[Webcast] The Tipping Point Webcast Series – Telenor (May 24, 2013)
In any decision process, there is a tipping point. As companies plan their cloud strategy, the tipping point of when to go to the cloud – and how – is mission critical. Development and test is a great way to step into the public cloud with Windows Azure.
Telenor is a Norwegian telecommunications company who needed to upgrade to the latest SharePoint solution across 13 business units and 12 countries. Traditional approaches would have exceeded their timeframe and budget, so they turned to Windows Azure, spun up their SharePoint 2013 farms and reduced their setup time from 3 months to two weeks, saving not only time, but money with a 70% cost reduction on their test environment.
Come learn more about their decision making process, the results they have seen to date and ask questions directly of the Telenor team.
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Andreas Hogberg, Director of IT, Telenor
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My first article at the Official MVP Blog…
One word – cool! 
My first article was published today at the Official MVP Blog. I’m feeling so proud, so happy, so…
I know it’s not the best article of all times, but it’s (hopefully) first of many.
Have a nice week!
Microsoft MVP for another year…
So… I'm Microsoft MVP for another year – for 3 years in a row (and counting 
).
This year I’ve also changed my expertise, and now I’m part of “Virtual Machine” MVPs.
Thanks to everyone that constantly supports me in my “IT adventures” (special thanks goes to my family - without them nothing of this would be even remote possible!).
System Center 2012 SP1 CTP2 published!
Yesterday Microsoft published System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 CTP2. I was using the CTP1, and was missing some of the features, but now they seem fixed (however, it’s to early to tell, ‘cause the download is still running 
).
One thing that I was missing just yesterday, during my training about Microsoft cloud solutions, was the support for Azure VM in App Controller – it’s on the list; can’t wait to try it out!
Other notable improvements and updates are:
- Virtual Machine Manager
- Improved Support for Network Virtualization
- Extend the VMM console with Add-ins
- Support for Windows Standards-Based Storage Management Service, thin provisioning of logical units and discovery of SAS storage
- Ability to convert VHD to VHDX, use VHDX as base Operating System image
- Configuration Manager
- Support for Windows 8
- Support for Mac OS clients
- Support for Linux and Unix servers
- Data Protection Manager
- Improved backup performance of Hyper-V over CSV 2.0
- Protection for Hyper-V over remote SMB share
- Protection for Windows Server 2012 de-duplicated volumes
- Uninterrupted protection for VM live migration
- App Controller
- Service Provider Foundation API to create and operate Virtual Machines
- Support for Azure VM; migrate VHDs from VMM to Windows Azure, manage from on-premise System Center
- Operations Manager
- Support for IIS 8
- Monitoring of WCF, MVC and .NET NT services
- Azure SDK support
- Orchestrator
- Additional support for Integration Packs, including 3rd party
- Manage VMM self-service User Roles
- Manage multiple VMM ‘stamps’ (scale units), aggregate results from multiple stamps
- Integration with App Controller to consume Hosted clouds
- Service Manager
- Apply price sheets to VMM clouds
- Create chargeback reports
- Pivot by cost center, VMM clouds, Pricesheets
- Server App-V
- Support for applications that create scheduled tasks during packaging
- Create virtual application packages from applications installed remotely on native server
I’ll install them in my lab during the weekend and then we’ll see…
Have a nice weekend!
WinDays 12 – afterword…
So… another year, another WinDays conference is over… In short, it was fun (as always).
This year (like the year before), I was in charge of preparing the lab environment for almost all of the workshops happening at Centar Znanja – this was intense but also fun…
This year, at Wednesday, I had a session about Windows 8 deployment, called “A što je s klijentima?”. Session was early in the morning, but from my perspective, attendance was great, session was also OK (those who attended can say more about it 
)!
I was using Windows Server “8” Beta as the basis for my lab, was deploying Windows “8” Consumer Preview with Windows ADK, Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2012 and System Center Configuration Manager 2012. My lab wouldn’t be possible without the support of my “sponsor” – Kodeks, who provided me with the new, 12th generation Dell PowerEdge R720 server (thank you guys for this one!). I can say that this is indeed a fine piece of machinery, wish to have couple of these for all of my demos & workshops ()…
I also had a workshop called “Build your private cloud in 3 hours” at Thursday (with my colleague Marin) which was fun – early morning, half of the room full, lots of work to be done… it was a success!
Photos (thanks to Romeo & Bojana):
Again, thanks to everyone who attended my session and workshop (or was planning to attend but was recovering from “yesterday” ); hope to hear from you & see you next year at WinDays 13!
SCOM hits RC…
Today is a great day for all of the System Center Operations Manager fans – SCOM has reached the Release Candidate (RC) stage and is now available at Microsoft Download Center!
Operations Manager 2012 provides infrastructure monitoring that’s flexible and cost-effective, helps ensure the predictable performance and availability of vital applications, and offers comprehensive monitoring for your datacenter and cloud, both private and public. Operations Manager helps you better manage your datacenters by:
- Delivering flexible and cost effective enterprise-class monitoring and diagnostics while reducing the total cost of ownership by leveraging commodity hardware, configurations, and heterogeneous environments.
- Helping to ensure the availability of business-critical applications and services through market-leading .NET application performance monitoring and diagnostics and JEE application health monitoring.
- Providing a comprehensive view of datacenters, and private and public clouds.
More info is available at the Server and Cloud Platform blog.
Next steps – download, install, explore & enjoy it! 
MCT!
Today I received yet another recognition of my skills – as of today, I’m also a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) (another acronym becomes part of my collection 
). I’m so happy to be part of this elite community of experts.
”Microsoft Certified Trainer Program is elite, international community that spans more than 150 countries and regions and includes classroom and e-learning instructors, learning consultants, authors, conference presenters, and user group leaders. Microsoft Certified Trainers (MCTs) are the premier technical and instructional experts on Microsoft technologies, and are the only individuals authorized to deliver training for Microsoft Certification.”
Big thanks to all that helped/mentored/supported me! (and anyone else who helped in any other way )
Microsoft MVP for another year…
On October, 1st 2010, I was introduced to the worldwide Microsoft MVP community as MVP for Management Infrastructure. That was a great driver in the past year. Today I received another e-mail stating that my MVP title is renewed… I’m proud for being the part of this community, and will put together all my efforts to justify this.
Big thanks to all the people included in this decision, and thanks to all that support me every day!
4th SQL Server UG meeting at MIC Varazdin
Today we had the honor to host the 4th meeting of SQL Server User Group. The main theme of this meeting was “SQL Server 2008 Disaster Recovery and High Availability 101“. Dean Vitner (MVP) was the main presenter, and I was there to fill the gap with some demos until the so called P’n’P part of the meeting... 
It was nice to see so many people at the meeting again (to all of them – thanks for coming!); it seems that SQL & High Availability are the popular themes… For those that didn’t make it to Varazdin, we arranged virtual meeting (with Live Meeting). All the info (and hopefully the video ), will be available at Microsoft Community Croatia portal soon.
I think the meeting went well, hope the attendees are happy (we need more slots for these topics, definitely), and hope to host another user group meeting at Microsoft Innovation Center Varazdin soon…
Reminder – Free certification for students!
Just a quick reminder – for all students who want to get certified on Microsoft technology, there is still a chance to get one free voucher they can use for this purpose. Microsoft is offering this vouchers through DreamSpark program, and if you have access, you can easily generate one voucher for yourself (or even pass it on to a friend).
You can get your voucher (all all other necessary info) on this site.
If you already got the voucher, you can use it on Prometric – just pick a test site, exam & time, and get your certificate…
For those willing to try this out and become certified, good luck (hope to see you in the MCP club after this one 
)!
P.S. This offer is valid while supplies last, so hurry up!
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- Microsoft MVP for another year…
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