Yesterday, Microsoft released a public public of some tools that Jeffrey Snover showed of at Microsoft Ignite last year, which was in essence basically just Server manager from within the Azure portal. This tools is aimed for its first release to manage Windows Server 2016 servers, it can manage both Azure virtual machines and machines …
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There is no denying that Microsoft Azure is a success story, from being the lame silverlight portal with limited capabilities that it was to become a global force to be reckoned with in the cloud marketspace. Later today Microsoft is releasing their first tech preview of their Azure Stack. Which allow us to bring the …
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Starting of the new year with a long awaited feature on my part, setting up integration between XenDesktop and Microsoft Azure which is now a supported integration in 7.7 which was released now a week ago. This integration allow us to provision virtual machines directly from Studio. NOTE: Important to note however that XenDesktop as …
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Today I was notified of a new Azure backup agent which was released on Azure and on the download center. As of recently Microsoft did not have support for backing up on-premises Sharepoint, SQL, Exchange, Hyper-V and Azure Backup was limited to files and folders. Now if we go into the Azure portal we can …
So it is going to be a busy couple of months ahead.. So this sums up what is happening on my part the next months. 28 – 30 October: At the annual Citrix User Group event in Norway, which is a crazy good conference, I will be speaking about using Office365 with Citrix and different …
Well it is that time of the year again, and MVP renewal for my part is 1th October. For the last two years I have been an MVP for ECM (Enterprise Client Management) but since much of my focus has been on Azure for the last 1,5 year I felt that is was time for …
Well, this might be a bit of a misleading blogpost, and it is not aimed at critizing Azure, but mearly a post which aims to look at what I feel that Microsoft IaaS Azure is missing at this point. Now even thou Microsoft is doing alot of development work on Azure, much of it is …
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A while back I blogged about Veeam Endpoint https://msandbu.wordpress.com/2014/12/01/veeam-endpoint-backup-a-new-free-backup-solution-for-computers-and-physical-servers/ while it is aimed at Physical computers / servers it has another purpose that I just discovered. In Azure, Microsoft has currently a preview feature called Azure VM backup, which in essence is a image based backup of virtual machines in Azure. Now since this currently …
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I have previosly blogged about Unidesk layering technology earlier this year, https://msandbu.wordpress.com/2015/01/05/unidesk-tech-preview-for-hyper-v/ then it was about Hyper-V support and how it operated. Then at Microsoft ignite this year I was introduced to a new version which enabled Azure Support. Then I was like WTF? You guys do that?? and yes they do, it was released …
Finally something Ive been waiting for to arrive! Microsoft announced yesterday something called Azure Application Gateway, which is a layer 7 HTTP based load balacing feature. Which has many more persistency features and features like SSL offloading which makes certificate management easier. And with the SSL offloading feature we can remove SSL processing from the …
