Microsoft News – 10 December 2014

I’ve included a few videos that Carsten Rachfahl recorded at the MVP Summit in Redmond last November.

Hyper-V

• Reviewing My Hyper-V Predictions For 2014: A post I wrote for Petri.com
• Hyper-V MVP Carsten Rachfahl interviews Hyper-V PM Ben Armstrong: Good stuff about vNext.

Windows Server

• Hyper-V MVP Carsten Rachfahl interviews Clustering PM Elden Chistensen: Good stuff about vNext.
• Hyper-V MVP Carsten Rachfahl interviews Mark Minasi: Chatting at the 2014 MVP Summit.

System Center

• Microsoft System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Servicing Extension: This new add-on for the Administrator console provides a summary of the Configuration Manager versions in the environment, simplified client targeting, and information on new Configuration Manager related releases.

Azure

• Azure HDInsight Introduces Built-in Integration with Azure Websites to do Web Log Analytics: Azure Websites generate web logs that track all HTTP transactions and detailed error logging. These logs are stored in Azure Blobs as non-relational files that are semi-structured. Traditionally, semi-structured files are harder to analyze unless they are extracted and transformed into a relational table/database. Enter Hadoop.

Office 365

• Microsoft Said To Be Dropping SharePoint Online ‘Public Sites’ Feature: This will create a stink. Whatever happened to the new Microsoft that consulted with customers and listened to feedback?

Intune

• Microsoft Intune App Wrapping Tool for iOS: The tool is a Mac OS command line application that creates a ‘wrapper’ around an app. Once an app is processed, you can then change the apps functionality using an Intune mobile application management policy that you configure.