System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager (SCCM) with Windows IntuneAmit Gatenyo
Microsoft has a history of providing rich IT-infrastructure solutions to help manage every aspect of enterprise operations. Microsoft’s people-centric solution consists of products and technologies that can help IT departments handle the influx of consumer-oriented technology and the work style expectations of users, thereby helping increase productivity and satisfaction for the people within their organizations.
Microsoft’s people-centric IT vision helps organizations enable and embrace the consumerization of IT by:
1. Enabling your end users by allowing users to work on the device(s) of their choice and providing consistent access to corporate resources from those devices.
2. Helping protect your data by protecting corporate information and managing risk.
3. Unifying your environment by delivering comprehensive application and device management from both your existing on-premises infrastructure, including System Center Configuration Manager, Windows Server, and Active Directory, as well as cloud-based services, including Windows Intune and Windows Azure.
Let’s discuss each of these areas in more detail.
Administering and configuring System Center Configuration Manager 2012 R2 SP1Unitek Eduation
-Configuring and deploying SCCM 2012 R2
-Data Quering using WQL and gathering collections
-Configuring Software and Hardware Inventory, asset intelligence and software metering.
System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager (SCCM) with Windows IntuneAmit Gatenyo
Microsoft has a history of providing rich IT-infrastructure solutions to help manage every aspect of enterprise operations. Microsoft’s people-centric solution consists of products and technologies that can help IT departments handle the influx of consumer-oriented technology and the work style expectations of users, thereby helping increase productivity and satisfaction for the people within their organizations.
Microsoft’s people-centric IT vision helps organizations enable and embrace the consumerization of IT by:
1. Enabling your end users by allowing users to work on the device(s) of their choice and providing consistent access to corporate resources from those devices.
2. Helping protect your data by protecting corporate information and managing risk.
3. Unifying your environment by delivering comprehensive application and device management from both your existing on-premises infrastructure, including System Center Configuration Manager, Windows Server, and Active Directory, as well as cloud-based services, including Windows Intune and Windows Azure.
Let’s discuss each of these areas in more detail.
Administering and configuring System Center Configuration Manager 2012 R2 SP1Unitek Eduation
-Configuring and deploying SCCM 2012 R2
-Data Quering using WQL and gathering collections
-Configuring Software and Hardware Inventory, asset intelligence and software metering.
Microsoft veröffentlichte vor kurzem das jüngste Update für System Center Configuration Manager - System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager. Viele der neuen Updates sind so gut, dass jeder das Upgrade so schnell wie möglich haben möchte. Wally Mead, Microsoft MVP, präsentierte in dieser Preäsentation die neuen Features von Configuration Manager 2012 R2.
How to Extend Microsoft SCOM to Monitor & Diagnose the Performance of Citrix,...eG Innovations
Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) is a leading platform for performance monitoring and management of Microsoft applications (such as Active Directory, Microsoft SQL Server, Exchange Server, IIS and SharePoint). However, SCOM does not have extensive capabilities to monitor non-Microsoft systems and applications (like Citrix, SAP, Oracle, Java, Sybase, etc.), nor does SCOM have virtualization-awareness for platforms like VMware vSphere, Citrix XenServer, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, AIX LPARs and Solaris LDOMs, or virtual desktops (VDI).
To extend the scope of Microsoft SCOM to manage these environments, enterprises have to look at multiple third party products that provide individual management packs, one for each specific non-Microsoft platform. This traditional "multi-pack approach" creates complexity and only provides a fragmented view of the IT infrastructure. This approach leads to slow problem isolation and diagnosis, and often results in poor user experience and loss of user productivity.
Join performance monitoring expert Srinivas Ramanathan (CEO, eG Innovations) to learn about eG Enterprise for SCOM, a new universal management pack that fills this gap and provides a single, integrated solution with SCOM to address the performance management needs of today's enterprises. This webinar presentation will show you how to:
• Monitor and troubleshoot the entire IT service infrastructure end to end from the SCOM console
• Monitor applications and platforms not natively supported by System Center Operations Manager
• Instantly diagnose and get actionable insight into IT service health and performance
• Provide automatic, rapid root cause diagnosis for even the most complex performance problems
• Receive proactive problem detection and alerting before users call
• Maximize the return on your investment in System Center Operations Manager
On August 24th and 25th, Chris Raschke presented on one of the most notable releases in Microsoft's new System Center 2012 lineup, Configuration Manager 2012.
Download the slide deck (PDF, 1 MB) for a sneak peek at Configuration Manager 2012, including major product themes, migration from 2007, and steps to prepare for 2012. Chris will also show you how SCCM 2012 can ease management and save you money!
For more information on this or other System Center topics, visit our blog at www.cdhtalkstech.com.
System Center Operations Manager is a big deal.
On April 24th, Erik Gilreath discussed SCOM and uncovered: why SCOM is so rarely installed, why that's a mistake, easy steps to install, what you should be doing with it, and what it can do that other people's products can't.
System Center Configuration Manager is in Gartner’s leader’s quadrant for client management tools.
Why?
View C/D/H’s slide deck, as we delve into SCCM's strengths and weaknesses, including how to take advantage of its feature set. And in this special, double session we'll also cover SCCM 2012's tight integration with Endpoint Protection anti-malware, and mobile device management (MDM).
We know MDM is a growing concern with the consumerization of IT and BYOD. Find out how System Center and other, third-party solutions can help!
And for more information on this or other System Center topics, visit our blog at www.cdhtalkstech.com.
Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager for Education Herman Arnedo
f you are looking at deploying Microsoft SCCM 2012 / Intune or want to make the most of your existing installation, System Professional will be running a 'Configuration Manager as a Service' 'hands-on' technical session at our London office in Shad Thames, SE1 on Weds 20th January.
This event is designed exclusively for technical staff in UK Education establishments (Schools and Colleges).
The session will be hosted by Herman Arnedo Mahr (Microsoft MCT), it runs from 9.30am - 1.30pm and will cover the following topics (including live demos);
Application Management
Packaging and Deployment
Operating System Deployment
Full Support of Windows 10
New Bare Metal / In Place Upgrade / Refresh / Replace
Offline Servicing OS Images
Patch Management
Microsoft Updates
3rd Party Software Updates
IT Asset Management
Hardware Inventory
Software Inventory
Asset Intelligence
Software Metering
Compliance Settings
Mobile Device Management with Microsoft Intune
Mobile Application Management
Protect data and devices
Retire data and devices
NB: Due to limited availability (6 x delegates per session only), these events are arranged for end user organisations only.
FAQs
What are my transport/parking options getting to the event?
London Bridge is the nearest tube / rail station. It is then a 15 mins walk to Maguire Street. Our offices are located next to The Design Museum in Shad Thames.
Do I have to bring my printed ticket to the event?
No - we will contact you beforehand to confirm your attendance on the day.
WHEN
Wednesday, 20 January 2016 from 09:30 to 13:30 (GMT) - Add to Calendar
WHERE
System Professional Ltd - The Clove Gallery . Maguire Street. London SE1 2NQ GB - View Map
Managing Mobility - Microsoft Enterprise Mobility - Accelerate, Protec and M...Herman Arnedo
Join Nimble Storage, Veeam, Microsoft and System Professional for a technology overview and briefing, panel Q&A session and buffet lunch. We will cover:
• Comprehensive application and device management - Use any device, anywhere
• The very latest in hybrid and all flash optimised data storage solutions
• High speed data availability for the modern data centre
• Enabling enterprise mobility while ensuring protection of corporate resources
• Industry leading storage array monitoring and proactive support
• How to leverage cloud technologies for secure off site backup
You will hear detailed technical presentations from Microsoft, Veeam and Nimble Storage on the day, and have the opportunity to ask questions and network with the vendors and other System Professional customers during the event
Accelerate
Learn how to enhance the performance of key applications with Nimble.
Manage
Comprehensive advice on device management with the latest Microsoft tools.
Protect
New features and cloud options for fast and secure backup with Veeam.
More info at: www.poweronplatforms.com
follow us for more Microsoft System Center info:
https://www.linkedin.com/company/poweronplatforms
Leading the way with Microsoft System Center deployments and training
Looking at Deploying Microsoft System Center 2012 ... This is a must see session for you. Typically Microsoft System Center has been well documented as a complex system to implement into your organisation, with a single component taking 2-3 months and the suite normally 18 months to deploy. This means a high overhead and protracted deployment process before your business can start to realise the benefits of the system.
No longer is this the case.
In this session you will get to see new methods that have been proven in Enterprise scale deployments, reducing this deployment time down to days!! This means with covering design and training your business can be up and running in a matter of weeks.
The Session is delivered by Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Steve Beaumont, who is PowerONPlatforms Technical / Product Director.
The session will cover:
System Center Overview
Traditional Deployment Styles
Automated Deployment Tools and Appliance Platforms
Real Life Customer Examples
Q&A
Microsoft veröffentlichte vor kurzem das jüngste Update für System Center Configuration Manager - System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager. Viele der neuen Updates sind so gut, dass jeder das Upgrade so schnell wie möglich haben möchte. Wally Mead, Microsoft MVP, präsentierte in dieser Preäsentation die neuen Features von Configuration Manager 2012 R2.
How to Extend Microsoft SCOM to Monitor & Diagnose the Performance of Citrix,...eG Innovations
Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) is a leading platform for performance monitoring and management of Microsoft applications (such as Active Directory, Microsoft SQL Server, Exchange Server, IIS and SharePoint). However, SCOM does not have extensive capabilities to monitor non-Microsoft systems and applications (like Citrix, SAP, Oracle, Java, Sybase, etc.), nor does SCOM have virtualization-awareness for platforms like VMware vSphere, Citrix XenServer, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, AIX LPARs and Solaris LDOMs, or virtual desktops (VDI).
To extend the scope of Microsoft SCOM to manage these environments, enterprises have to look at multiple third party products that provide individual management packs, one for each specific non-Microsoft platform. This traditional "multi-pack approach" creates complexity and only provides a fragmented view of the IT infrastructure. This approach leads to slow problem isolation and diagnosis, and often results in poor user experience and loss of user productivity.
Join performance monitoring expert Srinivas Ramanathan (CEO, eG Innovations) to learn about eG Enterprise for SCOM, a new universal management pack that fills this gap and provides a single, integrated solution with SCOM to address the performance management needs of today's enterprises. This webinar presentation will show you how to:
• Monitor and troubleshoot the entire IT service infrastructure end to end from the SCOM console
• Monitor applications and platforms not natively supported by System Center Operations Manager
• Instantly diagnose and get actionable insight into IT service health and performance
• Provide automatic, rapid root cause diagnosis for even the most complex performance problems
• Receive proactive problem detection and alerting before users call
• Maximize the return on your investment in System Center Operations Manager
On August 24th and 25th, Chris Raschke presented on one of the most notable releases in Microsoft's new System Center 2012 lineup, Configuration Manager 2012.
Download the slide deck (PDF, 1 MB) for a sneak peek at Configuration Manager 2012, including major product themes, migration from 2007, and steps to prepare for 2012. Chris will also show you how SCCM 2012 can ease management and save you money!
For more information on this or other System Center topics, visit our blog at www.cdhtalkstech.com.
System Center Operations Manager is a big deal.
On April 24th, Erik Gilreath discussed SCOM and uncovered: why SCOM is so rarely installed, why that's a mistake, easy steps to install, what you should be doing with it, and what it can do that other people's products can't.
System Center Configuration Manager is in Gartner’s leader’s quadrant for client management tools.
Why?
View C/D/H’s slide deck, as we delve into SCCM's strengths and weaknesses, including how to take advantage of its feature set. And in this special, double session we'll also cover SCCM 2012's tight integration with Endpoint Protection anti-malware, and mobile device management (MDM).
We know MDM is a growing concern with the consumerization of IT and BYOD. Find out how System Center and other, third-party solutions can help!
And for more information on this or other System Center topics, visit our blog at www.cdhtalkstech.com.
Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager for Education Herman Arnedo
f you are looking at deploying Microsoft SCCM 2012 / Intune or want to make the most of your existing installation, System Professional will be running a 'Configuration Manager as a Service' 'hands-on' technical session at our London office in Shad Thames, SE1 on Weds 20th January.
This event is designed exclusively for technical staff in UK Education establishments (Schools and Colleges).
The session will be hosted by Herman Arnedo Mahr (Microsoft MCT), it runs from 9.30am - 1.30pm and will cover the following topics (including live demos);
Application Management
Packaging and Deployment
Operating System Deployment
Full Support of Windows 10
New Bare Metal / In Place Upgrade / Refresh / Replace
Offline Servicing OS Images
Patch Management
Microsoft Updates
3rd Party Software Updates
IT Asset Management
Hardware Inventory
Software Inventory
Asset Intelligence
Software Metering
Compliance Settings
Mobile Device Management with Microsoft Intune
Mobile Application Management
Protect data and devices
Retire data and devices
NB: Due to limited availability (6 x delegates per session only), these events are arranged for end user organisations only.
FAQs
What are my transport/parking options getting to the event?
London Bridge is the nearest tube / rail station. It is then a 15 mins walk to Maguire Street. Our offices are located next to The Design Museum in Shad Thames.
Do I have to bring my printed ticket to the event?
No - we will contact you beforehand to confirm your attendance on the day.
WHEN
Wednesday, 20 January 2016 from 09:30 to 13:30 (GMT) - Add to Calendar
WHERE
System Professional Ltd - The Clove Gallery . Maguire Street. London SE1 2NQ GB - View Map
Managing Mobility - Microsoft Enterprise Mobility - Accelerate, Protec and M...Herman Arnedo
Join Nimble Storage, Veeam, Microsoft and System Professional for a technology overview and briefing, panel Q&A session and buffet lunch. We will cover:
• Comprehensive application and device management - Use any device, anywhere
• The very latest in hybrid and all flash optimised data storage solutions
• High speed data availability for the modern data centre
• Enabling enterprise mobility while ensuring protection of corporate resources
• Industry leading storage array monitoring and proactive support
• How to leverage cloud technologies for secure off site backup
You will hear detailed technical presentations from Microsoft, Veeam and Nimble Storage on the day, and have the opportunity to ask questions and network with the vendors and other System Professional customers during the event
Accelerate
Learn how to enhance the performance of key applications with Nimble.
Manage
Comprehensive advice on device management with the latest Microsoft tools.
Protect
New features and cloud options for fast and secure backup with Veeam.
More info at: www.poweronplatforms.com
follow us for more Microsoft System Center info:
https://www.linkedin.com/company/poweronplatforms
Leading the way with Microsoft System Center deployments and training
Looking at Deploying Microsoft System Center 2012 ... This is a must see session for you. Typically Microsoft System Center has been well documented as a complex system to implement into your organisation, with a single component taking 2-3 months and the suite normally 18 months to deploy. This means a high overhead and protracted deployment process before your business can start to realise the benefits of the system.
No longer is this the case.
In this session you will get to see new methods that have been proven in Enterprise scale deployments, reducing this deployment time down to days!! This means with covering design and training your business can be up and running in a matter of weeks.
The Session is delivered by Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Steve Beaumont, who is PowerONPlatforms Technical / Product Director.
The session will cover:
System Center Overview
Traditional Deployment Styles
Automated Deployment Tools and Appliance Platforms
Real Life Customer Examples
Q&A
OCSL - Microsoft System Center & Windows Server 2012 webinar March 2012 OCSL
Not sure of the full benefits of the System Center suite?
A first look at the new features announced for NEW Service Pack 1
Release for System Center 2012 and to learn how you could be managing your IT environment remotely.
Future Roadmap for Windows Server 2012 R2, System Center 2012 R2 and AzureDigicomp Academy AG
Ihr Referent: Markus Erlacher
Erfahren Sie alles zu den Neuigkeiten des kürzlich vorgestellten Windows Server 2012 R2 und System Center 2012 R2 Release. Was kommt neues zu Hyper-V, Storage, VDI, Powershell und allen System-Center-Produkten? Erfahren Sie es in dieser Präsentation.
The "One Monitor": Tranform MS SCOM into an End-to-End Monitoring & Diagnosis...eG Innovations
Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) is a leading monitoring platform for Microsoft applications. However, SCOM is limited in its support for non-Microsoft systems and applications (e.g., Citrix, SAP, Siebel, VMware, Oracle, Sybase, DB2, Java, etc.).
To extend SCOM for heterogeneous environments, multiple management packs are often deployed - one for each non-Microsoft platform. But the lack of integration between management packs leads to long problem identification and diagnosis cycles, resulting in poor user experience and loss in productivity.
This is where eG Enterprise Microsoft SCOM Universal Management Pack comes in. View this presentation to see how to escape siloed monitoring and leverage your SCOM environment to gain real-time insight into every factor that affects your end users’ experience, across your entire infrastructure.
Windows Server 2003 Migration - Presented by AtidanDavid J Rosenthal
End of support means:
No updates
37 critical updates were released in 2013 for Windows Server 2003/R2 under Extended Support. No updates will be developed or released after end of support.
No compliance
Lack of compliance with various standards and regulations can be devastating. This may include various regulatory and industry standards for which compliance can no longer be achieved. For example, lack of compliance with the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standards might mean companies such as Visa and MasterCard will no longer do business with you. Or, the new cost of doing business will include paying catastrophic penalties and astronomically high transaction fees.
No safe haven
Both virtualized and physical instances of Windows Server 2003 are vulnerable and would not pass a compliance audit. Microsoft Small Business Server (SBS) 2003 servers are also affected.
Staying put will cost more in the end. Maintenance costs for aging hardware will also increase. Added costs will be incurred for intrusion detection systems, more advanced firewalls, network segmentation, and so on—simply to isolate Windows Server 2003 servers.
Many applications will also cease to be supported, once the operating system they are running on is unsupported. This includes all Microsoft applications.
Now is the time to act
You must start planning migration now.
Servers may still be running Windows Server 2003/R2 for a number of reasons. You can use these reasons as a discussion point:
Perceived challenges of upgrading applications
Presence of custom and legacy applications
Budget and resource constraints
Webinar: Windows Server 2003 End of SupportZynstra
Your businesses doesn't need to suffer now support has ended for Windows Server 2003. View this on-demand webinar to learn how Hybrid IT could be the best option for you.
Move Enterprise Applications WS2003 to WS2008 (6.19.2012)AppZero Inc
Appzero at a glance
On boarding existing apps
Market context
Migration options
New in AppZero 5.2
Feature focus: moving apps to latest OS
Demo
Summary and Q&A
VMworld 2013: VMware and Puppet: How to Plan, Deploy & Manage Modern Applicat...VMworld
VMworld 2013
Nigel Kersten, Puppet Labs
Becky Smith, VMware
Learn more about VMworld and register at http://www.vmworld.com/index.jspa?src=socmed-vmworld-slideshare
Windows Server 2003 EOS : l'opportunité de repenser votre IT et mettre en pla...Microsoft Décideurs IT
Session Dell: Chacun ses raisons, chacun ses moyens, chacun sa migration. Alors que l’échéance du 14 juillet 2015 approche à grands pas pour les utilisateurs de Windows Server 2003, différents scénarios sont possibles pour passer sans encombre à un nouvel environnement. Qu’il s’agisse de répondre à des contraintes de compliance, à une fin de garantie ou encore à un enjeu de sécurité, ces projets de migration doivent en effet être abordé de façon précise car ils recèlent de nombreuses opportunités pour votre organisation : • Consolider son infrastructure informatique avec la virtualisation, • Initier ou poursuivre sa transformation vers le cloud, • Optimiser et moderniser ses applications métiers. Pour faire les bons choix, les équipes de Dell, qui ont accompagné plus de 500 entreprises dans leur migration depuis Windows XP l’année dernière, sont prêtes à vous apporter conseils et expertise dans ces nouveaux défis, et partager avec vous les premiers retours d'expérience.
Windows Server 2003 EOS : l'opportunité de repenser votre IT et mettre en pla...Microsoft Décideurs IT
Session Dell: Chacun ses raisons, chacun ses moyens, chacun sa migration. Alors que l’échéance du 14 juillet 2015 approche à grands pas pour les utilisateurs de Windows Server 2003, différents scénarios sont possibles pour passer sans encombre à un nouvel environnement. Qu’il s’agisse de répondre à des contraintes de compliance, à une fin de garantie ou encore à un enjeu de sécurité, ces projets de migration doivent en effet être abordé de façon précise car ils recèlent de nombreuses opportunités pour votre organisation : • Consolider son infrastructure informatique avec la virtualisation, • Initier ou poursuivre sa transformation vers le cloud, • Optimiser et moderniser ses applications métiers. Pour faire les bons choix, les équipes de Dell, qui ont accompagné plus de 500 entreprises dans leur migration depuis Windows XP l’année dernière, sont prêtes à vous apporter conseils et expertise dans ces nouveaux défis, et partager avec vous les premiers retours d'expérience.
Windows Server 2003 EOS : l'opportunité de repenser votre IT et mettre en pla...Microsoft Technet France
Session Dell: Chacun ses raisons, chacun ses moyens, chacun sa migration. Alors que l’échéance du 14 juillet 2015 approche à grands pas pour les utilisateurs de Windows Server 2003, différents scénarios sont possibles pour passer sans encombre à un nouvel environnement. Qu’il s’agisse de répondre à des contraintes de compliance, à une fin de garantie ou encore à un enjeu de sécurité, ces projets de migration doivent en effet être abordé de façon précise car ils recèlent de nombreuses opportunités pour votre organisation : • Consolider son infrastructure informatique avec la virtualisation, • Initier ou poursuivre sa transformation vers le cloud, • Optimiser et moderniser ses applications métiers. Pour faire les bons choix, les équipes de Dell, qui ont accompagné plus de 500 entreprises dans leur migration depuis Windows XP l’année dernière, sont prêtes à vous apporter conseils et expertise dans ces nouveaux défis, et partager avec vous les premiers retours d'expérience.
MGT220 - Virtualisation 360: Microsoft Virtualisation Strategy, Products, and...Louis Göhl
Learn about the Microsoft virtualisation strategy from the datacenter, to the desktop, to the cloud--and how it will help you cut costs and build value. In this session we review and demonstrate Microsoft virtualisation products and discuss how you can use them to solve today's IT issues (cost cutting, consolidation, business continuity, green IT), develop new computing solutions (VDI) and build a foundation for a more dynamic IT environment, including cloud computing. The session reviews all of the latest Microsoft virtualisation products, including Application Virtualization (App-V), Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization (MED-V), Windows Server 2008 with Hyper-V, and Microsoft Hyper-V Server, as well as the System Center management platform (including Virtual Machine Manager 2008). Learn about the innovative pricing and licensing structure that allows further savings to lower both acquisition and ongoing ownership costs. Learn how you can enable IT to become a cost cutting mechanism with Microsoft virtualisation and management technologies.
Microsoft Teams Phone
Stay connected with voice and video calling using Microsoft Teams Phone on your computer, tablet, mobile device, or desk phone.
Stay connected with a modern calling solution
Make and receive voice and video calls directly in Microsoft Teams. Stay in touch and get more done anywhere.
Calling in the flow of work
Work smarter with an all-in-one app that brings together calling, chat, meetings, and collaboration.
Business-critical calling
Use built-in, innovative, and AI-powered calling experiences and integrated partner software solutions.
Devices for any calling scenario
Benefit from a wide portfolio of devices for any business need and get flexible financing options.
Simple set up and management
Easily add, monitor, and manage voice and video calling from the Teams admin center.
Microsoft Teams Phone with Calling Plan includes:
Cloud-based phone system with advanced features including call transfer, multilevel auto attendants, and call queues.
A domestic calling plan with 3,000 minutes2 per user, per month within the US and Canada.
Call from anywhere, on any device through the Microsoft Teams app on desktop, mobile, web, and desk phones.
Around-the-clock customer support seven days a week, backed by Microsoft.
Teams Phone with Calling Plan requires a Microsoft 365 subscription that includes Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Teams
Built for hybrid work
Feel seen and heard no matter where you are and do your best work, your way.
Empower people and teams in a hybrid work world
Flexible work is here to stay, and embracing it is critical to your future success. The latest tools from Microsoft empower hybrid work environments and enable flexible work beyond organizational boundaries.
Whats New in Microsoft Teams Hybrid Meetings November 2021David J Rosenthal
Microsoft Teams
Built for hybrid work
Feel seen and heard no matter where you are and do your best work, your way.
Empower people and teams in a hybrid work world
Flexible work is here to stay, and embracing it is critical to your future success. The latest tools from Microsoft empower hybrid work environments and enable flexible work beyond organizational boundaries.
Microsoft Viva Connections
A curated, company-branded experience that brings together relevant news, conversations, and resources in the apps and devices you use every day. Viva Connections is included in all Microsoft 365 plans with SharePoint Online.
Create connection
Encourage meaningful connections across the organization in a hybrid workplace.
Drive alignment
Rally the entire organization around your vision, mission, and strategic priorities.
Empower contribution
Foster a culture of inclusion by empowering every employee to contribute ideas and share feedback.
Built on Microsoft 365
Deploy and manage Viva Connections through your existing infrastructure.
Protect your hybrid workforce across the attack chainDavid J Rosenthal
Security is one of the most important considerations for SMBs. In fact, 77% of SMBs in a recent survey consider security a top feature when purchasing new PCs.1
Last year alone, 67% of SMBs experienced a security breach that cost, on average, 3.3% of their revenue.1 That’s a big risk to both profitability and reputation, and it shows how critical strong security protections are for businesses.
The good news is that 69% of SMBs in a recent survey agreed that new Windows 10 Pro devices offered better security and data protection than older devices.1
Research shows that modern devices help business owners by preventing identity attacks, minimizing phishing, and reducing the risk of malware attacks. These are all common ways that bad actors steal business data, steal personal information, or hold our devices hostage in exchange for huge amounts of ransom money.
And with modern PCs, most security functions can happen in the cloud, without interrupting worker productivity.
Connections is a company branded employee app in Teams. It is a gateway to your employee experience, with personalized news, communications, tasks, people and resources. It provides a single curated employee destination that can be configured for specific roles like frontline workers. So, leaders can communicate and engage their employees, and employees can get easy access to the tools and resources they need from one place.. Connections builds on existing capabilities in Microsoft 365 like SharePoint and Yammer. And it pulls your communications together into a pre-configured app in Teams, designed for both desktop and mobile workers. It also acts as a launching pad to the other 3 Viva modules
Insights brings together Workplace Analytics, MyAnalytics and Glint into a unified insights app in Teams to provide data-driven and privacy-protected insights for individuals, managers and leaders. For example, employees get personalized insights, only they can see, that help them protect their time for breaks, focused work, and learning in order to promote improved productivity and wellbeing.
Topics focuses on knowledge and expertise. Topics applies AI to identify knowledge and experts and organize them into shared topics. AI automatically creates a topic page for each topic. It’s like Wikipedia for the enterprise where AI does the first draft. And these topic pages are surfaced as Topic Cards right in the flow of work in Office and Teams.
Finally, Learning allows employees to easily discover informal and formal learning in the flow of work. It aggregates content from LinkedIn Learning, Microsoft Learn and 3rd party training content and your own organizations content – all in one place. Along with providing aggregation and recommendations, it also allows managers to assign and track training, as well as report on training within and across teams.
Connections is a company branded employee app in Teams. It is a gateway to your employee experience, with personalized news, communications, tasks, people and resources. It provides a single curated employee destination that can be configured for specific roles like frontline workers. So, leaders can communicate and engage their employees, and employees can get easy access to the tools and resources they need from one place.. Connections builds on existing capabilities in Microsoft 365 like SharePoint and Yammer. And it pulls your communications together into a pre-configured app in Teams, designed for both desktop and mobile workers. It also acts as a launching pad to the other 3 Viva modules
Insights brings together Workplace Analytics, MyAnalytics and Glint into a unified insights app in Teams to provide data-driven and privacy-protected insights for individuals, managers and leaders. For example, employees get personalized insights, only they can see, that help them protect their time for breaks, focused work, and learning in order to promote improved productivity and wellbeing.
Topics focuses on knowledge and expertise. Topics applies AI to identify knowledge and experts and organize them into shared topics. AI automatically creates a topic page for each topic. It’s like Wikipedia for the enterprise where AI does the first draft. And these topic pages are surfaced as Topic Cards right in the flow of work in Office and Teams.
Finally, Learning allows employees to easily discover informal and formal learning in the flow of work. It aggregates content from LinkedIn Learning, Microsoft Learn and 3rd party training content and your own organizations content – all in one place. Along with providing aggregation and recommendations, it also allows managers to assign and track training, as well as report on training within and across teams.
Connections is a company branded employee app in Teams. It is a gateway to your employee experience, with personalized news, communications, tasks, people and resources. It provides a single curated employee destination that can be configured for specific roles like frontline workers. So, leaders can communicate and engage their employees, and employees can get easy access to the tools and resources they need from one place.. Connections builds on existing capabilities in Microsoft 365 like SharePoint and Yammer. And it pulls your communications together into a pre-configured app in Teams, designed for both desktop and mobile workers. It also acts as a launching pad to the other 3 Viva modules
Insights brings together Workplace Analytics, MyAnalytics and Glint into a unified insights app in Teams to provide data-driven and privacy-protected insights for individuals, managers and leaders. For example, employees get personalized insights, only they can see, that help them protect their time for breaks, focused work, and learning in order to promote improved productivity and wellbeing.
Topics focuses on knowledge and expertise. Topics applies AI to identify knowledge and experts and organize them into shared topics. AI automatically creates a topic page for each topic. It’s like Wikipedia for the enterprise where AI does the first draft. And these topic pages are surfaced as Topic Cards right in the flow of work in Office and Teams.
Finally, Learning allows employees to easily discover informal and formal learning in the flow of work. It aggregates content from LinkedIn Learning, Microsoft Learn and 3rd party training content and your own organizations content – all in one place. Along with providing aggregation and recommendations, it also allows managers to assign and track training, as well as report on training within and across teams.
Our end-to-end, integrated portfolio of cloud solutions across Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, and Azure is built on a foundation of security and privacy and helps every organization in every industry build resilience and improve the bottom line.
Azure Arc offers simplified management, faster app development, and consistent Azure services. Easily organize, govern, and secure Windows, Linux, SQL Server, and Kubernetes clusters across data centers, the edge, and multicloud environments right from Azure. Architect, design, and build cloud-native apps anywhere without sacrificing central visibility and control. Get Azure innovation and cloud benefits by deploying consistent Azure data, application, and machine learning services on any infrastructure.
Gain central visibility, operations, and compliance
Centrally manage a wide range of resources including Windows and Linux servers, SQL server, Kubernetes clusters, and Azure services.
Establish central visibility in the Azure portal and enable multi-environment search with Azure Resource Graph.
Meet governance and compliance standards for apps, infrastructure, and data with Azure Policy.
Delegate access and manage security policies for resources using role-based access control (RBAC) and Azure Lighthouse.
Organize and inventory assets through a variety of Azure scopes, such as management groups, subscriptions, resource groups, and tags.
Learn more about hybrid and multicloud management in the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure.
Windows Server 2022 is now in preview, the next release in our Long-Term Servicing Channel (LTSC), which will be generally available later this calendar year. It builds on Windows Server 2019, our fastest adopted Windows Server ever. This release includes advanced multi-layer security, hybrid capabilities with Azure, and a flexible platform to modernize applications with containers.
Windows 365 also creates a new hybrid personal computing category called Cloud PC, which uses both the power of the cloud and the capabilities of the device to provide a full, personalized Windows experience. This new Windows experience comes as organizations around the world grapple with the best ways to facilitate hybrid work models where employees are both on-site and distributed across the globe.
The Windows 365 Cloud PC experience is:
Versatile, familiar and productive by delivering users their personalized content, settings, and applications
Simple to deploy and manage from a single console, easy for anyone to use
Secure by design, leaving no data on the device
Available on any device and optimized for the best experience on a Windows PC at a predictable price
And lastly, it’s scalable and resilient to support changing workforce needs and new business scenarios
Designed for hybrid work
Productive
Improve employee productivity and focus with a simple, powerful user experience.
Collaborative
Discover a smarter way to collaborate with Microsoft Teams integration.
Secure
Protect data and secure access with a Zero Trust-ready operating system.
Consistent
Make adoption easy with app compatibility and cloud management.
Productive and collaborative
Reach your individual and team goals with built-in assistance features in Windows 11.
Simple, modern visuals
Snap assist
Personalized widgets
Intelligent video conferencing
Share a window while presenting
Meet now in Microsoft Teams
The Microsoft Teams call and chat function in the taskbar of Windows 11.
Meet now in Microsoft Teams
Connect with anyone on any platform with fast, easy-to-use calling and chat right from the taskbar.
The most secure Windows yet
Increase security with hardware-based integrity protection in Windows 11, from the silicon to the cloud.
Go passwordless
Get secure, multifactor single sign-on from devices to the cloud and apps with Windows Hello for Business.
Perfect for remote work
Ship employees a corporate-owned device secured by company policy and easily provisioned by them.
Microsoft Scheduler for M365 - Personal Digital AssistantDavid J Rosenthal
An assistant for everyone
Enjoy the speed of a virtual assistant augmented with human understanding.
Easy scheduling
Save time by handing off the time-consuming task of scheduling using your own words.
Works 24/7
Request a meeting at any time. Cortana works around the clock even when you are offline or busy.
You control your data
Scheduler works within your Microsoft 365 compliance boundaries and keeps the data inside your organization. You control your data.
Smart technology with human assistance
Increased reliability that will always complete your request by using human assistance to resolve ambiguities and context.
Grows with your needs
Available 24/7 and capable of handling thousands of requests at the same time.
What is New in Teams Meetings and Meeting Rooms July 2021David J Rosenthal
Chat
Share your opinion, and your personality. Send gifs, stickers, and emojis in a group chat or in one-to-one messages.
Instant messaging
Meet
Instantly go from group chat to video conference with the touch of a button. Teams of 2 or 10,000 can meet in one place, no matter how many places they’re in.
Online meetings
Call
Make and receive calls with internal and external groups using Microsoft Teams Phone, Operator Connect, or Direct Routing.
Voice calling
Collaborate
Easily find, share, and edit files in real time using familiar apps like Word, PowerPoint, and Excel in Teams.
Video conferencing
Make meetings more personal and increase your productivity by collaborating in real time.
Screen sharing
Keep everyone on the same page by sharing your screen so they can see the same content.
Custom backgrounds
Create the perfect virtual setting by choosing, uploading, or blurring your background.
Together mode
Digitally sit in a shared background, making it feel like you’re in the same room with everyone else.1
File sharing
Co-author files in real time. Securely store, access, share, and collaborate on files from anywhere.
Apps and workflows
Streamline tasks and critical business processes by integrating apps and workflows.
Market availability
Available in 53 languages and 181 markets. Connect across Windows, Mac, iOS, and Android.
Privacy and security
Meet regulatory, legal, and organizational needs with industry-leading compliance offerings.
The Java ecosystem is very broad, with different technologies including Java SE, Java EE/Jakarta EE, Spring, numerous application servers, and other frameworks. Wherever you are in Java, Azure supports your workload and process with an abundance of choice – from IaaS to fully managed services. You can run any application architecture, from monoliths, to containerized monoliths, all the way to completely microservices based apps.
We see three broad patterns for running Java applications in the cloud, depending on how much control or productivity you need.
The first is lift and shift with Virtual Machines:
Virtual machines provide the most flexibility, control and visibility while moving to the cloud, especially for initial lift and shift of Java workloads. Azure provides a variety of Java focused VM images and solutions templates in the Azure Marketplace to get you up and running quickly.
The second is modernization using containers:
Containers provide portability, flexibility, scalability, manageability, repeatability, and predictability.
Azure provides best of breed support for Docker and Kubernetes, especially through the Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and Azure Red Hat OpenShift.
Finally, Azure has the most managed hosting options for Java applications of any major cloud platform with fully managed PaaS for Spring, Tomcat, and JBoss EAP:
Managed services offer ease-of-use, ease-of-management, productivity, and lower total cost of ownership.
You can focus on building your applications, not managing infrastructure.
All of this is supported by managed databases and DevOps tooling:
Use fully managed SQL and NoSQL databases, including PostgreSQL, MySQL, Cosmos DB, and SQL.
Keep using the tools you love, with plugins for IntelliJ and Eclipse, integrations with a variety of DevOps tools like Maven, Gradle, Jenkins, and GitHub.
Get comprehensive protection across all your platforms and clouds
Protect your organization from threats across devices, identities, apps, data and clouds. Get unmatched visibility into your multiplatform environment that unifies Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) and Extended Detection and Response (XDR). Simplify your security stack with Azure Sentinel and Microsoft Defender.
Protect your business with a universal identity platform
The Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) enterprise identity service provides single sign-on and multi-factor authentication to help protect your users from 99.9 percent of cybersecurity attacks.
Gartner named Microsoft a leader in Magic Quadrant 2020 for Access Management
Single sign-on simplifies access to your apps from anywhere
Conditional Access and multi-factor authentication help protect and govern access
A single identity platform lets you engage with internal and external users more securely
Developer tools make it easy to integrate identity into your apps and services
Connect your workforce
Whether people are on-site or remote, give them seamless access to all their apps so they can stay productive from anywhere. Automate workflows for user lifecycle and provisioning. Save time and resources with self-service management.
Choose from thousands of SaaS apps
Simplify single sign-on. Azure AD supports thousands of pre-integrated software as a service (SaaS) applications.
Protect and govern access
Safeguard user credentials by enforcing strong authentication and conditional access policies. Efficiently manage your identities by ensuring that the right people have the right access to the right resources.
Engage with your customers and partners
Secure and manage customers and partners beyond your organizational boundaries, with one identity solution. Customize user journeys and simplify authentication with social identity and more.
Integrate identity into your apps
Accelerate adoption of your application in the enterprise by supporting single sign-on and user provisioning. Reduce sign-in friction and automate the creation, removal, and maintenance of user accounts.
The Nintex Platform is Easy-to-use, Powerful and Complete to manage, automate and optimize your processes.
Manage processes by discovering, mapping and sharing across process participants and owners.
This often leads to opportunities for process automation. Many processes involve the capture of information and our forms capability provides an ease-to-use, responsive design experience, often eliminating paper forms. With advanced workflow capabilities you can quickly design powerful applications using advanced logic and rules to eliminate manual work. Nintex RPA drives speed by automating those mundane, repetitive tasks. Since many processes involve the need to generate a document we have a DocGen offering to automatically create documents from both unstructured and structured data sources. With Nintex Sign powered by Adobe Sign you can easily integrate eSign into your signature-based workflows for total automation.
Once you have been managing and automating processes, imagine the amount of information available on how your business is operating. Leveraging Nintex Analytics you are able to get process intelligence allowing you to monitor, analyze and improve your business.
With the Nintex platform our customers and partners value our extensibility, using pre-built connecters as well as leveraging our Xtensions to build powerful bi-directional connectors to orchestrate processes across any systems in your organization.
Combining the power of Nintex with our customer success and vast partner network it is easy to see why our customers are so successful.
Microsoft Power BI is a unified self-service and enterprise business intelligence platform that combines an intuitive user experience with intelligent data visualizations to provide greater depth of data insight. Reports can be shared within Microsoft tools like Teams, SharePoint, PowerPoint, or within other productivity products.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
"Impact of front-end architecture on development cost", Viktor TurskyiFwdays
I have heard many times that architecture is not important for the front-end. Also, many times I have seen how developers implement features on the front-end just following the standard rules for a framework and think that this is enough to successfully launch the project, and then the project fails. How to prevent this and what approach to choose? I have launched dozens of complex projects and during the talk we will analyze which approaches have worked for me and which have not.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
2. 3
Agenda
System Center: Unified management for
the Cloud OS
System Center momentum
Customer needs and opportunities
System Center 2012 R2 solution and
capability overview
Why choose System Center 2012 R2
Next steps
Appendix
9. Enterprise-
class
Simple and
cost-effective
Application
focused
Requirement to
provide scalable and
reliable services.
Always-on
expectations of the
business.
IT budget pressure
even with increasing
expectations.
Complex IT
environments that are
tough to manage.
Volume of Web and
cloud applications
continues to rise.
Evolution of
applications to hybrid
cloud deployment
models.
Customer challenges and opportunities
10. System Center
Unified management for the Cloud OS
App Controller
Service
Manager
Service model
Orchestrator
Service
Manager
Service
admin
Customers
Microsoft
Customer
Service
Provider
12. Infrastructure
provisioning
Enterprise-class multi-
tenant infrastructure for
hybrid environments
System Center capabilities
Application
performance
monitoring
Deep insight into
application health
Automation
and self-service
Application-owner
agility while IT
retains control
IT service
management
Flexible service delivery
Infrastructure
monitoring
Comprehensive
monitoring
of physical, virtual, and
cloud infrastructure
System Center 2012 R2 solution overview
13. Utilize a single tool for
on-premises and
cloud provisioning
Infrastructure provisioning
Effectively manage
virtual environments
at-scale
Reduce infrastructure
complexity
Deliver efficient
infrastructure services
across customer base
IT demands
System Center 2012 R2 delivers
Enterprise-class
virtualization management
with robust Linux support
Simplified provisioning
& migration
Multi-tenant
cloud infrastructure
Extend familiar
management to
Windows Azure
Enterprise-
class multi-
tenant
infrastructure
for hybrid
environments
15. Complete virtualization-management
• VMM support for automated Hyper-V cluster
upgrades without downtime.
• Snapshot running VM without downtime.
Flexible storage provisioning & management
• Windows Server file-based storage and Storage
Spaces, including bare metal file server cluster
provisioning.
• VM connectivity into fibre-channel SAN storage.
Robust Linux in-guest support
• Greater VM density per host with Dynamic
Memory support.
• File-level VM backups, restore full VMs.
Generation 2 VM support
Enterprise-class management, open source
support
16. Innovation: Support for Gen-2 virtual machines
in Hyper-V
Ease of Management & Operations
• PXE boot from Optimized vNIC.
• Hot-Add CD/DVD Drive.
Dynamic Storage
• VMs have UEFI firmware with support for
GPT partitioned OS boot disks >2TB.
• Faster Boot from Virtual SCSI with Online.
Resize & increased performance.
Security
• Removal of emulated devices reduces
attack surface.
• VM UEFI firmware supports Secure Boot.
VMs built on optimized,
software-based devices
17. Simplified infrastructure service delivery
• In-box service templates and runbooks
for System Center components.
• Integration of existing investments using
web-based interfaces to System Center
capabilities.
• Management scaled across multiple System
Center instances or “stamps”.
• Extensible service management automation.
• Tenant-level resource metering for capacity
planning and usage analytics.
Multi-tenant cloud infrastructure
Tenant admin/users
APIs
18. CMDB
Ticketing
Billing
Management
Systems
VIRTUAL MACHINE
CLOUDS
12
SQL SERVER
9
PLANS
12
WEBSITE CLOUD
12
MYSQL SERVERS
0
NOTIFICATIONS
0
USER ACCOUNTS
4
AUTOMATION
8
ALL
ITEMS
Integration
Workflow
automation
Web-based
authoring
Enable efficient infrastructure
delivery and operations
• Web-based runbook
authoring.
• Scalable, multi-tenant-aware
automation engine built on
Windows PowerShell.
• Import existing Windows
PowerShell scripts and
workflows.
• Integration with existing or
third-party systems.
Multi-tenant cloud infrastructure:
service management automation
19. • Granular metering of resource usage by
tenant, including CPU, memory, and
storage.
• Enable business and operational insight
with tenant-level analytics.
• Data warehousing and reporting,
including allocation, utilization, and
license compliance views.
• Integration with Cloud Cruiser cost
analytics solution for chargeback.
Multi-tenant cloud infrastructure:
capacity planning and usage analytics
20. Open, extensible, and standards-based
solution delivers flexibility, automation,
and control
• At-scale management of virtual networks
on shared physical networks.
• Multi-tenant edge gateway for seamless,
highly-available physical and virtual
network connectivity.
• Easy remote access into virtualized service
provider network for tenants.
• OMI-based plug-in for automated TOR
switch configuration.
• Partner ecosystem support.
Multi-tenant cloud infrastructure:
virtual networks
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21. VM management
(e.g. start, stop)
Migrate VM: On-premises to
Windows Azure
Migrate VM: Windows
Azure to on-premises
Extend familiar System Center to manage
Windows Azure virtual machines
22. IT demands
System Center 2012 R2 delivers
Monitor diverse
environments
Assure physical, virtual,
and cloud infrastructure
health
Ensure reliable workload
configurations
Infrastructure monitoring
Best-of-breed Windows
monitoring, robust cross-
platform support
Network monitoring and
cloud infrastructure health
Best-practice workload
configuration
Comprehensive
monitoring of
physical, virtual,
and cloud
infrastructure
24. Automation and self-service
IT demands
System Center 2012 R2 delivers
Empower app owners while
retaining control
Common management tools
for on-premises and cloud
Dynamically expand capacity
to support
app SLA
Self-service app
provisioning, incl. multitenant
environments
Unified management views &
artifacts b/w Windows Server
& Azure
Scale application tiers via
automation & integration
Application agility
while IT retains
control
27. Drive agility with SharePoint service templates
Daniele Grandini,
Executive, Progel
IT
“Each workload in our R&D
environment will have its
own template, so when we
need to deploy, for example,
a SharePoint test environ-
ment, the virtual machine
will be ready to go with all
the tiers and resources
needed.”
28. Scalable multi-VM tenant services for Windows Server
with Windows Azure-consistent user experience
29. Unified management view across clouds
Flexible delegation with single sign-on
Self-service visibility for application services
across on-premises, service provider, and
Windows Azure
Easy VM and workload portability from
on-premises to Windows Azure
(including SharePoint and SQL)
30. Application performance monitoring
IT demands
System Center 2012 R2 delivers
Assure Line of Business
(LOB)
application SLA
Enable rapid
application lifecycle
Assure great end-user
experiences and Microsoft
workload health
Deep application
insight
Integrated dev-ops that spans
people, process
and systems
Cloud-integrated insight
in familiar monitoring console
Deep insight
into application
health
33. Java Tomcat app server support
(v5.5, v6 and v7).
Windows and RHEL/SUSE Linux
guest OS support.
Multiple instrumented Java
frameworks, including web
services and database
connectors.
Code-level traceability with
performance and exception
metrics.
Deep application insight for Java Applications
36. Case study—Deep application insight
Murat
Demirkiran,
DenizBank,
Turkey
“With System Center 2012,
we have deeper insight into
application performance,
which means that we can
load-balance cloud resources
to deliver maximum
performance and avert
application failures.”
37. Case study—DevOps productivity
Ashley Vail,
Director of
Engineering,
India
Development
“By using System Center
2012 SP1, our developers are
far more effective and can
get more done. This is
improving efficiency and
productivity by
approximately 40 percent.”
38. Overcoming the DevOps disconnect
• Comprehensive monitoring
• Deep application
diagnostics
• Quick isolation
of root cause with
line-of-code level insight
• Process and tool-driven
collaboration
“It’s great for us that Visual
Studio 2012 Lab Manager
leverages Systems Center 2012
Virtual Machine Manager,
which is a full private cloud
management solution.
Deployment of applications
such as SQL Server are now
fully automated through
application templates.”
—Joe Chiu, Software Development Engineer,
Xbox Live, Microsoft Corporation
(in the context of Xbox Live being able to
reduce release cycles from months to days)
39. IT service management
IT demands
System Center 2012 R2 delivers
Enable easy publishing and
consumption of
IT services
Integrate people, process and
knowledge
Efficient resource utilization
and SLA tracking
Self-service requests for
private cloud capacity
Industry-standard service
management and process
workflows
Business and
operational insight
Flexible service
delivery
41. Business and operational insight with chargeback
$ Virtual Machine/day
$ Cloud Membership/day
$ Virtual Machine CPU Core/day
$ Virtual Machine Memory GB/day
$ Virtual Machine Storage GB/day
Price Sheet
42. Best-in-class performance and scale for
Microsoft workloads.
Multi-tenant virtual networking, including
edge gateway provisioning to bridge
physical and virtual networks.
Support for VM connectivity into virtual
Fiber Channel SAN.
Multi-hypervisor support, including Hyper-
V, VMware, and Citrix.
Robust open source support: Dynamic
Memory for Linux, Unix/ Linux monitoring
and configuration.
Unified monitoring for on-premises and
Windows Azure infrastructure.
In-box service templates and runbooks for
System Center components.
Web-based interfaces to System Center
capabilities.
Standards-based top-of-rack network switch
configuration.
Windows Server file-based storage and
Storage Spaces support.
Extensible service management automation
and integration.
Workload protection and recovery across
datacenters with Windows Azure.
Hyper-V Recovery Manager.
Easy VM portability and management
between Windows Server and Windows
Azure.
Deep .NET and Java application monitoring
and diagnostics.
Standardized app provisioning with service
templates.
Integrated dev-ops with System Center-
Visual Studio connector.
Cloud-integrated app and workload insight
with Global Service Monitor and System
Center Advisor.
Management Packs with extensive built-in
knowledge for Microsoft Exchange, SQL,
SharePoint.
Why choose System Center 2012 R2
Enterprise-
class
Simple and
cost-effective
Application
focused
43. Download and evaluate System Center 2012 R2.
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Refer to additional System Center 2012 R2 resources.
System Center marketplace.
http://systemcenter.pinpoint.microsoft.com
Check out our blogs.
http://blogs.technet.com/server-cloud
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46. System Center 2012 R2: Unified Management
for the Cloud OS
Application
focused
1. Multi-hypervisor clouds
2. Multi-tenant virtual networks
3. SAN and file-based storage
management
4. Robust Linux support
5. Process automation & integration
6. APM for .NET and Java apps
7. Cloud-integrated monitoring &
dev-ops
8. VM portability across clouds
9. Service Provider Foundation
10. Service templates
Enterprise-class Simple and cost-effective