May 012013
 

 

 

I am still working on getting caught up on the social side of TechED.  This weeks countdown show covers a couple different things including the official TechEd bag that everybody looks forward to getting.  Check out the video below and let us know what you think of the bag.  As always head on over to the official channel 9 page to get allot more info on TechED.

 

Additional Resources

The Krewe Facebook Page:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/TheKrewe/?fref=ts

Channel 9 – Official TechEd Forums
http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/TechEdNA#fbid=9RNWEXa8Kqm

Contact To Follow On Twitter
Official TechEd: https://twitter.com/TechEd_NA

 

Video Highlights (source: channel 9)

Episode #6 of the 2013 countdown season has Joey and Rick absconding away with a prized item from TechEd NorthAmerica’s office at Corp. Come on – how can we talk about it if we don’t put “The Bag” to the test… Oh – we also talk about the Birds of A Feather voting process and where your voice can be heard.

Get out there and interact Online:

Get out there and REGISTER if you haven’t already!

 

Mar 282013
 

TechEd North America 2013 is just around the corner.  This year TechEd is in New Orleans, LA, June 3-6  You will not be disappointed if you decide to attend this year.  Below is a video from Channel 9 hosted by Joey and Rick.  Here are the key topics that are covered by the video.  Please leave us a comment about TechEd if you have participated in the past.

  • What are BreakOut sessions – how long are they?
  • How to identify what speakers look like (we don’t bite).
  • When / where to ask questions and connect with speakers?
  • What are Hands On Labs / Instructor Lead Labs?
  • What are Pre-Con(f) sessions?
  • What is “The Tech Expo” and what’s in it?
  • How to interact Online? C9 TechEd Forums (NorthAmerica and Europe)

(Source: http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/The-Countdown-Show/Countdown-to-TechEd-start-of-the-2013-countdown-season)

May 262012
 

The release of Server 2012 is just around the corner.  The Microsoft Certified Community Connection has a great opportunity to learn more about it.  Microsoft is holding a a free training session on June 20-21, 2012 from 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM CST.  Check out the course summary below on what is going to be covered.

COURSE OUTLINE

(http://mctreadiness.com/MicrosoftCareerConferenceRegistration.aspx?pid=323)

Day 1 Morning: Beyond Virtualization

• Learn about the game changers in the next release of the Hyper-V role on Windows Server 2012
- Scale, CPU, RAM, Cores, etc.
- Networking Switch (recorded demo hopefully)
- NUMA and performance
- Hyper-V over SMB and Hyper-V over RDMA
- Replication
- Shared Nothing Live Migration
- Live Storage Migration
- Moving VM from test to a production cluster without downtime
• Massive scale increases, networking improvements, replication and disaster recovery is all in the box
- IP Address Virtualization
- IP Address Virtualization with SCVMM 2012 SP1

Day 1 Afternoon: Manageability

• Learn about how you can manage a few systems up to a hundred systems – all from one console
- Server Manager
- DAC… and related topics
- Installing roles in offline VHDs
• Server Core installs scaring you off? Learn about all your installation and management options
- Moving from Core-MiniShell-Full UI and back again
• Windows PowerShell automation and management at scale – all with built in tools
- PowerShell ISE and command simplification
- PowerShell new features and new PowerShell replacements for common commands
- Automating OS level tasks, IP addresses, etc.
• Clustering—Cluster-aware updating
• Networking
- Network Teaming and network configuration
- SMB MultiChannel and RDMA

Day 2 Morning: Storage

• Learn how Continuous Availability of File Services improves workload reliability and performance
- Setup HA File Server; SMB Failover
- Running SQL over SMB; Running Hyper-V over SMB
• Storage groups, disk provisioning, iSCSI and SAN integration
- Storage Spaces
- Built-in ISCSI; Boot from ISCSI
- DeDup
- Windows Online Backup

Day 2 Afternoon: Remote Users

• Remote connectivity options for your workforce
- DA; Offline Domain Join and DA
- DA simplified Setup; Possible DA Multi-Site
• VDI and Remote Desktop Services deployment and changes
- User level disks
- Pooled / Private VDI Setup
- VDI Quick Setup
- Multi-Touch RDP

Additional Information
http://mctreadiness.com/MicrosoftCareerConferenceRegistration.aspx?pid=323

Register Now
http://mctreadiness.com/MicrosoftCareerConferenceRegistration.aspx?pid=324