After a month of neglect, I have finally caught up with all of my feeds via various sources. Here are the latest bits of news, mixed up with other Microsoft happenings from the last month.
- Deploying a Non-Clustered Hyper-V Host: Enabling the Hyper-V role: The second in my series on the Petri IT Knowlegebase
- How to Enable Office 365 Multi-Factor Authentication: A handy demo video.
- What’s new in Office 365 in June: The changes keep a’ comin’.
- Microsoft Aims To Commoditize Hardware with Software-Defined Storage: What does Redmond Magazine have to say about WS2012 R2 storage?
- How can we improve Microsoft Azure Site Recovery Service? My hints: 1) Remove the need for VMM 2) support generation 2 VMs. 3) Support all Azure-supported guest OSs 4) Support VHDX files larger than 1 TB.
- Mellanox Cranks InfiniBand Bandwidth Up To 100: How do I convince my boss that I need this in the lab for SMB 3.0 and Live Migration?
- Capacity planning for API and management portal machines: Size your Windows Azure Pack (WAP) installations.
- Move a VM to a different Vnet on Azure: It’s not quite as easy as it should be, and this guide shows you how to do it.
- Deploy RemoteApp on Azure: Learn how to deploy this preview Azure service
- Configure VNet to VNet Connectivity in Azure: A handy guide on this new feature; connect two vNets, maybe in different regions to have a single service.
- Why Column Size does matter with Storage Spaces: Few have dared to talk about columns in Storage Spaces. Michael Rueefli has blogged on why they matter. There is a conflict between performance and affordable expansion.
- Configuring a File Share Witness on a Scale-Out File Server: You can’t just fire up a share on an SOFS for a file share witness for a client cluster; you need to disable CA on the share.
- Security Guide for Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012: This guide provides instructions and recommendations to help strengthen the security of computers running the Hyper-V role on Windows Server 2012.
- Windows Azure Pack High Availability – Lessons Learned: From the WAP Master, Marc van Eijk
- Microsoft Releases Preview of Azure AD Application Proxy Service: Azure AD Application Proxy extends Microsoft’s cloud-based authentication service to an organization’s internal Web apps and services.
- EU rebukes US over Microsoft email in first test of privacy: Microsoft is resisting an FBI warrant to retrieve data from an Outlook mailbox that is on servers in Dublin, outside of the US jurisdiction, inside Europe, but US law only recognizes the nationality of the server owner (USA).
- Microsoft Releases SQL Server 2012 SP2: This went GA in early June. Take care – make sure your products (even Microsoft ones) support the service pack.
- Microsoft Execs Define IT’s Role in a Hybrid Cloud World: Microsoft needs to bring IT pros on board for Azure to be a success – alienating them does not help.