Datacenter Management update
All things datacenter management, blog by Glenn Walton, Infrastructure Architect with Microsoft Services
System Center Orchestrator enterprise deployment models
Orchestration across multiple data centers Recently I did some research for a customer...
Date: 07/09/2012
Powershell Tips
This was released recently: Microsoft Script Explorer for Windows PowerShell helps scripters find...
Date: 03/23/2012
The Orchestrator Integration Pack for Active Directory - A quick test drive
I had some free time this evening so I spent a little time building a runbook to test the new...
Date: 03/20/2012
SCVMM 2012 Maintenance Mode and Hyper-V Live Migration
I suppose I should start this post with the following disclaimer: this is not an official...
Date: 03/15/2012
Automating Service Template deployments in SCVMM 2012
One of the great new capabilities in System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) 2012 is the...
Date: 10/26/2011
Fabric management in SCVMM 2012
Recently I’ve had the experience of working with an F5 Networks Big IP 6800 load balancer, and been...
Date: 10/21/2011
FIM 2010 SCOM Management Pack released
This is something I wrote about in a previous posting, and I had received a few email queries about...
Date: 04/01/2011
Private cloud foundations: Service Catalog management
Introduction to Service Catalog These days we’re hearing so much about Cloud and (while there’s...
Date: 03/30/2011
Improving on the Offline GAL Sync solution
Managing FIM Sync Export Files So I had a chance to work on a few additional enhancements to the...
Date: 12/21/2010
Architecture for an Offline GAL Sync process using FIM 2010 (plus Opalis and Windows Azure!)
Offline “GAL Sync” using FIM 2010 For one of our enterprise customers we developed a...
Date: 10/07/2010
Security best practices for Azure - whitepaper available
A new whitepaper titled Security Best Practices for Developing Windows Azure Applications is now...
Date: 06/15/2010
Create your Server Core (Sysprep) image on Hyper-V and SCVMM
Recently i've been doing alot of "stuff" using Hyper-V and SCVMM in my home lab. When creating an...
Date: 06/08/2010
The Rise of Federation Part 2 - Critical Mass
In a previous blog post I wrote about something I called "The rise of federation". As we have...
Date: 12/21/2009
Manageability for Identity and Access Management solutions
With enterprise software solutions, whether in the IDA space or elsewhere, an interesting set of...
Date: 07/29/2009
The Rise of Federation Part 1 - "Trust Me"
Do We Have Trust? Back in 2005 a group of us in Microsoft Consulting Services (MCS) formed up in...
Date: 04/03/2009
About the Author
My background is this -- "I'm a PC and I've been a PC for most of my life". How's that for an...
Date: 10/17/2008
Do you PKI?
Over the past several years we have seen a steady rise in the importance of Public Key...
Date: 10/16/2008
First Technet Blog
This being my first blog entry on Technet I'm starting slow. My background is "I'm a PC and I've...
Date: 10/01/2008