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Jeff Goldner is back with another installment of our CPS workload deployment series. Jeff is a Principal Program Manager in Microsoft’s Cloud Solutions Group. Come get workload deployment details first hand at Ignite, Session BRK3469. Jeff Goldner from Microsoft’s Cloud Solutions, back for part three of the workload story for CPS. In this episode, we… Read more
We are privileged to have a guest blogger on Building Clouds, Jeff Goldner. Jeff is a Principal Program Manager in Microsoft’s Cloud Solutions Group. This is the second post in a series discussing new artifacts being rolled out by Microsoft that are designed to run Microsoft workloads on the Cloud Platform System (CPS). More to… Read more
We are privileged to have a guest blogger on Building Clouds, Jeff Goldner. Jeff is a Principal Program Manager in Microsoft’s Cloud Solutions Group. In the series we are starting today, Jeff highlights new artifacts being rolled out by Microsoft that are designed to run Microsoft workloads on the Cloud Platform System(CPS). The series will… Read more
Hello Readers! Today’s topic is one that has been coming up more and more as the usage of Windows Azure Pack (WAP) increases. Problem Statement / Question / Answer Problem “When I delete the Subscription for a WAP User (or the actual User), their Subscription Resources remain in VMM!” Question “How do I automatically remove… Read more
Hello Readers! Today I am happy to publish an updated version of the Gallery Resource Import Tool (GRIT). This post summarizes the new features/enhancements in this version 1.2 and, of course, where to get it. What is GRIT? Let’s start with a short overview of the tool, understanding that full details and “how to use”… Read more
About a month ago, the Gallery Resource Import Tool (GRIT) was published: Fully written in PowerShell, the “Gallery Resource Import Tool” (GRIT) aims at simplifying discovery and installation of VMRole Gallery Items in Windows Azure Pack (WAP), in addition to help reduce manual errors when tagging virtual disks. Through this single tool, all the configuration… Read more
Yay! Part 4 has finally arrived… And by Part 4, I am obviously talking about the next big post in “The New World of Tenant Provisioning with Windows Azure Pack” blog series. What is this one all about? Automated Deployment of Tenant Workloads (Lync, SharePoint, and Exchange) What does that mean? Well, let’s first take… Read more
Aaaaaand we’re back! Okay, I realize the title of this post is very similar to Part 2 of this blog series – and there is very good reason for that. Though they look similar, they are different. Different personas; different scripts; different context. Once again, I will call on a little image assistance, to clear… Read more
Hello Readers and Viewers! By now, you have seen a number of posts on this blog assisting you through portions of what I will refer to as the “VM Role Lifecycle”. In fact, we have… …a blog series about VM Role Creation; …posts about VM Role Import and Configuration; and as of last week, a… Read more
Hello once again! So, here we are, Part 2 of The New World of Tenant Provisioning with Windows Azure Pack blog series (find Part 1: Intro & TOC here). Finally, some PowerShell/SMA Runbook examples! Automated Deployment of Tenant Network and Identity Workload What does that mean, exactly? Well for the context of this blog series,… Read more