
As Microsoft Technical Evangelist covering Private Cloud, System Center, Hyper-V, Azure and Datacenter, Richard is a recognized industry expert in server infrastructure, datacenter management, cloud and virtualization

As Microsoft Technical Evangelist covering Private Cloud, System Center, Hyper-V, Azure and Datacenter, Richard is a recognized industry expert in server infrastructure, datacenter management, cloud and virtualization
Microsoft IT Camps is coming in 2012. It is a series FREE workshops for IT Professionals to learn and understand Microsoft technologies. There are three different themes: Datacenter Virtualization Implementing Private Cloud Enabling Consumerization of IT Join your peers for a hands-on, highly-interactive and engaging learning experience around Microsoft technologies and solutions. Have real-world discussions and work with technology experts and your peers to solve scenario-based problems. Date Theme Request an Invite ...
Lync Mobile Client is now available! If you have a Windows Phone then you can open the link http://windowsphone.com/s?appid=9ce93e51-5b35-e011-854c-00237de2db9e on your phone and install it. You may ask how about other platforms like, iOS, Android? There are clients for them too!! Lync Mobile for Android https://market.android.com/details?id=com.microsoft.office.lync Lync Mobile for iOS http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/microsoft-lync-2010-for-iphone/id484293461?mt=8 Lync mobile clients enable you to stay connected, communicate and conference on the go. Mobile clients for Microsoft Lync 2010 take the power of unified communications mobile—including rich presence, instant messaging, audio conferencing, and calling features from a single, easy-to-use interface. Few features worth mentioning: ...
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Backup and Restore is the last defence, when everything fails everyone is relying on backup and restore. Hear from our TechDays Singapore 2011 speaker Mike Reseller on his exprience. Mike is DPM MVP, Consultant, trainer and well-known speaker. Data Protection Manager provides the capability to protect virtual machines in your IT environment, as well as the applications running on them. With the 2012 release Data Protection Manager grows these existing capabilities with support for item level recovery, even when Data Protection Manager is running in a virtual machine. Start from FREE online training - http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com To familiar yourself with new System Center 2012 Pre-release – http://technet.microsoft.com/en-sg/evalcenter/hh505660.aspx Learn about System Center 2012 Technical Resources – http://technet.microsoft.com/en-sg/evalcenter/hh478202.aspx
November Meet Up Agenda Date: 09 November 2011 Time: 7.00pm to 9.30pm Venue: 1 Marina Boulevard #22-00,MS Singapore – 22CF12 6.30pm: Registration 7.00pm: Session 1 – SCOM2012 New Application Monitoring Capabilities 8.15pm: Break 8.30pm: Session 2 – TCPIP Printer Deployment via GPP & GPO 9.30pm: Home Sweet Home Session 1 – SCOM2012 New Application Monitoring Capabilities (Richard) Abstract: In a world where systems are constantly made into web applications for easy access, the need to monitor and fault find is ever more difficult to detect. SCOM 2012 Application monitoring allows us the visibility to detect these errors and performance points into a structured way. We will discover how we can move from the unknown to a quick and easy way to bypass the unknown to the problem then onto the solution in easy steps. This helps to stop finger pointing and allow Dev and Infra team to work together more constructively. Come and see for yourself how it works. Session 2 – TCPIP Printer Deployment via GPP & GPO (Tan Chee) Abstract: Ever wonder how to deploy TCPIP printer to client machine without manually installing them one by one? Most will say script do wonders. But what if you are not familiar with scripts? Can this be done without the help of script? Tan Chee will share on his experience on using GPP and GPO to deploy TCPIP Printer on Windows 7 Client Machine. Registration For registration, please email to admin@sgwindowsgroup.org with the following: - SWUG ID - Name - Email Address Note: There won’t be an event confirmation. Just turn up, we don’t turn people away. However, please register if you’re coming.
A private cloud helps you deliver what the service consumer and the service provider want by providing a simple and effective way to deliver “IT as a Service” and today three new products in our System Center 2012 lineup that help make your private cloud experience real - specifically App Controller, Service Manager & Orchestrator. As of today, App Controller and Service Manager are in public beta while Orchestrator is available as a public release candidate. Go here to download and evaluate how App Controller, Service Manager and Orchestrator can enable your private cloud experience. If you attended TechDays Singapore 2011, we talked about all these three products. If you missed out the sessions, recordings of the sessions on App Controller, Service Manager and Orchestrator are available at link below. Cloud Management with System Center Application Controller Self-Service Private Cloud Management through Integrated Processes with Service Manager 2012 Automating your Infrastructure: Microsoft System Center Orchestrator 2012 Technical Overview To learn more about Microsoft Private Cloud and System Center go to http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com for FREE online training.
Good news everyone, you can now download all System Center 2012 Pre-release products from One Single Regsitration. Go to HERE to try out System Center 2012 today! Before you start, make sure you check out the available System Center 2012 technical resources on TechNet. Available System Center 2012 Products: System Center Configuration Manager 2012 Beta 2 provides comprehensive configuration management for the Microsoft platform that can help you empower users with the devices and applications they need to be productive while maintaining corporate compliance and control. (English) System Requirements > System Center Operations Manager 2012 Beta provides deep application diagnostics and infrastructure monitoring that can help you ensure the predictable performance and availability of vital applications and offers a comprehensive view of your datacenter, private, and public clouds. (English) System Requirements > System Center Data Protection Manager 2012 Beta provides unified data protection for Windows servers and clients that can help you deliver scalable, manageable, and cost-effective protection and restore scenarios from disk, tape, and off premise. (English) System Requirements > System Center Orchestrator 2012 Beta provides orchestration, integration, and automation of IT processes through the creation of runbooks that can help you to define and standardize best practices and improve operational efficiency. (English) System Requirements > System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 RC provides virtual machine management and services deployment with support for multi-hypervisor environments that can help you deliver a flexible and cost effective private cloud environment. (English) System Requirements > System Center App Controller 2012 Beta (Coming Soon) System Center Service Manager 2012 Beta (Coming Soon)
If you look to get certified and advance your career with skills in virtualization, here is a good online training that can help you. The December class is more friendly to Singapore timezone. It is on 2nd Decemeber Friday 14:00 - 22:00. Register Now This comes with an Exam Voucher normally valued at $150 and you get free online training. New Jump Start! Microsoft Server Virtualization – Get Certified! Microsoft Learning is hosting a brand new class in the popular “Jump Start” series. We received rave reviews from the last Microsoft Virtualization Jump Start delivered earlier this year and know this new course will be another smash. Here are the details: • What? “Exam 70-659: Windows Server 2008 R2, Server Virtualization Jump Start” • When? Wednesday, November 2, 2011 from 8am – 5pm PDT **OR** Thursday, December 1, 2011 from 10pm – 6am PDT • How? Live virtual classroom (online) • How much? $99 (includes an exam voucher valued at $150) Register Now for either the November 2 or December 1 class. Skills Covered: ...
The newest version of Windows Intune is now available. Sign up here for a FREE 30-day trial and test it out on up to 25 PCs! What are the some of the key new features we have added? Software Distribution: Deploy most Microsoft and third-party updates or applications to PCs nearly anywhere over the Internet to Windows Intune managed PCs. Remote Tasks: You can now easily and remotely perform the following tasks on Windows Intune managed PCs from the administration console: Full scan, Quick scan, Update Malware Definition, and Restart. Read-Only Access: You can now can give select administrators read-only access to the administration console so they can view PC information as needed, but not perform any configuration tasks if you choose to. Enhanced Reporting: You can easily create hardware reports based on new hardware filters for common hardware characteristics. Additionally, you can now create and save report parameters to make it easy and efficient to run a report again in the future. Alerts & Monitoring: You can now configure alert types to be reported according to a specified threshold, frequency, or percent of computers affected. Want to learn more about these new features and all the other updates to Windows Intune? Check out the following content: ...
Recently I was asked few times what is the difference between virtualization and private cloud. There are distinct differences between virtualization and private cloud. They are not the same thing. Virtualization is just the first step towards private cloud. According to NIST defination, a private or public cloud should have following characteristics. These are the fundamental differences between private cloud and virtualization. On-demand self-service: the ability for a user to obtain computing resources (compute, network, storage) as needed and automatically, without interaction with other people Broad network access: the computing resources are accessible over the network and using tools widely used as thin clients and thick clients (phones, laptops, desktops, slate) Resource pooling: the computing resources are pooled together to serve different customers using a multi-tenant model. The different physical and virtual resources are assigned dynamically, based on the needs of users. This allows you to get a sense of independence from the location of resources as the end user does not have an exact idea of ??where you actually reside the resources it uses, but may indicate a high level of preferential locations Rapid elasticity: the resources can be quickly modified, often automatically, so you can quickly adapt to the waxing and waning of necessity. From an end user’s point of view, this can lead to the feeling of having unlimited resources to buy the necessary amount for the time. Measured Service: The cloud systems automatically monitor and optimize resources by exploiting the capabilities measure implemented at different levels of abstraction depending on the type of service provided. The use of resources can be controlled, measured and reported enabling the end user and service provider access to information transparently use Virtualization alone does not achieve these characteristics and does not enable efficiency. Let’s look how these cloud functionalities can be through Microsoft technologies. Base Virtualization Infrastructure The base infrastructure for private cloud is virtualization. One important thing everyone tends to take for granted is Active Directory. Active Directory provides the base for identify and security management. In the base infrastructure, there are ...