System Center Archives - Thomas Maurer

How to Manage Updates for Azure IaaS VMs

Thomas Maurer — Tue, 08 Oct 2019 07:06:54 +0000

As a lot of customers are moving their workloads to Azure and specifically moving virtual machines to Azure Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), the question is how do I manage my Azure virtual machines (VMs) efficiently. The great thing about Azure IaaS, it is not just another virtualization platform. Azure IaaS also offers a lot of other benefits …

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Speaking at Experts Live Europe 2019 in Prague

Thomas Maurer — Wed, 24 Jul 2019 06:22:47 +0000

Today, I am proud to announce that I will be speaking at Experts Live Europe 2019 in Prague on November 20 – 22, 2019. This is a great honor, and it will be my 7th Experts Live Europe event I am speaking at, all the way back to the first event, when it still was …

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System Center 2019 now generally available!

Thomas Maurer — Thu, 14 Mar 2019 19:02:45 +0000

A couple of weeks a go the System Center team announced that System Center 2019 will be available in March 2019. Today is the good day, the general availability of System Center 2019 is announced. You can now download the LTSC release in the MSDN and the VLSC portal, and if you want to have …

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System Center 2019 – What’s new

Thomas Maurer — Tue, 04 Dec 2018 14:31:32 +0000

Microsoft just launched Windows Server 2019 and Windows Admin Center, which also raised the interest in System Center 2019. At Microsoft Ignite, Microsoft was talking about what is new in System Center 2019, the future of System Center, and how it fits in with Windows Admin Center and other management tools. Microsoft Cloud and Datacenter …

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Speaking at SCOM Days 2018 Gothenburg

Thomas Maurer — Mon, 27 Aug 2018 16:26:25 +0000

I am happy to announce that I will be speaking at the Swedish SCOM-dagen 2018 conference in Gothenburg. This years main topic of the SCOM-dagen or SCOM Days 2018, is Hybrid Cloud Monitoring. In my session I will cover an overview about Azure Stack and than focus on Azure Stack operations and monitoring. The SCOM …

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Microsoft MVP 2018-2019 Cloud and Datacenter Management

Thomas Maurer — Sun, 01 Jul 2018 17:23:44 +0000

I am proud to announce that I was awarded today by Microsoft, with the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Award for 2018-2019 in two major categories Cloud and Datacenter Management and Microsoft Azure. This is my 7th Microsoft MVP award since 2012, and I couldn’t be more excited about this one. Dear Thomas Maurer, We’re …

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Microsoft announces Windows Server 2019 and System Center 2019

Thomas Maurer — Tue, 20 Mar 2018 18:39:23 +0000

Microsoft today announced the next Long-Term Servicing Channel (LTSC) release for Windows Server called Windows Server 2019. In a blog post today, Erin Chapple, Director of Program Management Windows Server, announced the Windows Server 2019, which will be available in the second half of calendar year 2018. You can try out a Windows Server Preview build …

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Speaking about Azure Stack at Experts Live Switzerland 2018 in Bern

Thomas Maurer — Tue, 13 Mar 2018 15:05:18 +0000

Today, I am proud to announce that I am speaking at the country event of Experts Live in Switzerland. Experts Live Switzerland 2018 will take place at the 3rd of May in the new Workspace Welle 7 in Bern Switzerland. Experts Live Switzerland is a one day event with 17 session in three parallel tracks focusing …

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Microsoft released System Center 1801 Semi-Annual Channel

Thomas Maurer — Fri, 09 Feb 2018 15:31:17 +0000

Microsoft just release the first Semi-Annual Channel release for System Center, called System Center, version 1801. This is the first release which now comes out to support the Windows Server Semi-Annual Channel releases like 1709 and also brings some new features and performance improvements. System Center, version 1801 is the first of our Semi-Annual Channel …

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Passed Microsoft Exam 70-745 Implementing a Software-Defined Datacenter

Thomas Maurer — Tue, 12 Dec 2017 10:53:01 +0000

This summer I took the Microsoft beta exam 70-745 Implementing a Software-Defined Datacenter, which focuses on implementing Software-Defined Datacenter solutions, based on Hyper-V, Windows Server, Software Defined Networking and Storage, System Center Virtual Machine Manager, System Center Operations Manager and everything around it. Plan and Implement System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) Core Infrastructure Implement Software-Defined …

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