Windows Server 2012 Essentials review for 4Sysops–part 1

It’s been a while since I had a series on 4Sysops – part 1 of my review of Windows Server 2012 Essentials is now live here. Windows Server 2012 Essentials (and the recently announced Windows Server 2012 Essentials R2) is the replacement for the SBS “all in one” solution for small businesses.

Enjoy! And thanks for your time and energy in reading my blog.

Windows Intune (version 3) Review for 4Sysops–part 4

The fourth and final part of my Windows Intune (version 3) review is now online – read it here. I look at improvements to the management console as well as the integration with System Center Configuration Manager 2012 that’s coming SP1 for System Center 2012.

Enjoy! And thanks for your time in reading.

System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager 2012 SP1 Deep Dive for Technet Magazine

I have written a two part deep dive into using System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 SP1 for Technet Magazine. The first part looks at using SCVMM to manage your fabric, the underlying hardware, clusters, networks and storage as well as setting up SCVMM in a Highly Available fashion. The second part will cover building your private cloud on top of this managed fabric.

Read part 1 here.

Enjoy and thanks for reading.

System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 CTP2 overview–Part 4

Concluding my look at the forthcoming SP1 for System Center 2012 at 4sysops is part four that you can read here. In this post I talk about what’s coming in Service Manager 2012 SP1 and App Controller 2012 SP1 as well as a few words about the brand new Service Provider Framework (SPF).

Enjoy and thanks for reading.