Speaking at Windows Server Engineering Summit 2024

With the announcement of the next Windows Server release, called Windows Server 2025, Microsoft decided to organize the next Windows Server Engineering Summit. The Windows Server Summit 2024 will take place March 26-28, 2024, 8 AM – 4 PM Pacific Time with many sessions around Windows Server solutions. I´m happy to be invited to hold …

Speaking at Cloud Brew 2022 about Azure Arc

After many hybrid events in the last few years I really like to get back to in-person or hybrid events to see the community live at the events and discuss and learn from each other about different projects and meet some new people. About the Cloud Brew One of my favorite conference in 2019 was …

Speaking at Cloud Eight Conference about 7 Best Practices for Azure File Sync

Update 1 on 22/06/2021 The recording of the session is now available on Youtube. I have added the link at the end of the article. I am glad to announce that I was invited as a speaker to the Cloudeight conference. This is the 3rd edition of this conference and the conference is grown to …

My Microsoft Ignite 2021 Spring Highlights

The corona situation brings new opportunities and one of them is that Microsoft Ignite going to a virtual conference twice a year. It used to be an in-person event only once a year. Last week the Microsoft Ignite 2021 spring conference started and in this article I will cover most of the highlights from my …

My favorite Azure Announcements from the Microsoft Ignite 2020

The Microsoft Ignite 2020 has moved to a free, virtual conference with a lots of online sessions about the Microsoft Product world like Azure, Microsoft 365 and more. As every year Microsoft announced new services and new features for existing services. In this blog post I will report about my highlights of the last 48 …

Windows Server 2008 DVDs

Bye Bye Windows Server 2008R2 It was a good time – Get Extended Support and think about a change

Today Windows Server 2008 (R2) / Windows 7 reaches her End of Live (14.01.20) date and doesn`t receive Security updates anymore. I think it was a great time with Windows Server 2008. WS2008 launched Hyper-V, one of the most powerful hypervisor on the market and the foundation of today’s Azure infrastructure. With WS2008, the first …

MCTGlobal Summit – AFS and WAC Session slides

What a month, after I speak on Cloud Camp in Dublin last week, I have the pleasure to hold a session at the MCT Global Summit in Phantasialand Brühl near Cologne. The MCT Global Summit is a one week conference and a place where a lots of Microsoft Trainer can be meet. So you have …

Project Honolulu nun als Windows Admin Center allgemein verfügbar

Zur Ignite 2017 wurde Project Honolulu vorgestellt und damit endlich eine Möglichkeit über eine Webbasierte Oberfläche verschiedene Windows Server Versionen zentral zu managen. Dazu gesellten sich vielfältige weitere Möglichkeiten, Management von Storage Spaces Direct, Failover Cluster uvm. Heute wurde Project Honolulu zur allgemeinenen Verfügbarkeit freigegeben und gleichzeitig in Windows Admin Center umbenannt. Diese webbasierte Oberfläche …

Kurz notiert: Project Honolulu Update 1802 verfügbar

Soeben wurde Server Management Blog das Update 1802 von Project Honolulu freigegeben, „The Nextgen Serverconsole“ wie das Tool auch gern bezeichnet wird. Die Neuerungen beziehen sich vor allem auf Performance Verbesserungen und Unterstützung von HA-Umgebungen, sind also zunächst unter der Haube zu finden.

Projekt #Honolulu – Installation und Konfiguration

Seit heute ist die Preview von Project Honolulu – Next Server Manager Console zum Download verfügbar. In diesem Blog Beitrag gehe ich auf die Installation und Konfiguration von dem Tool ein. Vorwort Bei Project Honolulu handelt es sich um eine vollständig, webbasierte Oberfläche für das zentrale Server Management von Windows Servern (ab 2012). Bedeutet das …