Windows Admin Center Archives - Thomas Maurer

Manage Arc-enabled Windows Server with Windows Admin Center in the Azure Portal

Thomas Maurer — Thu, 16 Jun 2022 05:41:29 +0000

With a new feature called Windows Admin Center in the Azure portal, you can now securely manage your Windows Server machines running as an Azure virtual machine (VM) or running on-premises with Azure Arc, directly from the Azure portal. Azure provides a lot of different management tools to manage your virtual machines or physical servers …

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Webinar: Windows Server Management, Security and Monitoring

Thomas Maurer — Tue, 08 Feb 2022 06:54:00 +0000

I am happy to let you know that we are planning a Microsoft free online webinar for Windows Server Management, Security and Monitoring on Tuesday, March 1, 2022 10:00 AM–11:00 AM Pacific Time. Customers are choosing a hybrid and multi-cloud approach to digitally transform their businesses. If you have on-premises Windows Server workloads, you can now …

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Book: Windows Containers for IT Pros

Thomas Maurer — Tue, 16 Mar 2021 06:31:00 +0000

One of the big topics for IT Pros is how they can leverage containers to modernize their application landscape. Getting started with that topic can be challenging since it includes a couple of new concepts. Luckily, there is a great new book written by Vinicius Ramos Apolinario is Senior Program Manager on the Windows Container …

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Azure Stack HCI version 20H2 – everything you need to know!

Thomas Maurer — Wed, 22 Jul 2020 05:11:10 +0000

Microsoft just announced the new Azure Stack HCI, delivered as an Azure hybrid service, at Microsoft Inspire 2020. Azure Stack HCI, as a hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) solution, is expanding the Azure Stack portfolio to offer a comprehensive and flexible lineup of edge infrastructure and hybrid cloud environments. In this blog post, I want you to provide …

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Windows Server webinar miniseries – Month of Cloud Essentials

Thomas Maurer — Thu, 04 Jun 2020 09:16:09 +0000

I want to let you know that in June I will be speaking in the Windows Server webinar miniseries focusing on how you can leverage the power of Azure together with Windows Server. Jeff Woolsey, Pierre Roman, Orin Thomas and I will be speaking about different scenarios using Windows Server in a Hybrid environment. Join …

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Speaking at Microsoft Ignite The Tour 2020 Prague

Thomas Maurer — Thu, 30 Jan 2020 08:28:48 +0000

After my first three Microsoft Ignite The Tour (MITT) stops in Shenzhen, London, and Milan, I am happy and honored that my fourth stop of Microsoft Ignite The Tour will be in Prague. By the way, if you are interested in taking a Microsoft certification exam for free, check out the following blog post: Free …

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Use Azure Security Center with Windows Server on-premises

Thomas Maurer — Tue, 07 Jan 2020 08:02:17 +0000

Windows Admin Center makes it easy to connect Azure Hybrid Cloud services to your on-premises Windows Server environment. For a while now we can connect services like Azure Monitor, Azure File Sync, Azure Update Management and many more to Windows Server. This helps us to make our on-premises environment even better, by using Azure Cloud …

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Video Microsoft Ignite Live 2019 – Azure Stack HCI

Thomas Maurer — Tue, 24 Dec 2019 09:13:07 +0000

At Microsoft Ignite 2019, I had the chance to interview different people across the Microsoft product groups on the Microsoft Ignite Live stage. In the next couple of weeks, I will share with you the links to the recordings of these videos. In this video, I was able to speak to Cosmos Darwin from the …

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Azure Friday: Connect Windows Server to Azure Hybrid services

Thomas Maurer — Mon, 25 Nov 2019 08:02:42 +0000

Last Friday, I had the honor to be part of the Azure Friday show with Scott Hanselman. On this Azure Friday episode, I was talking about how you can connect Windows Server to Azure Hybrid Cloud services using Windows Admin Center. You can watch the full episode here: If you want to know more about …

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Run Azure Cloud Shell in Windows Admin Center

Thomas Maurer — Tue, 19 Nov 2019 08:04:24 +0000

As you know Windows Admin Center enables you to not just manage Windows Server machines with a web-based user interface, but also to easily connect Azure Hybrid services to your on-premises Windows Server environment. Windows Admin Center allows you to connect services like Azure File Sync, Azure Update Management, Azure Backup, Azure Site Recovery and …

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