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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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The Windows Server 2012 "Early Experts" Challenge provides a FREE online study group with certification exam preparation materials for quickly learning about the latest version of Windows Server! The Challenge involves a series of Knowledge Quests - starting with the Apprentice Quest below - and each Quest ends with a special completion certificate for you to promote your new knowledge! To make it easy to participate, each Quest is developed in a modular format that you can complete based on your own schedule and availability.

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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: (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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SharePoint on Windows Azure

David Tesar — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 23:56:13 GMT

In this episode, learn how Windows Azure IaaS can support a small or large SharePoint infrastructure, including our newly released SharePoint 2013 gallery image along with PowerShell to automate. David Tesar met with Paul Stubbs for Edge Show #60 to discuss the architecture and deployment considerations as well as demo how to get an initial SharePoint 2013 farm running in Windows Azure. Download an eval of Windows Azure.

In this interview that starts at [03:33] , we cover:

Why would you want to run SharePoint on Windows Azure versus running SharePoint Online in Office 365?
[06:02] Basic Windows Azure architecture foundation diagram
[06:48] Classic N-tier SharePoint site architecture with internet facing presence and hybrid
[08:45] What are some general guidelines around scaling up or out SharePoint 2013 on Windows Azure?
[10:11] Private Hybrid SharePoint site architecture
[14:11] What are the unique advantages of running SharePoint on Windows Azure?
[10:52] SharePoint on Windows Azure pricing calculator spreadsheet
[15:28] Demo – Creating a new SharePoint farm entirely in Windows Azure from gallery images of Windows Server 2012, SQL, and SharePoint 2013

News:

Demo of the major things that have changed with Windows Azure Virtual Machines since the General availability on 4/16/2013.

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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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TWC9: VS 2012.3 CTP1, Windows Azure IaaS, ALM VM's, NFC, UX resources and Kitties!

Clint Rutkas, Greg Duncan, Peter Dwersteg — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 23:41:30 GMT

This week on Channel 9, Peter and Clint discuss the week's top developer news, including;

[00:32] Visual Studio 2012 Update 3 CTP 1, Description of Visual Studio 2012 Update 3 CTP 1
[01:06] Windows Azure: General Availability of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) (Scott Guthrie)
[01:58] Microsoft.Bcl.Async is Now Stable (Immo Landwerth)
[02:35] What’s Visual Studio’s Code Map All About? (Richard Banks)
[03:43] List of all Visual Studio ALM Virtual Machines (http://aka.ms/ALMVMs), Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 ALM Virtual Machine and Hands-on-Labs / Demo Scripts Now Available (Brian Keller)
[04:19] Develop a cutting edge app with NFC (Priya Dandawate)
[05:15] UX/UI Design the benefits of building prototype, even if you have only initial sketches of your prototype. (Lee Stott )
[06:47] Where can I get some tips and guidance design resources? (Lee Stott)
[07:25] App Art (Jeremy Foster)
[08:16] Developer Must-Have: 125+ Apps for Office and SharePoint Code Samples (Ricardo Loo )
[08:58] WorldWide Telescope Sharpens it's Visuals with SharpDX (Jonathan Fay)

Picks of the Week!

Peter's Pick of the Week:[10:43] Kitty Radar Cat Detector (Lucy Black), http://harthur.github.io/kittydar/ (Heather Arthur)
Clint's Pick of the Week:[12:15] Xbox 360 “Achievement Unlocked” sound as a visual (Major Nelson)

Episode 105 - General Availability of Windows Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

Michael Washam, Nathan Totten, Nick Harris — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 17:11:09 GMT

In this episode Nick Harris and Nate Totten are joined by Senior Windows Azure PMs Michael Washam and Drew McDaniel. During this episode Drew and Michael discusses the Windows Azure Virtual Machine General availability announcement, price reduction, new VM image RAM + OS disk size increase, updates for security, remote PowerShell and updates to the PowerShell Management cmdlets.

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TechNet Radio: (Part 3) Hybrid Windows Azure IaaS Scenarios – Migrating SharePoint to Windows Azure

matthester, ChrisCaldwell, TechNet Radio, Keith Mayer — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 11:00:30 GMT

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In Part 3 of our Windows Azure IaaS series Matt Hester and Keith Mayer discuss common scenarios in which IT Pros may use Windows Azure as a hybrid solution between their on-premise and cloud service needs. Tune in as they discuss disaster recovery and storage as well as how to migrate your SharePoint environment to a VM running on Azure.

[1:46] What is a Hybrid Cloud environment? Is this more appealing to IT Pros?
[3:36] What are some common Hybrid Cloud scenarios? Let’s talk about storage and Disaster Recovery first…
[9:09] What about SharePoint in an Azure VM?
[11:02] What are some reasons why IT Pros are interested in hosting SharePoint on VMs in Azure?
[13:21] How is this different than Office 365 SharePoint Online? What are the benefits in both scenarios?
[16:01] DEMO: How should I plan out my Azure VM environment in this situation?
[24:42] DEMO: How to Configure SharePoint in Azure Virtual Machines

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TechNet Radio: (Part 5) Building a Private Cloud with System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 – Configuring Network Fabric in Virtual Machine Manager

ChrisCaldwell, TechNet Radio, Yung Chou on Hybrid Cloud, Keith Mayer — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 11:00:17 GMT

We’re here for Part 5 of the Building a Private Cloud with System Center 2012 SP1 series, and in today’s episode Keith Mayer and Yung Chou show us how to configure network fabric in Virtual Machine Manager. Tune in for this demo heavy session as they show us how to architect our physical networks and bring them into VMM as they help us define our logical and VM networks and then create and assigning our switches and gateways.

[3:32] Recap: How to manage Networking
[13:05] How do you configure these network components into Virtual Machine Manager?
[14:16] DEMO: Defining Two Logical Networks | Define Network Sites/ Subnets | Creating IP Pools
[26:50 DEMO: How to Create VM Networks
[38:44] What are logical switches?
[43:03] DEMO: How to Create & Assign Logical Switches in Virtual Machine Manager

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TechNet Radio: (Part 2) Windows Azure Virtual Machine FAQs

matthester, ChrisCaldwell, TechNet Radio — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 14:00:46 GMT

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We’re here for part 2 of our Windows Azure IaaS series and in this episode we tackle the top Windows Azure Virtual Machines FAQs and common gotchas. Tune in for this Q&A session and get the answers to some of the most common issues we’ve seen customers run into plus stick around for a quick demo on how to setup and create your own virtual network.

[1:48] Help! My Virtual Machine disappeared!! What happened?
[5:44] What is the Temporary Drive(D:) and why should I be worried about it?
[7:30] Are VHDs deleted by default when you delete virtual machines?
[10:03] Can I use PowerShell in Azure?
[11:25] Why am I having RDP connectivity problems?
[15:20] What about securing my Azure Virtual Machine? What do I need to know?
[19:32] Virtual Networks 101: What is it and why is it important?
[23:12] DEMO: How to create a Virtual Network in Windows Azure

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Matt Hester’s Blog
Hari Dogiparthi’s Blog
Read the article: “Windows Azure Virtual Machines FAQs and Common Gotchas”
Read the article: “Security Best Practices for Windows Azure”

Videos:

(Part 1) Infrastructure as a Service – Windows Azure Virtual Machines & What’s in it for You

Virtual Labs:

Windows Azure Virtual Labs

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TechNet Radio: (Part 1) Infrastructure as a Service – Windows Azure Virtual Machines & What’s in it for You

matthester, ChrisCaldwell, TechNet Radio — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 13:30:47 GMT

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Matt Hester kicks off his 8 part Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) series and in today’s episode he welcomes Chief Technical Evangelist for the Cloud, Brian Prince to the show as they give us an overview of Microsoft’s IaaS platform, aka Windows Azure Virtual Machines. Tune in as they build a case for why both developers and IT Professionals should consider using this service as well as how to get started and create your own Azure Virtual Machine in minutes.

[1:44] What’s “DevOps”?
[4:52] How does IaaS affect me? What is Windows Azure Virtual Machines?
[6:02] Tesla vs. Edison? Umm…I thought we were talking about Azure? How does this story fit in exactly?
[13:01] Ok, I get it…now what’s the deal with PaaS (Platform as a Service)? How is this different than IaaS?
[21:13] DEMO: How to setup and create an Azure Virtual Machine

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EdgeShow 56 - Windows Azure PowerShell Demos

David Tesar, Joey Snow — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 04:50:50 GMT

David Tesar met with Michael Washam to discuss the new updates to Windows Azure PowerShell with lots of demos. Download an eval of Windows Azure.

In this interview that starts at [05:10] , we cover:

[06:32] Demo - Using PowerShell to copy files from on premise to blob storage
[09:42] Demo - Using PowerShell to copy VHD files from one storage account to another and monitor its status
[16:02] Demo - Using PowerShell to upload a VHD file from on-premise to Windows Azure using add-AzureVHD. Also adding a blank disk to the repository.
[19:18] Demo - Using PowerShell to save a VHD from Windows Azure to on-Premise using Save-AzureVhd

News:

AD to Windows Azure AD to Quickstart Guide now available! http://aka.ms/AD2AAD
Updates to Windows 8 Mail, Calendar, People
Now Available in the Windows Phone Store: Lync 2013 App
Office Hours Live with Joey and Rick (in person!). For more details on scheduled stops and registration links, check out. http://aka.ms/officehourslive.
The EdgeShow will be LIVE in Las Vegas at MMS 2013 with MORE technical interviews. (http://www.2013mms.com/)
Updated Windows Azure PS tools now available!

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TechNet Radio: Virtualization and Cloud Experts Café: System Center 2012 SP1 Enhancements & Windows Azure Services for Windows Server

ChrisCaldwell, TechNet Radio, Harold Wong — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 17:30:40 GMT

Harold Wong welcomes Sr. Marketing Manager John Allwright to the show as they discuss the latest enhancements made to System Center 2012 SP1 and the new capabilities found within Windows Azure Services for Windows Server. Tune in as they chat about Virtual Networking, Global Service Monitor and the Service Provider Foundation API as well as demo for us how this all fits into an integrated Cloud OS service model.

[9:27] DEMO: Windows Azure Services for Windows Server

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Step #3 – Download Your FREE Copy of Hyper-V Server 2012

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TechNet Radio: (Part 3) Building a Private Cloud with System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 – Deploying & Upgrading to System Center 2012 SP1 Virtual Machine Manager

ChrisCaldwell, TechNet Radio, Yung Chou on Hybrid Cloud, Keith Mayer — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 01:00:33 GMT

Back for Part 3 of their Building a Private Cloud with System Center 2012 SP1, Keith Mayer and Yung Chou show us how to deploy and upgrade to System Center 2012 SP1 Virtual Machine Manager. Tune in as they introduce some key VMM components and take us through an in-depth deployment and upgrading demo.

[1:15] Recap: Episode 1 & 2
[8:28] What is System Center 2012 SP1 Virtual Machine Manager? Why is it important?
[23:27] DEMO: Deploying System Center 2012 SP Virtual Machine Manager
[39:39] DEMO: How to upgrade from System Center 2012 RTM VMM to SP1

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Microsoft Tools for VMware Migration and Integration: (04) Migrate VMware VMs using Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter

JeffKoch, Symon Perriman — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 18:10:53 GMT

This final module dives deep into configuration and provides visibility into Microsoft supported free utilities for conversion to Hyper-V. Additionally you will see demos of virtual machine conversion and offline disk conversion.

[02:44] - Overview
[17:25] - Conversion steps
[28:09] - Supported configurations
[35:14] - Demo: VM Conversion
[49:25] - Demo: Offline Disk Conversion

Full course outline:

Mod 01: Manage VMware with SC2012 SP1 Virtual Machine Manager
Mod 02: Monitor VMware with SC2012 SP1 Operations Manager and Veeam
Mod 03: Manage VMware with SC2012 SP1 Orchestrator
Mod 04: Migrate VMware VMs using Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter

Microsoft DevRadio: (Part 15) Practical Azure with Jim O’Neil – Windows Azure Virtual Machines – Part 2

Jim O'Neil, DevRadio, ChrisCaldwell — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 11:00:44 GMT

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In Part 15 of his Windows Azure series, Jim O’Neil expands on his Windows Azure Virtual Machine presentation, by showing us how to create a custom VM image based on a previous template, which would then allow for easier scale up or scale down capabilities in the event your site becomes wildly popular.

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Step #3 – Start building your own Apps for Windows 8

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Microsoft DevRadio: (Part 14) Practical Azure with Jim O’Neil – Windows Azure Virtual Machines - Part 1

Jim O'Neil, DevRadio, ChrisCaldwell — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 12:00:08 GMT

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In Part 14 of his Windows Azure series, Jim O’Neil discusses Windows Azure Virtual Machines, the Infrastructure as a Service offering found in Azure. Tune in as Jim shows us how you can deploy your code to the cloud using this option as he lays out the differences between Azure VMs, Cloud Services, Web Sites and your On-Premise Datacenter. He then demos how to get started with Azure VMs and how to deploy a sample application to it.

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EdgeShow 53 - Windows Azure Virtual Machines Demos

David Tesar — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 09:00:00 GMT

At [07:36] David Tesar meets with Drew McDaniel, Senior PM in Windows Azure. Drew quickly covers the scenarios in which we see customers using Windows Azure IaaS and then we dig in with demos of Windows Azure VMs, including creating gallery images with Windows Server and Linux.

One important note to point out: when you run a Windows Server VM in Windows Azure, you don't need to pay for an additional license for Windows Server—it's included with your purchased Windows Azure compute hours.

We more specifically cover:

[09:33] Demo: Creating a new Virtual Machine from gallery image
[16:07] Demo: Linux Images available through VMDepot
[17:55] Demo: Connecting to a VM in Windows Azure and how this works with open endpoints. How do you connect to multiple VMs over RDP with a single public IP?
[19:47] Demo: Tip on how to ensure you don't get charged for extra compute usage
[21:20] What happens when you delete a running VM? Will it perform a graceful shutdown?
[21:45] Demo: Tip on how to ensure you don't get charged for extra storage usage
[23:05] How does Windows Azure calculate disk storage usage?
[24:09] What happens when you upload a dynamic disk that only uses a portion of available space?

News:

The next major version of Office 365 has hit general availability + top 4 Office 365 features picked by David & Symon
[05:00] Check out the new Garage series of videos for IT Pros
[05:19] IE 10 is now generally available for Windows 7
[06:37] UAG Service Pack 3 is now available

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How to Batch Export Virtual Machines in Windows Server 2012

ChrisCaldwell, Jialiang Ge — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 13:30:11 GMT

In a typical IT enterprise environment, the IT admins need to back up virtual machines periodically to protect against loss. While exporting a large number of virtual machines is challenging. This video shows you how to batch export multiple virtual machines with one command line in Windows Server 2012.

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TechNet Radio: Managing App-V 5 Virtual Applications with System Center 2012 Configuration Manager SP1

ChrisCaldwell, TechNet Radio, Keith Mayer — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 17:00:11 GMT

Keith Mayer and Wally Mead continue their “What’s New” in System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Service Pack 1 series and in today’s episode they discuss how you can manage App-V 5 Virtual Applications. Tune in as they demo its new capabilities as well as walk us through a deployment of a virtual application in Config Manager 2012 SP1.

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Step #3 – Download Your FREE Copy of Hyper-V Server 2012

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How to Batch Rename Virtual Machines in Windows Server 2012

ChrisCaldwell — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 13:00:03 GMT

In an IT enterprise environment, there is usually an existing pool of multiple virtual machines IT administrators need to manage on a daily basis. As the number of virtual machines increases, it becomes ever challenging to change the names of multiple virtual machine names. This videos shows how to change multiple virtual machine names at the same time.

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TechNet Radio: IT Time – (Part 2) Real World Azure - Deploying a Custom SharePoint Application to Windows Azure

ChrisCaldwell, TechNet Radio, Blain Barton — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 12:00:40 GMT

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Abstract:
Blain Barton and Don Noonan are back and in today’s episode they show us the what’s possible in Windows Azure by deploying a SharePoint application in Azure Virtual Machines. Tune in as Don demos a custom SharePoint application that was created for Price Waterhouse Coopers and how they took it from on-premise and deployed it in Azure.

After watching this video, follow these next steps:

Step #1 – Start Your Free 90 Day Trial of Windows Azure
Step #2 – Download Windows Server 2012
Step #3 – Begin building your own Virtual Machines in Windows Azure!

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Resources:

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Virtual Labs:

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TechNet Radio: IT Time - (Part 1) Real World Azure - Migrating a Classic 3-Tier Application to Windows Azure

ChrisCaldwell, TechNet Radio, Blain Barton — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 16:00:45 GMT

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Abstract:
Blain Barton welcomes Cloud Architect for Skylera, Don Noonan to the show as they kick off their “Real World Azure” series by discussing Windows Azure and its Infrastructure as a Service platform. In today’s episode they discuss a scenario which details how you would migrate and manage a classic 3 tier application to Windows Azure.

After watching this video, follow these next steps:

Step #1 – Start Your Free 90 Day Trial of Windows Azure
Step #2 – Download Windows Server 2012
Step #3 – Begin building your own Virtual Machines in Windows Azure!

If you're interested in learning more about the products or solutions discussed in this episode, click on any of the below links for free, in-depth information:

Resources:

Websites & Blogs:

Virtual Labs:

MSDN Virtual Labs: Windows Azure

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