This document provides an overview of Perficient, a leading IT consulting firm, and their Microsoft practice. Perficient was founded in 1997 and has over 2,000 employees located across North America. They help clients implement business-driven technology solutions using Microsoft platforms. The presentation discusses Windows Azure, including running virtual machines and web sites in the cloud. It also covers how to connect on-premises environments to the cloud and manage hybrid solutions using tools like Windows Azure PowerShell.
Best Practices for a Successful SharePoint Migration or Upgrade to the CloudPerficient, Inc.
Whether you are a chief information officer or an IT executive, this slideshare will provide you with the key details needed for a successful upgrade to SharePoint Online in Office 365. We will share:
Top reasons to move from on-premises to SharePoint Online
Challenges and technical considerations when migrating to the cloud
Options for migrating to Office 365/SharePoint Online
Best practices for secure cloud computing with SharePoint Online
Planning and Preparing for Windows Server 2003 End-of-LifePerficient, Inc.
Windows Server 2003 reaches “end-of-life” in mid-2015, and Microsoft will no longer provide patches or security updates for the operating system. Given the rate at which new security threats are introduced, it is extremely dangerous to run production services on a platform that has reached end of support.
If you are still running Windows Server 2003, you aren’t alone. For organizations considering a migration, now is the time to start a thorough analysis of each Windows Server 2003 system, including the native and third-party software workloads.
Experts from Perficient, AppZero and Cisco discussed the options and paths available when moving off Windows Server 2003, including:
-Virtualization Hyper-V on Cisco UCS
-Transitioning to a cloud model – private, public and hybrid
-What AppZero can do for your migrations
-Capabilities and benefits of Windows Server 2012
The most important thing is to get started now! Without proper analysis and migration planning, IT departments will find themselves lacking the time to move mission-critical applications to a supported operating system.
As organizations realize the cost savings and scalability benefits of hybrid solutions, the focus turns to implementing your analytic platforms in these new environments. On-premises vs. cloud is the major decision point, but what about ‘traditional’ disk-based storage and computing vs. in-memory?
Join Perficient’s director of Microsoft business intelligence, Duane Schafer, for a discussion on the business benefits of these topics, and discover how SQL Server 2014 and Microsoft Azure can be leveraged to build the modern data warehouse.
Transforming Business in a Digital Era with Big Data and MicrosoftPerficient, Inc.
The socially integrated world, the rise of mobile, the Internet of Things - this explosion of data can be directed and used, rather than simply managed. That's why Big Data and advanced analytics are key components of most digital transformation strategies.
In the last year, Microsoft has made key moves to extend its data platform into this realm. Stalwart platforms like SQL Server and Excel join up with new PaaS offerings to make up a dynamic and powerful Big Data/advanced analytics ecosystem.
In this webinar, our experts covered:
-Why you should include Big Data and advanced analytics in your digital transformation strategy
-Challenges facing digital transformation initiatives
-What options the Microsoft toolset offers for Big Data (Hadoop) and advanced analytics
-How to leverage products and services you already own for your digital transformation
Credera was proud to be a Platinum Sponsor of the Share Cloud Dallas 2012.
Jesus Salazar, a Principal with Credera and member of Microsoft’s SharePoint Development Advisory Council, presented on the topic of Office 365 Migration Planning.
What You Need to Know Before Upgrading to SharePoint 2013Perficient, Inc.
Ready to join the SharePoint 2013 revolution but not sure what is involved? Are you in the middle of a migration that is behind schedule? This presentation walks you through general guidelines and common pitfalls to avoid so your transition to SharePoint 2013 will be successful.
Speaker Suzanne George discusses tips and tricks to ensure a successful SharePoint 2013 implementation and describe common mistakes that organizations make during the transition.
Whether you are in the middle of migrating to SharePoint 2013 or you are just thinking about implementation, this session will give you tools that will help you successfully deploy SharePoint within your organization.
Presenter Suzanne George, MCTS, is a Senior Technical Architect a Perficient. She has developed, administered, and architected website applications since 1995 and has worked with top 100 companies such as Netscape, AOL, Sun Microsystems, and Verio. Her experience includes custom applications and SharePoint integration with applications such as ESRI, Deltek Accounting Software, and SAP. Suzanne sits on the MSL IT Manager Advisory Council, was a contributing author for SharePoint 2010 Administrators and presents at SharePoint Saturdays around the country.
Best Practices for a Successful SharePoint Migration or Upgrade to the CloudPerficient, Inc.
Whether you are a chief information officer or an IT executive, this slideshare will provide you with the key details needed for a successful upgrade to SharePoint Online in Office 365. We will share:
Top reasons to move from on-premises to SharePoint Online
Challenges and technical considerations when migrating to the cloud
Options for migrating to Office 365/SharePoint Online
Best practices for secure cloud computing with SharePoint Online
Planning and Preparing for Windows Server 2003 End-of-LifePerficient, Inc.
Windows Server 2003 reaches “end-of-life” in mid-2015, and Microsoft will no longer provide patches or security updates for the operating system. Given the rate at which new security threats are introduced, it is extremely dangerous to run production services on a platform that has reached end of support.
If you are still running Windows Server 2003, you aren’t alone. For organizations considering a migration, now is the time to start a thorough analysis of each Windows Server 2003 system, including the native and third-party software workloads.
Experts from Perficient, AppZero and Cisco discussed the options and paths available when moving off Windows Server 2003, including:
-Virtualization Hyper-V on Cisco UCS
-Transitioning to a cloud model – private, public and hybrid
-What AppZero can do for your migrations
-Capabilities and benefits of Windows Server 2012
The most important thing is to get started now! Without proper analysis and migration planning, IT departments will find themselves lacking the time to move mission-critical applications to a supported operating system.
As organizations realize the cost savings and scalability benefits of hybrid solutions, the focus turns to implementing your analytic platforms in these new environments. On-premises vs. cloud is the major decision point, but what about ‘traditional’ disk-based storage and computing vs. in-memory?
Join Perficient’s director of Microsoft business intelligence, Duane Schafer, for a discussion on the business benefits of these topics, and discover how SQL Server 2014 and Microsoft Azure can be leveraged to build the modern data warehouse.
Transforming Business in a Digital Era with Big Data and MicrosoftPerficient, Inc.
The socially integrated world, the rise of mobile, the Internet of Things - this explosion of data can be directed and used, rather than simply managed. That's why Big Data and advanced analytics are key components of most digital transformation strategies.
In the last year, Microsoft has made key moves to extend its data platform into this realm. Stalwart platforms like SQL Server and Excel join up with new PaaS offerings to make up a dynamic and powerful Big Data/advanced analytics ecosystem.
In this webinar, our experts covered:
-Why you should include Big Data and advanced analytics in your digital transformation strategy
-Challenges facing digital transformation initiatives
-What options the Microsoft toolset offers for Big Data (Hadoop) and advanced analytics
-How to leverage products and services you already own for your digital transformation
Credera was proud to be a Platinum Sponsor of the Share Cloud Dallas 2012.
Jesus Salazar, a Principal with Credera and member of Microsoft’s SharePoint Development Advisory Council, presented on the topic of Office 365 Migration Planning.
What You Need to Know Before Upgrading to SharePoint 2013Perficient, Inc.
Ready to join the SharePoint 2013 revolution but not sure what is involved? Are you in the middle of a migration that is behind schedule? This presentation walks you through general guidelines and common pitfalls to avoid so your transition to SharePoint 2013 will be successful.
Speaker Suzanne George discusses tips and tricks to ensure a successful SharePoint 2013 implementation and describe common mistakes that organizations make during the transition.
Whether you are in the middle of migrating to SharePoint 2013 or you are just thinking about implementation, this session will give you tools that will help you successfully deploy SharePoint within your organization.
Presenter Suzanne George, MCTS, is a Senior Technical Architect a Perficient. She has developed, administered, and architected website applications since 1995 and has worked with top 100 companies such as Netscape, AOL, Sun Microsystems, and Verio. Her experience includes custom applications and SharePoint integration with applications such as ESRI, Deltek Accounting Software, and SAP. Suzanne sits on the MSL IT Manager Advisory Council, was a contributing author for SharePoint 2010 Administrators and presents at SharePoint Saturdays around the country.
Making the Most of Power BI with SQL Server 2014 and AzurePerficient, Inc.
Power BI is a compelling new cloud-based BI offering for Office 365 SharePoint Online users, with advanced collaborative capabilities including mobile cross-platform reporting, on-the-fly dashboarding and natural language querying.
When you combine Power BI’s self-service business intelligence with SQL Server 2014 and Microsoft Azure, you can host your entire BI solution in the cloud while providing greater access to business analytics than ever before.
Join Perficient's Microsoft business intelligence expert Andrew Tegethoff to learn how to host your analytics and reporting solution in the cloud with Power BI and SQL Server 2014.
Case study: Turbo charging the customer experience with MDM (Kiva Group)lJean-Michel Franco
Gartner predicts that Customer Relationship Management leaders who do not implement Master Data Management (MDM) will derive erroneous results that will annoy customers, resulting in 25% lower potential revenue gains. This was one of the key drivers for Kiva Group, a leading provider of customer interaction and experience management software for financial institutions.
In this presentation, learn how Kiva Group has embedded MDM into its KIVA Respect™ driving personalized and compelling customer experiences across multiple channels :
- Enriches the customer database with external content and propagating it across branches, call center and Web, mobile and Web apps, IVRs and ATMs
- Reconciles data across channels, customer touch points and marketing, sales and services activities
- Handles data stewardship to sanction customer data and orchestrate manual resolution of data inconsistencies when needed
resentation of use cases of Master Data Management for Customer Data. It presents the business drivers and how Talend platform for MDM can adress them.
Key advice for government agencies moving into the Microsoft Office 365 cloud.
Watch the full webinar here: http://www.aventissystems.com/Articles.asp?ID=393
Microsoft Teams - The Hub for Teamwork in Office 365David J Rosenthal
Microsoft Teams delivers on four core promises to create a digital workspace for high performing teams.
First, Microsoft Teams is the hub for teamwork within Office 365. Microsoft Teams solves for the collaboration and communication needs of a diverse workforce. Since preview we have extended the capabilities to include chat, voice and video.
When it comes to chat, Microsoft Teams is fast, fluid, low-overhead, and instantly familiar, making it easier than ever to share information and accelerate decision making.
Since our preview moment, Microsoft Teams has evolved into a complete meetings experience that now includes chat, voice and video. Microsoft Teams will modernize your meetings experience. Before a meeting team members can review conversations, during a meeting teams can share content and hold the meeting using a diverse array of communication mediums including audio conferencing and video. After a meeting team members can review history, access recordings and much more. Microsoft Teams supports private and group meeting capabilities, scheduling capabilities and free/busy calendar availability for team members.
The Office apps and services that people use every day - Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, SharePoint, the new Planner task management app, Stream video portal, even Power BI - are all built-in, so people have the information and tools they need right within the context of Microsoft Teams.
Because every group is unique, team members can tailor their workspace to include apps and services for the team and organization. Microsoft Teams allows the ability to customize their workspace with tabs, connectors and bots. For our developer community, we have also created an extensible platform, to enable building apps with a rich set of capabilities to enable higher-performing teams.
Microsoft Teams comes with the enterprise grade security and compliance that you would come to expect from Office 365.
Is your organization contemplating a migration to Office 365? Whether you are planning to move SharePoint or Exchange or whether you are planning to implement OneDrive for Business, Skype for Business, or Power BI, this session will cover many aspects of how to plan for a migration to Office 365.
Specifically, Doug Hemminger will walk us through how to:
• Inventory your current environment and make key deployment decisions about what to migrate and how to migrate it.
• Fix potential deployment blockers including how to cleanup active directory and how to get your network ready for Office 365.
• Set up Office 365 services to work for your organization, including enabling and disabling the appropriate features and services.
• Roll out Office 365 out to your users including assigning the appropriate licenses and communicating key concepts
This session will be a mix of presentation and demonstration. By the end of the session, you should have a good idea of how to plan your migration to Office 365.
SharePoint Governance: Impacts of Moving to the CloudChristian Buckley
Webinar presented by myself (@buckleyplanet) and Antonio Maio (@AntonioMaio2) from TITUS on the impacts to governance strategy as organizations begin planning to expand their SharePoint footprint to the cloud -- whether moving entirely to the cloud, or in a hybrid model. Includes comparisons of on prem and online advantages and risks, and a quiz to help organizations plan accordingly.
Webinar presented on Oct 21st (US) and Oct 23rd (EMEA), 2014 by Christian Buckley, Managing Director at GTconsult and Steve Marsh, Director of Product Marketing at Metalogix.
Don't Leave Data Behind: Integration Strategies for On-premise and Cloud Solu...Perficient, Inc.
As the SaaS application market matures, IT organizations are adopting a cloud integration strategy around hybrid environments that focuses on combining cloud and on-premise solutions to house data, augment internal capacity and increase business agility.
Join Perficient and Informatica for a webinar focusing on key issues and opportunities surrounding hybrid IT models, including:
Managing a data environment that is both in the cloud and on-premise
Keeping information in sync and current to influence better business decisions
Examples of successful, company-adopted hybrid architecture models for maximum ROI and agility
Use case examples with Salesforce.com and RedShift (Amazon web services)
Demonstration of Informatica Cloud Integration
Create a single source of truth
The starting point for building a data-driven culture is establishing a single source of truth. We make this easy with Power BI, a modern BI cloud service that connects to all of your data, wherever it lives, in the cloud or on premises, Microsoft or non-Microsoft. It delivers insights to you in any way, anywhere, from mobile to web, as well as embedded in apps, both first party and third party. Office 365 further extends this with versions that allow you to quickly look at differences, auditing and roll back, allowing you to confidently manage the single version of truth.
Analyze & visualize data
The next step is to make it easy to analyze and explore data, then share it out seamlessly. Here we deliver the industry leading analyst tool with Excel, which allows you to ask questions at the pace of your business transformation, in a tool you use daily. Sometimes it's easier for us to spot trends and outliers when data is presented visually. Power BI makes visualization simple and easy. Sometimes we want both. Power BI integrates natively with Excel, so users can easily dive deeper into visualizations from Excel and vice-versa. Together with Visio, you can visualize complex process flows directly into Power BI.
Run your business in real time with live dashboards
All of the visualizations and dashboards you create in Power BI, Excel, and Visio can be programmed to update in real-time, so that you can react to opportunities and threats as soon as they appear.
Put insights at the center of teamwork
Lastly, with the growing importance of teamwork in the modern workplace it’s critical that teams can collaborate on data in real-time. Power BI and Excel both integrate natively with Teams and Office 365, making it easier to create consensus based on data.
Conclusion
All of these capabilities add up to better, faster decision-making – a 2017 study by Forrester found that with Microsoft 365 E5 employees make decisions in 18% less time – think about how much faster your business could move with decisions made in hours or days rather than weeks.
365 Degrees: Looking at Office 365, SharePoint, and Dynamics 365 by Steve ReidKTL Solutions
Microsoft’s hot topic lately has been the newest 365 trio—
SharePoint, Office 365, and Dynamics 365 (Sales). Whether your organization falls into enterprise level or small-business, these three major solutions work together to make your company communicate and work more efficiently. Steve will cover each solution’s depth while honing in on how they integrate, communicate, and ultimately offer you a full solution experience.
Windows Azure Bootcamp - Microsoft BI in Azure VMsIvan Donev
This is the presentation from the Global Windows Azure Bootcamp event in Sofia, Bulgaria. The presentation covers topics regarding Business Intelligence components for Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 and 2012 on Windows Azure Virtual Machines.
Marlabs Capabilities Overview: Microsoft Dynamics Marlabs
Marlabs has extensive customization and implementation expertise with Dynamics CRM. Our services include Microsoft Dynamics CRM evaluation, implementation, development and migration.
xRM is the natural evolution of CRM. Businesses are expanding their use of new generation CRM solutions to manage a wider range of scenarios, including asset management, prospect management, citizen management, and many more. Microsoft CRM sits on the .NET platform and because of that, it is much more than a traditional CRM product. Instead, think of Microsoft CRM is as a rapid development application with out of the box CRM functionality. The purpose of this session is to understand Microsoft's CRM strategy and how you get to market first with world class business solutions.
Are you getting the most out of Azure? Learn 6 ways to get more from your Azure platform.
Join one of our top Infrastructure and Cloud consultants, Mike Balatzis to learn how to get more from your Azure platform. Mike is an information technology consultant with 18 years’ experience in Microsoft enterprise solutions, including Windows server and desktop operating systems, Exchange, and System Center Configuration Manager. In addition, Mike is an MSCE for the Private Cloud as well as a VTSP for Azure.
This webinar will cover the following important topics
•Microsoft Azure Infrastructure and Networking
•Securing Resources
•Application Storage & Data Access Strategy
•Applications in Azure
•Websites in Microsoft Azure
•Design a Management, Monitoring, and Business Continuity Strategy
Making the Most of Power BI with SQL Server 2014 and AzurePerficient, Inc.
Power BI is a compelling new cloud-based BI offering for Office 365 SharePoint Online users, with advanced collaborative capabilities including mobile cross-platform reporting, on-the-fly dashboarding and natural language querying.
When you combine Power BI’s self-service business intelligence with SQL Server 2014 and Microsoft Azure, you can host your entire BI solution in the cloud while providing greater access to business analytics than ever before.
Join Perficient's Microsoft business intelligence expert Andrew Tegethoff to learn how to host your analytics and reporting solution in the cloud with Power BI and SQL Server 2014.
Case study: Turbo charging the customer experience with MDM (Kiva Group)lJean-Michel Franco
Gartner predicts that Customer Relationship Management leaders who do not implement Master Data Management (MDM) will derive erroneous results that will annoy customers, resulting in 25% lower potential revenue gains. This was one of the key drivers for Kiva Group, a leading provider of customer interaction and experience management software for financial institutions.
In this presentation, learn how Kiva Group has embedded MDM into its KIVA Respect™ driving personalized and compelling customer experiences across multiple channels :
- Enriches the customer database with external content and propagating it across branches, call center and Web, mobile and Web apps, IVRs and ATMs
- Reconciles data across channels, customer touch points and marketing, sales and services activities
- Handles data stewardship to sanction customer data and orchestrate manual resolution of data inconsistencies when needed
resentation of use cases of Master Data Management for Customer Data. It presents the business drivers and how Talend platform for MDM can adress them.
Key advice for government agencies moving into the Microsoft Office 365 cloud.
Watch the full webinar here: http://www.aventissystems.com/Articles.asp?ID=393
Microsoft Teams - The Hub for Teamwork in Office 365David J Rosenthal
Microsoft Teams delivers on four core promises to create a digital workspace for high performing teams.
First, Microsoft Teams is the hub for teamwork within Office 365. Microsoft Teams solves for the collaboration and communication needs of a diverse workforce. Since preview we have extended the capabilities to include chat, voice and video.
When it comes to chat, Microsoft Teams is fast, fluid, low-overhead, and instantly familiar, making it easier than ever to share information and accelerate decision making.
Since our preview moment, Microsoft Teams has evolved into a complete meetings experience that now includes chat, voice and video. Microsoft Teams will modernize your meetings experience. Before a meeting team members can review conversations, during a meeting teams can share content and hold the meeting using a diverse array of communication mediums including audio conferencing and video. After a meeting team members can review history, access recordings and much more. Microsoft Teams supports private and group meeting capabilities, scheduling capabilities and free/busy calendar availability for team members.
The Office apps and services that people use every day - Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, SharePoint, the new Planner task management app, Stream video portal, even Power BI - are all built-in, so people have the information and tools they need right within the context of Microsoft Teams.
Because every group is unique, team members can tailor their workspace to include apps and services for the team and organization. Microsoft Teams allows the ability to customize their workspace with tabs, connectors and bots. For our developer community, we have also created an extensible platform, to enable building apps with a rich set of capabilities to enable higher-performing teams.
Microsoft Teams comes with the enterprise grade security and compliance that you would come to expect from Office 365.
Is your organization contemplating a migration to Office 365? Whether you are planning to move SharePoint or Exchange or whether you are planning to implement OneDrive for Business, Skype for Business, or Power BI, this session will cover many aspects of how to plan for a migration to Office 365.
Specifically, Doug Hemminger will walk us through how to:
• Inventory your current environment and make key deployment decisions about what to migrate and how to migrate it.
• Fix potential deployment blockers including how to cleanup active directory and how to get your network ready for Office 365.
• Set up Office 365 services to work for your organization, including enabling and disabling the appropriate features and services.
• Roll out Office 365 out to your users including assigning the appropriate licenses and communicating key concepts
This session will be a mix of presentation and demonstration. By the end of the session, you should have a good idea of how to plan your migration to Office 365.
SharePoint Governance: Impacts of Moving to the CloudChristian Buckley
Webinar presented by myself (@buckleyplanet) and Antonio Maio (@AntonioMaio2) from TITUS on the impacts to governance strategy as organizations begin planning to expand their SharePoint footprint to the cloud -- whether moving entirely to the cloud, or in a hybrid model. Includes comparisons of on prem and online advantages and risks, and a quiz to help organizations plan accordingly.
Webinar presented on Oct 21st (US) and Oct 23rd (EMEA), 2014 by Christian Buckley, Managing Director at GTconsult and Steve Marsh, Director of Product Marketing at Metalogix.
Don't Leave Data Behind: Integration Strategies for On-premise and Cloud Solu...Perficient, Inc.
As the SaaS application market matures, IT organizations are adopting a cloud integration strategy around hybrid environments that focuses on combining cloud and on-premise solutions to house data, augment internal capacity and increase business agility.
Join Perficient and Informatica for a webinar focusing on key issues and opportunities surrounding hybrid IT models, including:
Managing a data environment that is both in the cloud and on-premise
Keeping information in sync and current to influence better business decisions
Examples of successful, company-adopted hybrid architecture models for maximum ROI and agility
Use case examples with Salesforce.com and RedShift (Amazon web services)
Demonstration of Informatica Cloud Integration
Create a single source of truth
The starting point for building a data-driven culture is establishing a single source of truth. We make this easy with Power BI, a modern BI cloud service that connects to all of your data, wherever it lives, in the cloud or on premises, Microsoft or non-Microsoft. It delivers insights to you in any way, anywhere, from mobile to web, as well as embedded in apps, both first party and third party. Office 365 further extends this with versions that allow you to quickly look at differences, auditing and roll back, allowing you to confidently manage the single version of truth.
Analyze & visualize data
The next step is to make it easy to analyze and explore data, then share it out seamlessly. Here we deliver the industry leading analyst tool with Excel, which allows you to ask questions at the pace of your business transformation, in a tool you use daily. Sometimes it's easier for us to spot trends and outliers when data is presented visually. Power BI makes visualization simple and easy. Sometimes we want both. Power BI integrates natively with Excel, so users can easily dive deeper into visualizations from Excel and vice-versa. Together with Visio, you can visualize complex process flows directly into Power BI.
Run your business in real time with live dashboards
All of the visualizations and dashboards you create in Power BI, Excel, and Visio can be programmed to update in real-time, so that you can react to opportunities and threats as soon as they appear.
Put insights at the center of teamwork
Lastly, with the growing importance of teamwork in the modern workplace it’s critical that teams can collaborate on data in real-time. Power BI and Excel both integrate natively with Teams and Office 365, making it easier to create consensus based on data.
Conclusion
All of these capabilities add up to better, faster decision-making – a 2017 study by Forrester found that with Microsoft 365 E5 employees make decisions in 18% less time – think about how much faster your business could move with decisions made in hours or days rather than weeks.
365 Degrees: Looking at Office 365, SharePoint, and Dynamics 365 by Steve ReidKTL Solutions
Microsoft’s hot topic lately has been the newest 365 trio—
SharePoint, Office 365, and Dynamics 365 (Sales). Whether your organization falls into enterprise level or small-business, these three major solutions work together to make your company communicate and work more efficiently. Steve will cover each solution’s depth while honing in on how they integrate, communicate, and ultimately offer you a full solution experience.
Windows Azure Bootcamp - Microsoft BI in Azure VMsIvan Donev
This is the presentation from the Global Windows Azure Bootcamp event in Sofia, Bulgaria. The presentation covers topics regarding Business Intelligence components for Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 and 2012 on Windows Azure Virtual Machines.
Marlabs Capabilities Overview: Microsoft Dynamics Marlabs
Marlabs has extensive customization and implementation expertise with Dynamics CRM. Our services include Microsoft Dynamics CRM evaluation, implementation, development and migration.
xRM is the natural evolution of CRM. Businesses are expanding their use of new generation CRM solutions to manage a wider range of scenarios, including asset management, prospect management, citizen management, and many more. Microsoft CRM sits on the .NET platform and because of that, it is much more than a traditional CRM product. Instead, think of Microsoft CRM is as a rapid development application with out of the box CRM functionality. The purpose of this session is to understand Microsoft's CRM strategy and how you get to market first with world class business solutions.
Are you getting the most out of Azure? Learn 6 ways to get more from your Azure platform.
Join one of our top Infrastructure and Cloud consultants, Mike Balatzis to learn how to get more from your Azure platform. Mike is an information technology consultant with 18 years’ experience in Microsoft enterprise solutions, including Windows server and desktop operating systems, Exchange, and System Center Configuration Manager. In addition, Mike is an MSCE for the Private Cloud as well as a VTSP for Azure.
This webinar will cover the following important topics
•Microsoft Azure Infrastructure and Networking
•Securing Resources
•Application Storage & Data Access Strategy
•Applications in Azure
•Websites in Microsoft Azure
•Design a Management, Monitoring, and Business Continuity Strategy
azure track -03- it pros meet azure - againITProceed
by Kristof Rennen, Mike Martin
IaaS in the public cloud, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the Enterprise IT team, it's mission: to be scalable and agile as possible. To achieve their mission goal they can use the new features of Microsoft Azure:
•Azure Files
•Azure RemoteApp
•the new VNET features and it's big brother ExpressRoute
•and much much more
don't forget: Azure goes to Infinity and … beyond!
This presentation highlights why customers should care about the looming deadline for Windows Server 2003 End of Support and how you can help your customer migrate their infrastructure to cloud or to a hybrid environment. It also discusses the design considerations for various upgrade scenarios from pure cloud to hybrid to on-premise. Finally, it reviews migration tools and technologies to migrate a 32-bit application to Windows Server 2012 or Azure environment.
It also shows Azure’s unique value proposition to your customers and some of the new announcement such as ASR, EMS and RemoteApp. It will describe product features that is relevant to SMB customer segment along with sizing information based on Azure calculator. Finally it will also touch upon when to think about using Azure or to your own hosted environment.
This webinar session introduced the basics of Azure (topics below) allowing you to get online and start working in the Azure environment.
• Azure Portal Demo
• Azure VMs
• Azure Storage
• Azure SQL
• Azure Connectivity options to the Data Center
Azure en Nutanix: your journey to the hybrid cloudICT-Partners
Op zoek naar oplossingen voor een flexibel, schaalbaar, kostenefficiënt en toekomstvast datacenter? Ontdek dan nu de kracht van Microsoft Azure & Nutanix: twee moderne platformen waarmee u de voordelen van uw on-premise infrastructuur kunt combineren met de voordelen van de public cloud.
Presentatie van 30 april 2015
How to deploy a Private Cloud based on WAP and NutanixTom Van Gramberen
Presented on May 28th, 2015 at TechDays Netherlands in The Hague:
The rise of virtualization and new applications has created pressure on IT departments to develop, deliver and maintain an application & storage infrastructure that is not only high performing, but also simple to manage, VM-centric and highly scalable. In this technical session, we'll discuss how to create the ideal infrastructure for Hyper-V and virtualized Windows applications, that is always available and literally invisible to the application teams. We will also explore a real world Windows Azure Pack deployment of the European Service Provider Synergics during this technical session. One of the Synergics’ architects will explain and demonstrate how they deployed a scalable, easy-to-manage cloud based on Windows Azure Pack.
RapidScale, a cloud services innovator, delivers world-class, secure, and reliable cloud computing solutions to companies of all sizes across the globe. Its state-of-the-art CloudOffice platform and market leading cloud solutions are the reason why RapidScale is the provider of choice for leading telecommunications providers, VARs, MSPs, and agents throughout the United States. RapidScale is not only delivering a service, but is also innovating advanced solutions and applications for the cloud computing space. Today, many of the top carriers, VARs, MSPs, and Master Agents across the globe are selling RapidScale’s cloud solutions to their customers. RapidScale’s market leading solutions include: CloudServer, CloudDesktop, CloudOffice, CloudMail, CloudRecovery, CloudApps, and more. For more information on RapidScale visit www.rapidscale.net.
The world is quite a different place than it was six months ago, and with the 2020 holiday season fast approaching, the pressure is on to meet revenue goals in what’s been an uncertain year.
In August, we surveyed 154 marketing executives to find out what they think is likely to happen this holiday season and how they are preparing for it. The results are fascinating, and we’ve distilled them into clear actions you can take right now to adapt and prepare for a very different 2020 holiday season.
In this webinar, Eric Enge (Principal, Digital Marketing at Perficient) and Jim Hertzfeld (Chief Strategist, Digital at Perficient) discussed:
How marketers have already adapted and where they see the most opportunity moving forward
What will be different this holiday season and how to adjust your strategy accordingly
Ways to identify and meet changing customer expectations, wants, and needs
How to determine if your priorities or investments should change
What actions you can take right now to be successful
Transforming Pharmacovigilance Workflows with AI & Automation Perficient, Inc.
Medical information call centers have an opportunity to transform the way they capture, code, and analyze adverse events (AEs) and product quality complaints (PQCs) with artificial intelligence (AI) and automation.
The use of such innovative technology improves data quality and consistency, compliance, and operational efficiency. It helps reduce the frequency of your pharmacovigilance (PV) operations resources going home, saying, “I have more to do at the end of the day than I did when I started."
Our one-hour, on-demand webinar shows you how you can use AI and automation to turbo-charge your end-to-end PV system. Use cases and demonstrations will include:
Analyzing safety data
Auto-coding verbatim terms to official medical dictionary terms
Auto-creating an AE case in your database
Converting speech to text
The Secret to Acquiring and Retaining Customers in Financial ServicesPerficient, Inc.
Data, when leveraged effectively, can help you segment and target customers, analyze spending habits, and can create a personalized experience that builds value and customer loyalty.
Without a 360-degree view of your customers, you can’t properly target them with real-time personalized offers, advice, and other services. In addition, lack of customer intelligence creates lost opportunities for banks and insurers to cross-sell and upsell new products and services.
Our one-hour webinar covered how customer intelligence platforms can help you engage, acquire, and retain customers.
Oracle Strategic Modeling Live: Defined. Discussed. Demonstrated.Perficient, Inc.
The only thing certain about forecasting in a volatile economy is that the future is unpredictable. Historically, organizations have effectively utilized statistical techniques for short-term business planning, but leveraging actuals no longer allows us to predict the future. The ability to be prepared, responsive, and agile under these conditions is becoming a crucial success factor. Oracle Strategic Modeling can help you better navigate change to cope with uncertainty.
If your CFO’s questions regarding earnings, liquidity, and cash flow are unceasing and far-reaching, watch our on-demand webinar for a deep dive into strategic modeling. We modeled real-world scenarios to show how you can:
Quickly and easily develop a hierarchical model of your business
Leverage multiple pre-built functions to forecast key performance drivers
Provide transparency on forecasted financials via audit trail
Utilize goal seek to set financial targets and estimate the financials drivers necessary to achieve it
Perform sophisticated “what-if” analysis via simulations to improve the accuracy of your forecast
Use built-in dashboard functionality to deliver powerful reporting capabilities
While many stay-at-home orders have been lifted, consumers’ new digital buying behaviors and habits are here to stay. Watch our panel discussion on the accelerated need for commerce and learn how commerce and content can transform our digital economy.
Topics include:
-What is the “experience economy” and how do you leverage it? -If you move beyond product and price, what’s next?
-How business models have shifted and what you can do to break down silos and leverage new processes to capture the digital dollar.
-How organizations have built agile teams to address the ever-changing needs of customers, including responsive approaches that address the omnichannel consumer.
-Technologies that are best suited to enable your business and customers – and how headless commerce has changed the game.
-How the future of commerce is changing, and what you should do now to prepare.
Our panel features Jordan Jewell, IDC Research analyst known for his insight into the commerce industry. Joining him from Perficient is general manager Brian Beckham, who brings deep expertise in content management and empowering organizations in their digital transformations. Rounding out the panel is Episerver’s Joey Moore, who has spent the last decade helping organizations across the globe advance their digital maturity.
Centene's Financial Transformation Journey: A OneStream Success StoryPerficient, Inc.
Centene, a large multi-line managed care organization, was looking to modernize and streamline its corporate performance management (CPM) applications.
Centene had to move data between platforms multiple times during the close process so that close data could be fully consolidated and made available for reporting. This process had numerous challenges and inefficiencies that Centene wished to improve upon so that they could provide a more streamlined and more transparent process to the functional teams that leverage consolidated financials in their systems for reporting and analysis.
Centene chose OneStream XF for global and US consolidations, currency conversion, eliminations, and ownership percentage.
Michael Vannoni, director, financial systems solutions discussed the migration to OneStream XF including:
-Factors leading to the selection of OneStream XF
-Details of the solution design
-Benefits realized with global consolidation implementation
-Future planned enhancements
WHODrug Koda, developed by Uppsala Monitoring Centre (UMC), is an automated coding service, which uses artificial intelligence (AI) to automate the coding of drug names and ATC selections, improving consistency and operational efficiency. It can also be used to accelerate dictionary upgrades, including the transition from WHODrug B2 format to B3.
Through API (Application Programming Interface) web services, the coding engine can be integrated with custom or off-the-shelf drug safety, medical coding, or data management systems.
In this webinar, Perficient and UMC discussed WHODrug Koda and how you can integrate it into your medical coding activities.
Preparing for Your Oracle, Medidata, and Veeva CTMS Migration ProjectPerficient, Inc.
There are multiple reasons why companies migrate to a new clinical trial management system (CTMS). Still, the two most common are mergers and acquisitions (i.e., CTMS consolidation) and the desire to switch CTMS vendors. Regardless of the reason, many of the best practices, processes, and tools are the same.
In this webinar, we looked at the migration approaches taken across several case studies. You’ll come away with an understanding of:
Pros and cons of each CTMS migration method
Types of migration tools, including APIs, ETL tools, and adapters
Approximate timelines and costs associated with each migration method
The topics discussed in this webinar can be applied to any CTMS migration project, whether you’re moving to or from Oracle’s Siebel CTMS, Medidata’s Rave CTMS, and Veeva’s Vault CTMS.
Accelerating Partner Management: How Manufacturers Can Navigate Covid-19Perficient, Inc.
The pandemic has ushered in a new normal for manufacturers, and the impact of digital communication is more important than ever.
View our on-demand webinar with Tony Kratovil, Regional Vice President of Manufacturing at Salesforce, and Eric Dukart, National Sales Executive at Perficient. They covered why the right digital strategies are critical for manufacturers in the wake of COVID-19.
Our webinar covered:
Current challenges with forecasting, collaboration, and disruptions to distribution networks.
Insights for stabilizing operations, accelerating partner management, and developing a digital strategy that differentiates your business.
Candid Q&A with real-world examples.
New Work.com resources to help manufacturers restart safely and rebuild.
Tools and resources to move forward – fast.
The Critical Role of Audience Intelligence with Eric Enge and Rand FishkinPerficient, Inc.
Things move quickly in marketing. How do you identify what your customers need and how you can help? Now more than ever, audience intelligence is the key.
Audience intelligence is about understanding your target customers, their needs, what resonates with them, and how you can reach them. Eric Enge (Digital Marketing Principal, Perficient) and Rand Fishkin (Co-Founder & CEO, SparkToro) discussed this topic live on May 7, 2020. Watch to hear tactics for gaining a better understanding of your customers, how to use audience intelligence to optimize your marketing now, and more.
Cardtronics, the global leader in ATM deployment and management, decided to retire its on-premises Hyperion solution to gain the operational efficiencies, features, and functionality provided by a best-in-class cloud solution.
Cardtronics chose Oracle EPM Cloud including Financial Consolidation and Close, Planning, Management Reporting, Account Reconciliation, Enterprise Data Management, as well as Oracle Analytics Cloud.
In this video, project owner Richard Ng, director, financial systems, Cardtronics, discusses the migration to Oracle EPM Cloud including:
Multi-release 18-month deployment schedule across multiple countries
Benefits of a global Chart of Accounts for ERP and EPM
Seamless integration across ERP Cloud, HCM Cloud, and EPM Cloud
Preparing for Project Cortex and the Future of Knowledge ManagementPerficient, Inc.
Microsoft has turned traditional enterprise content management on its head with its recent announcement of Project Cortex.
Project Cortex uses advanced artificial intelligence to harness collective knowledge from across the enterprise and automatically organize it into shared topics like projects, products, processes, and customers. Using AI, Cortex creates a knowledge network based on relationships among topics, content, and people and delivers it in the apps you use every day – Office, Outlook, and Teams.
This webinar examined Project Cortex in more detail, including:
• What is Project Cortex?
• Why is Project Cortex different than other knowledge network projects previously introduced?
• How does incorporating AI and automation change the game?
• What is possible with Project Cortex?
• What can you do to prepare?
Utilizing Microsoft 365 Security for Remote Work Perficient, Inc.
With an increasingly mobile workforce, and the spread of shadow IT, the rapid rise of cybercrime - companies must find unique ways to effectively manage their sprawling SaaS portfolio.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
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
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.
PHP Frameworks: I want to break free (IPC Berlin 2024)Ralf Eggert
In this presentation, we examine the challenges and limitations of relying too heavily on PHP frameworks in web development. We discuss the history of PHP and its frameworks to understand how this dependence has evolved. The focus will be on providing concrete tips and strategies to reduce reliance on these frameworks, based on real-world examples and practical considerations. The goal is to equip developers with the skills and knowledge to create more flexible and future-proof web applications. We'll explore the importance of maintaining autonomy in a rapidly changing tech landscape and how to make informed decisions in PHP development.
This talk is aimed at encouraging a more independent approach to using PHP frameworks, moving towards a more flexible and future-proof approach to PHP development.
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.
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/
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.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
2. About Perficient
Perficient is a leading information technology consulting firm serving clients
throughout North America.
We help clients implement business-driven technology solutions that integrate
business processes, improve worker productivity, increase customer loyalty and create
a more agile enterprise to better respond to new business opportunities.
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Founded in 1997
Public, NASDAQ: PRFT
2012 revenue of $327 million
Major market locations throughout North America
• Atlanta, Austin, Boston, Charlotte, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus,
Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Fairfax, Houston, Indianapolis, Minneapolis, New
Orleans, New York, Northern California, Philadelphia, Southern California, St.
Louis, Toronto, and Washington, D.C.
Global delivery centers in China, Europe and India
~2,000 colleagues
Dedicated solution practices
~85% repeat business rate
Alliance partnerships with major technology vendors
Multiple vendor/industry technology and growth awards
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Business Solutions
Technology Solutions
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Business Intelligence
Business Process Management
Customer Experience and CRM
Enterprise Performance Management
Enterprise Resource Planning
Experience Design (XD)
Management Consulting
Business Integration/SOA
Cloud Services
Commerce
Content Management
Custom Application Development
Education
Information Management
Mobile Platforms
Platform Integration
Portal & Social
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Adetayo Adegoke, Senior Solutions Architect
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Microsoft vTSP [Virtual Technology Specialist Program] specializing in SharePoint
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Nationwide practice lead for the Enterprise Applications Infrastructure Group
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Drives solutions in the Windows Azure space for Web Infrastructure particularly for
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7. What Are We Discussing Today?
• Cloud jargon in plain English
• What is Windows Azure and how can it help me?
• Running web sites and VMs in the cloud
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8. What Are We Discussing Today?
• What else can I put in the cloud / what else can I use the
cloud for?
• How can I use the cloud?
• How do I manage this?
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43. Service Level Agreement
99.95% for multiple role instances
4.38 hours of downtime per year
What’s included
Compute Hardware failure (disk, cpu, memory)
Datacenter failures - Network failure, power failure
Hardware upgrades, Software maintenance – Host OS Updates
What is not included
VM Container crashes, Guest OS Updates
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62. Supported/Unsupported Windows Server Roles
SUPPORTED ROLES
Active Directory Domain Services
Active Directory Federation Services
Active Directory Lightweight Directory
Services
Application Server
DNS Server
File Services
Network Policy and Access Services
Print and Document Services
Remote Desktop Services*
Web Server (IIS)
Windows Server Update Services
UNSUPPORTED ROLES
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
Server
Hyper-V
Remote Access (Direct Access)
Rights Management Services
Windows Deployment Services
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63. Supported Windows Server Features
Background Intelligent File Transfer Service (BITS)
BranchCache
Connection Manager Administration Kit
Desktop Experience
Group Policy Management
Failover Cluster
Ink and Handwriting Services
Internet Printing Client
Line Printer Remote Port Monitor
Message Queuing
.NET Framework 3.5.1 Features
Quality Windows Audio Video Experience
Remote Assistance
Remote Differential Compression
Remote Server Administration Tools
RPC over HTTP Proxy
Services for Network File System
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
Simple TCP/IP Services
Subsystem for UNIX-based Applications
Telnet Server
Telnet Client
Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP)
Windows Internal Database
Windows PowerShell Integrated Scripting Environment
Windows Process Activation Service (WAS)
WinRM IIS Extension
Windows Server Backup
Windows System Resource Manager
Windows TIFF IFilter Overview
XPS Viewer
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Windows Server Failover Clustering
Internet Storage Name Server
Multipath I/O
Network Load Balancing
Peer Name Resolution Protocol
SNMP Services
Storage Manager for SANs
Windows Internet Name Service
Wireless LAN Service
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66. How Many Ways Can Windows Azure Be
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Deploy Development Environments
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Test Integration between two different
platforms
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Identity Management Integration between
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Rapid temporary capacity for seasonal
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Hybrid & Pure-Play Windows Azure Deployments
71. Connecting OnPrem & Windows Azure
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Admin
IT Admin
(10.1.0.0/16)
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(10.1.2.0/24)
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131.57.23.45
SQLSubnet
GW IP
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65.57.23.45
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72. Connecting OnPrem & Windows Azure
Network
Admin
CorpOffice
IT Admin
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131.57.23.45
SQLSubnet
GW IP
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(10.1.3.0/24)
(10.1.4.0/24)
65.57.23.45
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Network
Admin
CorpOffice
IT Admin
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131.57.23.45
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GW IP
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65.57.23.45
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Network
Admin
IT Admin
(10.1.0.0/16)
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CorpOffice
131.57.23.45
SQLSubnet
GW IP
(10.1.3.0/24)
(10.1.3.0/24)
(10.1.4.0/24)
65.57.23.45
10.0.0.21
10.0.0.20
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75. Connecting OnPrem & Windows Azure
IT Admin
(10.1.0.0/16)
(10.0.0.0/16)
(10.1.2.0/24)
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131.57.23.45
SQLSubnet
GW IP
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65.57.23.45
10.0.0.21
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Deployment
package
IT Admin
(10.1.0.0/16)
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131.57.23.45
SQLSubnet
GW IP
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65.57.23.45
10.0.0.21
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Deployment
package
IT Admin
(10.1.0.0/16)
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131.57.23.45
SQLSubnet
GW IP
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65.57.23.45
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Windows Intune
Macs
X86/x64
AD
Windows Server
2012
VPN Tunnel
Windows RT
Windows Phone
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iOS
Windows Server
Windows Server
Windows Server
2012
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2003
OnPrem
Windows Server
Windows Server
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Azure
Android
Internet
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Import and Export VM settings
Support for Windows and Linux VMs
Domain Join at Provision for Windows
Fully Customize VM with Data Disks and Endpoint
Configuration
Automate Virtual Network Settings
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Automation
Query, Manage and Configure Virtual Machines across multiple subscriptions,
cloud services and storage accounts.
Provision Fully Configured Virtual Machines
Virtual Networking
Completely Configure VNETs from a Script
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81. Virtual Machine Management
Quick VM Provisioning Mode
Supports VM Creation in a Single Cmdlet
Advanced Provisioning Configuration Mode
Provision With: Endpoints, Data Disks
Configure: Cache Settings for OS/Data Disks and Subnet Names
Create Multiple Pre-Defined VMs in a Batch
New-AzureVM -VMs $vm1, $vm2, $vm3
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Forrester & Perficient Talk
SharePoint, Yammer &
Mobile bit.ly/1aOYTFw
Memorial Hermann Uses
Dynamics CRM for
Customer Engagement
bit.ly/1hnar9v
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Editor's Notes
This webinar is targeted towards ITPros and developers that are looking for a solid introduction to Windows Azure. As such this presentation is a Level 100 webinar event that should gently ease you into the world of Cloud Computing.We will walk through a brief introduction about some of the more common cloud related terms that are bandied about.We will then take a peek at Windows Azure, and talk about how it can help you and your business succeed.I will follow up with a quick illustration that shows Windows Azure VM Availability, Portability and Durability qualities.I will also talk about running web sites in Windows Azure, and some of the .
After this, we will expand on the broader capabilities of the Windows Azure platform and …Run through scenarios where Windows Azure can be particularly helpful.Windows Azure is another asset that requires effective management and oversight by ITPros.As such, we will wrap up the session by talking about ways through which you can do so.
CLOUD / CLOUD COMPUTING / CLOUD SERVICESYou might have heard the word “Cloud” a few times over the last couple of years.Or maybe “Cloud Computing”.Or better yet, “Cloud Services”.These terms are used interchangeably.What is the Cloud?No, it is not up there in the sky. Think of the cloud as a bunch of servers somewhere, providing services as you need it, for other services, platforms or client devices to consume. The key concepts for an excellent cloud service offering, such as Windows Azure, are standardization or openness, flexibility, scalability and being reliable or solid.Imagine the cloud as a collection of cloud services.At a high level, think of a cloud service as a collection of infrastructure components that serve a particular purpose.Are there different types of cloud computing implementations? ….
PUBLIC CLOUD / PRIVATE CLOUD…. Yes there are. You can host a private cloud solution within your datacenters using the Windows Hyper-V platform to build an intelligent Virtualization Farm with custom, preconfigured services offerings and assets, or you could take advantage of public cloud offerings like Windows Azure, which provides a number of highly impactful features within the first few minutes of accessing your subscription.CLOUD OFFERINGS / CLOUD SERVICE PROVIDERSCloud Offerings refers to specific implementation of cloud services by vendors in the cloud computing space. An example of this is the Windows Azure offering. Vendors, such as Microsoft, that provide cloud services to customers are referred to as Cloud Service Providers.WINDOWS AZURE SUBSCRIPTIONSA Windows Azure subscription refers to the access instance to Windows Azure that you have signed up for either in trial mode, or you are paying for it.
IAASIaaS stands for “Infrastructure as a Service. It is at the lowest end of the IaaS-PaaS-SaaS spectrum provided by Windows Azure. With this capability, you are able to provision virtual machines using the Windows and Linux OS templates, as well as storage endpoints with terabytes of capacity. This capability also allows for the creation of virtual networks, service buses, custom cloud services as well as SQL databasesPAASPaaS is short for “Platform as a Service”. It is the next level of services available through Windows Azure in the Iaas-Paas-SaaS spectrum. With PaaS, you get reduced complexity through prepackaged features that allows you to build web sites, customize your own flavor of cloud services or utilize media services. You also get access to the platforms that represents your PaaS offerings, such as IIS web sites and SQL. However, you do not have access to control and directly configure the underlying IaaS components that is the foundation of your instance of PaaS. When you configure PaaS offerings, you do not have to worry about provisioning and configuring the underlying Infrastructure; it is automatically created for you by Windows AzureSAASSaaS is an acronym for “Software as a Service”.SaaS offerings are cloud-based software solutions that provide application functionality to end users, without you having to worry abut provisioning Infrastructure components such as servers and networks, or platform components such as IIS and SQL databases.This is because these components are provisioned for you automatically for each subscription to a SaaS offering.Windows Azure does not provide SaaS solutions out of the box, although you can create your own custom SaaS package using Windows Azure IaaS and PaaS assets. Microsoft does provide several SaaS offerings, such as Office 365 which includes SharePoint Online, Exchange Online, and Lync Online. Team Foundation Services and Dynamics CRM Online are other SaaS offerings from Microsoft.
ON-PREMISESo from an ITPro perspective, how does all this IaaS-Paas-SaaS stuff affect what I do every day? Well, with OnPremise assets, you have full control over Infrastructure, from Networking to Storage to servers all the way through the application stack. Let’s take a look at a common workload, such as an OnPremise SharePoint 2013 intranet portal as an example. You have created storage endpoints for your Hyper-V farm to use and assign to virtual machines running the Windows Server 2012 OS, which you created from a VM template that is fully patched and managed by you or someone on your team. You also created multiple Hyper-V farms in different datacenters for DR and HA purposes, and configured storage replication appropriately to support this Virtualization solution. You used a script to build your AlwaysOn SQL server database backend for SharePoint with availability groupsIn addition you have configured network subnets appropriately for your solution, for the SQL and SharePoint servers to communicate with each other.You decided to scripted out the server build tasks and also deployed a number of custom solutions to the SharePoint farm. You also have access to the SharePoint databases, which you optimized to improve performance.IAASUsing the same example, let’s take a look at how the same task applies to an IaaS offering, from Windows Azure for example.With IaaS, you have full control to the OS layer.You could start with the task of creating SharePoint VMs for your developer peers in Windows Azure, using a custom OS template that you uploaded to Windows Azure that comes preconfigured with Development tools such as Visual Studio 2012 and SharePoint Designer 2013, SQL and SharePoint 2013 build scripts and other software already preloadedAlternatively, you could just use the out-of-box OS template provided by Microsoft as part of your Windows Azure subscription, and build out your development environment using scripts. You do not have manage the underlying Windows Azure Hyper-V based solution, underlying physical servers and supporting storage endpoints and networking. Microsoft does. Effectively you do not have access to the Hyper-V Manager console, since the Virtualization platform layer and the underlying layers that support it is managed entirely by Microsoft. But you do have access to everything else, from the OS layer to the Applications layer.PAASLet’s examine the PaaS concept a little bit more closely.Windows Azure provides PaaS offerings in the form of Media Services, Cloud Services, Web Sites and SQL databases. With this band of the cloud offering spectrum, you do not have the option of deploying SharePoint, as you would with OnPremise and IaaS layers. IInstead, you would deploy custom applications written by your developer peers to PaaS, using programming languages such as C#, Perl, ASP.Net and so on. You do not have to worry about the underlying Infrastructure that is the foundation of your PaaS solution implementation.Windows Azure manages that for you, doing things like OS patching, and spinning up more server instances to support your application’s configuration settings. Common use case scenarios with PaaS involve migrating custom ASP.NET web solutions to the Windows Azure Web Sites and SQL database Windows Azure PaaS offerings. PaaS accelerates custom development efforts by putting a blanket over your Infrastructure requirements so that you can focus more on the application itself.Even though you do not see it directly in the background, Windows Azure is automatically managing the Infrastructure workload for your solution.SAASLast but not least, let’s quickly review the SaaS concept.With SaaS, we can get back to our example of a SharePoint deployment. Microsoft offers cloud based SharePoint solutions as a standalone offering, or as part of an Office 365 subscription. Other SaaS offerings from MSFT include Exchange Online, Lync Online, Dynamics CRM Online as well as Team Foundation Services. Note that these offerings are not included with Windows Azure. In fact, Windows Azure does not natively offer SaaS solutions. However, Windows Azure provides you with the tools to build your own custom SaaS solutions. With SaaS, you are consuming pre-installed software solutions, and typically have limited access to making global configuration changes that affect your SaaS instance, especially relating to backend Infrastructure assets.
FAULT DOMAINSLet’s talk about some concepts that explains how Windows Azure achieves very high availability.The first one term I will talk about is Fault Domains.What is a fault domain?A Fault Domain is a physical unit of failure, and is closely related to the physical infrastructure in datacentres. In Windows Azure individual server racks can be considered as fault domains. However there is no 1:1 mapping between a fault domain and a particular server rack. WINDOWS AZURE FABRICAnother important term to discuss is Windows Azure FabricWindows Azure Fabric is responsible for deploying instances of your custom application to multiple fault domains. It only kicks in when you run more than one instance of your applicationWindows Azure Fabric ensures that your application uses at least two fault domains, however depending on capacity and VM availability it may straddle more than two fault domains. Youhave no direct control over how many fault domains your application will use in Windows Azure. However how you configure it may impact its availability.WINDOWS AZURE UPGRADE DOMAINLet’s move on to the concept of Upgrade Domains.An Upgrade Domain is a logical unit which determines how a particular service will be upgraded. Windows Azure configures five upgrade domains for your application by default. You can control how many upgrade domains your application will use through the Upgrade Domain configuration setting in your service definition file or CSDEFWindows Azure Fabric ensures that your upgrade domains are not contained within a single fault domain.In other words, Upgrade domains are orthogonal to fault domains.CONCLUSIONApplication are then spread out over Upgrade Domains and Fault Domains. As long as you run a reasonable number of instances for your application, Windows Azure Fabric, Fault Domains and Upgrade Domains work together to significantly reduce planned and unplanned application downtime incidents.
WHAT IS WINDOWS AZURE?Windows Azure is MSFT’s cloud service offering that gives you IaaS & PaaS capabilities that are flexible, open and solid, all at Internet scale. It is a comprehensive set of services that enable you to quickly build, deploy and manage applications across a global network of Microsoft-managed datacenters.The list of services it provides is constantly expanding. Right now, Windows Azure give you access to the following:Web Sites, Virtual Machines, Mobile Services, Cloud Services, SQL Databases, Storage, HDInsight, Media Services, Service Bus, SQL Reporting, Networks, Traffic Manager, Management Services and Active Directory.
GLOBAL FOOTPRINTWindows Azure datacenters are currently in all global business regions – the Americas, EMEA and APAC. MSFT strategically placed datacenters all over the world to provide Windows Azure services for a global customer base. The US currently has the highest number of Windows Azure datacenters.With Windows Azure, we have the concept of sub regions, which is where you choose to place your code and run. For each region, we have a Microsoft datacenter. These datacenters are massive facilities that host 10s or in some cases hundreds of thousands of serversThere are currently four sub regions in North America, two sub regions in Europe, and two in AsiaThere are also a number of Content Delivery Network edge points shown on the slide, which Windows Azurecan use to cache your content and deliver it even faster to your customers worldwide.You can expect that MSFT will expand their datacenter footprint around the world in upcoming months and years so that you have even more options for running your IT workloads. Once you build an application, you can choose where you want to run it in the world and you can move your workloads from sub region to sub region. You can also run your application in multiple sub regions simultaneously and just direct traffic and customers to the app version that is closest to them. That gives you a global footprint and a chance to reach a broader customer base in new markets.NOTESWindows Azure services are now available in 8 datacenters worldwide with an additional 24 Content Delivery Network endpoints. The US has four sub regions, with each sub region currently hosting a datacenter: North Central sub region, with a datacenter in Illinois, Texas servicing the South Central sub region, Virginia for the East sub region and California for the West.The European Windows Azure region currently has two datacenters, one in Ireland, which is the North European sub region and the other in the Netherlands, which services the West European sub region.Similar to Europe, Asia has two data centers as well. Hong Kong services the East Asia sub region, while Singapore services the South East sub region.
I will also like to talk aboutthe approach MSFT is taking with paying for Windows Azure Services.This may be different from the hosting providers and on-premises systems that you are familiar with managing. With Windows Azure, you pay for what you use, nothing more.There are no upfront cost.There is no need to buy server licenses, that is already included in the price you paid for your subscription.Likewise if you use a SQL database, through the SQL Database feature in Windows Azure, you don’t have to buy a SQL Server license separately.It is part of the price you pay for the SQL Database feature. For compute services such as Virtual Machines and Web Sites you only pay by the hour. This gives you the flexibility to run your applications very cost effectively. You can scale up and scale down your solutions as well as turn them on and off as required. This also opens up tons of possibilities in terms of the new types of apps you can build. If you think you cant possibly afford to offer your application to a global customer base because it is too expensive, think again.Windows Azure now makes big business infrastructure capabilities significantly more affordable for small and mid sized businesses.This is a powerful business advantage that you can take advantage of today.All without worrying about how you are going to have to manage possibly dozens of servers in datacenters all over the world.
For this portion of the webinar I’m going to talk about Windows Azure web sites and Windows Azure Virtual MachinesI will walk you through many of their features, and ground you in the capabilities they provide.The first set of features I want to discuss is the Windows Azure Virtual Machines capability, which is part of the IaaS band discussed earlier on.
If you’re familiar with traditional hosting, Windows Azure Virtual Machines is probably the feature that feels most familiar and consistent with your experience. The ability to quickly stand up as many VMs as necessary with either Windows or Linux is a very powerful abilityOnce these VMs are provisioned, you can basically remote desktop into them or SSH in and run any workload. These virtual machines gives you admin access to the box.They are durable, meaning that if you reboot the VM, it will retain all your changes and data you stored to diskThis means you can run any type of workload using this feature.For example, if you want to run SQL Server 2012 you can. If you want to build a SharePoint solution, you can do that too. The Windows Azure VM feature provides the ultimate flexibility to implement your workloads in the Microsoft cloud space.You can couple this feature with what MSFT calls virtual private networking to create even more powerful solutions.With virtual private networking, you can deploy Virtual Machines to the cloud and group them together as part of a single logical private network.You can also connect these Virtual Networks back to your corporate network and establish a VPN secure tunnel to link your machines running in your corporate environment up to your virtual machines in the cloud – making them look like they’re all part of one connected network.So lots of flexibility in the compute side as well as in the networking side.
Slide Objective:Provide a graphical view of fault and upgrade domains for existing web and worker roles. Use to contrast existing skills with availability sets.Notes:You can see that our service is well spread out across both fault and upgrade domainsThe loss of a fault domain will not cause a failure of our service nor will the restart or change of an upgrade domain cause a failure of our serviceNotesUseful pre-reading here.http://blog.toddysm.com/2010/04/upgrade-domains-and-fault-domains-in-windows-azure.html
Slide Objective:Explain availability setsNotes:Availability sets tell the Fabric Controller to place VMs in the same set on different racks for faults and in separate upgrade domains for updates. This essentially tells the FC not to take the guest OS down of all VMs in the same set for host updates.
Slide Objective:Explain that each tier of an application can be enabled with its own availability set which ensures at a physical hardware level in the data center that there is no single point of failure.
Slide Objectives:Explain Virtual Machine Portability with the VHD file formatSpeaking Points:There are a few aspects of the Windows Azure Virtual machines feature that are important to understand.The first, is the support for Virtual Machine PortabilityWhen you create a virtual machine in the cloud, as I just did, you are creating a VHD fileIt is encapsulating your OS instance as well as your dataThe VHD file format is that it is compatible across Windows Azure, Windows Server, and even Windows client.VHD is an open specification that we’ve released.
Speaking Points:This support for the VHD file virtual machine file format provides a lot of flexibility. If you created a VHD file on your own local laptop or on Windows Server, you can take the VHD and just upload it to Windows Azure and boot it upYou don’t have to run an import / export process and there are no conversion tools or agents you have to install in the VM. You simply upload the VHD and it just works.[Click – move down to datacenter]You can also take, for example, either the Windows or Linux VMs that we created in Windows Azure and we make it really easy for you to download the VHD locally and you can then boot it up on a local server in whatever environment that you want. Again you don’t have to export it or convert it, just click and download it. [Transition to next slide – move across datacenters]
Speaking Points:This support for the VHD file virtual machine file format provides a lot of flexibility. If you created a VHD file on your own local laptop or on Windows Server, you can take the VHD and just upload it to Windows Azure and boot it upYou don’t have to run an import / export process and there are no conversion tools or agents you have to install in the VM. You simply upload the VHD and it just works.[Click – move down to datacenter]You can also take, for example, either the Windows or Linux VMs that we created in Windows Azure and we make it really easy for you to download the VHD locally and you can then boot it up on a local server in whatever environment that you want. Again you don’t have to export it or convert it, just click and download it. [Transition to next slide – move across datacenters]
Speaking Points:This support for the VHD file virtual machine file format provides a lot of flexibility. If you created a VHD file on your own local laptop or on Windows Server, you can take the VHD and just upload it to Windows Azure and boot it upYou don’t have to run an import / export process and there are no conversion tools or agents you have to install in the VM. You simply upload the VHD and it just works.[Click – move down to datacenter]You can also take, for example, either the Windows or Linux VMs that we created in Windows Azure and we make it really easy for you to download the VHD locally and you can then boot it up on a local server in whatever environment that you want. Again you don’t have to export it or convert it, just click and download it. [Transition to next slide – move across datacenters]
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Speaking Points:The third thing that I want to help you understand…neat thing that we’re doing with Windows Azure now is making it possible for you to mount durable drives to your virtual machine. We’re trying to do it in way that it is very reliable, consistent, and delivers a high performance.One of the things that’s different about how we enabled it is that when you mount a drive either in the portal or in the command line we are backing the disk with the Windows Azure Storage system that we’re running in the cloud todayThere are a couple nice characteristics about the storage system.
Replication One is that we triple replicate the content within the data center. If a disk ever goes bad that you data is on then we have two other copies of the data that we can work with and we do not have any interruption of serviceWe can then spin up a new replica once we detect a disk is badFrom your VMs perspective you never know that an issue actually occurred[Transit to next slide]So you get much more reliability and an always on experience even when hardware failsOne of the things that we provide which is a little different with Windows Azure is a really powerful storage architectureWhen we booted up our Virtual Machine and you saw all of the disks attached to it, the disks were not actually disks. They were virtual disks on top of our Windows Azure Storage system. We have redundancy built in for you. We can also load balance our reads and writes to the drives, so we can provide more predictable performance. On top of these physical drives that we use for blob storage we also have a set of SSD cache of drives. The benefit is that you are reading and writing through an SSD drive and then back to the physical disk.
Speaking Points:This is designed to give you very reliable performance and it ensures that it is always on
Slide Objective:You need an availability set for a 99.95% SLANotes:Without at least two virtual machines performing the same workload grouped into an availability set you get a 99.95% SLA.
Speaking Points:TransitionVirtual machines provide a very flexible compute model. Another compute service available in Windows Azure is called Windows Azure Web Sites. Definition:Windows Azure Web Sites there is a managed service that you can use to run web sites and web APIs. Enable you to quickly stand up web applications and web sites on the internetAuto-managed environmentJust say that you want a web, here’s the DNS, copy the content, and we do the rest You don’t have to worry or think about VMs, servers, or infrastructure. You can simply focus on building and deploying HTTP based applications.Enables you to build web sites using ASP.NET, Node.js, PHP, and now with an update a few weeks ago – PythonAllows you to use any tool and any operating system to build these sites including Windows, OS X, and Linux. Enables a very fast deployment model. You can literally deploy in seconds. You can easily deploy these sites using the tools and infrastructure you know. We support several flexible deployment options including FTP, GIT, and Team Foundation ServicesWhat is nice about this offering is that not only does it enable to very quickly get going, but it also allows you to start with a free offer in a shared environment. Pricing starts at free.. Perpetually free and then you can scale up as you need more capabilityYou can then scale up these sites using reserved instances for higher performance and isolation and scale out these sites as your web site becomes successful and you have increased load.
Slide Objectives:Explain the differences between traditional self-hosting and the three options of Windows Azure hosting.Notes:In a traditional environment you must manage the full stack. With Windows Azure you can choose a variety of options depending on your needs.
Slide Objectives:Explain the three scale choices on Windows Azure Web Sites.Notes:Both free and shared are the same architecture. With standard you isolate your application to your own virtual machines that you can use and pay for whatever resources you choose.Online Resources:If you’d like more details on Web Site pricing and quota, see the Windows Azure pricing page here: http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/pricing/details/web-sites/
Speaking Points:Just to recap When I’m running shared, multiple web sites from multiple customers are use the same virtual machine instances
Speaking Points:In shared mode the web sites can be scaled out to run on multiple shared instances,In this case Windows Azure provides load balancing of incoming requests resulting in better response time and performance for your application and higher availability
Speaking Points:If we really need to scale our application or we want to isolate our application, perhaps to use more memory, we can switch our app to reserved modeIn this case Windows Azure will use an instance out of the pool of available instances, deploy your site, and continue to serve up requests
Speaking Points:If we really need to scale our application or we want to isolate our application, perhaps to use more memory, we can switch our app to reserved modeIn this case Windows Azure will use an instance out of the pool of available instances, deploy your site, and continue to serve up requests
Speaking Points:If we really need to scale our application or we want to isolate our application, perhaps to use more memory, we can switch our app to reserved modeIn this case Windows Azure will use an instance out of the pool of available instances, deploy your site, and continue to serve up requests
Speaking Points:If we really need to scale our application or we want to isolate our application, perhaps to use more memory, we can switch our app to reserved modeIn this case Windows Azure will use an instance out of the pool of available instances, deploy your site, and continue to serve up requests
Speaking Points:Just like with shared mode, we can also scale out with reserved mode, in which case the machine instances are registered with the load balancer for your web application.This can result in better response time, performance, and availability for your web application.
Speaking Points:Just like with shared mode, we can also scale out with reserved mode, in which case the machine instances are registered with the load balancer for your web application.This can result in better response time, performance, and availability for your web application.
Speaking Points:What’s also cool is that you can have multiple sites in a reserved instance. So if you have three or four sites as I had in the demo, they can all run in my reserved instance, so I can be more efficient with using the resources. This is great if you want to run multiple sites for others or sites you want to run isolated
Speaking Points:What’s also cool is that you can have multiple sites in a reserved instance. So if you have three or four sites as I had in the demo, they can all run in my reserved instance, so I can be more efficient with using the resources. This is great if you want to run multiple sites for others or sites you want to run isolated
Speaking Points:What’s also cool is that you can have multiple sites in a reserved instance. So if you have three or four sites as I had in the demo, they can all run in my reserved instance, so I can be more efficient with using the resources. This is great if you want to run multiple sites for others or sites you want to run isolated
We can run a number of large number of server platform workloads in Windows Azure Virtual Machines. The server platforms displayed are officially supported by MSFT in the Windows Azure VM IaaS offering. This is not to say that other offerings will not work, just that MSFT does not currently offer support for platforms outside of this list.I have installed SharePoint 2007 successfully in Windows Azure to test migration functionality to SharePoint 2013.It goes without saying that we should not run production workloads using server platforms that are not supported on Windows Azure.Note that these are the minimum versions of each server platform that are supported by MSFT. So for example, SharePoint 2013, SQL 2008 R2 and SQL 2012 are both supported as well.Excerpt from http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2721672
Note that roles and features necessary to run web applications on the Microsoft Windows platform are fully supported
SUPPORTED FEATURESOver 30 supported Windows Server Features
EXCEPTIONS FOR UNSUPPORTED FEATURESBitLocker Drive Encryption (on the operating system hard disk; may be used on data disks)Windows Server Failover Clustering, except for SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Groups
As of November 2013, there are over 150 Windows Azure VM images. The Windows Azure VMs feature is a great way to check out new Microsoft software releases, because they are usually released fairly quickly to the Windows Azure VM Image gallery.With these preconfigured images it is a snap to start developing with the platform of choice, while avoiding all that setup time to install and configure OS and software platform components.Imagine how long it will take for you to provision a SharePoint 2013 Development environment virtual machine using your OnPremise virtualization infrastructure. With Windows Azure, your development VM is up and running in minutes, not hours or days.The image gallery is not limited to just MSFT OS and server platforms.You also have Linux distros, preconfigured Java server platform images as well as Oracle database and server platform distros.The image gallery is constantly growing.These images are regularly patched and updated
You don’t have to setup connectivity between your OnPremise datacenter and Windows Azure if you are just interested in pure-play Windows Azure solutionsHowever, if it makes sense to have a hybrid solution architecture between OnPremise and the Cloud, you would have to configure a secure tunnel between the two enviroonmentsSlide Objective:Overview Steps of Deploying a VNETNotes:Network admin sets up network (logically) IP ranges of premises and vnet(s) Subnet specification DNS server specification IP of VPN GWMSFT provides sample VPN config scripts for popular device families.Services can bedeployed in VNet easily.
You don’t have to setup connectivity between your OnPremise datacenter and Windows Azure if you are just interested in pure-play Windows Azure solutionsHowever, if it makes sense to have a hybrid solution architecture between OnPremise and the Cloud, you would have to configure a secure tunnel between the two enviroonmentsSlide Objective:Overview Steps of Deploying a VNETNotes:Network admin sets up network (logically) IP ranges of premises and vnet(s) Subnet specification DNS server specification IP of VPN GWMSFT provides sample VPN config scripts for popular device families.Services can bedeployed in VNet easily.
You don’t have to setup connectivity between your OnPremise datacenter and Windows Azure if you are just interested in pure-play Windows Azure solutionsHowever, if it makes sense to have a hybrid solution architecture between OnPremise and the Cloud, you would have to configure a secure tunnel between the two enviroonmentsSlide Objective:Overview Steps of Deploying a VNETNotes:Network admin sets up network (logically) IP ranges of premises and vnet(s) Subnet specification DNS server specification IP of VPN GWMSFT provides sample VPN config scripts for popular device families.Services can bedeployed in VNet easily.
You don’t have to setup connectivity between your OnPremise datacenter and Windows Azure if you are just interested in pure-play Windows Azure solutionsHowever, if it makes sense to have a hybrid solution architecture between OnPremise and the Cloud, you would have to configure a secure tunnel between the two enviroonmentsSlide Objective:Overview Steps of Deploying a VNETNotes:Network admin sets up network (logically) IP ranges of premises and vnet(s) Subnet specification DNS server specification IP of VPN GWMSFT provides sample VPN config scripts for popular device families.Services can bedeployed in VNet easily.
You don’t have to setup connectivity between your OnPremise datacenter and Windows Azure if you are just interested in pure-play Windows Azure solutionsHowever, if it makes sense to have a hybrid solution architecture between OnPremise and the Cloud, you would have to configure a secure tunnel between the two enviroonmentsSlide Objective:Overview Steps of Deploying a VNETNotes:Network admin sets up network (logically) IP ranges of premises and vnet(s) Subnet specification DNS server specification IP of VPN GWMSFT provides sample VPN config scripts for popular device families.Services can bedeployed in VNet easily.
You don’t have to setup connectivity between your OnPremise datacenter and Windows Azure if you are just interested in pure-play Windows Azure solutionsHowever, if it makes sense to have a hybrid solution architecture between OnPremise and the Cloud, you would have to configure a secure tunnel between the two enviroonmentsSlide Objective:Overview Steps of Deploying a VNETNotes:Network admin sets up network (logically) IP ranges of premises and vnet(s) Subnet specification DNS server specification IP of VPN GWMSFT provides sample VPN config scripts for popular device families.Services can bedeployed in VNet easily.
You don’t have to setup connectivity between your OnPremise datacenter and Windows Azure if you are just interested in pure-play Windows Azure solutionsHowever, if it makes sense to have a hybrid solution architecture between OnPremise and the Cloud, you would have to configure a secure tunnel between the two enviroonmentsSlide Objective:Overview Steps of Deploying a VNETNotes:Network admin sets up network (logically) IP ranges of premises and vnet(s) Subnet specification DNS server specification IP of VPN GWMSFT provides sample VPN config scripts for popular device families.Services can bedeployed in VNet easily.
You don’t have to setup connectivity between your OnPremise datacenter and Windows Azure if you are just interested in pure-play Windows Azure solutionsHowever, if it makes sense to have a hybrid solution architecture between OnPremise and the Cloud, you would have to configure a secure tunnel between the two enviroonmentsSlide Objective:Overview Steps of Deploying a VNETNotes:Network admin sets up network (logically) IP ranges of premises and vnet(s) Subnet specification DNS server specification IP of VPN GWMSFT provides sample VPN config scripts for popular device families.Services can bedeployed in VNet easily.
You don’t have to setup connectivity between your OnPremise datacenter and Windows Azure if you are just interested in pure-play Windows Azure solutionsHowever, if it makes sense to have a hybrid solution architecture between OnPremise and the Cloud, you would have to configure a secure tunnel between the two enviroonmentsSlide Objective:Overview Steps of Deploying a VNETNotes:Network admin sets up network (logically) IP ranges of premises and vnet(s) Subnet specification DNS server specification IP of VPN GWMSFT provides sample VPN config scripts for popular device families.Services can bedeployed in VNet easily.
Slide Objective:Highlight some of the functionality available to Windows Administrators to automate management / provisioning of virtual machines in the cloud.
WRAP UPAll the features I mentioned today are today are generally available to the public.The services that have the preview tag next to them in the Window Azure management portal are currently in preview mode, meaning that they are not yet final.As of November 2013 BizTalk Services, Windows Azure Cache, Premium SQL Database Offering, Developer Services, Application Access Enhancements and Hyper-V Recovery Manager are Windows Azure features that are in preview mode. These services will be coming out of preview next calendar year. MSFT is working hard on getting them done as soon as possible.If you haven’t gotten started yet with Windows Azure, I encourage you to go to WindowsAzure.com and sign-up for an account. If you have an MSDN subscription you can activate from $600 up to $1800 worth of yearly Windows Azure benefits, depending on your MSDN subscription levelMSDN Pro is $50 of Windows Azure services/month , MSDN Premium is $100/month and Ultimate is $150/month, You get $200 of Azure Services for the first month for all MSDN subscription levels. Otherwise you can sign-up for a free trial and get started.THANKS! & POLLThank you for attending this webinar. I hope it answered some of the cloud-related questions you have.I will now run a poll to find out what you want to learn more about in terms of Microsoft Cloud Offerings.FEELER QUESTIONS