Private Cloud Archives - Thomas Maurer

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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Azure Stack Webinar by Microsoft MVP Thomas Maurer

Thomas Maurer — Thu, 14 Jun 2018 15:24:46 +0000

Together with itnetX we are starting a couple of webinars on Microsoft Azure Stack. I am happy to announce that I will be speaking in the first webinar about Azure Stack, what it is, what are the use cases for it and how you can leverage it to build a true hybrid cloud. The free …

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Interview: Microsoft Azure Stack – An Introduction

Thomas Maurer — Fri, 30 Jun 2017 13:10:51 +0000

Back at Experts Live Australia 2017 I had the chance to talk to Veeam’s Senior Technical Evangelist Clint Wyckoff about the upcoming Microsoft Azure Stack Solution. Veeam’s Senior Technical Evangelist Clint Wyckoff and Thomas Maurer, Cloud Architect at itnetX and Microsoft Cloud & Datacenter MVP discuss the upcoming Microsoft Azure Stack Solution. If you want to …

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Microsoft Azure Stack – Azure Extension in your Datacenter

Thomas Maurer — Tue, 13 Jun 2017 13:51:53 +0000

A couple of weeks ago, I had the chance to attend the Microsoft Azure Certified for Hybrid Cloud Airlift in Bellevue WA, which is close to the Microsoft campus in Redmond. I had the chance to spend the week there and talk with the Microsoft PG about different Azure Stack scenarios. Most of the discussions …

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Summary: Update Rollup 7 for System Center 2012 R2 and Azure Pack now available

Thomas Maurer — Wed, 05 Aug 2015 08:47:01 +0000

Last week Microsoft released Update Rollup 7 (UR7) for System Center 2012 R2 and Windows Azure Pack. And as always, Update Rollup 7 does not only include a bunch of fixes, it also includes some new features. This time especially Windows Azure Pack and System Center Virtual Machine Manager got some nice updates. Components that …

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System Center 2012 R2 and Azure Pack get supports for SQL Server 2014 in Update Rollup 5

Thomas Maurer — Mon, 23 Feb 2015 20:01:39 +0000

Microsoft just released System Center 2012 R2 Update Rollup 5, which includes a lot of new features and fixes. The update also brings support for SQL Server 2014 as a database server for most of the System Center 2012 R2 components. There will be support for the rest of the System Center components in the Update …

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Sneak Peek into the Next Version of Hyper-V

Thomas Maurer — Thu, 19 Feb 2015 15:26:05 +0000

Back in October Microsoft released the first public Windows Server Technical Preview for the next release of Windows Server. At TechEd Europe Bed Armstrong, Principal Program Manager on the Hyper-V team at Microsoft, talked about a couple of new features which are coming in the next release of Windows Server Hyper-V. This is a quick list …

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Update Rollup 3 for System Center 2012 R2 available

Thomas Maurer — Tue, 29 Jul 2014 22:43:49 +0000

Today Microsoft released Update Rollup 3 for System Center 2012 R2. With the release Microsoft did not only fix some bugs they also added some features. Especially Data Protection Manager (DPM) and Virtual Machine Manager got some new features and fixes which will help especially in large scale Cloud and Virtualization deployments. Data Protection Manager …

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Add drivers to SCVMM Bare-Metal WinPE Image

Thomas Maurer — Wed, 23 Jul 2014 14:49:51 +0000

A long time ago, I wrote a blog post on how you can use System Center Virtual Machine Manager Bare-Metal Deployment to deploy new Hyper-V hosts. Usually, this works fine, but if you have more modern hardware, your Windows Server Image may not include the network adapter drivers. Now, this isn’t a huge problem since …

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Free Microsoft Cloud OS webinar series in March and April

Thomas Maurer — Mon, 03 Mar 2014 16:03:06 +0000

In March and April I will present together with Microsoft and itnetx in webinars about the Microsoft Cloud OS. The webinars will be free and will cover an overview about the Microsoft Cloud OS. The Microsoft Cloud OS is the story behind the latest releases of Windows Server 2012 R2, Hyper-V System Center, Windows Azure …

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