The big news of the last few days was the announcement that the next version of “Windows Server and System Center” won’t be released until 2016. This is quite disappointing.
Windows Server
- Windows Server and System Center roadmap update: We won’t see new versions of Windows Server and System Center until 2016 🙁
- New Guided Walkthrough for troubleshooting problems relating to Slow copying from a shared folder over a network: This article is intended for IT administrators to help diagnose and resolve situations in which users may experience slow file copying over a network.
Windows Client
- Windows 10 for Enterprise – More secure and up to date: How businesses will get and can control updates for Windows 10 features.
- Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit (Windows ADK) for Windows 10 Technical Preview: The Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit (Windows ADK) is a collection of tools that you can use to customize, assess, and deploy Windows operating systems to new computers
- Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 10 Technical Preview (January 2015): Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 10 Technical Preview enables IT administrators to manage roles and features that are installed on computers that are running Windows Server Technical Preview from a remote computer that is running Windows 10 Technical Preview.
Azure
- Announcing Azure Preview Portal Improvements: Codename Ibiza has been improved based on feedback.
- New Cloud Platform Roadmap Site: See what’s coming (that Marketing has allowed to be announced) in the Cloud OS.
- Automating Azure Virtual Machine Deployment with Chef: But what does "Infrastructure as Code" mean and how do I leverage this concept with Azure?
- Microsoft Azure makes business productivity easier and more secure with updates across SQL Server, Enterprise Mobility, and Azure Media Services offerings: Marketing post – just look at the title.
- Linux Virtual Machine Management with Kundana Palagiri: Channel 9 video covering how to have Azure automatically run shell scripts on Azure VMs as they provision without having to manually SSH into each machine, Chef and Puppet.
- Azure Websites and the "Deploy Button" with Elliot Hamai: Channel 9 video on how to easily deploy websites from GitHub.
- Azure AD Conditional Access and Azure AD Connect Health – Now in Preview: Conditional Access for SaaS Apps and Azure AD Connect Health.
Licensing
- IaaS Gotchas: Compliance gotchas as it pertains to providing infrastructure as a service.
I’m fine with this if they for the love of all things IT, grant “all” function aspects of HV/Cluster management to SCVMM and better QA with there Rollup compiling. Can you please pass along to someone on this team, that since 2008 SCVMM why they have left out the “Clipboard” option in the VM console???? It’s in Hyper-V manager console, FOC Console, 5Nine Manager console also has it. But for inexplicable reasons it’s not in the “catch-all” HV manager….End Rant