Kevinsul's Azure Site Recovery Musings
My blog devoted to my current role at MSFT - Azure Site Recovery in all of its wonder!
Latest Azure Site Recovery LyncUp – Hosted by Me!!!
Starting earlier this month, my team and I have been conducting regular ‘LyncUp’ sessions where...
Date: 04/02/2015
Azure Site Recovery for VMware and Physical Servers is now available as Public Preview!
Hooray! Go here for details:...
Date: 03/26/2015
ASR + Azure Traffic Manager + Azure Automation = Better Together!
The following demonstration shows an example of how one can architect a failover solution for a...
Date: 02/06/2015
Migration Accelerator now supports Linux…
We just updated the current preview release of the Migration Accelerator to also allow the migration...
Date: 01/13/2015
DPM Now Supports Windows Server 2012 R2 Deduplication
This is ‘kinda’ a big deal. Well, really, a very big deal, IMO. Check out the blog announcement...
Date: 01/06/2015
New Microsoft Virtual Academy Series on Business Continuity ‘stuff’
Hello and Happy New Year! I hope everyone had a good holiday/start to the new year. Over the break,...
Date: 01/05/2015
Using the Microsoft Migration Accelerator to migrate production workloads to Azure for testing…
Hopefully you know by now that we released the preview version of the Microsoft Migration...
Date: 12/14/2014
My favorite places to go to get primed on what ASR can do…
The following are what I have found to be the best places to go to learn, evaluate, and test our...
Date: 12/05/2014
Kevinsul has changed roles…
After many years as a Datacenter TSP, I have moved to one of the most exciting groups within our...
Date: 11/18/2014
Fun with Hyper-V Replica in WS2012 RC
HVR Failover Runbook The other day, I was messing around with the new Hyper-V Replica feature in my...
Date: 06/21/2012
Trouble with CM 2012 App Catalog Web Site…
So I ran into an issue I have run into now twice so in case there is a third time, I can refer back...
Date: 04/10/2012
How to set up Round-Robin IR Assignment in Service Manager Using Orchestrator–a Basic Example…
In discussing the use of Service Manager for ITIL Service Desk needs, I have had a few customers...
Date: 01/10/2012
Demonstration video on how to install Hyper-V to a Bare Metal Server from VMM 2012
One of my peers, Carmen Crincoli, on the State/Local Government side shot a short video...
Date: 01/08/2012
One last EDU Webcast–Quest/MSFT Desktop Virtualization
One of my last webcasts for EDU where I team up with our good friends over at Quest Software...
Date: 10/14/2011
Kevinsul is now working in his own backyard…
…or to put it another way, I have taken a role with my local US Microsoft district, known internally...
Date: 10/03/2011
Tune in and Listen to me tell of the Awesomeness that is the Microsoft Private Cloud
If you have nothing better to do on October 11, between 12PM – 1PM Central, why not tune in to my...
Date: 09/13/2011
Hello Again–It’s been a while–Again!
It has been a great while since I have been a regular ‘blog poster’ and am looking to change that...
Date: 09/13/2011
Creating a ‘ConfigMgr Remote Control’ Task within Service Manager
In System Center Service Manager, as an analyst works on incidents and other items that are related...
Date: 06/29/2010
Simple DCM Example Using a PS Script to Detect Compliance issues with Local Administrators Group Membership
One way I like to use this blog is to post responses to questions I get from my customers. ...
Date: 02/15/2010
How-To Information on How to Install and Configure ConfigMgr for Testing ReLoaded
A while back, I posted a few articles on this blog that contained ‘no frills’ steps on...
Date: 01/07/2010
Microsoft Acquires Opalis
This is a pretty significant acquisition. Opalis offers some great IT automation processes...
Date: 12/11/2009
One stop shot link when looking for published EDU Case Studies involving Hyper-V, App-V, and System Center
My teammate Michael Greene created this link - https://bit.ly/edtech-virt – to reference when looking...
Date: 12/02/2009
Some webcasts that I have done recently…
So if you want to see some webcasts that I have done recently on the topic of System Center and the...
Date: 12/01/2009
Trick/Tip: Assigning a Default Maintenance Window to Systems that do not already have one Assigned in ConfigMgr
So a few weeks ago, Mr. Joseph Corey at Carnegie Mellon University presented on how they use...
Date: 04/13/2009
LABMAN 2009 Scheduled for June 8 – 10 @ Notre Dame
LABMAN 2009 is slated for June 8-10 and will be held at the University of Notre Dame. I have...
Date: 04/13/2009
EDU Windows Admins unite at the WinHED Conference!
So I know I blog about once, oh, I don't know, every 2-3 months now! :) Anyway, I aim to...
Date: 02/23/2009
Links/Resources for System Center Workshop at HECC 2008
Here are some links to some useful resources to help you further evaluate System Center and other...
Date: 11/11/2008
So you went and hosed up SQL Reporting Services by Removing OpsMgr Reporting...
So maybe I am the only one that has done this, but I have been dumb enough to now have done this...
Date: 07/23/2008
Looking for training/more information on ACS in OpsMgr?
Technorati Tags: OpsMgr, ACS, Operations Manager, SecureVantage Our good partners, SecureVantage are...
Date: 07/09/2008
SteadyState 2.5 Now Available (Now Supporting Vista)
Coming off the LABMAN conference from a few weeks ago, I know many in the EDU community rely on disk...
Date: 06/18/2008
Configuration Manager 2007 SP1 has RTM'd and ready for download!
The ConfigMgr homepage may not be up to date yet but here is the direct download link to download...
Date: 05/23/2008
Announcements from MMS 2008
So I normally do not regurgitate generic technical information that you can find on one of a...
Date: 05/05/2008
To Package or not to Package - that is the question...
So on a topic that is not by any means new, however one in which I have been getting a lot of...
Date: 04/14/2008
QMX for Configuration Manager has RTM'd
Finally - the extensions to manage non-windows clients with SMS has now released for ConfigMgr! For...
Date: 04/14/2008
"Data Center Tours" for my EDU customers...
So starting this month, my associates and I on the EDU technology team (Michael Greene -...
Date: 03/13/2008
Protecting your SoftGrid SFT Files from ending up in the wrong hands...
So I don't know if this is documented anywhere, but a customer of mine was looking for a way to...
Date: 02/05/2008
MSI Utility for SoftGrid and roll-up hotfix released...
Go here for more info and a link to download the MSI utility:...
Date: 01/17/2008
I have updated my 'Q&C' Steps to build SCCM in a lab...
I have posted a new article that is more 'RTM-friendly' which may help in quickly building up the...
Date: 01/11/2008
The Quick and Cheap Steps to Perform a Lab Installation of Configuration Manager 2007 RTM
Pre-Requisites: The below instructions assume that you have two machines (virtual or physical). One...
Date: 01/07/2008
Upcoming MDOP Webcast Featuring Northeastern University
If you are a College/University and are interested to find out how one of your peers uses the MDOP...
Date: 11/16/2007
DCM Config Packs are coming...
Keep watching this link: https://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/scp/configmgr07.aspx... DCM...
Date: 11/11/2007
OpsMgr 2007 SP1 RC1 Now Available on Connect...
SP1 for OpsMgr 2007 has been released in RC-1 form as of this weekend. Go to...
Date: 11/05/2007
And the Exchange 2007 MP for OpsMgr 2007 is....
...NOW AVAILABLE:...
Date: 10/15/2007
For those who can't wait for SoftGrid 4.5 to 'Machine Target' their Apps...
And for those who cannot wait for SoftGrid 4.5 to 'Machine Target' and/or the upcoming MSI Utility...
Date: 09/24/2007
Announcing the 'Windows Installer Utility for MSFT Application Virtualization' (and why you should care)
Today we made a fairly subtle announcement around a little utility due to release later this...
Date: 09/11/2007
Multicast OS Deployments - At Last (and in-the-box with Windows Server 2008)
One of the gazillion new and improved features of the soon to be released Windows Server 2008 is...
Date: 08/28/2007
Let the good times roll - SCCM 2007 has RTM'd!!!
You can now download evaluation bits of ConfigMgr 2007 RTM here:...
Date: 08/28/2007
Filtering out what gets sent to the ACS Database
I have had more then a few of my (mostly HED) customers ask whether or not it is possible to limit...
Date: 08/23/2007
Snazzy new banner on my blog...
For those of you visiting this blog versus aggregating from an RSS reader (and I know that there are...
Date: 08/23/2007