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This month, my fellow IT Pro Technical Evangelists and I are authoring a new series of articles on 20 Key Scenarios with Windows Azure Infrastructure Services.  Check out the list of articles here:http://mythoughtsonit.com/2013/05/20-key-scenarios-with-windows-azure-infrastructure-services/.  My first computer job was as a tape librarian for the Phone Company. I worked in a large Datacenter and had to [...]

I just read on the Windows team blog that “Windows Blue” will be named Windows 8.1 and it will be free to Windows 8 customers! Tami Reller shared with the audience that the update previously referred to as “Windows Blue” will be called Windows 8.1and will be a free update to Windows 8 Ms.Reller went [...]

This month, my fellow IT Pro Technical Evangelists and I are authoring a new series of articles on 20 Key Scenarios with Windows Azure Infrastructure Services.  Check out the list of articles here:http://mythoughtsonit.com/2013/05/20-key-scenarios-with-windows-azure-infrastructure-services/.  This article is a repost of an article in my series, Running WordPress on Microsoft’s Azure Public Cloud–The Series. Running WordPress on [...]

This month, my fellow IT Pro Technical Evangelists and I are authoring a new series of articles on 20 Key Scenarios with Windows Azure Infrastructure Services.  Check out the list of articles here:http://mythoughtsonit.com/2013/05/20-key-scenarios-with-windows-azure-infrastructure-services/.    Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning, or WebDAV, is a set of protocols based on HTTP that allows end-users to map a [...]

This just in… The demand has been so great for more information about using Windows Azure Infrastructure Services as an extension of your datacenter and IT Operations, that we’ve decided to schedule a few more FREE events to close out the end of our fiscal year here in Central Region Microsoft US DPE.  The four [...]

From time to time as the Azure team updates the offerings in the Azure portal I have seen various strange issues. The one I ran into today was that many domain names where already taken when I went to create a new VM. brianlewisabc1234500000.cloudapp.net was taken as well as the shorter versions of this name [...]

This month, my fellow IT Pro Technical Evangelists and I are authoring a new series of articles on 20 Key Scenarios with Windows Azure Infrastructure Services.  Check out the list of articles here:http://mythoughtsonit.com/2013/05/20-key-scenarios-with-windows-azure-infrastructure-services/.  For today’s post I will cover the steps to put a Domain Controller in Windows Azure for Disaster Recovery. This DC can [...]

In Windows Azure the Virtual Network has provided you with the capability to extend your network into Windows Azure and treat deployments in Windows as a natural extension to your on-premises network. This is the same as when you connect to a remote office with a site to site VPN. Now there is more, I [...]

Welcome to May 2013!!! This month my team will be writing a blog post series about 20 Key Scenarios you can do with Windows Azure Infrastructure Services (IaaS). This is the Microsoft Azure offering where you can spin up Virtual Machines on our servers in our datacenters.  It is extremely flexible and shows you the [...]

I have always been impressed with the WAN compression technology that Riverbed offers. Wan compression can save you lots of bandwidth and speed up your network at the same time. This can save you money or make your slow WAN connections usable. I just read a really interesting whitepaper that charted the effectiveness of using [...]