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Hello folks,  This is my compilation of some of the online resource available to you in February 2012. This list featuring both live and on-demand content including webcasts, videos, virtual labs, and podcasts by product and topic. this is not the WHOLE list of the available content. but these are the ones i thought were relevant to customers and IT pros. Microsoft webcasts are 30-90 minutes in length and feature interactive presentations, product demonstrations, and question-and-answer sessions. Virtual labs give you an opportunity to test drive Microsoft’s newest products in an online environment. It's simple—no complex setup or installation is required. Stream or download audio podcasts and quickly access content with RSS feeds. Microsoft podcasts are free — just click and Learn! You can View all the podcasts for IT professionals here. (http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9637723.) Or visit the Interactive IT Professional Webcast Calendar.
Live Webcasts: TechNet Webcast: From Virtualization to Private Cloud with System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 (Level 200)
Wednesday, February 01, 2012 - 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Pacific Time
John Baker, Senior IT Pro Evangelist, Microsoft Corporation
https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032501891&Culture=en-US TechNet Webcast: Becoming the Next Private Cloud Expert Now (Level 300)
Wednesday, February 08, 2012 - 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Pacific Time
Yung Chou, Senior IT Pro Evangelist, Microsoft Corporation
https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032501893&Culture=en-US TechNet Webcast: Information about Microsoft Security Bulletins for February (Level 200)
Wednesday, February 15, 2012 - 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Pacific Time
Jerry Bryant, Senior Program Manager, Group Manager, Response Communications, Microsoft Corporation
Dustin Childs, Senior Security Program Manager, Microsoft Security Response Center, Microsoft Corporation
https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032499501&Culture=en-US TechNet Webcast: You've Got a Cloud: Familiar Tools to Manage It (Level 300)
Thursday, February 16, 2012 - 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Pacific Time
Blain Barton, Senior IT Pro Evangelist, Microsoft Corporation
https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032501897&Culture=en-US TechNet Webcast: Integrating Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 with SAP for Expense Management (Level 300)
Tuesday, February 21, 2012 - 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM Pacific Time
Ade Ajayi, Microsoft IT Senior Solution Manager, Microsoft Corporation
Shiran Sathananthan, Microsoft IT Principle Program Manager Lead, Microsoft Corporation
https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032499676&Culture=en-US Microsoft Office System Webcast: Excel 2010: Create Named Ranges, and Use Them with Advanced Formulas (Level 100)
Wednesday, February 15, 2012 - 9:00 AM - 9:45 AM Pacific Time
Jed Warren, Training Specialist / Office Systems Expert, Microsoft Corporation
https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032503405&Culture=en-US Microsoft Office System Webcast: PowerPoint 2010: Control and Manage the Flow of Your PowerPoint Presentations (Level 200)
Wednesday, February 15, 2012 - 11:00 AM - 11:45 AM Pacific Time
Jed Warren, Training Specialist / Office Systems Expert, Microsoft Corporation
https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032503407&Culture=en-US IT Manager Webcast: How Microsoft IT Takes Initial Steps Toward the Consumerization of IT (Level 200)
Thursday, February 02, 2012 - 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM Pacific Time
Chris Dieringer, Microsoft IT Senior Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation
Paul Selsor, Microsoft IT Field Infrastructure Technology Strategist, Microsoft Corporation
https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032502281&Culture=en-US Highly Rated On-Demand Webcasts: TechNet Webcast: Career Progression: Getting Ready for the Cloud (Level 200) TechNet Webcast: IT Pro's Heaven: The Private Cloud (Level 200) TechNet Webcast: Troubleshooting Office 365 and BPOS-S Services Using MOSDAL 4.0 (Level 200) TechNet Webcast: Private Cloud Q&A (Episode 2) Office 365: Transforming Your Business with Lync Online Elevate Your Bottom Line with Microsoft Dynamics GP Microsoft Office Tips and Tricks: Do More with Data in Excel 2010 Popular Virtual Labs: TechNet Virtual Lab: System Center 2012 Configuration Manager: Advanced Software Distribution TechNet Virtual Lab: System Center 2012 Configuration Manager: Basic Software Distribution TechNet Virtual Lab: System Center 2012 Configuration Manager: Software Updates TechNet Virtual Lab: System Center 2012 Configuration Manager: Endpoint Protection RC New Videos: TechNet Radio: IT Time - New Features in Exchange Server 2010 SP2 TechNet Radio: IT Time – Using the Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit for Office 365 TechNet Radio: IT Time – Email Migration to Office 365 with MigrationWiz TechNet Radio: SharePoint Online Administration Panel Discussion New Podcasts: TechNet Radio Community Corner: Microsoft MVP, Mitch Garvis talks Private Cloud MP4 | WMV TechNet Radio: IT Time - Private Cloud Security Basics (Part 1) WMA | MP3 | WMV TechNet Radio: IT Time - Private Cloud Security Basics (Part 2) WMA | MP3 | WMV Small Business Content: Office Tips and Tricks with Jed Warren
Are you interested in utilizing Microsoft Office to its fullest extent? Join us as we discuss some of the valuable tips and tricks you can use throughout the entire Office Suite. From how to best create vibrant PowerPoint presentations to how to use Excel to its highest potential, these helpful webcasts can give you the inside track as to get the most out of Microsoft Office. Learn the Benefits of Business Ready Licensing
Gain an understanding of how you can take your business solution to the next level by transitioning from module-based licensing (MBL) to business-ready licensing (BRL). Expand the impact of your existing business solution by leveraging one of BRL's two license editions—Business Essentials Edition or Advanced Management Edition. BRL streamlines the pricing of your Microsoft Dynamics solution to a model that is based on the number of users who actually use the software, rather than MBL's more-complex module/granule + users mechanism. Microsoft offers a program to Microsoft Dynamics GP, Microsoft Dynamics NAV, and Microsoft Dynamics SL customers who are interested in making a license model transition. We highlight the details in this webcast.
Please let me know if this is something you find valuable. or if there is something specific you’re looking for. Also, if you’re in the Toronto area, i highly recommend the IT Virtualization Boot Camps. They are brought to you by your local user group and Microsoft TechDays Canada. The first two IT Virtualization Boot Camps will take place at the Microsoft Mississauga offices on January 21, 2012 and January 23, 2012. The IT Virtualization Boot Camp provides a fun and collaborative environment where you will get hands-on experience to: - Prepare your Windows Server-based computer for virtualization
- Configure an iSCSI storage server
- Create a Windows Failover Cluster
- Make Hyper-V virtual machines highly available and using Live Migration to move running workloads between hosts with no loss in client connectivity
- Integrate non-Microsoft-based virtual machines into your cluster
- See how Windows Failover Clustering can help to make dealing with hardware failure easier
you can get more details in Damir’s post “Get Hands-On With Microsoft Virtualization & Help Your Local User Group” There is so much to learn. we should take advantage of every opportunities. As always, please contact me should you have any comments or questions. Cheers! 
Pierre Roman, MCITP, ITIL | Senior Technical Account Manager | Directeur de Compte Technique Senior
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Hello folks,  This is my compilation of some of the online resource available to you in January 2012. JANUARY 2012 !!! My god… Where did 2011 go??? Time really flies by, and that’s one more reason to review this list and plan our learning opportunities. This list featuring both live and on-demand content for December including webcasts, videos, virtual labs, and podcasts by product and topic. this is not the WHOLE list of the available content. but these are the ones i thought were relevant to the conversations I've had with customers and IT pros. Microsoft webcasts are 30-90 minutes in length and feature interactive presentations, product demonstrations, and question-and-answer sessions. Virtual labs give you an opportunity to test drive Microsoft’s newest products in an online environment. It's simple—no complex setup or installation is required. Stream or download audio podcasts and quickly access content with RSS feeds. Microsoft podcasts are free — just click and Learn! You can View all the podcasts for IT professionals here. (http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9637723.) Or visit the Interactive IT Professional Webcast Calendar.
Live Webcasts: TechNet Webcast: Information about Microsoft Project and Project Server December 2011 Software Update (Level 200)
Tuesday, January 10, 2012 - 8:00 AM - 9:15 AM Pacific Time
https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032493964&Culture=en-US TechNet Webcast: Live! IT Time: Private Cloud Chat (Episode 3) (Level 200)
Wednesday, January 11, 2012 - 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Pacific Time
https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032496992&Culture=en-US TechNet Webcast: Information about Microsoft Security Bulletins for January (Level 200)
Wednesday, January 11, 2012 - 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Pacific
https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032499498&Culture=en-US TechNet Webcast: Integrating Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 with SAP for Expense Management (Level 300)
Tuesday, January 17, 2012 - 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM Pacific Time
https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032499676&Culture=en-US TechNet Webcast: Career Progression: Getting Ready for the Cloud (Level 200)
Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Pacific Time
https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032501883&Culture=en-US TechNet Webcast: IT Pro's Heaven: The Private Cloud (Level 200)
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 - 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Pacific Time
https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032501887&Culture=en-US Highly Rated On-Demand Webcasts: TechNet Webcast: Security Talk Series: Toward Privacy by Design, the Microsoft Experience TechNet Webcast: A Tale of Two Clouds: The Microsoft Hybrid Cloud Solution TechNet Webcast: The Public Cloud: What It Is and Why You Should Care? Popular Virtual Labs: TechNet Virtual Lab: Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.6 SP1 Sequencing Lab TechNet Virtual Lab: Windows Server 2008 R2 for Embedded Systems : Implementing Centralized Publishing Using Remote Desktop Services TechNet Virtual Lab: System Center Operations Manager 2012: Infrastructure and Application Performance Monitoring TechNet Virtual Lab: System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012: Building Your Cloud Infrastructure TechNet Virtual Lab: System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012: Building a Service Template New Videos: TechNet Video: (Part 1) An Interview with Mark Minasi – Thoughts on Windows Server 8 TechNet Video: (Part 2) An Interview with Mark Minasi – Thoughts on Cool Technology TechNet Video: (Part 1) Interview with Jeremy Moskowitz – Overview of the PolicyPak application New Podcasts: TechNet Radio: A Preview of Windows Server 8 Storage Management WMA | MP3 | WMV TechNet Radio: System Center VMM and Configuration Manager 2012 MVA Preview WMA | MP3 | WMV TechNet Radio: Microsoft Private Cloud Community Evaluation Program WMA | MP3 | WMV TechNet Radio: Vlab Insider - System Center Configuration Manager 2012 WMA | MP3 | WMV Small Business Content: New Customer Events for Office 365
Join us for a Microsoft Office 365 Customer Event to experience Microsoft Office 365 first-hand, along with related cloud technologies such as Microsoft Windows Intune and Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online. New and Exciting Uses for the New Office 365
Microsoft Office 365 is a suite of Microsoft Office collaboration and productivity tools delivered through the cloud. Office 365 can revolutionize your organization by helping to empower individuals through the best productivity experience, deliver business insights quickly, support compliance requirements, connect various devices, and cut costs for maintenance and training.
Please let me know if this is something you find valuable. or if there is something specific you’re looking for. Also, I encourage you to take advantage of the “Double Double” promotion that Rick mentioned earlier this month (http://blogs.technet.com/b/canitpro/archive/2011/12/16/how-would-you-like-a-doubledouble.aspx). it’s a great way to learn. go ahead, get your hands dirty… As always, please contact me should you have any comments or questions. Cheers!
Pierre Roman, MCITP, ITIL | Senior Technical Account Manager | Directeur de Compte Technique Senior
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{ This article also appears on The Regular IT Guy } I sat down with Richard Campbell from RunAs Radio podcast during TechDays Toronto to record an episode while waiting for lunch. He hit me up about my session called Diagnosing DNS (Based on the TechEd North America session by Mark Minasi). Some great chit chat and banter back and forth with Richard and I on all things networking and your Active Directory environment. The conversation dives into the tools you can use to understand what's happening with DNS on your machine and the common problems that crop up with DNS. It's a tour back to the fundamentals of networking! 
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| Hello folks, This is my compilation of some of the online resource available to you in December. This list featuring both live and on-demand content for December including webcasts, videos, virtual labs, and podcasts by product and topic. this is not the WHOLE list of the available content. but these are the ones i thought were relevant to the conversations I've had with customers and IT pros. Microsoft webcasts are 30-90 minutes in length and feature interactive presentations, product demonstrations, and question-and-answer sessions. Virtual labs give you an opportunity to test drive Microsoft’s newest products in an online environment. It's simple—no complex setup or installation is required. Stream or download audio podcasts and quickly access content with RSS feeds. Microsoft podcasts are free — just click and Learn! You can View all the podcasts for IT professionals here. (http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9637723.) Or visit the Interactive IT Professional Webcast Calendar. | | LIVE WEBCASTS TechNet Webcast: A Tale of Two Clouds: The Microsoft Hybrid Cloud Solution (Level 200)
Thursday, December 01, 2011 - 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Pacific Time
https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032499457&Culture=en-US TechNet Webcast: Security Talk Series: Toward Privacy by Design, the Microsoft Experience (Level 200)
Wednesday, December 07, 2011 - 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Pacific Time
https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032499496&Culture=en-US TechNet Webcast: How Microsoft IT Used the Microsoft Services Risk and Health Assessment Program for Windows Desktop (WDRAP) to Improve System Performance (Level 300)
Tuesday, December 13, 2011 - 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM Pacific Time
https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032495810&Culture=en-US Microsoft Office System Webcast: Microsoft Office Tips and Tricks: Create Presentations that Pop with PowerPoint 2010 (Level 200)
Wednesday, December 14, 2011 9:00 AM Pacific Time
https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?culture=en-US&EventId=1032495043 Microsoft Office System Webcast: Microsoft Office Tips and Tricks: Do More with Data in Excel 2010 (Level 200)
Wednesday, December 14, 2011 11:00 AM Pacific Time
https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?culture=en-US&EventId=1032495046 TechNet Webcast: Information about Microsoft Security Bulletins for December (Level 200)
Wednesday, December 14, 2011 - 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Pacific Time
https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032487961&Culture=en-US TechNet Webcast: Live! IT Time: Private Cloud Chat (Episode 2) (Level 200)
Wednesday, December 21, 2011 - 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Pacific Time
https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032496987&Culture=en-US Highly Rated On-Demand Webcasts: TechNet Webcast: Your Three Winning Numbers of Cloud Computing TechNet Webcast: Live! IT Time: Private Cloud Chat (Episode 1) TechNet Webcast: How Microsoft IT Deploys System Center Configuration Manager 2012 Popular Virtual Labs: TechNet Virtual Lab: Advanced Group Policy Management (AGPM) 4 TechNet Virtual Lab: Managing a Domain Environment More Effectively New Videos: TechNet Video: How to Build a Private Cloud (Part 1) Downloading and Building the Virtual Machines TechNet Video: How to Build a Private Cloud (Part 2): Installing System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 RC TechNet Video: How to Build a Private Cloud (Part 3): Configuring System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 RC New Podcasts: TechNet Radio: IT Time–Top 10 Things to Avoid in Windows Serve 2008 R2 WMA | MP3 | WMV TechNet Radio: Microsoft Virtual Academy - System Center 2012 and the Private Cloud Course Preview WMA | MP3 | WMV TechNet Radio: Storage Best Practices with Exchange Server 2010 WMA | MP3 | WMV TechNet Radio Community Corner: Virtualization with Microsoft MVP Anil Desai WMA | MP3 | WMV Please let me know if this is something you find valuable. or if there is something specific you’re looking for. Like i said last month, I’ll try to religiously update this post every month so you have a way to easily find and take advantage of resources to continue your learnings. As always, please contact me should you have any comments or questions. Cheers!
Pierre Roman, MCITP, ITIL | Senior Technical Account Manager | Directeur de Compte Technique Senior
IT Pro blog | Twitter | Facebook | LinkedIn 
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 Over pints Pierre Roman, Bruce Cowper and Rick Claus decided they would put together a concise and timely podcast each “Update Tuesday”. The object is to keep it simple by letting you know in plain non technical language what the updates are, what they resolve and why you should care.
As always - if you have suggestions on making it better - please pass on your comments. Mail Rick directly – rick.claus@microsoft.com
Direct Download:
Subscribe to the podcast: (so you don't miss an episode)
  
Disclaimer: This podcast was produced with the best information available to us at the time of recording. Your primary source for all things Security Bulletin related should always be the Microsoft Security Response Center blog.
Bulletins discussed for November 8th, 2011:
Podcast Participants: Rick Claus, Pierre Roman
Additional Technical Show Notes:
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Hello folks, Because there is always something new to learn I've compiled a list of online resources to give you a fast, convenient way to find content that is most relevant and helpful to you. This list featuring both live and on-demand content for November 2011. it includes webcasts, videos, virtual labs, and podcasts by product and topic. this is not the WHOLE list of the available content. but these are the ones i thought were relevant to the conversations I've had with customers and IT pros. Microsoft webcasts are 30-90 minutes in length and feature interactive presentations, product demonstrations, and question-and-answer sessions. Virtual labs give you an opportunity to test drive Microsoft’s newest products in an online environment. It's simple—no complex setup or installation is required. Stream or download audio podcasts and quickly access content with RSS feeds. Microsoft podcasts are free and do not require registration—just click and listen. LIVE WEBCASTS TechNet Webcast: Your Three Winning Numbers of Cloud Computing
Tuesday, November 01, 2011 - 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Pacific Time
https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032496910&Culture=en-US TechNet Webcast: Information about Microsoft Project and Project Server October 2011 Software Update
Tuesday, November 08, 2011 - 8:00 AM - 9:15 AM Pacific Time
https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032493962&Culture=en-US TechNet Webcast: Live! IT Time: Private Cloud Chat (Episode 1)
Wednesday, November 09, 2011 - 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Pacific Time
https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032496978&Culture=en-US TechNet Webcast: Information about Microsoft Security Bulletins for November
Wednesday, November 09, 2011 - 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Pacific Time
https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032487958&Culture=en-US TechNet Webcast: How Microsoft IT Developed a Private Cloud Infrastructure
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 - 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM Pacific Time
https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032495814&Culture=en-US TechNet Webcast: Migrating from Google Apps to Office 365
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 - 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM Pacific Time
https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032494608&Culture=en-US Highly Rated On-Demand Webcasts: TechNet Webcast: Microsoft Lync 2010 High Availability and Resiliency TechNet Webcast: How Microsoft IT Architected and Redeployed an Application to Windows Azure TechNet Webcast: Successfully Deploy Project Server on VMware with Shared Infrastructure Popular Virtual Labs: TechNet Virtual Lab: Advanced Group Policy Management (AGPM) 4 TechNet Virtual Lab: Managing a Domain Environment More Effectively New Videos: TechNet Video: (Part 1) Office 365: Overview TechNet Video: (Part 2) Office 365: Outlook and Office 365… A Love Story TechNet Video: (Part 3) Office 365: Power of Integration with Office 365, Outlook, and Lync Online TechNet Video: (Part 4) Office 365: Quick and Professional Website Customization with SharePoint Online New Podcasts: TechNet Radio: IT Time–In-Depth Tour of the Office 365 Deployment Readiness Tool (Part 1) WMA | MP3 | WMV TechNet Radio: IT Time–Office 365 Deployment Readiness Tool: Active Directory Guidance (Part 2) WMA | MP3 | WMV TechNet Radio: IT Time–Office 365 Deployment Readiness Tool: Single Sign-On for Office 365 (Part 3) WMA | MP3 | WMV You can View all the podcasts for IT professionals here. (http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9637723.) Let me know if this is something you find valuable. If so, I’ll try to religiously update this post every month so you have a way to easily find and take advantage of resources to continue your learnings. As always, please contact me should you have any comments or questions. Cheers!
Pierre Roman, MCITP, ITIL | Senior Technical Account Manager | Directeur de Compte Technique Senior
IT Pro blog | Twitter | Facebook | LinkedIn 
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Over pints Pierre Roman, Bruce Cowper and Rick Claus decided they would put together a concise and timely podcast each “Update Tuesday”. The object is to keep it simple by letting you know in plain non technical language what the updates are, what they resolve and why you should care.
As always - if you have suggestions on making it better - please pass on your comments. Mail Rick directly – rick.claus@microsoft.com
Direct Download:
Subscribe to the podcast: (so you don't miss an episode)
Disclaimer: This podcast was produced with the best information available to us at the time of recording. Your primary source for all things Security Bulletin related should always be the Microsoft Security Response Center blog.
Bulletins discussed for July 12th, 2011:
Podcast Participants: Rick Claus
Additional Technical Show Notes:
- Recorded in Rick’s Home Office with a good old cup’o joe
- PodSafe music from PodSafe Music Network @ http://music.podshow.com/. Artist: Derek K Miller, song - “You’re the Big Sky - rock guitar instrumental”
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Over pints Pierre Roman, Bruce Cowper and Rick Claus decided they would put together a concise and timely podcast each “Update Tuesday”. The object is to keep it simple by letting you know in plain non technical language what the updates are, what they resolve and why you should care.
As always - if you have suggestions on making it better - please pass on your comments. Mail Rick directly – rick.claus@microsoft.com
Direct Download:
Subscribe to the podcast: (so you don't miss an episode)
Disclaimer: This podcast was produced with the best information available to us at the time of recording. Your primary source for all things Security Bulletin related should always be the Microsoft Security Response Center blog.
Bulletins discussed for July 12th, 2011:
Podcast Participants: Rick Claus, Pierre Roman
Additional Technical Show Notes:
IT Pro Team Blog | IT Managers Blog |Twitter | Facebook | LinkedIn 
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Over pints Pierre Roman, Bruce Cowper and Rick Claus decided they would put together a concise and timely podcast each “Update Tuesday”. The object is to keep it simple by letting you know in plain non technical language what the updates are, what they resolve and why you should care.
As always - if you have suggestions on making it better - please pass on your comments. Mail Rick directly – rick.claus@microsoft.com
Direct Download:
Subscribe to the podcast: (so you don't miss an episode)
Disclaimer: This podcast was produced with the best information available to us at the time of recording. Your primary source for all things Security Bulletin related should always be the Microsoft Security Response Center blog.
Bulletins discussed for June 14th, 2011:
Podcast Participants: Rick Claus, Pierre Roman
Additional Technical Show Notes:
- Recorded remotely after a depressing Game 6 in Boston.
- PodSafe music from PodSafe Music Network @ http://music.podshow.com/. Artist: Derek K Miller, song - “You’re the Big Sky - rock guitar instrumental”
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Over pints Pierre Roman, Bruce Cowper and Rick Claus decided they would put together a concise and timely podcast each “Update Tuesday”. The object is to keep it simple by letting you know in plain non technical language what the updates are, what they resolve and why you should care. As always - if you have suggestions on making it better - please pass on your comments. Mail Rick directly – rick.claus@microsoft.com Direct Download:
Subscribe to the podcast: (so you don't miss an episode) Disclaimer: This podcast was produced with the best information available to us at the time of recording. Your primary source for all things Security Bulletin related should always be the Microsoft Security Response Center blog. Bulletins discussed for May 10th, 2011: Podcast Participants: Rick Claus, Pierre Roman Additional Technical Show Notes:
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Over pints Pierre Roman, Bruce Cowper and Rick Claus decided they would put together a concise and timely podcast each “Update Tuesday”. The object is to keep it simple by letting you know in plain non technical language what the updates are, what they resolve and why you should care.
As always - if you have suggestions on making it better - please pass on your comments. Mail Rick directly – rick.claus@microsoft.com
Direct Download:
Subscribe to the podcast: (so you don't miss an episode)
Disclaimer: This podcast was produced with the best information available to us at the time of recording. Your primary source for all things Security Bulletin related should always be the Microsoft Security Response Center blog.
Bulletins discussed for April12th, 2011:
Podcast Participants: Rick Claus, Pierre Roman
Additional Technical Show Notes:
- Sorry for the delay – Rick was sick and on the road.
- PodSafe music from PodSafe Music Network @ http://music.podshow.com/. Artist: Derek K Miller, song - “You’re the Big Sky - rock guitar instrumental”
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 Following the success for “Security Bulletins for the Regular IT Guy”, I’ve been toying with the idea of expanding on the concept of frank and matter of fact talks on a variety of subjects that are relevant to Technical Professionals across the board. When I was in Seattle recently, I decided to get off my butt and actually record something that fits the bill. I completed some audio editing last night and produced the first episode of an ongoing new podcast that launches today.
Welcome to Career Bytes for the Regular IT Guy.
The Goal is to have short, “tell it like it is” conversations with a wide mix of people focusing on topics related to ways you can invest in your career. Sometimes they will be technology focused, other times they will focus on personal/professional development.
In this first episode – i talk with Jeff Woosley, Principal Program Manager on the Virtualization team in Redmond. I ask him about skills and resources for IT Professionals related to Virtualization and Private Clouds. Its an area all IT Professionals should be spending time investigating their options from ALL vendors and how they fit in their organization. It doesn’t matter if you manage a small server environment for multiple customers or if you work in a large organization with raised floor server datacenters or somewhere in between. Virtualization technologies, how to manage them and how to work in Mixed Virtualization environments efficiently is an essential skill every technical professional should have in their tool belt.
As this is a work in progress – I am eager to get your feedback and suggestions on topics and ways to make this better. Please pass on your comments (good and bad) directly to me – rick.claus@microsoft.com.
Direct download
Subscribe to the podcast: (so you don’t miss an episode)
Podcast Participants:
Additional Technical Show Notes:
- Download Hyper-V Server and get information about Server 2008 R2
- check out System Center Virtual Machine Manager resouces and download a trial.
- Check out System Center Opalis, get more information and download a trial.
- Recorded at TechReady 12, an internal training conference for Microsoft Employees.
- It was in a corridor that happened to be near a service hallway. Please excuse the occasional background noise distraction.
- Recorded with my M-Audio Microtrack II
Senior Technology Evangelist | Microsoft Canada
phone 613.795.9216 | Live messenger rick.claus@hotmail.com
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[transcript of podcast]
[Rick] Hi, this is Rick Claus, Senior Technology Evangelist with Microsoft Canada. I’m sitting here at an internal training conference called TechReady 12 and I managed to corner one of my favourite speakers for the session – Jeff Woosley, who is here and I would call you the Virtualization Guy at Microsoft but I probably think you have a more official title. Can you give us a little bit of a breakdown on what it is that you do.
[Jeff] I’m Jeff Woosley, group program manager for Hyper-V and Windows Server. I appreciate you giving me “The Guy” title – it’s hard for me to take that because there are so many people working on virtualization throughout Microsoft – it’s such a hot technology and we are invested in so many areas of Virtualization – Hyper-V and Windows Server is one of them, we have App-V we have a lot more technologies going on in terms of Virtualization – Hyper-V is simply one of these technologies – it’s a pleasure to be here.
[Rick] ok. Great! For this I wanted to ask you a question around the Careers aspect and stuff. You just mentioned and called out a wide range of products and technologies and what I am seeing right now in the marketplace in Canada – Infrastructure Professionals and IT Professionals that are the “rank and file” guys that keep the servers running and keep the systems working, do support desk calls and keep the lights on in the server room – they are faced at a turning point right now. They have a variety of forces being placed upon them to be more efficient with the stuff that they have – Virtualization is one of those tools but from a career aspect, where do you see would be a good area they could invest in besides a specific technology or a specific feature set - whatever that would happen to be – what would you say?
[Jeff] Virtualization continues to be an area that continues to be an area that is growing like crazy – it’s blossoming a lot of technologies because virtualization touches so many technologies – weather it storage, network or management or applications or workloads – and there’s different types of virtualization – weather it’s machine based virtualization, whether it’s App-V based virtualization – where you are doing application virtualization or using something like presentation virtualization and so – YES, Virtualization continues to be red hot. I know there’s a lot of VMware IT Pros out there – that’s great. One thing I would tell them is – be very aware that Hyper-V is growing in a very big way and in fact most of the analysts agree that we are seeing a shift now – moving to heterogeneous virtualization – where quite honestly people are saying it doesn’t make a lot of sense for me to deploy an extremely expensive virtualization everywhere in my infrastructure when Hyper-V does exactly what I need it to do and more. In fact people are saying it makes a lot of sense now to be certified and be able to deploy, manage and understand VMware Virtualization as well as Hyper-V and we are seeing more and more heterogeneous virtualization – it is becoming a lot more important and quite honestly we have a very capable feature set in Hyper-V, we’re doing really great with things like LiveMigration, Clustering capabilities, High availability – things like that are simply baked into the product and are included and now with the R2 SP1 release, we’ve added even more capabilities like Dynamic Memory, so we’re getting a lot more proof of concepts then ever. We’re getting a lot more deployments then ever and quite honestly we’ve got a lot of happy customers out there running Hyper-V R2 so it’s a great opportunity for guys that are already IT Pro trained – make sure you are adding Hyper-V to your stable of certifications.
[Rick] it’s one of a number of different tools to bring in to solve the overall problem. What would you suggest people should start to look at or how to start if they are new to this? Again, maybe this is a VMware Admin that’s there and all they know is the ESX world and how they work with vSphere and how they work in that kind of environment. Where would they start to be able to find out more information about the Hyper-V pieces and how we integrate and play with the different VMware technologies?
[Jeff] A great way – a great thing is – the barrier to entry is extremely low. If you are an IT Pro, a serious IT Pro, more than likely you already have an MSDN/TechNet account – you can download Server 2008 R2, you can start playing with it because Hyper-V is simply a role, just like File and Print, Web, Terminal Services – I should say Remote Desktop Virtualization – but it’s simply another role. If you know how to deploy those – you know how to deploy Hyper-V. You can immediately start creating virtual machines and spending time with Hyper-V very quickly. Then I would start to look at other things and more broadly or more larger deployments – things like Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 as well as other products we have in the system center family such as Configurations Manager and Operations Manager.
[Rick] What would you say would be representative of the target market – is Hyper-V targeted at the small and medium shop? Is it targeted at the big huge massive hosters? Is it somewhere in between?
[Jeff] YES
[Rick] (laughs) there is no… it fits in all of those?
[Jeff] The answer is yes – it does fit them all. We found in many cases in small environments where quite honestly people are extremely price sensitive, they are looking at virtualization, they just want to get in there… they may have 8 or 10 servers in a very small shop and they would like to virtualize them down. Guess what? I can virtualize them down to two nodes, create a small cluster, using inexpensive iSCSI storage for example and very quickly have a highly available virtualized environment that is easy to use with Hyper-V. In a mid-market, you can run a lot more, you can scale up and start to look at things like Virtual Machine Manager where you manage a full cluster of servers running dozens if not more virtual machines and of course, we certainly plug into the Enterprise and Data Center space as well and at that point you are probably using something like Windows 2008 R2 DataCenter edition to give you unlimited VMs running atop Hyper-V and you are probably using System Center and through the ECI you’re probably using the entire suite – you’d get opps manager, config manager, datacenter protection manager, VMM as well as our new Opalis automation which is extremely important when you start to talk about really building up saleable large clouds. It’s an area.. it’s one of the reasons we purchased Opalis and we made it part of the System Center suite because when you start to talk about Clouds At Scale – I mean really Clouds at Scale, you’re starting to talk about a different type of management. Managing two nodes, five nodes, twenty nodes – that’s one thing. When you start managing one hundred nodes or a thousand nodes or ten thousand nodes – your management has to scale in a different way. You are not just going to walk up to a console, scroll through all these hosts and look for alerts and things like that. You expect the system itself to be self-healing. You expect it to do the right thing. Automation is a key fundamental component to make that successful. If there is a real problem and it does require intervention – you expect to be notified – but automation is the way to do it and Opalis is a fundamental way to do it and I would also say: If you are an IT Pro and you haven’t seen Opalis, if you haven’t looked at Opalis, if you haven’t started to evaluate it – there’s another area of deep investment because for an IT Pro – your position is going to get more challenging – in a good way. Honestly, I think it means more mature IT Pros and you are going to have to develop scripts or workflows and automation to manage more and more resources on a per IT Pro individual. Instead of one IT Pro managing ten servers or twenty servers, maybe they are managing fifty or one hundred servers. To do that and actually scale – you gotta have the knowledge and the ability to handle automation. Opalis is a great way to do that.
[Rick] this is an obvious perfect bridge perspective to look at it from a skills… starting off small, if it’s new to you or if you’ve started to work with virtualization already – how to integrate and interoperate with existing incumbents that are inside your shop. This is also a natural transition over to the Private Cloud Environment – is that really where this is going from a skills perspective? The stuff you are going to be learning from the scale side – that makes private cloud a reality for an individual inside their own environment so that they don’t have to necessarily go off an follow someone else’s guidance on what Private Cloud is. They can come actively to the table with “look, we can do this kind of stuff now.” That’s available now?
[Jeff] Absolutely. When it comes to Cloud – we’ve been very vocal at Microsoft that we are absolutely investing in every… in providing multiple ways to deliver solutions to our customers. Whether it’s Azure and providing an awesome Public Cloud experience or for customers who say “I’m not sure I’m ready to do that yet, but guess what – I want to build my private cloud and I want to treat my resources more. Basically outsource to my internal customers and be able to provide. My IT really becomes a utility model of computing.” Absolutely you can do that with System Center and Windows Server today.
[Rick] Fantastic. Well I wanted to say Thank you very much for taking the time out of your schedule from speaking today…
[Jeff] My pleasure!
[Rick]…to come and talk with us… You know… Awesome! Thanks!
[Jeff] Thank you.
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 Over pints Pierre Roman, Bruce Cowper and Rick Claus decided they would put together a concise and timely podcast each “Update Tuesday”. The object is to keep it simple by letting you know in plain non technical language what the updates are, what they resolve and why you should care.
As always - if you have suggestions on making it better - please pass on your comments. Mail Rick directly – rick.claus@microsoft.com Direct Download:
Subscribe to the podcast: (so you don't miss an episode) Disclaimer: This podcast was produced with the best information available to us at the time of recording. Your primary source for all things Security Bulletin related should always be the Microsoft Security Response Center blog. In Depth Webcast on this bulletin will take place: Wednesday, November 10th – 11:00 AM PDT (UTC -7). (Registration link): Bulletins discussed for November 9th, 2010: Podcast Participants: Rick Claus, Pierre Roman Additional Technical Show Notes: - Recorded in a vacant conference room at TechDays Ottawa.
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NOTE: Due to a combination of publishing platform issues and a crazy travel schedule that came together into a perfect storm – we’re three days delayed in getting this out to you. Sorry about that – we’ve got steps in place to ensure it doesn’t happen again.
Over pints Pierre Roman, Bruce Cowper and Rick Claus decided they would put together a concise and timely podcast each “Update Tuesday”. The object is to keep it simple by letting you know in plain non technical language what the updates are, what they resolve and why you should care.
As always - if you have suggestions on making it better - please pass on your comments. Mail Rick directly – rick.claus@microsoft.com
Direct Download:
Subscribe to the podcast: (so you don't miss an episode)
Disclaimer: This podcast was produced with the best information available to us at the time of recording. Your primary source for all things Security Bulletin related should always be the Microsoft Security Response Center blog.
In Depth Webcast on this bulletin will take place: Wednesday, September 15th - 11:00 a.m. PST (UTC -7). (Registration link):
Bulletins discussed for September 15th, 2010:
Podcast Participants: Rick Claus (without my Green Tilley Hat) and Pierre Roman
Additional Technical Show Notes:
- Recorded at Rick's Home Office and Pierre’s home office with LiveCommunicationsServer videoconferencing software.
PodSafe music from PodSafe Music Network @ http://music.podshow.com/. Artist: Derek K Miller, song - “You’re the Big Sky - rock guitar instrumental”
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Over pints Pierre Roman, Bruce Cowper and Rick Claus decided they would put together a concise and timely podcast each “Update Tuesday”. The object is to keep it simple by letting you know in plain non technical language what the updates are, what they resolve and why you should care.
Have a listen directly from the embedded Silverlight player OR subscribe to the feed and download it to your iTunes / Zune software.
As always - if you have suggestions on making it better - please pass on your comments. Mail Rick directly – rick.claus@microsoft.com
Direct Download:
Subscribe to the podcast: (so you don't miss an episode)
Disclaimer: This podcast was produced with the best information available to us at the time of recording. Your primary source for all things Security Bulletin related should always be the Microsoft Security Response Center blog.
In Depth Webcast on this bulletin will take place: Wednesday, August 11th - 11:00 a.m. PST (UTC -7). (Registration link):
Bulletins discussed for August 10th, 2010:
Podcast Participants: Rick Claus and Pierre Roman
Additional Technical Show Notes:
- Recorded at Rick's Home Office with studio equipment setup
- Beverage of choice – a couple of glasses of water.
PodSafe music from PodSafe Music Network @ http://music.podshow.com/. Artist: Derek K Miller, song - “You’re the Big Sky - rock guitar instrumental”
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