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Find an Azure VM image using the Azure CLI or PowerShell
Recently my team has been fortunate enough to be able to contribute to and augment the online...
Author: Kevin Remde Date: 08/12/2015
Azure for Disaster Recovery: The US Tour
We Technical Evangelists are at it again! This September and October, we will visit 10 cities to...
Author: Kevin Remde Date: 08/10/2015
(Part 3) End of Support for Windows Server 2003 - How Small to Midsized Businesses can Benefit by moving to Windows Server 2012 R2
Concluding our 3 part End of Support for Windows Server 2003 series, Eric Mills and I highlight some...
Author: Kevin Remde Date: 06/15/2015
(Part 2) End of Support for Windows Server 2003 - Migrating from Windows Server 2003
In Part 2 of our End of Support for Windows Server 2003 series, I welcome Rick Claus to the show. We...
Author: Kevin Remde Date: 06/11/2015
TechNet Radio: (Part 1) End of Support for Windows Server 2003 - Why Migrate?
Eric Mills and yours truly kick off a new 3 part series today as we discuss the upcoming End of...
Author: Kevin Remde Date: 06/11/2015
New Microsoft Virtual Academy Course - Microsoft Azure Fundamentals: Virtual Machines
Bob Tabor (an MVP who I recently learned a lot of C# from) has created a multi-module course for...
Author: Kevin Remde Date: 05/13/2015
If you’re in the area of Saint Louis and can get away from work on May 19, 2015…
We’re hosting another of our IT Camps on Microsoft Azure and how to extend your datacenter into the...
Author: Kevin Remde Date: 05/13/2015
Lab 6 (Optional): An Ubuntu Linux VM in Azure (Jan-June 2015 Azure Hybrid Cloud IT Camps)
This post contains Lab 6 of the 5 labs created for our current set of US DX IT Camps. Yeah.. this is...
Author: Kevin Remde Date: 03/11/2015
Backup/Recover Your Files to/from Azure Storage (Hybrid Cloud for IT Pros - Part 4)
The following article is part 4 of our many-part series, “Hybrid Cloud for IT Pros”....
Author: Kevin Remde Date: 03/11/2015
Step-by-Step: Windows Azure Backup
Azure Backup “is a simple and reliable data protection solution which enables customers to back up...
Author: Kevin Remde Date: 03/11/2015
Lab 4: Building Application & SQL Workloads (Jan-June 2015 Azure Hybrid Cloud IT Camps)
This post contains Lab 3 of the 5 labs created for our current set of US DX IT Camps. The complete...
Author: Kevin Remde Date: 03/09/2015
Lab 2: Building Workloads (Jan-June 2015 Azure Hybrid Cloud IT Camps)
This post contains Lab 2 of the 5 labs created for our current set of US DX IT Camps. The complete...
Author: Kevin Remde Date: 03/09/2015
Lab 1: Building the Foundation (Jan-June 2015 Azure Hybrid Cloud IT Camps)
This post contains Lab 1 of the 5 labs created for our current set of US DX IT Camps. The complete...
Author: Kevin Remde Date: 03/09/2015
Lab 3: Working with Identity (Jan-June 2015 Azure Hybrid Cloud IT Camps)
This post contains Lab 3 of the 5 labs created for our current set of US DX IT Camps. The complete...
Author: Kevin Remde Date: 03/09/2015
Lab 5: Building Application Workloads – Deploy Data Access App (Jan-June 2015 Azure Hybrid Cloud IT Camps)
This post contains Lab 5 of the 5 labs created for our current set of US DX IT Camps. The complete...
Author: Kevin Remde Date: 03/09/2015
Lab Appendix (Jan-June 2015 Azure Hybrid Cloud IT Camps)
This post contains the appendix information for the hands-on-labs created for our current set of US...
Author: Kevin Remde Date: 03/09/2015
TechNet Radio: Success with Enterprise Mobility - Live Webcast Series Preview
In this episode I am honored to welcome back Microsoft Vice President Brad Anderson to the show. We...
Author: Kevin Remde Date: 12/03/2014
Newest Azure (IaaS) Cost Estimator Tool is Available
It isn’t a brand-new tool, but it was updated to version 1.1 the other day, and definitely worth...
Author: Kevin Remde Date: 11/25/2014
Cross-Premises Connectivity with Site-to-Site VPN - Modernizing Your Infrastructure With Hybrid Cloud (Part 15)
Yesterday in our “Modernizing Your Infrastructure with Hybrid Cloud” series, Matt Hester described...
Author: Kevin Remde Date: 09/03/2014
TechNet Radio: (Part 3) Modernizing Your Infrastructure with Hybrid Cloud - Planning Hybrid Cloud Networking
Keith Mayer and I continue our series on “Modernizing Your Infrastructure with Hybrid Cloud”. In...
Author: Kevin Remde Date: 09/01/2014
TechNet Radio: (Part 2) Modernizing Your Infrastructure with Hybrid Cloud - Planning a Hybrid Cloud Storage Architecture
My friend Dan Stolts and yours truly continue our series on “Modernizing Your Infrastructure...
Author: Kevin Remde Date: 08/24/2014
Modernize your Infrastructure: The Series
The team of US DX IT Pro Technology Evangelists is doing another series of articles and TechNet...
Author: Kevin Remde Date: 08/19/2014
A Useful List of Windows 8 or 8.1 Resources for IT Pros
Thanks to Mary Jo Foley for tweeting about this. Mary Hutson is maintaining a very useful list of...
Author: Kevin Remde Date: 08/13/2014
Upcoming Microsoft Events: Do you want to stay informed?
Whether or not you choose to believe me, here are a two things that I know to be true: Microsoft...
Author: Kevin Remde Date: 06/03/2014
Kevin’s TechEd Diary – Day 4 (and beyond)
Dear TechEd Diary, This entry is several days over-due, but I hope you’ll understand. Towards the...
Author: Kevin Remde Date: 05/18/2014
Kevin’s TechEd Diary – Day 1
Here’s a quick post with some of my photos so far. Trying out a neat photo album feature by just...
Author: Kevin Remde Date: 05/12/2014
Kevin’s TechEd Diary – Day 0
Dear TechEd Diary, It’s the day before TechEd, which leads to my 3rd favorite week of the year (just...
Author: Kevin Remde Date: 05/11/2014
VMware Pro? Gear up on Hyper-V through Microsoft Early Experts
Are you a VMware Pro? In an increasingly multi-hypervisor world, more and more IT organizations are...
Author: Kevin Remde Date: 04/21/2014
Windows 8.1 for Business: Series Wrap-up and Resources
Well.. Now that you’ve had a chance to take in all the great news (//Build) and new updates from...
Author: Kevin Remde Date: 04/14/2014
Doesn’t Windows 8.1 require more hardware than Windows 7? (Series: Windows 8.1 for Business)
Logically, it makes sense. Forever it seems whenever any software company comes out with a new...
Author: Kevin Remde Date: 03/06/2014
Can I use Windows 8.1 without a touchscreen?
Even if you’ve never tried Windows 8 or Windows 8.1, you may have seen the advertisements showing...
Author: Kevin Remde Date: 03/06/2014
Do you really need a start menu?
One of the reasons some people weren’t comfortable with Windows 8 from the beginning was for the...
Author: Kevin Remde Date: 03/04/2014
Blog Series: Windows 8.1 for Business
Welcome to March! And not that I mean to alarm you, but welcome to the final month before support...
Author: Kevin Remde Date: 03/02/2014
The Case for the Offline Backup
Over the past several weeks, my teammates have all contributed to a very valuable series of blog...
Author: Kevin Remde Date: 02/25/2014
Hey IT Campers! It’s time for an Azure IT Camp!
Yes, in the U.S. we’re coming to a town near you with some free training and hands-on...
Author: Kevin Remde Date: 02/20/2014
Help Shape Microsoft’s Cloud Technologies: Join the IT Pro User Panel
IT Professionals: Have you ever been deep in the guts of a gnarly infrastructure deployment,...
Author: Kevin Remde Date: 02/20/2014
Learn Microsoft Virtualization in Your Own Easy-to-Build Virtual Lab
Many of you in the U.S. may be familiar with the Microsoft “IT Camps” that we host now and then,...
Author: Kevin Remde Date: 01/18/2014
TechNet Radio - Understanding BYOD: How to Make it Happen (Part 2)
Yuri Diogenes and I are back for Part 2 of our BYOD solution series. In today’s episode we explore...
Author: Kevin Remde Date: 01/02/2014
TechNet Radio - Understanding BYOD: What it Means for My Company (Part 1)
In this two part series with Sr. Knowledge Engineer Yuri Diogenes, we explore the world of “Bring...
Author: Kevin Remde Date: 01/02/2014
Welcome Back!
Happy Monday! “Monday? It’s Thursday, dummy.” Right. But it feels like Monday....
Author: Kevin Remde Date: 01/02/2014
TechNet Radio: (Part 3) Virtualization: Did You Know...
In Part 3 of our “Virtualization: Did you Know…” series, Jeff Woolsey and I conclude our Top 10 list...
Author: Kevin Remde Date: 12/12/2013