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In part 2 of their upgrading to Windows 2012 series Blain Barton and Tommy Patterson take us through the considerations you need to make for Hyper-V and Virtual Machines. Tune in as they discuss the best way to upgrade your Hyper-V infrastructure, how to consolidate folder locations, and various ways to import your VMs. __________________________ Experience Microsoft's latest products with these FREE downloads! Build Your Lab! Download  Windows Server 2012,  System Center 2012 SP1 and  Hyper-V Server 2012 and get the best virtualization platform and private cloud management solution on the market. Try it FREE now! Don’t Have a Lab? Build Your Lab in the Cloud with Windows Azure Virtual Machines. Try Windows Azure for free with no cost or obligations, and use any OS, language, database or tool. FREE Download __________________________Become an "Early Expert" at IT Pros ROCK! The Windows Server 2012 "Early Experts" Challenge provides a FREE online study group with certification exam preparation materials for quickly learning about the latest version of Windows Server! The Challenge involves a series of Knowledge Quests - starting with the Apprentice Quest below - and each Quest ends with a special completion certificate for you to promote your new knowledge! To make it easy to participate, each Quest is developed in a modular format that you can complete based on your own schedule and availability. If you're interested in learning more about the products or solutions discussed in this episode, click on any of the below links for free, in-depth information: Websites & Blogs: Blain Barton’s Blog Tommy Patterson’s blog Videos: TechNet Radio: IT Time - The Scripting Guy’s Top 5 PowerShell 3.0 Tips and Tricks TechNet Radio: IT Time - PowerShell 3.0 Step-by-Step with the Scripting Guy TechNet Radio: IT Time – Get Your Script on! Check out PowerShell Saturdays TechNet Radio: IT Time – PowerShell 3.0 Integrated Scripting Environment Ove

Tommy Patterson welcomes Sr. Service Engineering Manager, George Holman to the show as he shares with us how his team used Windows Server 2012 to help scale and improve the performance of Microsoft.com. Tune in as he describes the noticeable difference between Server 2012 vs. previous versions of Windows Server, as well as outlines how his team planned for and deployed it in their environment. [1:28] What was the situation? Describe some of the challenges surrounding Microsoft.com and their need to scale [3:28] How did MSIT deploy Windows Server 2012 for MSCOM? [11:39] What were the results? [13:21] Can you share with us some deployment best practices? __________________________ Experience Microsoft's latest products with these FREE downloads! Build Your Lab! Download  Windows Server 2012,  System Center 2012 SP1 and  Hyper-V Server 2012 and get the best virtualization platform and private cloud management solution on the market. Try it FREE now! Don’t Have a Lab? Build Your Lab in the Cloud with Windows Azure Virtual Machines. Try Windows Azure for free with no cost or obligations, and use any OS, language, database or tool. FREE Download __________________________If you're interested in learning more about the products or solutions discussed in this episode, click on any of the below links for free, in-depth information: Websites & Articles: Tommy Patterson’s blog Microsoft IT Showcase Virtual Labs: TechNet Virtual Labs: System Center 2012 Follow @technetradio Become a Fan @ facebook.com/MicrosoftTechNetRadio Subscribe to our podcast via iTunes, Stitcher, or RSS  

Its IT Time and in today’s episode Blain Barton walks us through the necessary steps and considerations you should think about when upgrading from Windows Server 2008 to Windows Server 2012. Tune in as he lays out the necessary hardware and disk requirements, which Windows Clients and Servers are supported as well as what Functional Levels, Operations Master Roles and Active Directory changes you need to be made aware of. __________________________ Experience Microsoft's latest products with these FREE downloads! Build Your Lab! Download  Windows Server 2012,  System Center 2012 SP1 and  Hyper-V Server 2012 and get the best virtualization platform and private cloud management solution on the market. Try it FREE now! Don’t Have a Lab? Build Your Lab in the Cloud with Windows Azure Virtual Machines. Try Windows Azure for free with no cost or obligations, and use any OS, language, database or tool. FREE Download __________________________Become an "Early Expert" at IT Pros ROCK! The Windows Server 2012 "Early Experts" Challenge provides a FREE online study group with certification exam preparation materials for quickly learning about the latest version of Windows Server! The Challenge involves a series of Knowledge Quests - starting with the Apprentice Quest below - and each Quest ends with a special completion certificate for you to promote your new knowledge! To make it easy to participate, each Quest is developed in a modular format that you can complete based on your own schedule and availability. If you're interested in learning more about the products or solutions discussed in this episode, click on any of the below links for free, in-depth information: Websites & Blogs: Blain Barton’s Blog Videos: TechNet Radio: IT Time - The Scripting Guy’s Top 5 PowerShell 3.0 Tips and Tricks TechNet Radio: IT Time - PowerShell 3.0 Step-by-Step with the Scripting Guy TechNet Radio: IT Time – Get Your Script on! Check out PowerShell Satur

Lex Thomas welcomes Rabih Andari and George Bryan from the Microsoft Consulting Services team as they discuss a tool they developed that helps migrate large organizations to Office 365. Tune in as they share with us an interesting case study on how this tool helped automate the process in which they consolidated a very complex multi-forest, multi-domain environment without any interruption of service while saving the company millions of dollars. [3:56] What was the situation? How did Microsoft Consulting Services help? [8:22] What was the customer experience like? [12:15] How is this migration tool different from other tools / services in the market? [17:50] How does the migration process actually work? [20:05] How does this all work from a technical standpoint? [36:20] How can customers interested in this service contact you? Click here to send your comments or questions to the “Taste of Premier” Podcast show! __________________________ Experience Microsoft's latest products with these FREE downloads! Build Your Lab! Download  Windows Server 2012,  System Center 2012 SP1 and  Hyper-V Server 2012 and get the best virtualization platform and private cloud management solution on the market. Try it FREE now! Don’t Have a Lab? Build Your Lab in the Cloud with Windows Azure Virtual Machines. Try Windows Azure for free with no cost or obligations, and use any OS, language, database or tool. FREE Download __________________________ If you're interested in learning more about the products or solutions discussed in this episode, click on any of the below links for free, in-depth information: Websites & Blogs: Microsoft Services Premier Support Videos: TechNet Radio: Taste of Premier – How to Enable Hyper-V on Windows 8 TechNet Radio: Taste of Premier - How Windows To Go for Windows 8 can Work for You TechNet Radio: Taste of Premier - Premier Support for Developers & “Surface! Surface! Surface!” TechNet Radio: Taste of Premier - What’s New in Windows

Yung Chou , Keith Mayer and Greg Shields from Concentrated Technology are back for part 2 of their deploying  and managing a service in the cloud series and in today's episode they demo for us how to plan for  and deploy RDS using System Center 2012 SP1 Virtual Machine Manager Service Templates. Tune in for this great follow-up episode and preview of an upcoming TechEd 2013 session. [7:18] DEMO: How to integrate RDS into a Virtual Machine Service template? (TechEd 2013 session Preview) [12:16] DEMO: Pre-Installed Scripts for IT Pros to start using the cloud now for everyday tasks like RDS __________________________ Experience Microsoft's latest products with these FREE downloads! Build Your Lab! Download  Windows Server 2012,  System Center 2012 SP1 and  Hyper-V Server 2012 and get the best virtualization platform and private cloud management solution on the market. Try it FREE now! Don’t Have a Lab? Build Your Lab in the Cloud with Windows Azure Virtual Machines. Try Windows Azure for free with no cost or obligations, and use any OS, language, database or tool. FREE Download __________________________Become an "Early Expert" at IT Pros ROCK! The Windows Server 2012 "Early Experts" Challenge provides a FREE online study group with certification exam preparation materials for quickly learning about the latest version of Windows Server! The Challenge involves a series of Knowledge Quests - starting with the Apprentice Quest below - and each Quest ends with a special completion certificate for you to promote your new knowledge! To make it easy to participate, each Quest is developed in a modular format that you can complete based on your own schedule and availability. If you're interested in learning more about the products or solutions discussed in this episode, click on any of the below links for free, in-depth information: Websites & Blogs: Yung Chou’s Blog Keith Mayer’s Blog Cloud Solutions Hub Building Clouds blog

Yung Chou  and Keith Mayer and welcome Greg Shields from Concentrated Technology to the show as they discuss the differences between virtualization and cloud computing and how the two complement each other as well as how you can take the principles you learned from virtualization and apply them to the cloud. In part 1 of their series, Greg compares the old way of deploying services and shows us how to do it in System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager. [2:57] What’s the difference between virtualization and cloud computing? [3:50] Why do I need cloud computing if I already do virtualization? [5:18] How do we take what we learned from virtualization and apply that to the cloud? [9:15] DEMO: Deploying services the old way vs. deploying it via Virtual Machine Manager  __________________________ Experience Microsoft's latest products with these FREE downloads! Build Your Lab! Download  Windows Server 2012,  System Center 2012 SP1 and  Hyper-V Server 2012 and get the best virtualization platform and private cloud management solution on the market. Try it FREE now! Don’t Have a Lab? Build Your Lab in the Cloud with Windows Azure Virtual Machines. Try Windows Azure for free with no cost or obligations, and use any OS, language, database or tool. FREE Download __________________________Become an "Early Expert" at IT Pros ROCK! The Windows Server 2012 "Early Experts" Challenge provides a FREE online study group with certification exam preparation materials for quickly learning about the latest version of Windows Server! The Challenge involves a series of Knowledge Quests - starting with the Apprentice Quest below - and each Quest ends with a special completion certificate for you to promote your new knowledge! To make it easy to participate, each Quest is developed in a modular format that you can complete based on your own schedule and availability. If you're interested in learning more about the products or solutions discussed

We’re here for the final part in our Building a Private Cloud series and in today’s episode Keith Mayer and Yung Chou show us to manage our hybrid cloud environment with System Center 2012 SP1 App Controller. Tune in as they demo for us how to get started with this service as well as wrap up this fantastic series. [1:33] Recap: Building a Private Cloud series [2:38] How to manage a Hybrid Cloud environment with System Center 2012 SP1 App Controller? [11:15] DEMO: Hybrid Cloud Management with App Controller [24:25] Summary: Building a Private Cloud series __________________________ Experience Microsoft's latest products with these FREE downloads! Build Your Lab! Download  Windows Server 2012,  System Center 2012 SP1 and  Hyper-V Server 2012 and get the best virtualization platform and private cloud management solution on the market. Try it FREE now! Don’t Have a Lab? Build Your Lab in the Cloud with Windows Azure Virtual Machines. Try Windows Azure for free with no cost or obligations, and use any OS, language, database or tool. FREE Download __________________________Become an "Early Expert" at IT Pros ROCK! The Windows Server 2012 "Early Experts" Challenge provides a FREE online study group with certification exam preparation materials for quickly learning about the latest version of Windows Server! The Challenge involves a series of Knowledge Quests - starting with the Apprentice Quest below - and each Quest ends with a special completion certificate for you to promote your new knowledge! To make it easy to participate, each Quest is developed in a modular format that you can complete based on your own schedule and availability. If you're interested in learning more about the products or solutions discussed in this episode, click on any of the below links for free, in-depth information: Websites & Blogs: Keith Mayer’s Blog Yung Chou’s Blog Cloud Solutions Hub Building Clouds blog Videos: (Part 1) Building a Private Cloud wit

Tommy Patterson welcomes Principal Program Manager, Mark Lawrence to the show as they discuss how Microsoft IT used Windows Server 2012 Dynamic Access Control to help secure and improve access management to key infrastructure and line-of business applications to users and business groups within the company. Tune in as they lay out an extensive case study describing the situation, the solution and benefits to adopting Windows Server 2012 in their own IT environment. [2:00] What was the situation? Describe some of the challenges which required MSIT to implement Dynamic Access Control [3:28] How was it resolved? [10:44] Describe some of the benefits to implementing a Windows Server 2012 DAC enhanced management environment __________________________ Experience Microsoft's latest products with these FREE downloads! Build Your Lab! Download  Windows Server 2012,  System Center 2012 SP1 and  Hyper-V Server 2012 and get the best virtualization platform and private cloud management solution on the market. Try it FREE now! Don’t Have a Lab? Build Your Lab in the Cloud with Windows Azure Virtual Machines. Try Windows Azure for free with no cost or obligations, and use any OS, language, database or tool. FREE Download __________________________If you're interested in learning more about the products or solutions discussed in this episode, click on any of the below links for free, in-depth information: Websites & Articles: Tommy Patterson’s blog Microsoft IT Showcase Quick Reference Guide – “How Microsoft IT Helped Secure and Improve Payroll Data Access Management with Windows Server 2012 Dynamic Access Control” Virtual Labs: TechNet Virtual Labs: System Center 2012 Follow @technetradio Become a Fan @ facebook.com/MicrosoftTechNetRadio Subscribe to our podcast via iTunes, Stitcher, or RSS  

In Part 12 of their Building a Private Cloud series, Keith Mayer and Yung Chou explore the world of hybrid cloud scenarios using Windows Azure Virtual Networks. Tune in as they walk us through some common scenarios where IT Pros may find it more appealing to deploy a hybrid datacenter solution as they explain what components are required and how to build out and configure both your cloud and local networks. [1:20] Recap: Building a Private Cloud [2:30] What is IaaS? Why would IT Pros be interested in “Infrastructure as a Service” as part of a Hybrid Cloud solution? [5:50] What is Windows Azure Virtual Networks? What are some common scenarios for it? [14:44] How should I plan for Azure Virtual Networks?  What do I need to do to get started? [20:10] DEMO: Building out our Cloud Network [28:14] DEMO: Building out our definitions for our local network [37:56] DEMO: Configuring our on-premise VPN gateway __________________________ Experience Microsoft's latest products with these FREE downloads! Build Your Lab! Download  Windows Server 2012,  System Center 2012 SP1 and  Hyper-V Server 2012 and get the best virtualization platform and private cloud management solution on the market. Try it FREE now! Don’t Have a Lab? Build Your Lab in the Cloud with Windows Azure Virtual Machines. Try Windows Azure for free with no cost or obligations, and use any OS, language, database or tool. FREE Download __________________________Become an "Early Expert" at IT Pros ROCK! The Windows Server 2012 "Early Experts" Challenge provides a FREE online study group with certification exam preparation materials for quickly learning about the latest version of Windows Server! The Challenge involves a series of Knowledge Quests - starting with the Apprentice Quest below - and each Quest ends with a special completion certificate for you to promote your new knowledge! To make it easy to participate, each Quest is developed in a modular format that you can co

Continuing their Building a Private Cloud with System Center 2012 SP1  series, Keith Mayer and Yung Chou walk us through the steps needed to dynamically optimize our virtual machines. Tune in as they show us how to set the reserve capacity for our hosts, balance VM loads, set-up auto live migrations and optimize our power consumption. [1:08] Recap: Building a Private Cloud [4:33] How important is Dynamic Optimization? [11:25] DEMO: How to optimize the utilization of our Fabric [12:05] DEMO: How to set reserve capacity for our hosts [16:05] DEMO: How to balance the VM load [18:06] DEMO: How to set up Auto Live Migration [22:49] DEMO: How to optimize our power consumption __________________________ Experience Microsoft's latest products with these FREE downloads! Build Your Lab! Download  Windows Server 2012,  System Center 2012 SP1 and  Hyper-V Server 2012 and get the best virtualization platform and private cloud management solution on the market. Try it FREE now! Don’t Have a Lab? Build Your Lab in the Cloud with Windows Azure Virtual Machines. Try Windows Azure for free with no cost or obligations, and use any OS, language, database or tool. FREE Download __________________________Become an "Early Expert" at IT Pros ROCK! The Windows Server 2012 "Early Experts" Challenge provides a FREE online study group with certification exam preparation materials for quickly learning about the latest version of Windows Server! The Challenge involves a series of Knowledge Quests - starting with the Apprentice Quest below - and each Quest ends with a special completion certificate for you to promote your new knowledge! To make it easy to participate, each Quest is developed in a modular format that you can complete based on your own schedule and availability. If you're interested in learning more about the products or solutions discussed in this episode, click on any of the below links for free, in-depth information: Websites & Blogs:

Lex Thomas welcomes Principal Cyber Security Architect, Michael Howard to the show as they discuss the importance of protecting your applications and datacenter. Tune in as they offer some practical advice and how you can adopt the Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) as well as how you can get started securing your own environment. [2:29] How important is Cyber Security and what is the Security Development Lifecycle Threat Modeling Tool? [7:11] What advice do you have for people trying to address their Security concerns? [12:55] How do I get started with the SDL? Click here to send your comments or questions to the “Taste of Premier” Podcast show! __________________________ Experience Microsoft's latest products with these FREE downloads! Build Your Lab! Download  Windows Server 2012,  System Center 2012 SP1 and  Hyper-V Server 2012 and get the best virtualization platform and private cloud management solution on the market. Try it FREE now! Don’t Have a Lab? Build Your Lab in the Cloud with Windows Azure Virtual Machines. Try Windows Azure for free with no cost or obligations, and use any OS, language, database or tool. FREE Download __________________________ If you're interested in learning more about the products or solutions discussed in this episode, click on any of the below links for free, in-depth information: Websites & Blogs: Microsoft Services Premier Support Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle Videos: TechNet Radio: Taste of Premier – How to Enable Hyper-V on Windows 8 TechNet Radio: Taste of Premier - How Windows To Go for Windows 8 can Work for You TechNet Radio: Taste of Premier - Premier Support for Developers & “Surface! Surface! Surface!” TechNet Radio: Taste of Premier - What’s New in Windows Phone 8 TechNet Radio: Taste of Premier - What’s New in Office 2013 Windows 8 Tips: Getting Started Windows 8 Tips: Mastering the Interface Windows 8 Tips: Productivity Follow @technetradio Become a Fan @ facebook.com/Microso

We’ve hit Part 10 in our Building a Private Cloud with System Center 2012 SP1 series, and in today’s episode Keith Mayer and Yung Chou discuss how you can protect your newly created private cloud with Data Protection Manager. Tune in as they discuss disaster recovery solutions and performance enhancements as well as demo for us how to setup and configure DPM for your environment and then lay out the process for backing up your servers and how DPM integrates with Virtual Machine Manager. [1:49] What is Data Protection Manager? [6:40] How much faster can we backup Hyper-V hosts with DPM? [10:14] DEMO: How to Setup & Configure Data Protection Manager [20:12] DEMO: Process of backing up a server [32:21] DEMO: Integration between Data Protection Manager and Virtual Machine Manager __________________________ Experience Microsoft's latest products with these FREE downloads! Build Your Lab! Download  Windows Server 2012,  System Center 2012 SP1 and  Hyper-V Server 2012 and get the best virtualization platform and private cloud management solution on the market. Try it FREE now! Don’t Have a Lab? Build Your Lab in the Cloud with Windows Azure Virtual Machines. Try Windows Azure for free with no cost or obligations, and use any OS, language, database or tool. FREE Download __________________________Become an "Early Expert" at IT Pros ROCK! The Windows Server 2012 "Early Experts" Challenge provides a FREE online study group with certification exam preparation materials for quickly learning about the latest version of Windows Server! The Challenge involves a series of Knowledge Quests - starting with the Apprentice Quest below - and each Quest ends with a special completion certificate for you to promote your new knowledge! To make it easy to participate, each Quest is developed in a modular format that you can complete based on your own schedule and availability. If you're interested in learning more about the products or solutions

In part 9 of their Building a Private Cloud with System Center 2012 SP1 , Keith Mayer and Yung Chou tackle the process of servicing and updating our private cloud applications and the underlying fabric. Tune in as they show us step-by-step how to update our service templates as well as how to apply and manage critical updates to our applications. [2:22] Recap: Building a Private Cloud [4:30] Updating the Private Cloud Fabric [6:31] DEMO: How to Service Private Cloud Apps [21:53]  DEMO: How to Update the Private Cloud Fabric with Virtual Machine Manager __________________________ Experience Microsoft's latest products with these FREE downloads! Build Your Lab! Download  Windows Server 2012,  System Center 2012 SP1 and  Hyper-V Server 2012 and get the best virtualization platform and private cloud management solution on the market. Try it FREE now! Don’t Have a Lab? Build Your Lab in the Cloud with Windows Azure Virtual Machines. Try Windows Azure for free with no cost or obligations, and use any OS, language, database or tool. FREE Download __________________________Become an "Early Expert" at IT Pros ROCK! The Windows Server 2012 "Early Experts" Challenge provides a FREE online study group with certification exam preparation materials for quickly learning about the latest version of Windows Server! The Challenge involves a series of Knowledge Quests - starting with the Apprentice Quest below - and each Quest ends with a special completion certificate for you to promote your new knowledge! To make it easy to participate, each Quest is developed in a modular format that you can complete based on your own schedule and availability. If you're interested in learning more about the products or solutions discussed in this episode, click on any of the below links for free, in-depth information: Websites & Blogs: Keith Mayer’s Blog Yung Chou’s Blog Cloud Solutions Hub Building Clouds blog Videos: (Part 1) Building a Private Cloud

In Part 8 of their Building a Private Cloud with System Center 2012 SP1 , Keith Mayer and Yung Chou explore the topic of how to deploy and manage your applications to the Private Cloud. Tune in as they discuss how to setup and create profiles for your virtual machine templates [1:10] Recap: Building a Private Cloud Series [2:42] How do we deploy applications to our Private Cloud? [6:40] DEMO: How do we create new Virtual Machine templates and modify profiles? [19:38] What is a Service Template and why are they important? [23:40 DEMO: How do I create & manage my private cloud applications with Service Templates? [31:10] DEMO: Where do I get web application packages? [33:41] DEMO: What about SQL database packages? __________________________ Experience Microsoft's latest products with these FREE downloads! Build Your Lab! Download  Windows Server 2012,  System Center 2012 SP1and  Hyper-V Server 2012 and get the best virtualization platform and private cloud management solution on the market. Try it FREE now! Don’t Have a Lab? Build Your Lab in the Cloud with Windows Azure Virtual Machines. Try Windows Azure for free with no cost or obligations, and use any OS, language, database or tool. FREE Download __________________________Become an "Early Expert" at IT Pros ROCK! The Windows Server 2012 "Early Experts" Challenge provides a FREE online study group with certification exam preparation materials for quickly learning about the latest version of Windows Server! The Challenge involves a series of Knowledge Quests - starting with the Apprentice Quest below - and each Quest ends with a special completion certificate for you to promote your new knowledge! To make it easy to participate, each Quest is developed in a modular format that you can complete based on your own schedule and availability. If you're interested in learning more about the products or solutions discussed in this episode, click on any of the below links for free, in

We’re here for Part 7 of our Building a Private Cloud with System Center 2012 SP1 , and in today’s episode Keith Mayer and Yung Chou show us how to create and delegate private clouds in Virtual Machine Manager. Tune in for another demo heavy session and see how you can create private clouds and assign host groups, logical networks, storage and load balancers as well as how to then create user roles, profiles and resources. [1:24] Recap: Building a Private Cloud [3:00] How to Create & Delegate Private Clouds in VMM [9:45] DEMO: How to Create Private Clouds: Assign Host Groups | Logical Networks | Load Balance | Storage | [21:52] DEMO: How to Assign Access to Your Private Cloud: Create New Roles | Profiles | Menus | Scope | VM Networks | Resources [35:36] DEMO: How can developers login & create resources they need? __________________________ Experience Microsoft's latest products with these FREE downloads! Build Your Lab! Download  Windows Server 2012,  System Center 2012 SP1and  Hyper-V Server 2012 and get the best virtualization platform and private cloud management solution on the market. Try it FREE now! Don’t Have a Lab? Build Your Lab in the Cloud with Windows Azure Virtual Machines. Try Windows Azure for free with no cost or obligations, and use any OS, language, database or tool. FREE Download __________________________Become an "Early Expert" at IT Pros ROCK! The Windows Server 2012 "Early Experts" Challenge provides a FREE online study group with certification exam preparation materials for quickly learning about the latest version of Windows Server! The Challenge involves a series of Knowledge Quests - starting with the Apprentice Quest below - and each Quest ends with a special completion certificate for you to promote your new knowledge! To make it easy to participate, each Quest is developed in a modular format that you can complete based on your own schedule and availability. If you're interested in learning m