Virtualization

This week, our adventurous hosts tackle one of the most requested topics, managing Office in virtualized environments from the entire desktop to hosting the application on Remote Desktop Server with Office 365. They explain virtualization options, licensing implications and even demonstrate how to…

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…

In today’s “Building a Hybrid Cloud” episode, Keith Mayer and Brian Lewis demo for us how build and manage our compute fabric with System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager. Tune in as they discuss the many challenges IT Pros face today when trying to manage multiple virtualization hosts both…

In today’s “Building a Hybrid Cloud” episode, Keith Mayer and Brian Lewis show us how you can manage your data storage with System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager (VMM). Tune in as they discuss some of the major challenges facing IT organizations today regarding storage costs and…

Dan Stolts welcomes back Jose Barreto to the show and this time brings along Sr. Program Manager Ned Pyle from the Windows File Server team as they take a “Shakespearian” look at whether or not you should Scale Out your File Servers. Tune in as they give us a quick overview of how these technologies…

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) is today’s topic in our "Building a Hybrid Cloud" series and Keith Mayer and Jennelle Crothers help walk us through VDI improvements made in Windows Server 2012 R2. [1:44] Series Review[9:21] VDI features in Windows Server 2012 R2[16:01] DEMO: How to…

In today’s continuing series on Hyper-V from a VMware admin’s perspective, Keith Mayer and Andy Syrewicze take a look at how you can manage your Virtual Machine environments using Hyper-V Manager as well as Virtual Machine and Service Templates found within System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine…

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…

Keith Mayer and Andy Syrewicze continue their look into Hyper-V from the view of a VMware admin’s perspective and in today’s episode they discuss in detail high availability and how to set up and manage a Hyper-V cluster. [3:17] What does high availability look like in vSphere and how does it…

Dan Stolts and Jose Barreto are back and in this episode they discuss networking configurations for Hyper-V over SMB in Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2. Tune in as they chat about how networks should be configured as well as provide several scenarios and best practices. [2:21] Let’s…