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Interview mit Anne Gentle, OpenStack Technical Writer (englischsprachig)

DELL-Rafael K — Tue, 21 May 2013 14:18:20 GMT

Dell: Tell us about yourself and what you are doing?

Anne Gentle: I'm Anne Gentle, I work at Rackspace and I like to think of the title, Content Stacker, which basically means that I work on the documentation for OpenStack docs.openstack.org, api.openstack.org. I try to maintain that and keep it going with volunteers.

Q: How can someone become a volunteer?

A: We have active technical contributors in Openstack. OpenStack is open source cloud computing, so we are trying to build this massive structure of projects and OpenStack documentation and we invite people to submit a patch just like code. It is an interesting way of doing documentation, I am really interested in collaborative documentation. I've been a tech-writer for a lot of years now, but I have always been drawn to new methods, new techniques, new processes. The one I am really interested in right now is collaborative authoring and authoring out on the social web where people have expectations for content nowadays that you should be able to interact with it, you should be able to comment on it, and most likely you probably want to edit it, too. That's what we do with OpenStack docs, they are open source all the way down to the fonts that they are published, and anybody can contribute.

Q: You just recently published a book, can you tell us a little bit about that?

A: One of the most interesting techniques that I found in open source documentation is something called a Book Sprint. You gather together a group of collaborators and we run in a Book Sprint facilitator Adam Hyde who has been doing about 55 of these. I have participated with Adam on about three Book Sprints and so I knew that I wanted him to facilitate because I had seen him succeed. I also had a core group of people who are operating OpenStack clouds who could also write; great combo right? We put together a proposal and the OpenStack Foundation funded us to buy plane tickets for guys from Canada, Australia, from across the USA and to come together in Austin, Texas. We wrote the operation guide in five days as a collaborative group. It was amazing. What that really means is that we had an outline going in but that doesn’t mean we stuck to that outline right away but these guys knew each other and we had talked a lot beforehand about what we wanted the book to be, who we wanted to write for, what we expected out of it in the end, so we really wrote for three days, maybe three and a half and edited for a day and a half and had a book.

Q: Where can you get that book?

A: You go to docs.openstack.org/ops, it's the ops guide and you can actually purchase a dead-tree copy from lulu.com. It should actually ironically also be out on Amazon soon.

Q: Thank you very much, Anne.

A: Thank you!

Resources

Twitter @annegentle

Anne’s Blog JustWriteClick

Anne at OpenStack

Dell bietet Public Cloud Lösungen durch Partner (englischsprachig)

DELL-Rafael K — Tue, 21 May 2013 08:22:29 GMT

Delivering Infrastructure as a Service through Dell Cloud Partner Program offers choice to Dell customers

Dell is launching the Dell Cloud Partner Program to deliver public cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) through an ecosystem of partners. Acting as a single-source supplier, Dell will offer customers a choice of vendors and technology, freedom from lock-in to a single platform or pricing model and a central point of solution integration and control. Sales of Dell’s current in-house multi-tenant public cloud IaaS will be discontinued in the U.S. in favor of best-in-class partner offerings.

“Many Dell customers plan to expand their use of public cloud, but in order to truly reap the benefits, they want a choice of providers, flexibility and interoperability across platforms and models, the ability to compare cloud economics and workload performance, and a cohesive way to manage all of it,” said Nnamdi Orakwue, vice president, Dell Cloud. “The partner approach offers increased value to Dell’s customers, channel partners and shareholders, as part of our comprehensive cloud strategy to deliver market-leading, end-to-end cloud solutions.”

The Dell Cloud Partner Program launches today with three initial partners in North America. These public cloud providers give customers a choice of platform and a range of geographical coverage. In EMEA, Dell will leverage the Dell Cloud Partner Program, where relevant, alongside the recently launched Global Services Provider Program to offer customers a greater choice of EMEA-located clouds. The three initial North American partners are:

Joyent, a high-performance cloud infrastructure-as-a-service provider for real-time web and mobile applications offers a fully-featured Cloud IaaS with its worldwide, innovative and open technology platform. Joyent is positioned as a Challenger in the 2012 Gartner IaaS Magic Quadrant and has out-of-the-box compatibility with Enstratius’ multi-cloud management.
ScaleMatrix, offering their innovative TruCore™ Performance Cloud hosting platform, provides users enhanced control over functionality and performance. Services are offered from proprietary world-class data centers, and leverage enterprise hardware, storage and cutting-edge security and Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) mitigation services.
ZeroLag, which combines VMware-powered on-demand cloud infrastructure with professional services and custom-designed solutions. ZeroLag services are backed by highly-trained and experienced engineers committed to delivering the highest levels of performance, reliability, security and support.

Customers can immediately begin to purchase products from these partners through their Dell sales representative. The Dell Cloud Partner Program will expand to new partners and beyond IaaS, as determined by customer demand.

As part of Dell’s broader cloud strategy, the Dell Cloud Partner Program will offer customers more choice of partners and platforms while the company continues to expand and integrate its cloud portfolio of services, software and hardware. Dell’s newly acquired multi-cloud management platform, Enstratius, will help customers manage both single and multi-cloud environments, and can help integrate the partner offerings into Dell’s end-to-end cloud solutions. Enstratius currently supports more than 20 public and private cloud platforms, including OpenStack, VMware, Rackspace and Windows Azure, with the added flexibility to easily add new clouds.

Dell will also maintain its commitment to its private cloud solutions. Specifically, Dell remains committed to the OpenStack platform and community, with offerings such as the Dell OpenStack-Powered Cloud Solution and the Dell-led open source project, Crowbar.

Dell will provide its customers with multiple options to meet their business needs and help ensure a smooth transition to a Dell Cloud Partner or internal solution.

Partner Quotes
“Joyent is pleased to have been selected by Dell as a strategic cloud infrastructure partner. As long-standing partners with Dell, Joyent is fully aligned with the Dell DNA of providing customers quality, performance, flexibility and value,” said Henry Wasik, president and CEO, Joyent.

“We are ecstatic to have been chosen as a partner to help deliver Cloud Services for Dell and their clients. We believe that the mix of ScaleMatrix enterprise class VMware and OpenStack hosting services, alongside Dell’s hardware, software and professional services offerings are highly complementary. We look forward to driving cloud adoption while creating increased value for our joint clients as a result of this partnership,” said Chris Orlando, co-founder and CSMO of ScaleMatrix.

“ZeroLag is extremely proud to be selected by Dell as a premier cloud hosting partner. ZeroLag and Dell are perfectly aligned in our customer driven approach to technology solutions. ZeroLag leverages both public and private cloud infrastructure powered by Dell hardware to offer excellent ROI and scalable, high-performance solutions for our customers. I can't be more pleased about teaming up with Dell to offer our services,” said Greg Strelzoff, founder and CEO, ZeroLag Communications.

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Mit der Enstratius Akquisition erreicht die Dell Cloud Services Strategie in EMEA ein neues Level (englischsprachig)

DELL-Rafael K — Mon, 20 May 2013 14:41:19 GMT

by Nick Hyner

Following our recent acquisition of Enstratius, Dell has announced a number of strategic changes to our global cloud strategy. As leader of the Cloud Services team in EMEA, I want to explain what this change in strategy means in our region, where the Cloud Service market is naturally more complex than in the US. With more than forty countries potentially using Dell Cloud Services in our region, we are faced with a large range of local market preferences and regulatory restrictions. Fundamentally, this strategy change better enables Dell to meet these requirements by offering increased flexibility in delivery models and cloud platform choices.

Dell globally will phase out its current ‘in-house’ multi-tenant public cloud delivery capability. Instead, Dell will deliver public cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) through an ecosystem of strategic certified Global Service Delivery Partners. Dell will also discontinue further development of an OpenStack public cloud and Storage as a Service (StaaS) public offering. The decision to change the delivery model of public cloud is an expansion of our existing strategy in EMEA where - with the exception of the UK - Dell’s cloud delivery model already predominantly uses partners to deliver Dell public and private cloud services. However, by solely focusing on partners to provide public cloud delivery infrastructure in EMEA, Dell can accelerate its cloud business more effectively geographically while lowering operating and capital costs. In terms of its partner approach in EMEA, Dell will leverage the global cloud partners where relevant and we will establish partners through our newly announced Dell Global Services Provider Program in key countries. This program includes cloud providers that have selected Dell technology to build their own public clouds and using them in Dell’s Cloud Services supply chain will enhance our reach and increase the range of offerings.

As stated above, Dell’s newly acquired multi-cloud management platform Enstratius will help customers further by managing both single and multi-cloud environments and can help integrate partner offerings into Dell’s end-to-end cloud solutions. Enstratius currently supports more than 20 public and private cloud platforms including OpenStack, VMware, Rackspace and Windows Azure, with the additional flexibility to easily add new clouds.

Regarding Openstack development, Dell remains committed to the OpenStack platform and community with offerings such as the Dell OpenStack-Powered Cloud Solution and the Dell-led open source project,Crowbar.

As the number of cloud services providers grows, Dell continues to improve and develop its Cloud Services offerings especially in private cloud and leverage partner delivery models to ensure we are right at the centre of this fast growing market.

Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) – Best Posts of the Week around Windows Server, Exchange, SystemCenter and more – #29

DELL-Florian K — Mon, 20 May 2013 12:27:49 GMT

Hi Community, here is my compilation of the most interesting technical blog posts written by members of the Microsoft MVP Community. The number of MVPs is growing well, I hope you enjoy their posts. @all MVPs If you’d like me to add your blog posts to my weekly compilation, please send me an email (flo@datacenter-flo.de) or reach out to me via Twitter (@FloKlaffenbach). Thanks!

Featured Posts of the Week!

A Converged Networks Design For Hyper-V On SMB 3.0 Storage With RDMA (SMB Direct) by Aidan Finn

Videointerview with Jose Barreto about SMB 3.0 by Carsten Rachfahl

IP Assignment Strategies For Hyper-V Replica by Aidan Finn

x86 Windows Server 2008 TS Gateway Migration To x64 Windows Server 2012 RD Gateway by Didier van Hoye

Exchange

Exchange 2013 Server Role Requirements Calculator available by Johan Veldhuis

Hyper-V

Cisco Nexus 1000V für Hyper-V (Beta): Einrichtung in German by Nils Kaczenski

Whitepaper: Datensicherung für virtuelle Maschinen in German by Nils Kaczenski

Microsoft Virtualisierungs Podcast Folge 29: IT-Camp recorded in German by Carsten Rachfahl

IP Assignment Strategies For Hyper-V Replica by Aidan Finn

How Hyper-V Snapshots Work by Aidan Finn

Using Hyper-V Snapshots by Aidan Finn

A Converged Networks Design For Hyper-V On SMB 3.0 Storage With RDMA (SMB Direct) by Aidan Finn

KB2836402 – You Cannot Add VHD/X Files To Hyper-V VMs On WS2012 by Aidan Finn

Office 365

Fehlermeldung bei einer shared Mailbox/freigegebenen Postfach in German by Kerstin Rachfahl

Himmlische IT-Podcast Folge 27: Office 365 im Unternehmen in German by Kerstin Rachfahl

PowerShell

#PSTip Detecting if the console is in Interactive mode by Shay Levy

Measuring PowerShell scripts by Shay Levy

Scrub Up PowerShell Content by Jeffery Hicks

PowerShell Version Profiles by Jeffery Hicks

Test 64-Bit Operating System by Jeffery Hicks

Friday Fun: A PowerShell Tickler by Jeffery Hicks

Testing ASP.NET MVC4 Web API Endpoints with PowerShell by Adam Driscoll

System Center Virtual Machine Manager

Windows Server 2012 #HyperV and SMB 3.0 Best Practices with #SCVMM by James van den Berg

SQL Server

#PSTip List SQL database mirroring partner using SMO by Ravikanth Chaganti

#PSTip Adding local users to SQL Server Logins using SMO by Ravikanth Chaganti

Windows Client

New Windows version: “Windows Blue” to be called Windows 8.1 by Alessandro Cardoso

Windows Server Core

IIS & Windows Authentication – Troubleshooting mit Negotiate & NTLM in German by Robert Mühsig

x86 Windows Server 2008 TS Gateway Migration To x64 Windows Server 2012 RD Gateway by Didier van Hoye

Installing & using the Windows Server Migration Tools To Migrate Local Users & Groups by Didier van Hoye

KB2838669–A Big Hotfix Bundle For WS2012 Failover Clustering by Aidan Finn

KB2836988 – May 2013 Update Rollup For WS2012 and Win8 by Aidan Finn

Videointerview with Jose Barreto about SMB 3.0 by Carsten Rachfahl

Tools

Real Time Performance Monitoring – VMTurbo Virtual Health Monitor by Lai Yoong Seng

Dell Open Source Ecosystem Digest #18. Issue Highlight: “OpenStack Rocks in Poland” (englischsprachig)

DELL-Rafael K — Fri, 17 May 2013 16:55:53 GMT

Join the 1st OpenStack User Group Meetup in Szczecin (Poland) 06-06-2013, Technopark Pomerania, Niemierzynska 17a (3rd Floor, room 301), Szczecin, Poland: with Boris Renski (Mirantis), Tim Bell (CERN), Eric Windisch (Cloudscaling) & Atul Jha (OpenStack India).

We are excited to announce our first OpenStack Meetup in Szczecin (Poland) on June 6th 2013, 5.00 pm CEST (GMT + 2 hrs) at Hackerspace in Technopark Pomerania, an IT hub for local public and private tech ventures. Our meetup will be accompanied by Google Hangout and IRC Chat sessions with some of the most respected members of the OpenStack community: Boris Renski of Mirantis, Tim Bell of CERN, Eric Windisch of Cloudscaling and Atul Jha of the OpenStack User Group India.

DevOps

Jedi.be: “Compiling a nodejs projects as a single binary” by Patrick Debois
OpenStack
Canonical: “London OpenStack & MySQL Meetups May 23rd” by Mark Baker
Dell: “Crowbar cuts OpenStack Grizzly (“pebbles”) branch & seeks community testing” Rob Hirschfeld - Personal Blog
Inktank: “What a Year 1!”
Mirantis: “OpenStack Grizzly Webinar Preview: Availability Zones vs. Host Aggregates” by Nick Case
OpenStack Foundation:

OpenStack Atlanta Meetup May 16, 2013 – Atlanta, USA Details
OpenStack Dublin Meetup May 22, 2013 – Dublin, Ireland Details
3rd London OpenStack Meetup May 23, 2013 – London, UK Details
OpenStack DACH Day May 24, 2013 – Berlin Fairgrounds Details
OpenStack India Meetup May 26, 2013 – Bangalore, India at Anuta Network Details
OpenStack Israel May 27, 2013 – Tel-Aviv, Israel Details
Australian OpenStack User Group tri-city Meetup May 27, 2013 – Australia Details
OpenStack at CeBit Australia May 28 – 30, 2013 – Sidney, Australia Booth in Hall 4
OpenStack CEE Day May 29, 2013 – Budapest, Hungary Details
Building an OpenStack Cloud May 30, 2013 – Chicago, IL Details
OpenStack meeting in Munich Jun 11, 2013 – Munich, Germany Details
GigaOM Structure Jun 19 – 20, 2013 – San Francisco, CA Details
OpenStack DevCamp Essen Jun 21 – 23, 2013 – Essen, Germany Details
PyCon Australia – OpenStack Miniconf Jul 05, 2013 – Hobart, Australia Details
OSCON 2013 Jul 22 – 26, 2013 – Portland, OR Details

OpenStack Foundation: “[openstack-community] [Ask] Guidelines for answering question on Ask” by Stefano Maffulli
OpenStack Foundation: “[openstack-announce] OpenStack Grizzly documentation released 4/30/13” by Anne Gentle
Opscode: “Hosted Chef Upgrades Addendum” by Kevin Smith
Opscode: “Just Released – Update to Knife Plugin for Google Compute Engine” by Bryan Hale
Piston Cloud: “The Latest on OpenStack Architecture”
Piston Cloud: “Comcast, Best Buy, Bloomberg, and More Move to OpenStack-powered Cloud Systems”
Piston Cloud: “Designing for Piston”
Pistion Cloud: “Want to Learn More About DevOps? Here’s Some Summer Reading”
Simplicity Scales: “Stacker Voices: Thierry Carrez, OpenStack Foundation”

Hadoop

Cloudera: “How-to: Automate Your Hadoop Cluster from Java”
Cloudera: “Fresh and Hot: HBaseCon 2013 Schedule Finalized!”
Cloudera: “How-to: Configure Eclipse for Hadoop Contributions”

Contributors

Please find detailed information on all contributors in our Wiki section.

Contact

If you have any feedback, suggestions, ideas, or if you’d like to contribute - I’ll be happy to hear back from you.

Twitter: @RafaelKnuth

Email: rafael_knuth@dellteam.com

OpenStack Rockt in Polen (englischsprachig)

DELL-Rafael K — Fri, 17 May 2013 12:57:54 GMT

We are excited to announce our first OpenStack Meetup in Szczecin (Poland) on June 6th 2013, 5.00 pm CEST (GMT + 2 hrs) at Hackerspace in Technopark Pomerania, an IT hub for local public and private tech ventures. Our meetup will be accompanied by Google Hangout and IRC Chat sessions with some of the most respected members of the OpenStack community: Boris Renski of Mirantis, Tim Bell of CERN, Eric Windisch of Cloudscaling and Atul Jha of the OpenStack User Group India.

OpenStack aims to become the open standard for an ubiquitous cloud

OpenStack was launched jointly by Rackspace and NASA in 2010. It is managed by the OpenStack Foundation. OpenStack is written in Python and licensed under Apache License 2.0.

OpenStack is an open source software for building private and public clouds. It’s supported by a vast community of more than 200 vendors such as Cisco, Dell, HP, IBM, Redhat and VMware. More than 800 developers are contributing to the code base and 6,000 individual members are backing the initiative.

"OpenStack aims to be an alternative to proprietary private and public cloud solutions. But the ultimate goal is even bolder, as leading OpenStackers claim: to create an ubiquitous, free and open cloud standard - just as the internet as we know it today.” explains Rafael Knuth, who is co-organizing the OpenStack User Group Meetup jointly with Rafal Malujda and Michal Smereczynski under the patronship of Aegis Foundation, a Poland based Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) Foundation: “The current state of affairs with cloud is being compared to the internet in the 1990s: a collection of gated communities operated by vendors like CompuServe and Prodigy. Tearing down these walls might reshape the entire IT industry and create opportunities for businesses and organizations far beyond anyone’s imagination.” - explains Knuth.

Our meeting shall be the first meeting in the series to support the local community, especially gathered in the regional Cluster of IT companies (ICT Westpomerania Cluster) in understanding OpenStack soultions.

“ICT Cluster is an association of nearly 60 ICT companies in the West Pomerania Region. We cooperate to improve the potential of regional IT companies. And Pomerania Technopark is a place, where we can meet to exchange knowledge and experiences. We hope that the 1^stOpenStack User Group Meetup will begin an effective cooperation between members of the OpenStack community” – says Katarzyna Witkowska, ICT Cluster vice president.

Join our Google Hangout and IRC Chat at 5 pm CEST (GMT + 2 hrs)

Don’t miss the opportunity to chat online with our special guests. We will open our Google Hangout and IRC Chat session on June 6th at 5.00 pm CEST (GMT +2 hrs), and both will remain open until approximately 9 pm CEST (GMT + 2 hrs).

OpenStack Poland - IRC Channel

#openstack-pl

server: freenode

for non-IRC users: http://openstackpoland.aegis.org.pl/irc-channel/

Google Hangout

https://www.youtube.com/user/OpenStackPoland

Boris Renski is member of the OpenStack Board of Directors. He is co-founder and EVP at Mirantis, the world’s largest independent OpenStack system integrator. Mirantis is serving customers such as at&t, NASA, Huawei, Dell, Cisco, HP and GAP. Earlier this year, Mirantis released FUEL, an open-source library packaging the company’s implementation experience into an OpenStack Do-it-Yourself-Kit. Mirantis is headquartered in Mountain View and operates across five additional international locations in Russia, Ukraine and Poland. Follow Boris at Twitter: @zer0tweets

Tim Bell is member of the OpenStack Board of Directors. Tim works as Infrastructure Manager at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research. CERN is an active member of the OpenStack community and openly shares their best practices. Their goal for OpenStack is to ramp to 15,000 hypervisors with 100,000 virtual machines by 2015. Follow Tim at Twitter: @noggin143

Eric Windisch works as a Cloud Architect at Cloudscaling, the company behind the OpenStack distribution Open Cloud System 2.5 designed to meet the requirements of today’s web/mobile applications, SaaS/PaaS deployments and big data implementations. Eric is also contributing to Cloudscaling’s engineering blog Simplicity Scales. Follow Eric at Twitter: @ewindisch

Atul Jha is an active member of the OpenStack community in India. He is engaging with a broad range of enterprises as well as with the higher education sector, the latter seizing opportunities in the OpenStack ecosystem for their students: “Open Source Software Isn’t Just Code. It’s Your Résumé”as recently stated in WIRED.com. Follow Atul at Twitter: @koolhead17

Targeting Central & Eastern Europe

We aim to serve the local IT community as well as the OpenStack ecosystem across the entire CEE region. For that reason we join forces with the OpenStack User Group in Hungary which is organizing the OpenStack CEE Day in Budapest May 29th 2013. Also, we will engage and share experiences with other emerging regions such as India, China and Brazil.

Register for the event at Meetup.com

Please register for the event at Meetup.com. Also, don’t hesitate to get in touch with us. We will happily answer your questions and discuss with you via the global OpenStack Community mailing list, our local OpenStack mailing list (URLs below) as well as via Twitter: Rafael Knuth (@RafaelKnuth) Rafal Malujda (@Raafael6000) Michal Smereczynski (@Smereczynski) - don’t forget to use the #OpenStack hashtag.

OpenStack Poland resources

Webpage:

http://openstackpoland.aegis.org.pl/

Meetup page:
http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-User-Group-Poland/

Global community mailing list:
http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/community

Local community mailing list (in Polish):
http://lists.aegis.org.pl/mailman/listinfo/openstackpoland

Auszug – Microsoft TechNet NewsFlash 09/2013

DELL-Florian K — Tue, 14 May 2013 13:01:50 GMT

Hallo Community,

und weiter geht es mit dem Auszug aus dem Microsoft TechNet Newsflash.

Der Auszug wird in Zusammenarbeit mit Denis Mrksa IT Pro Marketing Manager, Microsoft Deutschland GmbH erstellt.

Kontakt:

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facebook.com/WirsindTechNet

Möchtet Ihr den TechNet NewsFlash als E-Mail Newsletter abonnieren? Dann registriert Euch kostenlos hier.

Viel Spaß mit dem Auszug wünscht euch das Dell TechCenter und das Microsoft TechNet.

Auszug aus dem Editorial von Denis Mrksa:

Guten Tag liebe Leserinnen und Leser,

lassen Sie mich diese Ausgabe des TechNet Flash mit einer prägnanten Aussage einleiten, zitiert aus einer aktuellen Studie des Analystenhauses Experton Group: "Microsoft gehört mit dem Relaunch der Cloud-Plattform Windows Azure zu den Performern des Jahres im Bereich Public Cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service." Für Experten gehört Microsoft damit zu den wesentlichen Marktmachern im Bereich Cloud Computing, und das geht uns natürlich runter wie Öl.

Ein Erfolgsfaktor, den die Analysten hervorheben, ist die intuitive Konfiguration von Server-, Storage- und Bandbreitenkapazitäten. Haben Sie schon einen Blick auf Windows Azure und die hochskalierbaren sowie mit Windows und Linux interoperablen Infrastrukturdienste gewagt? Kostenlos und unverbindlich können Sie dies mit einem dreimonatigen Testzugang zu Windows Azure, den ich Ihnen nur sehr empfehlen kann.

Sollten Sie sich dagegen mehr für Private-Cloud-Lösungen interessieren, befinden Sie sich in guter Gesellschaft: Die Analysten schätzen diesen Markt für die nächsten 24 Monaten als deutlichen Wachstumstreiber für Cloud Computing ein. Schon seit längerem würden viele Unternehmen in diesem Bereich Evaluationen vornehmen.

Alle wichtigen Evaluierungsversionen und kostenlosen Downloads von Microsoft finden Sie übrigens ab sofort übersichtlich nach Produktkategorien geordnet in unserem auch inhaltlich neugestalteten Download-Bereich auf TechNet Online. Darüber hinaus wurden auch die Einstiegsseite der TechNet Library und unsere Support-Übersicht überarbeitet, um Ihnen so einen noch einfacheren Einstieg zu den für Sie relevanten Themen zu ermöglichen.

Eine wesentliche Neuerung haben wir auch im Bereich Events & Media auf dem TechNet-Portal Deutschland umgesetzt. Mit der neuen Suche auf TechNet Media finden Sie in über 800 deutschsprachigen Webcasts, Videos und Konferenzaufzeichnungen Wissen rund um die Technologien und Produkte der Microsoft-Plattform.

Jetzt wünsche ich Ihnen eine interessante Lektüre mit der aktuellen Ausgabe des TechNet Newsflash und freue mich auf Ihren nächsten Besuch auf TechNet Online,

Veranstaltungen & Webcasts

Online-Training: Windows Azure for IT Professionals
Die Microsoft Virtual Academy veranstaltet am 16. Mai 2013 ein kostenloses Online-Training speziell für IT-Pros, die sich in die Funktionen der neuen Infrastructure Services einarbeiten wollen. Das Training beginnt um 18 Uhr deutscher Zeit.

TechEd Europe 2013: Keynotes von Brad Anderson und Jon DeVaan
Microsoft hat ein weiteres Highlight der TechEd Europe 2013 bekannt gegeben, die vom 25. bis 28. Juni 2013 in Madrid stattfindet: Die Keynotes in diesem Jahr werden präsentiert von Brad Anderson, Corporate Vice President Windows Server and System Center Program Management, sowie Jon DeVaan, Corporate Vice President Windows Development.

Microsoft Special Days auf der europäischen TDWI-Konferenz
Im Rahmen der 13. Europäischen TDWI-Konferenz, die vom 17. bis 19. Juni 2013 in München stattfindet, veranstaltet Microsoft gemeinsam mit seinen Partnern zwei Microsoft Special Days. Inhaltlich drehen sich die beiden kostenfreien Thementage am 17. Juni und am 19. Juni um die Business-Intelligence- und Big-Data-Lösungen von Microsoft.

Interessierte, die an der TDWI-Konferenz teilnehmen möchten, können bei Angabe des Promocodes "MSTDWI2013" beim Eintrittspreis sparen (z.B. Normalpreis 1.395 Euro (1660,05 Euro brutto) statt 1.695 Euro (2017,05 Euro brutto)). Der Promocode muss im Bemerkungen-Feld angegeben werden.

TechNet Webcasts:

Private Cloud mit Windows Server 2012

Effizientes Datacenter mit System Center VMM (TechDays 2012 Basel)

Demo-Szenarien zu IaaS mit Hyper-V und System Center (Level 100)

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Veranstaltungen zu Windows 8/Windows Phone 8

App Developer Day – Windows 8 Edition
27. Mai 2013, Köln

App Developer Day - Windows Phone 8 Edition
3. Juni 2013, Köln

Windows 8 App Publishing-Fest
15. Juni 2013, Pforzheim

Weitere Veranstaltungen:

IPI Summit Digital Workplace
6. Juni 2013, Lichtenau

IPv6 Kongress 2013
6. bis 7. Juni 2013, Frankfurt/Main

Live-Webcast "Bye, bye Windows XP und Office 2003"
noch bis 25. Juni 2013, online

TechEd Europe 2013
25. bis 28. Juni 2013, Madrid

Microsoft Partner-Tour 2013
noch bis 27. Juni 2013, bundesweit

TechNet Feature

Informieren Sie sich, welche Einzelkomponenten von System Center 2012 zum Betrieb einer Private Cloud nötig sind, und wie sie damit eine eigene Cloud-Lösung bereitstellen können.

System Center Integration Guide (engl.)
Dieser Integrationsleitfaden zeigt Ihnen, welche System Center-Komponenten für den Betrieb einer Private Cloud nötig sind.

Kostenlose MVA-Kurse zu System Center 2012
Die Microsoft Virtual Academy bietet zahlreiche kostenlose Kurse zu System Center 2012 und führt IT-Professionals spielerisch in die wichtigsten Funktionen und Einzelkomponenten ein.

Kostenlose Testversion von System Center 2012 SP1
Testen Sie die Microsoft Private Cloud für 180 Tage mit einer voll funktionsfähigen, kostenlosen Evaluierungsversion von System Center 2012.

Aktuelles für IT-Profis

Kostenloses Poster: Produkte und Versionen von Windows Server 2012
Dieses Übersichtsposter verschafft IT-Professionals einen fundierten Überblick über die verschiedenen Versionen samt Funktionen von Windows Server 2012.

Roadmap: Active Directory zu Windows Server 2012 migrieren
Migration oder Upgrade einer Active Directory-Infrastruktur sollten gut überlegt durchgeführt werden. Doug Symalla bietet eine Hilfestellung, wie man eine Roadmap erstellen kann, mit der sich das Ganze sicher und planvoll durchführen lässt.

System Center Service Manager und Service Level Management
Im Building Clouds-Blog wird in einem dreiteiligen Tutorial gezeigt, wie sich das Service Level Management mit System Center 2012 Service Manager abwickeln lässt.

Data Warehouse und Reporting mit System Center 2012 Service Manager SP1
Travis Wright hat auf TechNet Video vier Videos rund um das Thema "System Center 2012 SP1 Service Manager Data Warehouse & Reporting" veröffentlicht.

Mit System Center Data Protection Manager zur sicheren Cloud
Keith Mayer zeigt, wie sich mit System Center 2012 SP1 Arbeitsprozesse einer Private Cloud über System Center 2012 Data Protection Manager absichern lassen.

Test Lab Guide: Bereit für "Bring your own Device"
Über das Download Center kann der "Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) Test Lab Guide" heruntergeladen werden, der IT-Pros mit den drei Szenarien "Konfiguration der IT-Infrastruktur", "Dateizugriff" und "Gesicherte Exchange-Kommunikation" auf den Trend der beruflichen Nutzung privater Endgeräte vorbereitet.

SQL Server 2012: System Health-Reports auswerten
Dieser Beitrag beschäftigt sich mit der optimalen Auswertung von System Health-Reports für SQL Server 2012.

SQL Server mit Windows Azure: Aktualisierte Dokumentation erhältlich
Der Windows Azure Team Blog bietet gesammelte Links zu technischen Dokumentationen zur Verwendung von SQL Server VMs mit Windows Azure. Die Dokumentationen berücksichtigen bereits die Verfügbarkeit der Windows Azure Infrastructure Services.

Architecture Guide: Management-Architektur für die Private Cloud
Im Download Center ist der "Infrastructure-as-a-Service Product Line Architecture Fabric Management Architecture Guide" verfügbar, der auf knapp 90 Seiten geballtes Wissen zur Bereitstellung der eigenen Private Cloud mit Windows Server 2012 und System Center 2012 bietet.

Funktionsumfang von Windows Azure wächst weiter
Scott Guthrie wartet mit den nächsten Neuerungen bei Windows Azure auf: Ab sofort können sich Nutzer über neue Funktionen in Sachen virtuelle Netzwerke, virtuelle Maschinen und Cloud-Dienste freuen.

Gewusst wie: VMs mit mehr Arbeitsspeicher in Windows Azure aktivieren
Peter Kirchner erklärt, wie sich die neuen größeren virtuellen Maschinen, die seit der allgemeinen Verfügbarkeit der Windows Azure Infrastructure Services zur Verfügung stehen, aktivieren lassen.

Im Überblick: Lizenzierungsvarianten von Office 365
Fachautor Markus Widl stellt bei Galileo Press ein kostenloses Poster mit einer übersichtlichen Infografik als PDF zur Verfügung, das über alle Lizenzierungsvarianten zu Office 365 informiert.

Downloads, Betas & Testversionen

Mehr Power: SQL Server 2012 SP1 Feature Pack erhältlich
Für Microsoft SQL Server 2012 SP1 ist ein umfangreiches Feature Pack erhältlich, eine Sammlung von Tools, Komponenten und Add-ons, mit denen sich Funktionsumfang und Leistung von SQL Server 2012 SP1 erweitern lässt.

RTM: Exchange Connector 3.0 für System Center Service Manager erhältlich
Der Systen Center Service Manager Exchange Connector steht seit kurzem in der finalen RTM-Version zum Download bereit. Der Exchange Connector 3.0 RTM ersetzt die Version 3.0 RC und wartet mit weiteren Bugfixes sowie neuen Sicherheitsfeatures auf.

Mit System Center Active Directory Certificate Services überwachen
Mit diesem Management Pack für System Center lassen sich Active Directory Certificate Services überwachen und verwalten sowie Warnungen konfigurieren.

Neue Version des AD Rights Management Service Client verfügbar
Im Download Center steht eine neue Version des Active Directory Rights Management Service Client zur Verfügung, mit dem sich auf Client-Systemen Zugriff und Nutzung der Active Directory Management Services absichern lassen.

Frühwarnsystem: System Center Monitoring Pack for NAP
Das System Center Monitoring Pack for Network Access Protection (NAP) erlaubt IT-Professionals das Überwachen des System-Zustandes von Client-Computer zum Beispiel in Bezug auf abgelaufene HRA CA-Zertifikate oder fehlende Bindings der Internet Information Services.

Windows Server 2012 kostenlos testen
Microsoft stellt interessierten IT-Pros kostenlos eine voll funktionsfähige Testversion von Windows Server 2012 zur Verfügung, mit der alle Funktionen 180 Tage lang getestet werden können. Nutzen Sie die Möglichkeit und überzeugen Sie sich von Windows Server 2012.

Weitere Downloads:
Windows Sysinternals
Hyper-V Server 2012

TechNet Downloads

Tipps & Tricks aus der Community

Aus den TechNet Foren - Tipps zu Windows Server und Client
Unser Forenmoderator Raul Talmaciu hat einige interessante aktuelle Threads aus den deutschsprachigen TechNet Foren für Sie ausgewählt. Folgen Sie den Links, um sich die kompletten Diskussionen inklusive der Problemlösungen anzuschauen:

Windows Server 2012-Auslagerungsdatei (pagefile.sys)

Windows Update wird nicht erreicht, wenn der WSUS konfiguriert ist

SCCM 2007: Berichte über erforderliche Updates und deren PCs

Raul Talmaciu arbeitet bei Microsoft im Bereich Community-Unterstützung. Seine Spezialgebiete sind Windows Server, Windows Client, Virtualisierung und SharePoint. Sie treffen Raul unter anderem in den TechNet Foren zu Windows 7, Windows Server, Virtualisierung und System Center an.

IT-Sicherheit

Installieren Sie die Sicherheitsupdates für April 2013
Microsoft hat am 9. April neun Security Bulletins veröffentlicht, von denen zwei als "kritisch" und fünf als "wichtig" eingestuft wurden. Es werden damit Sicherheitslücken in Technologien wie Windows, Internet Explorer, Office und Microsoft Server Software geschlossen. Wir empfehlen Ihnen, die Updates so schnell wie möglich zu installieren.

Nutzen Sie die Security Bulletin-Suche, um alle verfügbaren Security Bulletins für Ihr System anzeigen zu lassen.

Mit gutem Beispiel voran: Active Directory absichern
Im Download Center steht der Guide "Best Practices for Securing Active Directory" bereit, der Unternehmen dabei hilft, die Sicherheit ihrer Active Directory-Verzeichnisse zu erhöhen.

Michael Kranawetter zum Microsoft Security Intelligence Report
Microsofts Chief Security Advisor Michael Kranawetter stellt im TechNet Blog den aktuellenSecurity Intelligence Report vor und zeigt, warum Antivirensoftware auch heute noch unverzichtbar ist.

Weitere Informationen zum Thema IT-Sicherheit:

Besuchen Sie das Sicherheits-TechCenter
Abonnieren Sie den kostenlosen Microsoft Sicherheitsnewsletter für IT-Professionals
Verfolgen Sie den Chief Security Advisor Blog - Deutschland

Trainings & Zertifizierungen

Überblick über System Center 2012 – Operations Manager
Dieser kostenlose Kurs der Microsoft Virtual Academy versorgt IT-Professionals mit kostenlosem Wissen zu System Center 2012 Operations Manager. In drei deutschsprachigen Modulen erhalten Interessierte dabei einen fundierten Einstieg in Bereitstellung, Konfiguration und Datenvisualisierung mit System Center 2012 Operations Manager.

Schnelleinstieg: SQL Server 2012 für SharePoint 2013 vorbereiten
In diesem kostenlosen Jump Start-Training der Microsoft Virtual Academy erfahren IT-Pros in vier Modulen, wie sich Daten aus SQL Server 2012 mit SharePoint 2013 nutzen lassen. Wissen von Integrationsmöglichkeiten bis hin zu Datenbank- und Serverkonfiguration.

Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) – Best Posts of the Week around Windows Server, Exchange, SystemCenter and more – #28

DELL-Florian K — Mon, 13 May 2013 19:55:43 GMT

Hi Community, here is my compilation of the most interesting technical blog posts written by members of the Microsoft MVP Community. The number of MVPs is growing well, I hope you enjoy their posts. @all MVPs If you’d like me to add your blog posts to my weekly compilation, please send me an email (florian_klaffenbach@dell.com) or reach out to me via Twitter (@FloKlaffenbach). Thanks!

Featured Posts of the Week!

The Dilbert Life Series – A Bad Manager’s Priorities by Didier van Hoye

Create Exchange 2010 Server Reports with PowerShell by Jeffery Hicks

Windows 2012 : Hyper-V Network design scenarios and setup – Part 1 by Alessandro Cardoso

Hyper-V Snapshots: What, When, and Why by Aidan Finn

Azure

#Microsoft #WindowsAzure #SQL Database Management Pack for System Center 2012 #sysctr by James van den Berg

Exchange

Create Exchange 2010 Server Reports with PowerShell by Jeffery Hicks

Events

If You Can, You Should Attend TechEd 2013 Europe by Didier van Hoye

The Dilbert Life Series – A Bad Manager’s Priorities by Didier van Hoye

PowerShell Summit 2013 session recordings by Shay Levy

Hyper-V

Windows 2012 : Hyper-V Network design scenarios and setup – Part 1 by Alessandro Cardoso

Hyper-V Replica [test environment] by Romeo Mlinar

Infrastructure as a Service (Iaas) Product Line Architecture by Lai Yoong Seng

Choosing Hyper-V Storage: Virtual Hard Disks by Aidan Finn

Hyper-V Snapshots: What, When, and Why by Aidan Finn

KB2698666 – Can’t Open Hyper-V Settings On W2008 R2 SP1 Hyper-V by Aidan Finn

Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V: Configure VM Processor Compatibility for Legacy Operating Systems by Thomas Maurer

Office 365

Office 365 Wave 15 stopped an Outlook 2007 client connecting by Nick Whittome

PowerShell

Why Doesn’t My Pipeline Work? by Jeffery Hicks

PowerShell Messagebox by Jeffery Hicks

Getting Top Level Folder Report in PowerShell by Jeffery Hicks

PowerShell – Is my NIC configured to register in DNS? by Jeff Wouters

Enable and disable MSI logging through PowerShell by Jeff Wouters

PowerShell function to check the property to an item by Jeff Wouters

Using Show-Command to make a simple UI for a non-PowerSheller by Adam Driscoll

Using PowerShell to Analyze Your PC’s Sleep & Wake Behavior by Keith Hill

System Center Core

Microsoft Infrastructure-as-a-Service Product Line Architecture Guidance by Aidan Finn

System Center Virtual Machine Manager

Video presentation: How to Design and Configure Networking in #SCVMM and #HyperV by James van den Berg

Test Lab Guides: System Center 2012 SP1 – Virtual Machine Manager #sysctr #SCVMM #Hyperv by James van den Berg

SQL Server

#PSTip Verify if a SQL database is mirrored or not by Ravikanth Chaganti

Windows Client

Microsoft-Konto sicherer machen in German by Nils Kaczenski

Why Should I Use Windows 8 Client Hyper-V? by Aidan Finn

Tip: Legally Deploying Images Windows To OEM Licensed PCs by Aidan Finn

Windows Server Core

Videocast Scale-Out Fileserver erklärt – Teil 1 – Einrichten des Clusters in German by Carsten Rachfahl

Videocast Scale-Out Filerserver erklärt – Teil 2 – Storage einrichten in German by Carsten Rachfahl

Videocast Scale-Out Fileserver erklärt – Teil 3 – Einrichtung der Scale-Out Fileserver Rolle in German by Carsten Rachfahl

Scale-Out Fileserver erklärt – Teil 4 – Scale-Out Filerserver in Aktion und Ausschalten eines Nodes in German by Carsten Rachfahl

VMware Hypervisor Support Windows Server 2012 by Lai Yoong Seng

Tools

Virtual Machine Backup and Recovery: Five Critical Decisions by Thomas Maurer

Dell Open Source Ecosystem Digest #17. Issue Highlight: “Dell acquires Enstratius” (englischsprachig)

DELL-Rafael K — Fri, 10 May 2013 14:34:32 GMT

Learn more about our most recent acquisition: “Dell acquires Enstratius”

DevOps

Dell: “Update: Project Sputnik Profile Tool and Cloud Launcher” by Barton George - Personal Blog
Rackspace: “Why Do Devs Like OpenStack?” by Hart Hoover at Rackspace DevOps Blog
Jedi.be: “The future of devops“ by Patrick Debois

OpenStack

Dell: “Parable of Lions and Elephants” by Rob Hirschfeld - Personal Blog
Dell: “We need better Gold Member criteria to help building OpenStack culture” by Rob Hirschfeld - Personal Blog
Dell: “Dell Acquires Enstratius, an Award-Winning Enterprise Cloud-Management Company”
Dell: “Dell Acquires Enstratius — So what do they do?” by Barton George - Personal Blog
Dell: “Building a Great Team (Dell buys Enstratius)” by Michael Cote - Personal Blog
Dell: “OpenStack Austin Meetup 2013-05-09” by Rob Hirschfeld - Personal Blog
Inktank: “Ceph Cuttlefish Release has Arrived!”
OpenStack Foundation: “Dell in the Demo Theater”
SUSE: “Mainframes and System z in Today’s IT”

Hadoop

Cloudera: “Extending the Data Warehouse with Hadoop” by Matt Brandwein
Cloudera: “Top 5 Reasons to Attend HBaseCon 2013” by Justin Kestelyn
Cloudera: “Metrics: The New Hotness for Apache HBase Metrics” by Elliott Clark
Pentaho: “Big Data Integration Webinar Series”
Pentaho: “Getting Started and Successful with Big Data” webinar 5-15-2013

Contributors

Please find detailed information on all contributors in our Wiki section.

Contact

If you have any feedback, suggestions, ideas, or if you’d like to contribute - I’ll be happy to hear back from you.

Twitter: @RafaelKnuth

Email: rafael_knuth@dellteam.com

So Say SMEs Virtualisierung & Cloud S2 Episode 12 mit @KongYang & @VirtualTodd (englischsprachig)

DELL-Florian K — Thu, 09 May 2013 16:48:36 GMT

Lunchtime Live Demo #1: Datadog Monitoring Service 05-10-2013 at 1.00 – 1.45 pm EDT (UTC-4 hrs) - (englischsprachig)

DELL-Rafael K — Tue, 07 May 2013 08:09:00 GMT

Please join our first Lunchtime Live Demo May 10^th at 1.00 – 1.45 pm EDT (UTC-4 hrs). With that series, we want to introduce you to innovative (startup) companies that provide exciting solutions for the cloud (consider this a community service for the broader cloud community). Expect no PowerPoint, no marketing talk – just a quick glance under the hood and an opportunity to chat with those guys who built the product.

If you are not able to attend, watch out for the wrap up blog post which we will publish a few days after the demo. Also, if you have any questions prior to the chat or suggestions, feel free to reach out to me via email (see below). We love to iterate and get better with every iteration!

About Datadog

Datadog is a SaaS monitoring service and data platform for Dev and Ops teams supporting applications on cloud, on-premise and hybrid infrastructure. Datadog unifies the data from servers, OS, databases, applications, tools and services to present an integrated view of an IT environment. In addition to its out-of-the-box alerting and graphing capabilities, Datadog can correlate data from infrastructure components such as Chef, MySQL and Git to provide insights that enable IT teams to avoid downtime, resolve performance problems and ensure on-time application releases and deployment.

Our Presenters

Amit Agarwal is VP of Products at Datadog. Throughout his 15 years of experience in the enterprise software industry, Amit has worked in various business strategy and senior technical management roles to bring new enterprise software products to market. Before Datadog, Amit was the Director of Product Management at Quest Software (now Dell). In this role he led the product management team that was responsible for performance monitoring and high availability solutions.

Alex Rosemblat is Director of Marketing at Datadog. Previously, Alex served as Product Marketing Manager for Dell’s Virtualization and Cloud Management product family (via the acquisition of VKernel).

In order to attend the chat, go to delltechcenter.adobeconnect.com/chat No registration is required. If you have any questions prior to the chat, please contact rafael_knuth@dellteam.com. Looking forward to see you there!

Dell akquiriert Enstratius (englischsprachig)

DELL-Rafael K — Mon, 06 May 2013 16:12:43 GMT

Acquisition Overview
Dell today announced the acquisition of Enstratius, an award-winning provider of software and consulting services that deliver hybrid-cloud and single-cloud management capabilities.

Why Enstratius?
The acquisition of Enstratius further enhances Dell’s end-to-end solutions strategy bringing key capabilities to deliver cloud management products to our customers. Enstratius is available as software-as-a-service or as on-premise software that enables full control from within a customer’s data center, or via a hosted service.
Enstratius complements the capability Dell recently acquired from Gale Technologies, now Active System Manager (ASM), by providing enhanced multi-cloud management and application configuration capabilities and integrates converged offerings with cloud systems management.

Customer and Partner Benefits
As customers embrace the promise of cloud computing and address the challenge of managing multiple cloud environments, Enstratius simplifies that management task with a self-service catalogue, design tools and management tools that help customers create and deploy multi-component applications across one or more clouds.

Enstratius brings Dell cloud-infrastructure management for public, private and hybrid-cloud deployments. Enstratius also complements other Dell technologies such as Foglight performance monitoring, Quest ONE identity and access management, the Boomi integration platform, and data protection offerings such as AppAssure and NetVault to create a stronger systems management portfolio that specifically addresses cloud systems management.

Quotes
“As enterprises increase their use of public, private and hybrid clouds, the need for controls, security, governance and automation becomes more critical,” said Tom Kendra, vice president and general manager, systems management, Dell Software. “Dell, together with Enstratius, is uniquely positioned to deliver differentiated, complete cloud-management solutions to enterprise customers, large and small, empowering them with the efficiency and flexibility in the allocation and use of resources.”

“We are excited to join the Dell team and bring our expertise to Dell’s rapidly growing cloud-management capabilities,” said David Bagley, CEO, Enstratius. “Together, Enstratius and Dell create new opportunities for organizations to accelerate application and IT service delivery across on-premises data centers and private clouds, combined with off-premises public cloud solutions. This capability is enhanced with powerful software for systems management, security, business intelligence and application management for customers, worldwide.”

Special Note:

Statements in these materials that relate to future results and events are forward-looking statements based on Dell's current expectations. Actual results and events in future periods may differ materially from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements because of a number of risks, uncertainties and other factors. Risks, uncertainties and assumptions include the possibility that projected benefits may not materialize as expected; that Dell is unable to successfully implement the plans, strategies and objectives of management for future operations, including the execution of integration strategies; and other risks that are described in Dell’s Securities and Exchange Commission reports. Dell undertakes no obligation to update these forward-looking statements.

Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) – Best Posts of the Week around Windows Server, Exchange, SystemCenter and more – #27

DELL-Florian K — Mon, 06 May 2013 13:50:18 GMT

Hi Community, here is my compilation of the most interesting technical blog posts written by members of the Microsoft MVP Community. The number of MVPs is growing well, I hope you enjoy their posts. @all MVPs If you’d like me to add your blog posts to my weekly compilation, please send me an email (Florian_Klaffenbach@Dell.com) or reach out to me via Twitter (@FloKlaffenbach). Thanks!