We recently published the new Windows Server Test Lab Guide for building your own internal labs for demo purposes. If you are looking forward for testing scenarios on Windows Server 2012 R2, this guide provides a good reference. This Microsoft Test Lab Guide (TLG) provides you with step-by-step instructions to create the Windows Base Configuration… Read more
Hi Everyone, Recently, we announced the availability of Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2012 TechNet Library documentation available as a PDF on Microsoft Download Center. We highly recommend that you should always rely on the latest documentation available on http://technet.microsoft.com This download is an Adobe® PDF of the entire contents of the… Read more
Get the all new Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V Component Architecture posters. Provides a visual reference for understanding key Hyper-V technologies in Windows Server 2012 R2 and focuses on Generation 2 virtual machines, Hyper-V with virtual hard disk sharing, online virtual hard disk resizing, storage quality-of-service, enhanced session mode, live migration, Hyper-V failover clustering, and… Read more
Infrastructure-as-a-Service Product Line Architecture Fabric Architecture Guide http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=38817 This document provides customers with the necessary guidance to develop solutions for a Microsoft private cloud infrastructure in accordance with the IaaS PLA patterns that are identified for use with the Windows Server 2012 operating system. This document provides specific guidance for developing fabric architectures (compute, network,… Read more
The Windows Azure Training Kit includes a comprehensive set of technical content including hands-on labs and presentations that are designed to help you learn how to use the latest Windows Azure features and services. August 2013 Update The August 2013 update of the Windows Azure Training Kit includes updated versions of Introduction to Access Control… Read more
Hi Everyone, We have recently started the DPE India Blog for Announcements from Developer & Platform Evangelism Team in India. The blog will focus upon the activities from DPE India team targeting Developers, IT Professionals & Students. Here is the first blog post targeted for IT Professionals http://blogs.technet.com/b/dpeindia/archive/2013/07/08/cloud-os.aspx Make sure you subscribe to the DPE… Read more
The Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit (MAP) is an agentless, automated, multi-product planning and assessment tool for quicker and easier desktop, server and cloud migrations. MAP provides detailed readiness assessment reports and executive proposals with extensive hardware and software information, and actionable recommendations to help organizations accelerate their IT infrastructure planning process, and gather more… Read more
Introduces Windows Azure for developers and IT pros. Summarizes benefits such as global coverage and extensive language support. Provides a description of current services by category: app services, data services, compute, networking, and store. Depicts common uses including Cloud Services, Virtual Machines, Web Sites, Mobile Services, and Media Services. The poster is intended to be… Read more
Many customers begin their virtualization journeys’ by virtualizing the low intensity, less critical workloads, such as File & Print Servers, or Web Servers, but as customer confidence in virtualization grows, customers need to understand the impact of virtualization, from a performance, scalability and reliability perspective, on their more mission-critical, tier 1 and tier 2 applications… Read more
The Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) is designed to help prevent hackers from gaining access to your system. Software vulnerabilities and exploits have become an everyday part of life. Virtually every product has to deal with them and consequently, users are faced with a stream of security updates. For users who get attacked before the… Read more