Windows Server Summit 2024 – Powered by Engineering
The significantly EXPANDED Windows Server Summit 2024, with content now powered by Microsoft Engineering teams has been announced. Join us on March 26th to March 28th to discover the latest updates on Windows Server 2025, on-prem and Hybrid scenarios, Azure Arc, Identity, Virtualization, SMB updates and more! Interact with expert speakers and engineering teams through live Q&A and comments section. Register now and don't miss out on this multi-day, deep technical content focused, virtual event hosted on Microsoft Tech Community.HOW TO: Create a Windows Server 2019 NAS / FileServer from the command line
Windows Server 2019 default install has no GUI or Desktop. How do you go about setting this thing up from the command line? In this post I give you the How To on how to setup a simple File Server to replace an old NAS device that was failing in my home lab. We're talking PowerShell to configure Storage Spaces, User Accounts, SMB Shares, Power Profiles and more!Windows Server 2008 End of Support - Active Directory and DNS Migration
January 14th 2020 has come and gone which means unless you have either migrated your 2008 servers and their workloads to Azure (to get free security updates) or you have purchased an extended support agreement - you now have the situation of having to keep unsupported servers running key workloads in your environment. This post tackles one of THE MOST important workloads to update: Active Directory. I tracked down Mr. AskDS himself - Ned Pyle, Principal Program Manager from the Windows Server Team to talk shop about the #2 Workload for servers: "Active Directory Domain Controllers".Windows Server 2008 End of Support - Migrating File Servers
Ultimately you need to migrate your workloads OFF of Windows Server 2008 and on to a NEW platform (like Windows Server 2019). How do you go about doing that for key WORKLOADS that can't migrate up to the Cloud? I tracked down Ned Pyle, Principal Program Manager from the Windows Server Team to talk shop about the #1 Workload for servers: "The File Server".Windows Server 2008 End of Support: How to Get Extended Security Updates
With the End of Support for Windows Server 2008 on January 14th, 2020 - you no longer have the ability to receive Security Updates or Support for any servers running Windows Server 2008. Fear not - there are options on how to get Extended Security Updates. Find out the details with this quick demo and links to additional resources.Tuesdays with Corey: Microsoft Ignite DATA announcements with Priya Vijayarajendran
In this episode of Tuesdays with Corey - he sits down with Priya Vijayarajendran, VP of Data and AI while they are at Microsoft Ignite in Orlando. Priya goes through some of the announcements at Microsoft Ignite - including Microsoft Synapse and Azure Arc.Tuesdays with Corey: How to Integrate GitHub Actions into Workflows
I had a chance to film him to kick off a new season of "Tuesdays with Corey" by talking with Matthew McCullough - VP of Field Solutions at GitHub. Matthew sits down to show off how Developers and Operations folks alike can get their needs met by using / integrating GithHub Actions into their workflows. Flexibility and control - all in one.Step-By-Step: Building a Hyper-V Lab in Azure with Windows Server 2019
I needed a good old fashioned "Hyper-V Lab" system to build some demos recently and i didn't have any spare hardware. I needed reliable CheckPoints for demo creation and i needed to access it remotely. I said to myself - can I just build this big Hyper-V Lab system in Azure?
