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Post notifications to Microsoft Teams using PowerShell
Microsoft Teams, announced earlier today, is a new platform for chat based communication. I was very...
Date: 11/02/2016
Monitoring your home IP security cameras with OMS Log Analytics
Summary: Monitor devices, like home IP security cameras, with OMS Log Analytics without installing...
Date: 10/23/2016
Taking backup of encrypted Azure VMs with ADE (Azure Disk Encryption) using Azure Backup in OMS
We see customers migrating or deploying workloads on Azure have started encrypting their virtual...
Date: 09/15/2016
ARM concepts in Azure Stack for the WAP Administrator – Troubleshooting IaaS in Azure Stack
Hello Readers! This blog is part 8 (and the last) of the series "ARM concepts in Azure Stack for the...
Date: 08/09/2016
Azure Stack API’s – Working directly with the Resource Manager API Layer (Technical Preview 1)
Introduction To work with the Azure’s Resource Manager, you have a number of options. For example,...
Date: 08/01/2016
ARM concepts in Azure Stack for the WAP Administrator – In-guest configuration with ARM, and technologies such as Virtual Machines Extensions, including PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC)
Hello Readers! This is part 7 of the blog post series “ARM concepts in Azure Stack for the WAP...
Date: 06/29/2016
Backup & Site Recovery (OMS)
We have recently announced the GA for our Backup & Site Recovery (OMS) in Azure Resource...
Date: 06/06/2016
Part 3: How to configure WDS, Unattend.xml file, Windows PE Image, and Nano Server image to deploy a Nano Server at-a-scale
Over a series of blog posts we will describe a solution for how to deploy Nano Server at scale using...
Date: 05/13/2016
Part 2: How to build a Windows PE and Nano Server image to deploy Nano Server at scale
Over a series of blog posts we will describe a solution for how to deploy Nano Server at scale using...
Date: 05/04/2016
Part 1: Nano Server Domain Join (Deployment-at-a-scale an introduction)
Over a series of blog posts we will describe a solution for how to deploy Nano Server at scale using...
Date: 05/02/2016
ARM concepts in Azure Stack for the WAP Administrator – Multi-tier applications
Hello Readers! This blog is part 6 of the series "ARM concepts in Azure Stack for the WAP...
Date: 04/29/2016
Microsoft Azure Stack Advanced Scenarios for TP1: Beyond the Basics
In the last post we deployed JSON templates and also VM Extensions to Windows and Linux VMs running...
Date: 04/27/2016
Microsoft Azure Stack Advanced Scenarios: Fundamentals
If you are testing the capabilities of Azure Stack Technical Preview, you will probably have been...
Date: 04/25/2016
Azure Automation & Hybrid Cloud Management: Automating deployment of a VM in Amazon Web Services
During our Cloud Roadshow events where I presented on Azure Automation there were a number of...
Date: 04/20/2016
Channel 9 Series on Operations Management Suite
Hello Readers, Jim Britt here after a very long time away from blogging . I wanted to take this...
Date: 04/13/2016
Using the OMS Search API with native PowerShell cmdlets
In a hybrid cloud world where manageability of your resources is key, it’s important to have...
Date: 04/05/2016
ARM concepts in Azure Stack for the WAP Administrator - Packaging and publishing templates in Azure Stack
Hello Readers! This blog is part 5 of the series “ARM concepts in Azure Stack for the WAP...
Date: 04/01/2016
ARM concepts in Azure Stack for the WAP Administrator – Resource Deployment
Hello Readers! This blog is part 4 of the series "ARM concepts in Azure Stack for the WAP...
Date: 03/18/2016
Tool: ARM Template Checker for Microsoft Azure Stack
UPDATE 11/21/2016: This tool has now been superseded by the ARM Template Validator available here :...
Date: 02/26/2016
ARM concepts in Azure Stack for the WAP Administrator — Offers, Plans, and Subscriptions
Hello Readers! This blog is part 3 of the series "ARM concepts in Azure Stack for the WAP...
Date: 02/24/2016
ARM concepts in Azure Stack for the WAP Administrator — Cloud Service Delivery
Hello Readers! This blog is part 2 of the series "ARM concepts in Azure Stack for the WAP...
Date: 02/15/2016
ARM concepts in Azure Stack for the WAP Administrator–Introduction Post
You may have read about the first Technical Preview for Azure Stack, that was just released. This...
Date: 02/08/2016
Automation of Remote Console deployment for CPS Standard
For this post, we are glad to host Thomas Roettinger, Program Manager in Microsoft’s Private...
Date: 02/03/2016
Whitepaper – Architecting Hybrid Cloud Environments
IT is experiencing a rapid sea of change towards greater consumption of capacity and services...
Date: 01/19/2016
Introducing the updated JEA Helper Tool
Hello Readers! Just Enough Administration (JEA) is one of the very exciting security features coming...
Date: 12/20/2015
Microsoft and HPE partner to bring Azure in your datacenter with hyper-converged CPS Standard solution
Today at the Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s Discover 2015 conference in London, Microsoft and HP...
Date: 12/01/2015
Automated deployment of workloads: new solutions for centralized desktops
For this post, we are glad to host Thomas Roettinger, Program Manager in Microsoft’s Private...
Date: 11/16/2015
Windows Azure Pack Database as a Service and Websites available for deployment on Cloud Platform System Premium
For this post, we are glad to host Thomas Roettinger, Program Manager in the Microsoft Private Cloud...
Date: 11/16/2015
Creating and Connecting an ExpressRoute Circuit with Azure Resource Manager
Hi readers, it’s me again. I wanted to highlight that the Azure ExpressRoute documentation has been...
Date: 10/23/2015
Microsoft and Dell Extend Hybrid Cloud System Family with CPS Standard
One year and one day from the announcement of the Microsoft Cloud Platform System, we are happy to...
Date: 10/21/2015
Windows Server Containers, what are they and where do they fit?
There are a lot of questions to be answered around Windows Server Containers. Two top questions are...
Date: 10/05/2015
CPS Update 2 Released
As announced on September 16th, today Microsoft made available the second package of updates to...
Date: 10/01/2015
Microsoft CPS Pre-Validated For FedRAMP Compliance
Hello everyone, this is Filippo Seracini from the Microsoft Private Cloud Solutions team. I am here...
Date: 09/08/2015
Windows Azure Pack - Using the new AD Security Groups based Plan filtering feature in UR7
With the new Update Rollup 7 of Windows Azure Pack, we have a new feature that has been one of the...
Date: 08/12/2015
Security Threat Analysis – Using Operations Management Suite
This blog post is aimed at positioning Operations Management Suite (hereafter called OMS) in the...
Date: 07/20/2015
Whitepaper - Designing Your Network Infrastructure For Disaster Recovery
In the current cycle of customer validation during the last 12 months, we have been working with...
Date: 07/05/2015
Private Cloud Health Feedback Request
For this post, we are glad to host Sarah Sinclair, Program Manager in Microsoft’s Private...
Date: 06/17/2015
Extending Windows Azure Pack Using Service Management API
In the past 12 or more months I’ve worked quite a bit with Windows Azure Packs API layer, the...
Date: 06/15/2015
Microsoft and Nutanix
Hello Again! This is Vijay Tewari, Principal Group Program Manager for Private Cloud Solutions....
Date: 06/10/2015
Identity In Hybrid Cloud
IT is facing increased challenges in today’s world to keep up with users’ demands and...
Date: 06/08/2015
Self-service deployment of Microsoft workloads on Cloud Platform System (and other systems with Windows Azure Pack) – Part 4
For this post, we are glad to host Thomas Roettinger, Program Manager in Microsoft’s ECG CAT...
Date: 05/27/2015
Coming soon to a datacenter near you : Azure Stack
Hello Readers! Since the announcement of the upcoming release of Microsoft Azure Stack during the...
Date: 05/26/2015
Disaster Recovery for the Microsoft Cloud Platform System
We are glad to host Rochak Mittal, Senior Program Manager in the Azure Site Recovery (ASR) team. ASR...
Date: 05/20/2015
Tell us your thoughts on private cloud solutions and operations!
The Private Cloud Solutions team would like your feedback to help prioritize our investments in the...
Date: 05/14/2015
Updated White Paper - Enabling Database as a Service Enabling Database as a Service with the Microsoft Private Cloud Stack
Hello Readers, Just a quick note to let you know that the document from this blog post has just been...
Date: 05/13/2015
Ignite sessions now posted
We are back from Ignite and the excitement there was palpable. It was indeed a unique experience...
Date: 05/12/2015
SecureGUARD Unified Cloud Block platform overview
We are honored to host Helmut Otto, founder and managing director of SecureGUARD GmbH, and a...
Date: 05/05/2015
Cisco and EMC VSPEX with Microsoft Private Cloud Fast Track 4.0
We are honored to host as a guest blogger Rex Backman, from the data center solutions team at Cisco....
Date: 05/05/2015
Dell PowerEdge R630 Configuration for Microsoft Private Cloud Fast Track v4
We are honored to host Kristine Lindely, senior strategist in the Enterprise Solutions Group at...
Date: 05/05/2015
Cloud Solutions news at Ignite
Vijay Tewari is at Ignite and he joins us to tell us about some of the CPS-related news there....
Date: 05/04/2015