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VSS Backups failing after KB3000853
I have been contacted by some people asking about backup issues they are experiencing on Windows Server 2012 . The issue is related with the Microsoft November update release KB3000853.
My recommendation is to remove the update until Microsoft fix the issue as it affected Microsoft and third party backup products.
As per Taylor Brown’s (Hyper-V Program Manager) blog,
“We are getting reports that some customers are seeing backup jobs fail after installing the latest Windows Updates including the November rollup (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/3000853).
We believe there is an issue with the KB3000853 update and are working to fix it as quickly as possible, in the interim downloading and applying http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2996928/ should address the problem”
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/taylorb/archive/2014/11/19/backup-jobs-failing-post-nov-rollup-install.aspx
What’s New in Hyper-V vNext ? Check out at the Infrastructure Saturday event in Brisbane
Saturday 22nd November
Infrastructure Saturday is a day long event for south east Queensland based IT Professional that work with Microsoft products. This event is an educational, informative & lively day filled with sessions about Microsoft technologies.
Location: Microsoft office, Brisbane, QLD. http://www.infrastructuresaturday.com/
Topics covered in my Session: What’s New in Hyper-V vNext?
- New Virtual Machine Upgrade Process
- New Integration Components installation method
- Secure Boot for Linux
- Distributed Storage Quality of Service (QoS)
- Hyper-V Backup
- Hyper-V Virtual Machine Configuration
- Cluster OS Rolling Upgrade
Join me at the PASS Summit 2014, Nov. 4-7 in Seattle, WA #summit14
Hi
As you look to get the most from your database environment and career, I wanted to extend a special invitation for you to join me and 5,000 fellow professionals from around the world at PASS Summit 2014, Nov. 4-7 in Seattle, WA.
COME ALONG and meet me at the Birds of a Feather Luncheon (BoF) and interact with MVPs, SQLCAT architects, speakers, peers and members of the PASS Board and HQ team in this closing-day lunch focused on bringing people with the same passions together. We will discuss, debate and share ideas from your experiences and past week with others at this interactive sit-down. I will be covering topics like virtualization, cloud, security, Professional Development.
PASS Summit – the world’s largest SQL Server conference – is an amazing opportunity to connect, share, and learn with other SQL Server and BI pros like you and me.
With over 200 sessions across 5 topic tracks and 70+ hours of networking opportunities, PASS Summit is packed with the most intensive SQL Server and BI training available anywhere. Summit’s practical sessions are designed to help you increase your knowledge, keep your skills up-to-date, and gain strategic insights from the world’s leading experts that you can put into action immediately when you get back to the office. Plus, you can bring your pressing questions to the Microsoft SQLCAT team, meet me and other MVPS and community experts in the Community Zone, talk with your local PASS Chapter leader, and more – every day at Summit is a chance to make lifelong friends, like I have.
I hope to see you at Summit – here’s where you can register – and please let me know if you’re attending so that we can connect!
Cheers,
Alessandro
TechEd Australia 2014 Melbourne and Sydney editions
This year TechEd Australia will be held in Melbourne (Oct, 7th – Oct 8th) and in Sydney (Oct, 27th – Oct 28th)
I will be speaking about Azure Remote App on both editions and if you come along and tweet about my session you will enter into a draw to win a copy of my book along with Savision Polo.
It is an interactive demo. I will be using Hyper-V to show how to build a custom RemoteApp image as well as demo the RemoteApp client on different devices.
Bring scale, agility and global access to your business applications. Azure RemoteApp helps employees stay productive anywhere, and on a variety of devices – Windows, Mac OS X, iOS, or Android. Integrate Azure RemoteApp with your company’s existing on-premise infrastructure and bring your own Remote Desktop Session Host, or deploy Azure RemoteApp using our pre-built app collections for a stand-alone cloud service. Quickly ramp up and provide seasonal workers, vendors, or large groups of new employees access to company applications without paying for new servers and expensive on-premise infrastructure.
Melbourne Edition
Date: Tuesday, October 7
- Time:9:40 AM – 10:40 AM
- Room: Datacentre and Infrastructure Management
- Session Type: Breakout
- Session Code:DCI301
- Session Levels:300
Sydney Edition
Date:Monday, October 27
- Time:10:10 AM – 11:10 AM
- Room:Datacentre & Infrastructure Management
- Session Type:Breakout
- Session Code:DCI301
- Session Levels:300
It’s time for a new Windows. Announcing Windows 10 : One Product with a tailored experience for each device
Windows 10 represents the first step of a whole new generation of Windows. Windows 10 unlocks new experiences for customers to work, play and connect. Windows 10 embodies what our customers (both consumers and enterprises) demand and what we will deliver
Microsoft promise that Windows 10 will deliver the right experience on the right device at the right time. It will be our most comprehensive platform ever
more details about what Windows 10 will have for these customers, check out this blog post on the Windows for your Business blog.
Check out the Windows 10 Video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=84NI5fjTfpQ
And form Windows Server and System Center perspective:
Infrastructure upgrades: Rolling upgrades for Hyper-V clusters to the next version of Windows Server without downtime for your applications and workloads. This includes support for mixed versions as you transition your infrastructure.
Networking: New components for our software-defined networking stack that enable greater flexibility and control, including a network controller role to manage virtual and physical networks.
Storage: New synchronous storage replication that enhances availability for key applications and workloads plus storage Quality of Service to deliver minimum and maximum IOPS in environments with workloads with diverse storage requirements.
Remote Desktop: Enhanced application compatibility with OpenGL and OpenCL support.
Identity and Access Management: New scenarios to reduce the risk profile of administrators with elevated rights, including time-based access with fine-grained privileges, and new application publishing capabilities.
The DOWNLOAD it is not yet available but if you want to download the bits or try them on Azure, it will be published here http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=404281
TechEd New Zealand : my sessions
This year I have just about 2 sessions at TechEd New Zealand.
DCIM315 – Implementing Enterprise-Scale Disaster Recovery with Azure Site Recovery, Network Virtualization, and Microsoft System Center 2012 R2
In this session we cover different aspects of Hyper-V Recovery Manager, an enterprise-scale Disaster Recovery solution to provide a single click failover in case of disaster (e.g., automation of overall DR workflow using with sequencing, manual actions, etc. to provide both application and site level DR). Learn how to enable Azure as a Disaster Recovery point in a secure manner and seamless management of failover, failback type activities using Azure IaaS VM. Network connection—back to datacenter and to the clients—is one of the top challenges in setup of your DR infrastructure and we cover how to simplify networking for disaster recovery setup. The session also covers enhancements to the solution for the private datacenter to the private datacenter scenario.
PCIT313 – Azure RemoteApp
Bring scale, agility and global access to your business applications. Azure RemoteApp helps employees stay productive anywhere, and on a variety of devices – Windows, Mac OS X, iOS, or Android. Integrate Azure RemoteApp with your company’s existing on-premise infrastructure and bring your own Remote Desktop Session Host, or deploy Azure RemoteApp using our pre-built app collections for a stand-alone cloud service. Quickly ramp up and provide seasonal workers, vendors, or large groups of new employees access to company applications without paying for new servers and expensive on-premise infrastructure.
NEW book: System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager #SysCtr #MVPBuzz #HyperV
That’s on. After months of writing and reviews, my new book System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager is now released.
Covering : Windows 2012R2 aand Hyper-V new features, System Center 2012 R2 VMM, Operations Manager, App Controller and Azure integration as well Veeam Management Pack.
- Plan and design a VMM architecture for real-world deployment
- Configure network virtualization, gateway integration, storage integration, resource throttling, and availability options
- Integrate Operations Manager (SCOM) with VMM to monitor your infrastructure
- Integrate SC APP Controller (SCAC) with VMM to manage private and public clouds (Azure)
- Deploy clusters with VMM Bare Metal
- Create and deploy virtual machines from templates
- Deploy a highly available VMM Management server
- Manage Hyper-V, VMware, and Citrix from VMM
- Upgrade from previous VMM versions
Order now at http://bit.ly/1pZ5VoQ
Create, deploy, and manage datacenters and private and hybrid clouds with hybrid hypervisors using VMM 2012 R2. Integrate and manage fabric (compute, storages, gateways, and networking), services and resources, and deploy clusters from bare metal servers. Explore VMM 2012 R2 features such as Windows 2012 R2 and SQL 2012 support, converged networks, network virtualization, live migration, Linux VMs, and resource throttling and availability
#Azure Roadshow: Cloud Challenges, Opportunities and Migration Strategies
Summary
Cloud opportunities and offerings that will benefit organisations, as well as the challenges and Migration Strategies to help overcome these.
Topics covered:
- Microsoft Azure PaaS and IaaS offerings:
◦Application Lift & Shift Scenarios
◦Cloud-born Applications that Leverage Office 365 & Yammer
◦Cloud Identity - Cloud-enabled Mobile Device Management with Windows InTune
- Hybrid Cloud deployment model involving Hyper-V and System Center
◦Network Integration - Migration strategies to Public Cloud
◦Driving SaaS Adoption
Target Audience:
Decision Makers, CTO’s, CIO’s, IT Managers, Dev Managers
Time, Date, Venue and Registrations:
Registrations open at 8.30am. A light breakfast will be provided. Presentations will commence at 9am sharp and finish at 11am.
- Sydney :29 August 2014 – Sydney, NSW – REGISTER HERE
- Melbourne : 31 Jul 2014 – Microsoft | Level 5, 4 Freshwater Place, Southbank, Melbourne – REGISTER HERE
- Brisbane : 05 August 2014 – Cliftons | Brisbane – REGISTER HERE
- Perth : 19 August 2014 – Microsoft | Level 3, 100 St Georges Terrace, Perth – REGISTER HERE
For more Information about the events, see http://readify.net/events/
About READIFY : http://readify.net/about-us/
About the Presenters
Alessandro Cardoso | Readify National Manager – Platform Solutions
Alessandro Cardoso is a passionate technology evangelist and a subject matter expert in cloud, virtualization and management. He recently published his book; ‘Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 Cookbook’ http://wp.me/p15Fu3-mK, and has reviewed 5 other books. Alessandro is a speaker at key technical events in Australia and New Zealand and has been a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional since 2009 leading major Cloud, Virtualization, UC&C, AD and Exchange projects for large customers in APJ.
Mitch Denny | Readify Platform Technology Specialist
Mitch Denny has been working with the .NET platform since the year 2000 when the first alpha releases shipped. Since then he has been awarded MVP status nine times in ASP.NET and more recently Microsoft ALM. Currently Mitch is working as Readify’s Platform Technology Specialist – focusing on bringing exciting new products and services to market and working with technical specialists to continually refine our technical vision.
Azure: Security
Microsoft published an infographic about security in Azure. The Infographic is an overview of security, privacy, and compliance in Azure and it is a great place to start if you are unsure about security in the Cloud space.
You can download the infographic here : http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/infographics/cloud-security/
You can find more about Security in Azure here:
- Security, Privacy, and Compliance Whitepaper. New whitepaper details how Azure helps customers achieve the economic benefits of the cloud while furthering security and compliance.
- Privacy Overview Whitepaper.New whitepaper describes how Azure helps safeguard the privacy of customer data in the cloud.
- And much more on the newAzure Trust Center Resourcespage.
No Surprise: Microsoft a Leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant: Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
No surprise, Microsoft landed in the Leader Quadrant in the Gartner IasS Magic Quadrant report.
The Gartner Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Magic Quadrant published with Microsoft landing in the Leader Quadrant. This report evaluates Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Services, and overall, Gartner validates Microsoft’s technology and vision, as well as its platform execution and customer momentum. In the report, Gartner states, “Microsoft has a vision of infrastructure and platform services that are not only leading stand-alone offerings, but also seamlessly extend and interoperate with on-premises Microsoft infrastructure (rooted in Hyper-V, Windows Server, Active Directory and System Center) and applications, as well as Microsoft’s SaaS offerings. Its vision is global, and it is aggressively expanding into multiple international markets. “
Recommended Books
System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine
System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 Cookbook
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