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David Tesar met with Michael Washam to discuss the new updates to Windows Azure PowerShell with lots of demos. Download an eval of Windows Azure. In this interview that starts at [05:10] , we cover: [06:32] Demo - Using PowerShell to copy files from on premise to blob storage  [09:42] Demo - Using PowerShell to copy VHD files from one storage account to another and monitor its status [16:02] Demo - Using PowerShell to upload a VHD file from on-premise to Windows Azure using add-AzureVHD.  Also adding a blank disk to the repository. [19:18] Demo - Using PowerShell to save a VHD from Windows Azure to on-Premise using Save-AzureVhd News: AD to Windows Azure AD to Quickstart Guide now available! http://aka.ms/AD2AAD Updates to Windows 8 Mail, Calendar, People Now Available in the Windows Phone Store: Lync 2013 App   Office Hours Live with Joey and Rick (in person!). For more details on scheduled stops and registration links, check out. http://aka.ms/officehourslive. The EdgeShow will be LIVE in Las Vegas at MMS 2013 with MORE technical interviews. (http://www.2013mms.com/) Updated Windows Azure PS tools now available! Connect with the Edge Team: Facebook – Twitter - Email

Note: This episode was shot with Rick's Nokia 920 (from his backpack) in a hotel lobby while on the road. Audio was recorded with Roland R26 portable recorder (on the desk). The technical interview was previously recorded during the recent 2013 MVP summit here in Redmond, WA. Watch as Rick manages to snag Australian MVP Alan Burchill in order to talk about more Group Policy Goodness in Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8. News: Office Hours Live with Joey and Rick (in person!). For more details on scheduled stops and registration links, check out http://aka.ms/officehourslive. Windows 8 and IE 10 Flash Whitelist switched to Blacklist for compatibility issues. More details here. Windows Phone 8 Company Portal app released. More details here. TechEd North America and TechEd Europe Early-Bird pricing ends March 22nd (http://www.msteched.com/). The EdgeShow will be LIVE in Las Vegas at MMS 2013 with MORE technical interviews. (http://www.2013mms.com/) Technical Segment: [05:45] - Introducing Australian MVP Alan Burchill.[08:01] - Deep Things like Group Policy Service and system scheduled refreshes. [13:33] - AppLocker to restrict Modern Store Apps.[17:44] - Folder redirection with Group Policy. [24:43] - Where to get more info on all things Group Policy (http://www.grouppolicy.biz).  Connect with the Edge Team: Facebook – Twitter - Email

At [05:55] Symon Perriman meets with Rob Hindman, a Program Manager on the Windows Server Clustering & High-Availability team, to talk about migrating Failover Clusters from Windows Server 2008/R2 to Windows Server 2012. Rob first describes the differences between an upgrade and a migration and explains why a migration is required with a distributed system such as a cluster. Next they discuss the concept of "rolling upgrades" and why they have not been supported since Windows Server 2003 due to their high engineering and test costs. Rob then provides an overview of the Cluster Migration Wizard and how it is used to move roles to the new cluster. Next they briefly describe some other cluster migration paths that do not use the Cluster Migration Wizard, such as SQL and Exchange.  The conversation then focuses on Hyper-V migration between clusters and different options to move your VMs between different versions. At [11:30] Rob demos a VM migration from a Windows Server 2008 R2 cluster to a Windows Server 2012 cluster. In this demo, all the VMs are running on Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV) and we describe how to remap the virtual networks for the VMs when they move to a different set of hosts. Finally, Rob shows the actual migration and how to minimize the downtime for the VMs while they are transferred to the new cluster. For more information, check out the cluster team blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/clustering) and this post on cluster migration: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/clustering/archive/2012/06/25/10323434.aspx.   News: [00:40] Learn about IaaS and private cloud best practices with the Cloud Infrastructure Solution for Enterprise IT reference architecture: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=36795      [01:20] Check out the new Windows Server 2012 Base Configuration Lab Test Guide: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=29010      [T2:10:] See how Microsoft IT

At [07:36] David Tesar meets with Drew McDaniel, Senior PM in Windows Azure. Drew quickly covers the scenarios in which we see customers using Windows Azure IaaS and then we dig in with demos of Windows Azure VMs, including creating gallery images with Windows Server and Linux.  One important note to point out: when you run a Windows Server VM in Windows Azure, you don't need to pay for an additional license for Windows Server—it's included with your purchased Windows Azure compute hours. We more specifically cover: [09:33] Demo: Creating a new Virtual Machine from gallery image [16:07] Demo: Linux Images available through VMDepot [17:55] Demo: Connecting to a VM in Windows Azure and how this works with open endpoints. How do you connect to multiple VMs over RDP with a single public IP? [19:47] Demo: Tip on how to ensure you don't get charged for extra compute usage [21:20] What happens when you delete a running VM? Will it perform a graceful shutdown? [21:45] Demo: Tip on how to ensure you don't get charged for extra storage usage [23:05] How does Windows Azure calculate disk storage usage? [24:09] What happens when you upload a dynamic disk that only uses a portion of available space? News: The next major version of Office 365 has hit general availability + top 4 Office 365 features picked by David & Symon [05:00] Check out the new Garage series of videos for IT Pros   [05:19] IE 10 is now generally available for Windows 7 [06:37] UAG Service Pack 3 is now available   Connect with the Edge Team: Facebook – Twitter - Email

At [07:35] Symon Perriman meets with Microsoft MVPs & architects Brad Bird (System Center) and Sean Kearney (PowerShell) to talk about automating datacenter management with System Center Orchestrator and PowerShell. Brad and Sean first give an overview of System Center 2012 SP1 Orchestrator and PowerShell and explain the importance of automation in the datacenter to reduce human error, free resources, and ensure a consistent service experience. They then talk about how Orchestrator can be extended by 3rd party Integration Packs (such as VMware) and how custom IP can be created. Next they talk about PowerShell extensibility and how it enables automation of any hardware component with a programmatic interface. At [13:45] the team takes a look at an Orchestrator demo which shows integration between PowerShell, System Center Service Manager, Active Directory, and Outlook to onboard a new user in the company. In this scenario an administrator can send an email to the IT department with an XML attachment which gets parsed by PowerShell, then the user's information gets added to AD and a record is created in Service Manager. This workflow also shows variables and conditional statements as well as the Orchestrator databus, which allows one runbook to invoke and pass data to other workflows.   News: [00:15] The Outlook team announces the global consumer launch of Outlook.com, which already has over 60 million users: http://blogs.office.com/b/microsoft-outlook/archive/2013/02/18/outlook-com-leaves-preview-as-fastest-growing-email-service.aspx      [01:30] The free Microsoft iSCSI Target has been updated—download it today to get an easy-to-use SAN: http://aka.ms/iSCSITarget      [01:50] Check out the "Future of Communication" from this week's Lync conference, including Skype & Lync      integration: http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_blog/archive/2013/02/19/re-humanizing-communicatio

Hey—it's Episode #51! In this episode, Rick talks with Graham Whitely, PM for Hybrid Storage Systems, about how to setup and configure a Cluster-In-A-Box with that fresh out of the box smell. Full screencast and discussion starts at [07:24]. As for the news, there are two main items: TechEd North America and TechEd Europe registration opens February 12th. Register at http://msteched.com. The Surface Pro goes on sale Feb 9th at all Microsoft stores as well as Staples and Best Buy in the US. Connect with the Edge Team: Facebook – Twitter - Email

David Tesar met with Mark Weiner, Director Product Marketing for StorSimple, to discuss new storage enhancements, how StorSimple + Windows Azure helps out with your overall storage strategy. In this interview that starts at [04:24] , we cover: [07:40] Demo - Configuring the StorSimple System Volume Access Groups Cloud credentials to connect to Azure Security encryption configuration of data [11:54] Demo - Connecting up a Windows Server to StorSimple cloud storage using iSCSI & assigning d [13:54] Demo - Copying data to mounted drive from iSCSI storage [14:34] Demo - Creating a volume group and specifying policy to backup the data in Azure or local via the StorSimple MMC [17:28] How do you effectively deal with the tax of your bandwidth to back up potentially TBs of data over the internet to the cloud? News: Office 365 Home Premium released Exchange 2013 architecture blog post Delivering Lync 2013 over Wi-Fi WhitePaper Exploring Microsoft SharePoint 2013: New Features & Functions   Connect with the Edge Team: Facebook – Twitter - Email

In this video, Symon Perriman meets with John Allwright, a Senior Product Marketing Manager in Windows Server & Management, to talk about this week's System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 (SP1) launch.  John first gives an overview of the goals of SP1 and how this launch leads us closer to Microsoft's vision of the "Cloud OS" while adding support for Windows Server 2012 and SQL Server 2013. Next, he and Symon talk about major enhancements to Software Defined Networking (SDN), using new network virtualization features from Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V, and how the Hyper-V extensible switch can be viewed through Operations Manager. The discussion then moves to the industry trend of improving "DevOps"—the improved collaboration between developers and IT operations through self-service and automated bug reporting—specifically focusing on the Global Service Monitoring (GSM) feature, which uses Windows Azure to test websites from around the world, then automatically report performance issues to the developers through Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2012 and Visual Studio 2012.  Finally, John and Symon talk about the improvements to Microsoft's hybrid cloud model, including backing up data to Azure through Data Protection Manager (DPM) and migrating VMs from the private cloud to the public cloud with App Controller. Symon ends the interview with a demo at [18:00] of using App Controller to manage his VMs in a 3rd party hoster's environment using the new Service Provider Foundation (SPF) features.   News: [00:10] System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 is released: http://www.microsoft.com/SystemCenter. Read the Official Microsoft Blog about the Cloud OS vision: http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_blog/archive/2013/01/15/what-is-the-cloud-os.aspx [00:40] System Center 2012 SP1 Evaluation is now available: http://aka.ms/SC2012SP1Eval [01:05] Two new Microsoft Virtual Academy (MVA) courses have been released on System Center 2012 SP1 update

Happy New Year to all of our Edge Show viewers. In this news heavy episode, Joey and Rick kick off 2013 with a look at CES happenings, patch updates on Windows RT, and the upcoming Conference and Event Schedule:  [01:39] CES Toys - Joeys Picks [04:40] CES Toys - Ricks Pick [07:06] Windows RT Patch News [08:20] MMS 2013 Update [09:35] Joey and Ricks "Office Hours" Live Event Links: Samsung Series 7 Ultra from CES 2013: http://samsung2013ces.com/ces-photos/series-7-ultra-unveiled/ Samsung Series 7 Chronos from CES 2013: http://samsung2013ces.com/ces-photos/series-7-chronos-refreshed-meet-professional-performance/ Lenovo Helix from CES 2013: http://news.lenovo.com/news+releases/lenovo-intros-rip-and-flip-thinkpad-helix-and-first-multimode-mini-ultrabook.htm MMS 2013 Registration: http://www.2013mms.com/ Join Joey and Rick for Office Hours! Register Here: http://aka.ms/mva-live Joey's Windows 8 Jumpstart for IT Professionals: http://aka.ms/win8js Ricks Two Day Windows Server 2012 Jumpstart: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/video/windows-server-2012-jump-start-01-core-hyper-v.aspx Connect with the Edge Team: Facebook – Twitter - Email

David Tesar met with Martin Booth, Senior Product Manager for System Center Configuration Manager, to discuss new enhancements in SP1 and Windows Intune to support user-centric management for mobile devices and PCs in a single unified console across on-premise and the cloud. In this interview, which starts at [03:18], we cover: [05:43] Enhancements to the December 2012 release of Windows Intune [06:41] Demo - Windows Intune connector to SCCM 2012 SP1 [07:18] Demo - Android and iOS iPad/iPhone management [07:38] Advantages of direct iOS management over Exchange Active Sync (EAS) [08:10] Demo - Windows RT and Windows Phone 8 Management [09:35] Demo - Application provisioning and deployment of iOS, Android, and Windows Phone applications  and "deep links" [11:06] Demo - How to enroll Windows RT device to be managed by Windows Intune [11:30] Demo - Company portal application on Windows RT [12:59] Where are applications stored for distribution [13:29] Additional resources News: SharePoint 2013 - http://aka.ms/sp2013eval Exchange 2013 GA + Eval - http://aka.ms/exch2013  Lync 2013 Eval - http://aka.ms/lync2013  Windows 8 for business - hardware decisions Windows Intune Trial - http://aka.ms/wintune Connect with the Edge Team: Facebook – Twitter - Email

Rick Claus talks with Zachary Alexander, Program Manager in the Group Policy team, about all things to do with Group Policy and what's new with its administration and implementation in Windows Server 2012. Topics covered include: Group Policy Infrastructure Status Group Policy Results Reporting goodness Group Policy remote GP Update! News: Microsoft Office 2012 is now available to customer via Microsoft Volume Licensing site Show Me Something Cool!!! Group Policy is already super cool Resources: The official Group Policy Team blog Group Policy Search tool in Azure Alan Burchill's blog on Group Policy (and WP7/WP8 app)  Connect with the Edge Team: Facebook – Twitter - Email

Joey Snow talks with Ganesh Srinivasan, Program Manager in the Windows Azure Networking team, about all things to do with Windows Azure networking. [08:57] Topics include: Changes in networking for Azure What tools you can use to connect and manage networks Firewall changes for edge connection devices Common misconfigurations and misconceptions about azure networking Early lessons from beta deploys with MSIT Endpoints and Probes News: Registration for MMS is now open: http://www.2013mms.com/ Mitch Tullock published "Installing and Configuring Windows Server 2012" Bing Translator now available for Windows Phone 8 Show Me Something Cool!!! Windows 8 - "Always Open Internet Explorer on the Desktop" at [03:54] Group Policy setting to force Desktop Mode Personalizing the Start Screen [06:06] Resources: Try Windows Azure Windows Azure Training Kit Windows Azure Networking fundamentals  Connect with the Edge Team: Facebook – Twitter - Email

In this video, Symon Perriman meets with Prabu Rambadran, a Product Marketing Manager in Windows Server & Management, to discuss the upcoming changes in System Center 2012 SP1 for Data Protection Manager (DPM). First Prabu gives an overview of the feature enhancements in DPM for System Center 2012 before focusing on the improvements coming in Service Pack 1 (SP1) and how they take advantage of Windows Server 2012 capabilities.  Next Prabu and Symon discuss improvements with backing up and restoring virtual machines, including host-based backups, VM backups, and backups for applications running inside VMs. They spend a few minutes talking about the Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and the differences of VSS-aware applications as regards backup. Then they discuss the differences between backup and disaster recovery, and how to utilize the Hyper-V Replica feature in Windows Server 2012. Finally, they discuss improved integration to backup Linux and Unix VMs, along with simplified management of multiple DPM servers through System Center 2012 SP1 Operations Manager (SCOM).  Prabu ends the interview by showing a demo of backup and restore capabilities to Windows Azure at [17:35].  For more information about System Center 2012 SP1 Data Protection Manager visit http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh758173.aspx.   News: [00:10] The Microsoft Holiday Look Book has been released: http://aka.ms/LookBook. [01:40] Skype Launches New Online Platform for Small Businesses (SITW): http://aka.ms/SITW. [02:55] WS2012 Essentials is available and you can download the evaluation: http://aka.ms/ServerEssentials. [04:30] The Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter (for VMware) has just been released: http://aka.ms/MVMC. [05:25] There were lots of announcements about new features in SharePoint 2013 at the recent SharePoint conference: http://aka.ms/SharePoint2013. [06:45] Remember to check out the case studies of customers using Microsoft's cloud technologies,

David Tesar met with Alan Meeus, Senior Product Manager for Windows Phone, to discuss what's new for IT Pros and business users with Windows Phone 8. We have lots of demos—the following is how it breaks down. The Technical interview starts at [06:10] with a discussion of some of the new enhancements relevant for IT Pros with Windows Phone 8: Security - Trusted shared core, Bitlocker Encryption and secured boot [08:25] Management - SCCM and Intune device mobile device management Application Hub [09:40] When do you use Exchange Active Sync versus deeper Mobile Device Management? [10:17] How do you enable Bitlocker on Windows Phone 8? [11:29] Demo: Managed phone area in Windows Phone 8 [13:18] Demo: Verify device is encrypted for on Windows Phone 8 [13:59] Demo: Windows Intune Application Hub and install corporate Windows Phone 8 application [15:44] Productivity enhancements for business users on Windows Phone 8 [19:15] Demo: Provision Email, SharePoint, and Lync on Windows Phone 8 [20:25] Demo: Conversation View, Connecting to Lync meetings, Attachments on Windows Phone 8 [21:17] Demo: Creating documents on multiple devices in web browser and Windows Phone 8 [22:43] Demo: Office Hub enhancements in Windows Phone 8 [24:30] Demo: One Note with voice dictation on Windows Phone 8 Download an evaluation of Windows Intune: http://aka.ms/wintune Learn more about Windows Phone 8 for IT Pros: http://aka.ms/winphone8 News: Office 2013 RTM now available on TechNet/MSDN subscriptions Yammer and SharePoint integration details MDOP 2012 (UeV, App-V 5.0, DaRT) released IE 10 on Windows 7 Windows 8 for IT Pros ebook Win8/WS2012 support in SCCM 2007 R2 Connect with the Edge Team:Facebook – Twitter - Email

In this special Edge show episode, the team gives coverage of Build as it relates to IT professionals and recent announcements.  More specifically, we cover: Windows 8 GA launch [00:58] Build Pre-conference stats [01:54] Day 1 keynote - Ballmer's demos Rick's Ballmer moments Hardware [03:27] Acer UX31A ASUS Zenbook Touch [05:08] Lenovo Yoga [06:13] Surface RT + Touch and Type Covers [08:15] Dell XPS all-in-one [10:23] Day 2 keynote - Azure stuff relevant for IT Pros [12:43] Windows Phone 8 - Nokia 920 and Kid mode [14:55] Relevant BUILD sessions for IT Pros Extending and customizing Dynamic Access Control Delivering Apps with Remote FX in Windows Server 2012 Developing highly-available, scale-out applications for Windows Server 2012 Security in Windows Store Applications Connect with the Edge Team: Facebook – Twitter - Email