Search results matching tags 'Infrastructure', 'Administration', and 'Architecture'

New On-Line Resources for Windows, Virtualization, and Cloud!

KKline — Wed, 22 May 2013 19:29:00 GMT

Ever since returning from the UK for the SQLBits conference, I've been snowed under a mountain of action items. I've got such a backlog of things to get done, emails to answer, and family to not ignore that I'm starting to feel really guilty.

So with that in mind, I wanted to whip out a quick blog post to let you know I'm still alive and thinking of y'all. What could be quicker and easier than some cool new resources you might not have seen? For your perusal:

Whitepaper: Managing Windows 7 and Windows 8 Side-by-Side
- http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=37144
Poster: Networking in Virtual Machine Manager
- http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=37137
Windows Server 2012: Core Network Companion Guide for Deploying IP Addressing in Branch Offices
- http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=37034
Become a Virtualization Expert in 20 Days ( Blog Article Series )
- http://aka.ms/VirtExpert
Build Your Private Cloud in a Month ( Blog Article Series )
- http://aka.ms/BuildYourCloud
Windows Server 2012 “Early Experts” FREE IT Pro Study Group
- http://EarlyExperts.net

Let me know what you think. Thanks,

-Kevin

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Conquer Your Fear of Virtualization with a Free Day of Training at PASS!

KKline — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 16:50:00 GMT

Click this link to register: http://www.houseofbrick.com/education/sqlserverbootcamp/Registration.

Presented by my buddy, David Klee at House of Brick, one of the nations top VMWare consultancies specializing in Oracle and SQL Server deployments.

David has a great write-up of this boot camp at http://www.davidklee.net/2012/10/01/virtualizing-your-business-critical-sql-servers-free-boot-camp-by-house-of-brick/.

Build Your Own Microsoft Operations Manager Pack

KKline — Thu, 03 May 2012 15:25:00 GMT

Operations Manager Management Pack Development Kit

I just recently told you about some cool new things happening with System Center - before I stumbled across this tidbit. Hey, if I could, I'd go back in time and add this entry to the previous one --- yeah, and totally NOT play the stock market to make a fortune through time travel. But I digress...

So the Operations Management Management Pack Development Kit applies to Microsoft Operations Manager 2012 and Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007. It provide the you with all of the info need to design and build a management pack intended of your own for monitoring an application via Operations Manager.

At last! You can now manage all of those FoxPro and Access 2.o apps you've still got in production. More info at:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee533840.aspx

http://blogs.technet.com/b/mpauthor/archive/2011/09/21/new-module-documentation.aspx

Let me know what you think! Enjoy,

-Kev

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Microsoft Document Watch for Operational Excellence

KKline — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 19:59:00 GMT

Back when my day-to-day duties included database administration work and enterprise architecture, I became rather obsessed with the idea of operational excellence. I read everything I could on the topic. I made a list of favorites, which became somewhat shabby over time, as I dog-eared important pages and scribbled notes in the margins. (Perhaps that list of favorites might, in and of itself, make a good blog post). Fast-forward a decade and I'm still mightily interested in operational excellence for IT organizations. It's just that so much good material is available for free on the web. Here's a run-down of several useful documents and downloads to improve overall operation performance for those of you in a Microsoft-centric IT organization:

Microsoft Operations Framework

Microsoft Operations Framework (MOF) version 4.0 guide is practical guidance for IT organizations. With the release of version 4.0, MOF now reflects a single, comprehensive IT service lifecycle—it helps IT professionals connect service management principles to everyday IT tasks and activities and ensures alignment between IT and the business.

Infrastructure Planning and Design

The Infrastructure Planning and Design (IPD) guides are the next version of Windows Server System Reference Architecture. The guides in this series help clarify and streamline design processes for Microsoft infrastructure technologies, with each guide addressing a unique infrastructure technology or scenario.

Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer 2.2 (for IT Professionals)

The Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer provides a streamlined method to identify missing security updates and common security misconfigurations. MBSA 2.2 is a minor upgrade correct minor issues and add optional catalog support.

Security Compliance Manager

The Microsoft Security Compliance Manager provides centralized security baseline management features, a baseline portfolio, customization capabilities, and security baseline export flexibility to accelerate your organization’s ability to efficiently manage the security and compliance process for the most widely used Microsoft technologies.