Category: Video
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TechNet Radio: Top 10 Reasons to Upgrade to Windows 10 NOW!
The “World Famous” Paul Thurrott makes his TechNet Radio debut as he joins Dan Stolts to discuss their Top 10 Reasons to make the move to Windows 10 now. Check out the show as well as their comments and let us know what you think? Agree? Disagree? You tell us! An Interview with Paul Thurrott:…
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What’s new with Microsoft cloud infrastructure and OSS for modern IT Pros
It’s time to embrace cloud infrastructure, maximize your current resources and enhance datacenter flexibility to deploy new technologies. Ready to learn more?Attend this free, full-day training session and discover first-hand how to integrate cloud solutions with your existing, on-premises datacenter – without sacrificing security, control, reliability and scalability. You’ll see how advanced Azure infrastructure…
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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: Data in the Cloud (Part 5) – Process and Support Terabytes of Data on Azure
In part 5 of our Data in the Cloud series, Dan Stolts welcomes Silvano Coriani to the show as they discuss cloud app design possibilities and how to support high volume applications in Azure. [3:40] How does processing large-scale OLTP workloads on Azure SQL Database with Elastic Scale work? What are the benefits? [6:32] How…
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TechNet Radio: Data in the Cloud (Part 4) – SQL Server on a VM or Azure SQL Database?
In part 4 of our Data in the Cloud series, Dan Stolts and Scott Klein discuss what considerations you need to think about when comparing SQL Server on a VM (Virtual Machine) vs. Azure SQL database. Tune in as they go in depth on the pros and cons for each platform as well as its…
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TechNet Radio: Data in the Cloud (Part 3) – Incorporating Azure analytics services
In part 3 of our Data in the Cloud series, Dan Stolts welcomes Benjamin Wright-Jones and Nishant Thacker to the show as they discuss when and why you would use HDInsight and Azure Machine Learning (ML) in your data analytics. [2:42] How is data collected and where is it hosted in Azure? [11:02] How are…
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TechNet Radio: Data in the Cloud (Part 2) – Understanding Architecture and Data Management in Azure
In part 2 of our special Data in the Cloud series, Dan Stolts welcomes Scott Klein to the show as they discuss architecture and data management in Azure. [2:25] Azure SQL Database – what is it and how is it relevant to dB admins? [6:06] One of the biggest buzz words we hear is scalability. …
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TechNet Radio: Data in the Cloud (Part 1) – How are Customers using Azure?
Dan Stolts kicks off a new multi-part series today on Data in the Cloud and in part 1 he welcomes Shawn Bice, Director of Program Management at Microsoft to discuss how customers are using Azure for their data needs. [2:35] It looks like you guys have a pretty complete data platform with many services, what are…
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TechEd North America: Enabling Enterprise Mobility with Windows and Microsoft Office 365
How do we deal with mobility as IT Pros? This video with Brad McCabe and Alan Meeus will show how you can manage mobile devices using Windows and Office 365. Using these tools gain peace of mind while lowering your total cost of ownership.
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Hyper-V for VMware Experts Part 2–Webcast
We are seeing a great deal of momentum for Hyper-V in a wide range of companies from small to large. Microsoft has made great progress in providing functionality and capabilities that make it a viable server virtualization alternative for all environments from test and development to mission-critical applications. This webcast is focused on providing information…
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Create Bootable USB Thumb Drive Key with Windows 8 Media to Install Windows 8 Windows Server 2012 or Other Operating System–Step by Step
These procedures were written using Windows 8 Release Preview but will work with prior versions of Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, Windows 7 and Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2. There is a video walkthrough of this process at the bottom of this post. If you do not have the…
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Create USB Thumb drive key from Windows 8 ISO DVD or media to be used for install – Step-by-Step
These procedures were written using Windows 8 Release Preview but will work with prior versions of Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, Windows 7 and Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2. There is a video walkthrough of this process at the bottom of this post. If you do not have the…
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Windows Server 2012 Licensing and Pricing Demystified
In today’s episode of IT Time, Blain Barton welcomes newest Florida Microsoft Server MVP, Adnan Cartwright to the show as they discuss some frequently asked questions regarding Windows Server 2012 Licensing and Pricing. Tune in as they discuss the key differences between standard and datacenter editions, its key features, the software assurance program, price and…
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Windows 8 Install (or Server 2012) Using Dual Boot to Native Boot To VHD (Boot2VHD) – Video Walk-through of Installation Step-By-Step
Word Doc: Step-By-Step Guide 1) Download Windows 8 http://aka.ms/guruWin8 => Links to Microsoft download page (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/br229516.aspx) OR Download Windows 2012 http://aka.ms/GetWin2012 2) Follow Step-By-Step Instructions to configure BIOS Configure BIOS Before Installing Windows Server 2012 and Hyper-V 3) Press the <ENTER>to boot from DVD 4) Follow remaining steps in Video Happy Installing!!! Video 9.5 minutes…
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Configure BIOS Before Installing Windows Server 2012 and Hyper-V
Bios Requirements for Enabling Hyper-V. Short video to show exactly where you might find these settings. *X64 Server with Hardware Assisted Virtualization (Likely found under Configuration then “Virtualization” or “Processor” Intel: Intel VT AMD: AMD-V *Hardware enables Data Execution Prevention (Likely found under Configuration then “Security”) Intel: XD bit (Execute Disable) AMD: NX bit (no…
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How Big Will Cloud Really Be–Virtualization vs Cloud–Which Is Bigger
The buzz with the cloud is it is that the Cloud is going to be huge. Much, much bigger than virtualization is/was. One has to say “Come On, this must just be marketing hyper right?”. With this in mind, the ITProGuru set out to prove or disprove the “real” viability of exponential growth in this…
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How To Expand and Extend To Increase Capacity On A Virtual Hard Disk The Easy and Fast Way–Solve the problem of “Out of Disk Space on Drive C” Forever
Before following these instructions… PLEASE backup your machine. The best way to get a good backup of a machine is to do an export. So please, export the machine or at the very least test your backup procedures to make sure they are valid. Also, if you want a way to do this through a…