WS2016

This post will discuss what the general availability of Azure File Sync will mean to customers that are continuing to use on-premises file servers.

On February 19, 2003, Microsoft announced that the corporation has acquired a privately held virtualization vendor called Connectix. It might not have seemed like it then, but this acquisition was the genesis of something huge in the IT world, and I’m not limiting that to just Hyper-V.

Learn about the new features and changes to Hyper-V in the recent 1709 semi-annual channel release of Windows Server.

I have known about Azure File Sync for quite a while under NDA and have been itching to start talking about it. It’s a killer service that an incredible number of businesses could benefit from.

Aidan Finn discusses the impact of the end of Nano as a viable operating system for physical and virtual machines.

Aidan Finn looks at Microsoft’s recently launched Azure Backup Server, additional support for Windows Server 2016, and VMware 6.5 to its on-premises extension to the cloud backup service.

Aidan Finn explains how to customize the functionality of Compute Resiliency, which is a feature that increases tolerance of transient errors in Hyper-V failover clusters.

Aidan Finn discusses Microsoft’s recent announcements about the end of infrastructure roles for Nano Server and the twice-yearly updates to Windows Server.

Aidan Finn discusses Microsoft’s announcement to remove all the infrastructure features, such as scale-out file server and Hyper-V from Nano Server.

Aidan Finn explains Compute Resiliency.

Aidan Finn goes over several announcements Microsoft made regarding Azure virtual machines at the recent Build conference.

Aidan Finn shows you how to deploy VHD Sets on Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V.

Aidan Finn explains what Shared Virtual Hard Disk Sets are and why to use them to create shared virtual storage on Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V.