This session was a bit drier than others and it was mostly demos, so a bit light on technical content. The basic concept is that Microsoft System Center Service Manager and Orchestrator can be used together, along with other System Center products, to automate delivering IT services to customers. Microsoft...
Dean Wells, Active Directory Product Group, Microsoft This was another killer session, with a super dynamic speaker that only rivals Mark Minassi in presention and content. Dean could double as a stand up IT comedian. Although it may have not gotten a lot of press, there are a number of...
Senthil Rajaram, Senior PM, MicrosoftTaylor Brown, Senior SDET, MicrosoftThis was an excellent session about the major storage improvements in Windows Server 2012. These enhancements are foundational to Hyper-V and other roles such as file servers. To say that Microsoft made some advancements in storage is a bit of an understatement....
Amitabh Tamhane, Program Manager MicrosoftVineeth Karinta, NetAppThis was a great session, jam packed with technical details. I had a hard time taking notes with the fire hose of information. The previous version of CSV in Windows Server 2008 R2 had a lot of limitations, and is one big reason why...
Antoine Leblond, CVP, Windows Web ServicesThis keynote focused solely on Windows 8 and the new UI, Metro. I'm starting to warm up to Metro, but I'm still skeptical at its acceptance in the enterprise on non-touch devices. If you want to watch the presention for yourself, you can watch the...
This session was a very high level overview of the new Server 2012 feature, Dynamic access controls. Dynamic access controls significantly extends the file classification framework that exists in Server 2008 R2. This is a way cool feature, and already has nearly a dozen partner solutions lined up to even further...
Marcus Murray, Truesec, Microsoft MVPMarcus is a great speaker, and has been speaking at TechEd for a number of years. His sessions are always very popular and informative. He has a different style..no power point slides and nearly all live demos. This session explained what an APT (advanced persistent threat)...
Michael Leworthy, Senior Product Manager (Microsoft)Top Benefits of Windows Server 2012 Comphrehensive Cloud Platform - Complete virtualization platform, industry leading scalability, business continunity in a box. Cost savings and increased efficiencies - Reduced storage costs with storage spaces with other storage enhancements. Increased server/administrator ratio through Windows PowerShell and multi-machine...
Today is the first full day of TechEd 2012 in Orlando, and as usual it started off with a keynote session. Nothing earth shattering was announced. It was presented by Sayta Nadella, VP Server and tools business, Microsoft. Cloud OS - the new era 20 years of TechED - 1993...
This is the third and final article covering the content presented in the TechEd 2012 Configuration Manager 2012 pre-conference session, PRC04. Check out part one here and part two here. Software Updates Do not use WSUS for software updates. Poor reporting and you don't know the real status of the machines....