Author: Dan Stolts ITProGuru
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Microsoft 2015 Virtual CIO Summit, streaming LIVE from the Microsoft Campus in Redmond, WA!
Watch the Microsoft 2015 Virtual CIO Summit, streaming LIVE from the Microsoft Campus in Redmond, WA! Date: Tuesday, October 6th Time: 8:00am – 2:45pm PDT Hear from industry thought leaders, key Microsoft experts and your peers at this year’s CIO Summit. The Summit will cover key topics ranging from how the digital age is changing…
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Working with Files and Paths Using PowerShell
Demonstrate Multiple Ways to Obtain and work with File path Information using PowerShell. Includes get-location, get-item, system.io.directory, system.io.file and more. Script Location: https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Working-with-Files See here for more ways to view or download!
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SQL Database Enable Geo Replication in Azure Portal
Designing your application for business continuity requires you to answer the following questions: Which business continuity feature is appropriate for protecting my application from outages? What level of redundancy and replication topology do I use? When to use Geo-Restore SQL Database provides a built-in basic protection of every database by default. It is done by…
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TechNet Tour (IT-Camps) Coming
Using Microsoft datacenters as an integral part of your Disaster Recovery Plan: Free, hands-on event Please join us for a free, interactive event led by Microsoft experts. Do you want to learn about new disaster recovery options from Microsoft experts? Have you been putting off trying new technology due to time pressures or not knowing…
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LogIt Function with PowerShell to Log to Screen and Log file – Super Simple and Elegant
Demonstrate how create and work with Log files using PowerShell. Shows how to create log files and create function to log information to screen and text file. Includes ability so set colors and other features. Full Script published on LogIt on TechNet Gallery. See here for more ways to view or download!
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Azure Certification Jump Start 70-534 Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions
Azure Certification Jump Start 70-534 Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions When: Friday, October 9, 2015 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM Where: 1CC 1 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA 4th Floor – Walden Pond Price: $50.00/per person Refund policy REGISTER HERE Abstract: Do you want to get certified on Azure? Do you want to improve your marketability in…
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TechNet Radio: Server Essentials – Client Backups with Windows Azure Backup
Dan Stolts walks us through the world of automatically backing up your data to the cloud with the help of Windows Azure. Learn how to manage cloud backups from the familiar backup tools in Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 Essentials, or even System Center 2012 Data Protection Manager. In this episode you will learn…
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Azure Subscriptions with PowerShell
Demonstrate how Azure Subscriptions work and how to change default and current subscription. Shows changing accounts and subscriptions with multiple subscriptions in an account as well as multiple accounts. Presented by ITProGuru Dan Stolts. More scripts are available at http://ITProGuru.com/Scripts See here for more ways to view or download!
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Provision Storage Configuration with PowerShell-Part 2 of Using Storage Spaces Deployment Guide
ProvisionStorageConfiguration.ps1 https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Storage-Spaces-Automated-3caf249a After hardware validation, you can begin creating Storage Pools and Virtual disks from the disks. Run the ProvisionStorageConfiguration.ps1 script with: PS>> .ProvisionStorageConfiguration.ps1 PS>> .ProvisionStorageConfiguration.ps1 -Automated PS>> .ProvisionStorageConfiguration.ps1 –PhysicalDisks <physical disk objects> The first option is recommended and will add all of the SAS disks to the storage pool. If you want to use…
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Automating and Testing Storage Spaces Performance with PowerShell Part 1 of Deployment Guide
This is the first of a two part series on “Automating and Testing Storage Spaces Performance with PowerShell-Part 1of Using Storage Spaces Deployment Guide” In the series, we walk through the Storage Spaces Deployment Guide for Automation Scripts. This guide will instruct you on how to create and test a new Storage Spaces deployment using…
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Create A Virtual Machine Running Windows In The Azure Preview Portal
In this short video we will walk through the instructions outlined on the Azure Documentation site.
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TechNet Radio: How Shared Virtual Disks in Windows Server 2012 R2 can Impact Your Datacenter
Dan Stolts and Jose Barreto are back for this episode on Shared Virtual Disks in Windows Server 2012 R2. Tune in as they go in depth on what the key new features and benefits are, how it works as well as how to deploy it. [1:29] What is Virtual Disk Sharing and what are the…
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TechNet Radio: DFSR in Windows Server 2012 R2: Restoring Conflicted, Deleted and PreExisting files with PowerShell
Dan Stolts and Ned Pyle are back for this week’s episode of TechNet Radio and in this show they discuss a new feature in Windows Server 2012 R2 DFSR which helps restore preserved files. Join us for this demo intensive conversation where Ned shows us how to recover conflicted, deleted and preexisting files with Windows…
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TechNet Radio: (Part 1) To the Cloud! What the Cloud can do for your Business
Want a basic overview of the cloud and cloud services? Curious how to move from old-school, traditional IT to today’s cloud? Learn how to run your business 100 percent in the cloud, with just a phone, a laptop, a phablet, and a printer! From basic definitions of cloud services to specific technologies that can help…
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TechNet Radio: DFSR & PowerShell in Windows Server 2012
DFSR, PowerShell and live on-screen how-to demos! Can it get any better than that people?!?! We didn’t think so (a) Join Dan Stolts and Ned Pyle for this demo intensive how-to episode where they show us the power of DSFR and PowerShell together in action.
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Azure-Accounts with PowerShell
See here for more ways to view or download! Demonstrate how Azure Account Authentication works Logging into Azure from PowerShell using multiple methods Download Script
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Free IT-Camp Training on Azure and Windows 10 Now Open To The Public
Free IT-Camp Training on Azure and Windows 10 Now Open To The Public Get the skills you need to start your journey to the cloud at a free IT Camp near you! Join us for this interactive, full-day training session and learn how to move your workloads from on-premises to the cloud and back again.…
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Mobility Transformed – The Path to Windows 10 IT Pro Evening Event
Join members of the Microsoft product team for interactive discussions & demos! Be one of the first to learn tips and tricks for Windows 10, Office 365, and more to ensure you are on the leading edge of devices and services! We’ll discuss: Windows 10 Next Generation Windows Devices Internet Explorer and Project Spartan…
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TechNet Radio: Data in the Cloud (Part 9) – Built-in DBA-Like Features in Azure SQL Database
In part 9 of our Data in the Cloud series, Dan Stolts and Silvano Coriani discuss the new features and functionality built into Azure which can help SQL DBs reduce IT and Developer management time. [1:44] Explain the new tier model for both performance/capacity and new capabilities? [9:40] Let’s chat about the real time monitoring…
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TechNet Radio: Data in the Cloud (Part 8) – Running your SQL Server Workloads on Azure Virtual Machines
In part 8 of our Data in the Cloud series, Dan Stolts and Silvano Coriani discuss the investments made to Azure VMs which improve SQL Server performance, scalability and reduce maintenance and management efforts. [2:52] What are the critical aspects of running SQL server in Azure VMs? [5:40] What are the main configuration options? [16:44]…