechNet Radio, Blain Barton — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:00:23 GMT

Blain Barton and the Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson are back and in today’s episode they discuss PowerShell 3.0 and the Active Directory Domain Services module. Tune in as they chat about how to deploy it as well as some common scenarios and gotchas you should be aware of.

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TechNet Radio: Best of TechEd 2013 - Community...the Hidden Gem

matthester, ChrisCaldwell, TechNet Radio — Sat, 15 Jun 2013 04:00:14 GMT

Live from the floor of TechEd 2013 New Orleans, Matt Hester welcomes Tiffany Wallace from New Horizons Computer Learning Centers as they chat about the importance of the IT Pro Community. Tune in as they chat about the valuable learning resources and connections that are available to IT Pros as well as how you can take advantage of this in your career.

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TechNet Radio: Cloud Innovators - Transaction and Application Monitoring Solutions with BlueStripe Software

ChrisCaldwell, TechNet Radio, Kevin Remde — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 04:00:20 GMT

Kevin Remde chats with Product Marketing Manager, Adam Long from BlueStripe Software as they discuss BlueStripe’s product FactFinder, which is a transaction and application monitoring tool which helps Operations Support teams manage IT systems availability and performance regardless of where it may reside…physical, virtual or cloud. Learn more about BlueStripe Software
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TechNet Radio: Cloud Innovators - Hybrid Network Offerings for Windows Azure and Hyper-V from F5

ChrisCaldwell, TechNet Radio, Kevin Remde — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 03:50:09 GMT

Kevin Remde joins us from TechEd 2013 in New Orleans as he chats with Jeffrey Bellamy, Director of Business Development at F5 Networks. Tune in as gives us a quick overview of some of their hybrid network offerings for Windows Azure and Hyper-V. Learn more about F5 Networks
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TechNet Radio: Cloud Innovators - Delivering Software Defined Cloud Networking Solutions with Arista Networks

ChrisCaldwell, TechNet Radio, Kevin Remde — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 03:30:48 GMT

Kevin Remde interviews Sr. Business Development Manager Joe Hielscher of Arista Networks from the floor at TechEd 2013 in New Orleans. Tune in as they chat about the latest features available from their cloud networking solutions and how they support a dynamic datacenter. Learn more about Arista Networks!

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TechNet Radio: Delivering Results – How Microsoft IT Secures Applications for the Cloud

ChrisCaldwell, TechNet Radio, Tommy Patterson — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 00:00:39 GMT

Tommy Patterson welcomes Sr. Security Engineer Varun Sharma to the show as they discuss how Microsoft IT secured their applications for the cloud. Tune in as they chat about the security process MSIT goes through when they move an application into the cloud as well as what user authentication considerations, risks and deployment techniques they must consider.

[1:47] How do security or compliance requirements play a role in selecting applications?
[5:28] Once an application has been selected to be moved to the cloud, how does MSIT build security into it? Is there a process that is followed?
[7:08] What about user authentication to web sites that hosted on Windows Azure? Does the design change for that as well vs. on-premise hosted web sites?
[8:50] What about phone or windows 8 modern apps? How do they authenticate to services that are hosted on azure?
[12:10] What are some of the unique risks or security issues that apply to azure applications?
[15:54] How are these applications deployed securely to Windows Azure?

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TechNet Radio: Taste of Premier – How Premier Delivers Value to Our Customers

ChrisCaldwell, TechNet Radio, Lex Thomas — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 16:00:39 GMT

Lex Thomas welcomes Sr. Technical Account Manager Mike Mitchell to the show as they discuss the value and benefits Microsoft Premier Support brings to customers. Tune in as they chat about the Service Delivery Management process, technical resources and support Microsoft offers to its customers as well as how you can engage a Technical Account Manager to meet and attain your datacenter, development and IT infrastructure goals.

[2:04] What is Microsoft Premier Support and how do they work with customers?
[3:09] What’s the value of having a dedicated Technical Account Manager?
[4:28] What’s the customer experience like when dealing with a TAM?
[11:07] How is success measured?

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TechNet Radio: (Part 4) Infrastructure as a Service: Windows Azure vs. Amazon & Rackspace

matthester, ChrisCaldwell, TechNet Radio — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 13:30:19 GMT

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In Part 4 of our Windows Azure IaaS series Matt Hester welcomes Microsoft MVP Jeffrey Palermo to the show as they compare the features and benefits of Amazon Web Services, Rackspace and Windows Azure Infrastructure as a Service. Tune in as they chat candidly about user experiences between the three as well as which capabilities stand out in Azure vs. its competitors.

[2:35] What is your experience with AWS and Rackspace?
[5:12] Looking at Amazon vs. Rackspace vs. Azure, what features changed your opinion on why you should use Azure?
[9:10] How does Azure help expedite the deployment of infrastructure and applications?
[13:30] What innovations are you seeing in disaster recovery?
[15:30] Do you see customers wanting hybrid deployment where the data is sometimes in the cloud and sometimes on their physical servers?
[17:50] What are some of the new features in Azure that you are excited about?
[26:02] What else about the cloud are you excited about?

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TechNet Radio: Virtually Speaking with Yung Chou–Moving from VMware to Hyper-V

ChrisCaldwell, TechNet Radio, Yung Chou on Hybrid Cloud, Keith Mayer — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 17:30:36 GMT

Yung Chou and Keith Mayer welcome Server Administrator Brandon Dewar to the show, as he shares with us how his organization has made the decision to move from VMware to Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012. Tune in as they discuss what made Hyper-V and Windows Server 2012 so compelling, what their favorite features are and how they employ Hyper-v daily in their work environment.

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TechNet Radio: Cloud Innovators – Managing Your Cloud Environment with Cognizant Cloud360

ChrisCaldwell, TechNet Radio, Kevin Remde — Thu, 30 May 2013 21:45:10 GMT

Kevin Remde welcomes Managing Director at Cognizant Technology Solutions, Ramesh Panuganty to the show as they discuss their product Cloud360, an enterprise-class cloud management platform that helps you quickly and cost-effectively deploy, manage and operate applications on private, public and hybrid clouds. Tune in as they discuss its features and benefits as well as how you can get started with this powerful cloud management service. Click here to learn more about Cloud360!

[2:55] What is Cloud360?
[4:10] Give us an example of how Cloud360 has benefitted one of your customers
[6:58] Say I’m running a business that uses both VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V for datacenter virtualization and I’m also interested in taking advantage of Windows Azure Infrastructure services --- what can Cloud360 do for me?
[9:29] DEMO: Cloud360 in action
[17:13] Does Cloud360 integrate with cloud management tools like System Center 2012?
[21:05 ] How do I get more information about Cloud360?

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TechNet Radio: Exchange Ideas – All about Modern Public Folders

ChrisCaldwell, TechNet Radio — Thu, 30 May 2013 03:00:59 GMT

Microsoft MVP Siegfried Jagott hosts this Exchange Ideas episode and in today’s show he welcomes Brian Day and Kanika Ramji from the Exchange team as they discuss anything and everything public folders for Exchange Server 2013. Tune in for this in-depth Q&A session and learn about the top FAQs from requirements, migration & deployment, management and backup.
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[1:15] What’s new with modern public folders compared to legacy public folders?
[2:18] How are public folders stored in mailboxes? When I run out of public folder mailbox space are new ones created automatically?
[6:33] How do you migrate from traditional public folders to modern public folders?
[7:24] How do you migrate your public folders to Exchange Online? Do I need a hybrid deployment?
[8:27] Can on-premise users access their public folders in Exchange Online and vice-versa?
[9:30 ] Are there tips and tricks available for a successful migration?
[10:40] What management tools are available to manage my public folders?
[12:04] How do you backup and restore modern public folders?

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TechNet Radio: IT Time - (Part 2) Upgrading from Windows Server 2008 to Windows Server 2012 – Hyper-V and Virtual Machine Considerations

ChrisCaldwell, TechNet Radio, Blain Barton, Tommy Patterson — Thu, 23 May 2013 11:00:58 GMT

In part 2 of their upgrading to Windows 2012 series Blain Barton and Tommy Patterson take us through the considerations you need to make for Hyper-V and Virtual Machines. Tune in as they discuss the best way to upgrade your Hyper-V infrastructure, how to consolidate folder locations, and various ways to import your VMs.

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TechNet Radio: Delivering Results - How Microsoft.com Scales Using Windows Server 2012

ChrisCaldwell, TechNet Radio, Tommy Patterson — Wed, 22 May 2013 11:00:27 GMT

Tommy Patterson welcomes Sr. Service Engineering Manager, George Holman to the show as he shares with us how his team used Windows Server 2012 to help scale and improve the performance of Microsoft.com. Tune in as he describes the noticeable difference between Server 2012 vs. previous versions of Windows Server, as well as outlines how his team planned for and deployed it in their environment.

[1:28] What was the situation? Describe some of the challenges surrounding Microsoft.com and their need to scale
[3:28] How did MSIT deploy Windows Server 2012 for MSCOM?
[11:39] What were the results?
[13:21] Can you share with us some deployment best practices?

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TechNet Radio: IT Time - (Part 1) Upgrading from Windows Server 2008 to Windows Server 2012 – Overview

ChrisCaldwell, TechNet Radio, Blain Barton — Tue, 21 May 2013 11:00:48 GMT

Its IT Time and in today’s episode Blain Barton walks us through the necessary steps and considerations you should think about when upgrading from Windows Server 2008 to Windows Server 2012. Tune in as he lays out the necessary hardware and disk requirements, which Windows Clients and Servers are supported as well as what Functional Levels, Operations Master Roles and Active Directory changes you need to be made aware of.

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TechNet Radio: Taste of Premier - Multi-Forest Directory Consolidation with Office 365-D/ITAR

ChrisCaldwell, TechNet Radio, Lex Thomas — Mon, 20 May 2013 15:00:41 GMT

Lex Thomas welcomes Rabih Andari and George Bryan from the Microsoft Consulting Services team as they discuss a tool they developed that helps migrate large organizations to Office 365. Tune in as they share with us an interesting case study on how this tool helped automate the process in which they consolidated a very complex multi-forest, multi-domain environment without any interruption of service while saving the company millions of dollars.

[3:56] What was the situation? How did Microsoft Consulting Services help?
[8:22] What was the customer experience like?
[12:15] How is this migration tool different from other tools / services in the market?
[17:50] How does the migration process actually work?
[20:05] How does this all work from a technical standpoint?
[36:20] How can customers interested in this service contact you?

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TechNet Radio: Virtually Speaking with Yung Chou (Part 2) - Deploying & Managing a Service in the Cloud – Service Templates

ChrisCaldwell, TechNet Radio, Yung Chou on Hybrid Cloud, Keith Mayer — Fri, 17 May 2013 01:37:55 GMT

Yung Chou , Keith Mayer and Greg Shields from Concentrated Technology are back for part 2 of their deploying and managing a service in the cloud series and in today's episode they demo for us how to plan for and deploy RDS using System Center 2012 SP1 Virtual Machine Manager Service Templates. Tune in for this great follow-up episode and preview of an upcoming TechEd 2013 session.

[7:18] DEMO: How to integrate RDS into a Virtual Machine Service template? (TechEd 2013 session Preview)
[12:16] DEMO: Pre-Installed Scripts for IT Pros to start using the cloud now for everyday tasks like RDS

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TechNet Radio: Virtually Speaking with Yung Chou (Part 1) - Deploying and Managing a Service in the Cloud - Overview

ChrisCaldwell, TechNet Radio, Yung Chou on Hybrid Cloud, Keith Mayer — Wed, 15 May 2013 01:00:36 GMT

Yung Chou and Keith Mayer and welcome Greg Shields from Concentrated Technology to the show as they discuss the differences between virtualization and cloud computing and how the two complement each other as well as how you can take the principles you learned from virtualization and apply them to the cloud. In part 1 of their series, Greg compares the old way of deploying services and shows us how to do it in System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager.

[2:57] What’s the difference between virtualization and cloud computing?
[3:50] Why do I need cloud computing if I already do virtualization?
[5:18] How do we take what we learned from virtualization and apply that to the cloud?
[9:15] DEMO: Deploying services the old way vs. deploying it via Virtual Machine Manager

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TechNet Radio: (Part 13) Building a Private Cloud with System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 – Managing Your Hybrid Cloud Network

ChrisCaldwell, TechNet Radio, Yung Chou on Hybrid Cloud, Keith Mayer — Thu, 09 May 2013 11:00:39 GMT

We’re here for the final part in our Building a Private Cloud series and in today’s episode Keith Mayer and Yung Chou show us to manage our hybrid cloud environment with System Center 2012 SP1 App Controller. Tune in as they demo for us how to get started with this service as well as wrap up this fantastic series.

[1:33] Recap: Building a Private Cloud series
[2:38] How to manage a Hybrid Cloud environment with System Center 2012 SP1 App Controller?
[11:15] DEMO: Hybrid Cloud Management with App Controller
[24:25] Summary: Building a Private Cloud series

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TechNet Radio: Delivering Results Using Windows Server 2012 – Dynamic Access Control

ChrisCaldwell, TechNet Radio, Tommy Patterson — Thu, 09 May 2013 01:00:22 GMT

Tommy Patterson welcomes Principal Program Manager, Mark Lawrence to the show as they discuss how Microsoft IT used Windows Server 2012 Dynamic Access Control to help secure and improve access management to key infrastructure and line-of business applications to users and business groups within the company. Tune in as they lay out an extensive case study describing the situation, the solution and benefits to adopting Windows Server 2012 in their own IT environment.

[2:00] What was the situation? Describe some of the challenges which required MSIT to implement Dynamic Access Control
[3:28] How was it resolved?
[10:44] Describe some of the benefits to implementing a Windows Server 2012 DAC enhanced management environment

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TechNet Radio: (Part 12) Building a Private Cloud with System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 – Building a Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure using Windows Azure

ChrisCaldwell, TechNet Radio, Yung Chou on Hybrid Cloud, Keith Mayer — Tue, 07 May 2013 11:00:32 GMT

In Part 12 of their Building a Private Cloud series, Keith Mayer and Yung Chou explore the world of hybrid cloud scenarios using Windows Azure Virtual Networks. Tune in as they walk us through some common scenarios where IT Pros may find it more appealing to deploy a hybrid datacenter solution as they explain what components are required and how to build out and configure both your cloud and local networks.

[1:20] Recap: Building a Private Cloud
[2:30] What is IaaS? Why would IT Pros be interested in “Infrastructure as a Service” as part of a Hybrid Cloud solution?
[5:50] What is Windows Azure Virtual Networks? What are some common scenarios for it?
[14:44] How should I plan for Azure Virtual Networks? What do I need to do to get started?
[20:10] DEMO: Building out our Cloud Network
[28:14] DEMO: Building out our definitions for our local network
[37:56] DEMO: Configuring our on-premise VPN gateway

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TechNet Radio: (Part 11) Building a Private Cloud with System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 – Dynamic Optimization of the Private Cloud Fabric

ChrisCaldwell, TechNet Radio, Yung Chou on Hybrid Cloud, Keith Mayer — Thu, 02 May 2013 11:00:58 GMT

Continuing their Building a Private Cloud with System Center 2012 SP1 series, Keith Mayer and Yung Chou walk us through the steps needed to dynamically optimize our virtual machines. Tune in as they show us how to set the reserve capacity for our hosts, balance VM loads, set-up auto live migrations and optimize our power consumption.

[1:08] Recap: Building a Private Cloud
[4:33] How important is Dynamic Optimization?
[11:25] DEMO: How to optimize the utilization of our Fabric
[12:05] DEMO: How to set reserve capacity for our hosts
[16:05] DEMO: How to balance the VM load
[18:06] DEMO: How to set up Auto Live Migration
[22:49] DEMO: How to optimize our power consumption

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TechNet Radio: Taste of Premier - Cyber Security and How to Protect Your Assets

ChrisCaldwell, TechNet Radio, Lex Thomas — Wed, 01 May 2013 13:00:48 GMT

Lex Thomas welcomes Principal Cyber Security Architect, Michael Howard to the show as they discuss the importance of protecting your applications and datacenter. Tune in as they offer some practical advice and how you can adopt the Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) as well as how you can get started securing your own environment.

[2:29] How important is Cyber Security and what is the Security Development Lifecycle Threat Modeling Tool?
[7:11] What advice do you have for people trying to address their Security concerns?
[12:55] How do I get started with the SDL?

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TechNet Radio: (Part 10) Building a Private Cloud with System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 – Protecting Your Private Cloud with Data Protection Manager

ChrisCaldwell, TechNet Radio, Yung Chou on Hybrid Cloud, Keith Mayer — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 11:00:03 GMT

We’ve hit Part 10 in our Building a Private Cloud with System Center 2012 SP1 series, and in today’s episode Keith Mayer and Yung Chou discuss how you can protect your newly created private cloud with Data Protection Manager. Tune in as they discuss disaster recovery solutions and performance enhancements as well as demo for us how to setup and configure DPM for your environment and then lay out the process for backing up your servers and how DPM integrates with Virtual Machine Manager.

[1:49] What is Data Protection Manager?
[6:40] How much faster can we backup Hyper-V hosts with DPM?
[10:14] DEMO: How to Setup & Configure Data Protection Manager
[20:12] DEMO: Process of backing up a server
[32:21] DEMO: Integration between Data Protection Manager and Virtual Machine Manager

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TechNet Radio: (Part 9) Building a Private Cloud with System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 – Updating the Private Cloud Fabric

ChrisCaldwell, TechNet Radio, Yung Chou on Hybrid Cloud, Keith Mayer — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 11:00:06 GMT

In part 9 of their Building a Private Cloud with System Center 2012 SP1 , Keith Mayer and Yung Chou tackle the process of servicing and updating our private cloud applications and the underlying fabric. Tune in as they show us step-by-step how to update our service templates as well as how to apply and manage critical updates to our applications.

[2:22] Recap: Building a Private Cloud
[4:30] Updating the Private Cloud Fabric
[6:31] DEMO: How to Service Private Cloud Apps
[21:53] DEMO: How to Update the Private Cloud Fabric with Virtual Machine Manager

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TechNet Radio: (Part 8) Building a Private Cloud with System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 – Deploying & Managing Private Cloud Applications

ChrisCaldwell, TechNet Radio, Yung Chou on Hybrid Cloud, Keith Mayer — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 11:00:37 GMT

In Part 8 of their Building a Private Cloud with System Center 2012 SP1 , Keith Mayer and Yung Chou explore the topic of how to deploy and manage your applications to the Private Cloud. Tune in as they discuss how to setup and create profiles for your virtual machine templates

[1:10] Recap: Building a Private Cloud Series
[2:42] How do we deploy applications to our Private Cloud?
[6:40] DEMO: How do we create new Virtual Machine templates and modify profiles?
[19:38] What is a Service Template and why are they important?
[23:40 DEMO: How do I create & manage my private cloud applications with Service Templates?
[31:10] DEMO: Where do I get web application packages?
[33:41] DEMO: What about SQL database packages?

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