Here I am at the MVP summit it’s both myself and Stephane Budo’s first MVP summit. My original thought of coming to the summit in the weeks prior was that is was all based at Microsoft HQ and everyone was grouped in together into one building and it was an unplanned casual catch-up with MVP peers with drinking involved and food provided. It was told to me soon after and before coming to the summit that it was more like an Ignite/TechEd where there were sessions in which you had to register. Just like Ignite/TechEd, there were tracks, e.g. myself…
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Azure News 2016 – Week 42
A few things happening in the world of Azure #AzureAD Domain Services is now GA! Lift and shift to the cloud just got WAY easier! In May this year, Microsoft announced several exciting new features and improvements to the service including secure LDAP support, support for configuring DNS and custom OUs Azure AD Domain Services provides managed domain services such as domain join, group policy, LDAP, & Kerberos/NTLM authentication that are fully compatible with Windows Server Active Directory. Setting up Azure AD Domain Services is simple. You simply toggle the service to ‘enabled’, pick a DNS domain name for your…
Ignite US 2016 rolling updates
The following are rolling updates from me personally, first and foremost for my interest and reference, secondly for anyone else that cares to read it. They are update snipits. Please note, I have done the quick and dirty and copy and pasted some of it directly from Microsoft sites and I’ve included links. It’s raw but updated in my own real time as I see updates come through from Ignite. SharePoint Document Libraries can now be sync’ed again with a brand new OneDrive for Business sync client. About time, I was waiting for this one! Bit of a dodgy setup…
Azure News 2016 – Week 37
The following is Azure news from the most recent ‘Need to Know’ podcast Episode 114 with both Robert Crane and myself. We speak to Steve Luper, who is the Worldwide Technical Director | Azure Managed Partners. Not to mention his Luper’s Learnings, is an awesome resource to stay on top of Azure. http://blog.ciaops.com/2016/09/need-to-know-podcastepisode-114.html We talk about: The change of direction Azure takes in competition against rivals such as AWS Partners in keeping up to date with ‘tech’ Ignite US You can subscribe to Lupers Learnings by emailing: luperslearnings@microsoft.com Other things mentioned in the podcast: Link to underwater datacenters – http://www.theverge.com/2016/2/1/10883866/microsoft-underwater-data-centers Link…
Azure News 2016 – Week 34
This weeks Azure News, probably the biggest and most popular Azure News is open source. Don’t forget, Azure news can also be heard on the ‘Need to Know‘ podcast with Robert Crane and myself. New Provider for Azure CDN – Akamai CDN is a great way to speed up blob file access globally. Rather than having all your files on a single server in a single location, making use of a Content Delviver Network allows you to speed up accessability across the globe by utilising a distributed network of CDN provider servers. Your blob files are cached across the CDN network…
Azure News – Week 33
Previous News This weeks Azure News, probably the biggest and most popular Azure News is the fact that Azure is ditching Azure RemoteApp. Don’t forget, Azure news can also be heard on the ‘Need to Know‘ podcast with Robert Crane and myself. RemoteApp being replaced by Citrix XenApp Express Currently Azure RemoteApp is 2 years old and Microsoft will stop offering RemoteApp services on October 1, 2016 and then turn off the service completely at the end of August 2017. The replacement being Citrix XenApp Express which is currently under development. XenApp “Express” will be the new Azure “RemoteApp v2.0”….
Azure News 2016 – Week 30
Previous News | Next News This weeks Azure updates & news. This time around the big news I would say is the news about Azure virtual machines wiping out the upgrade domain nearly 100% to massively improve reliability. Don’t forget, Azure news can also be heard on the ‘Need to Know‘ podcast with Robert Crane and myself. Azure email announments can be found here. Azure Usage and Billing Portal July 14 saw the release of Azure Usage and Billing Portal, this is an open source project started from the developer experience team at Microsoft. It leverages the Azure Resource Usage &…
Azure News 2016 – Week 28
Previous News | Next News This weeks Azure updates & news. This time around the big news is WPC (Worldwide Partner Conference) in Toronto Canada where most announcements occurred. WPC Day 1 Announcements WPC Day 2 Announcements WPC Day 3 Announcements Next year WPC will be in Washington DC. Don’t forget, Azure news can also be heard on the ‘Need to Know‘ podcast with Robert Crane and myself. New Azure Regions Just in case you didn’t think there was already enough Azure regions in the US, there’s now two new regions that have just opened for business, US West 2 &…
Azure News 2016 – Week 26
Previous News | Next News This weeks Azure updates & news. This time around the big news is more competition in the IT market for end customers with more CSP. Don’t forget, Azure news can also be heard on the ‘Need to Know‘ podcast with Robert Crane and myself. Here is the audio only version of this news: Events coming up, we have: Microsoft Worldwide Partner conference, July 10 – 14 in Toronto, Canada Microsoft Ignite, September 26–30, 2016, Atlanta, GA Microsoft Ignite NZ, 25 – 28 October, 2016 SKYCITY, Auckland CSP Licensing On June 17, Microsoft appointed 5 new indirect 2-tier partners…
Microsoft Azure Information Protection
On June 22 Microsoft announced the new Azure Information Protection, which is basically an upgrade of the existing Azure Rights Management (Azure RMS) by adding the functionality of Secure Islands which Microsoft aquired late last year. Companies and business historically have a logical perimeter, that perimeter contained the majority of business activity and IT services were accessed internally. This is in comparison to now where people access IT business services from anywhere. As employees become more and more mobile, IT admins start to punch stacks of holes in corporate firewalls. These days, all user activity is happening outside the perimeter of the…
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