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Thoughts on Nano Server improving Infrastructure Architect Designs
This week at Ignite we uncovered more details on the new and exciting products that will be...
Author: Michael Greene Date: 05/04/2015
Welcome to Cloud Solutions
This week, Vijay Tewari introduces the new Cloud Solution track of Building Clouds. Vijay is the...
Author: Microsoft Private Cloud Solutions Team Date: 04/30/2015
Self-service deployment of Microsoft workloads on Cloud Platform System (and other systems with Windows Azure Pack) – Part 3
Jeff Goldner is back with another installment of our CPS workload deployment series. Jeff is a...
Author: Bruno Saille [MSFT] Date: 04/17/2015
How Do I Extend My Datacenter in Microsoft Azure?
How do you grow your puppy into a full fledged dog? It takes time, patience, work, and some...
Author: Date: 04/14/2015
Self-service deployment of Microsoft workloads on Cloud Platform System (and other systems with Windows Azure Pack) – Part 2
We are privileged to have a guest blogger on Building Clouds, Jeff Goldner. Jeff is a Principal...
Author: Bruno Saille [MSFT] Date: 03/23/2015
Microsoft Cloud Platform System: Storage Performance Overview Now Available
Guest post by Dan Lovinger, Principal Software Engineer Hi everyone, I’m Dan Lovinger, a...
Author: Steve Linehan AzureCAT Date: 03/09/2015
White paper: Modern Application Modeling and Configuration for Infrastructure Clouds
Hello readers! This blog post introduces the “Modern Application Modeling and Configuration...
Author: Bruno Saille [MSFT] Date: 02/17/2015
CPS Management Cluster and Its Performance
By now, I hope that you’ve had some opportunities to read and understand what Cloud Platform...
Author: Cheng Wei Date: 02/09/2015
Self-service deployment of Microsoft workloads on Cloud Platform System (and other systems with Windows Azure Pack) – Part 1
We are privileged to have a guest blogger on Building Clouds, Jeff Goldner. Jeff is a Principal...
Author: Bruno Saille [MSFT] Date: 02/05/2015
xPDT – Profiles
In “xPDT – the next generation of deployment automation”, I outlined the...
Author: Rob Willis (MSFT) Date: 01/30/2015
xPDT – Credentials, CredSSP, and Execution
In “xPDT – the next generation of deployment automation”, I outlined the...
Author: Rob Willis (MSFT) Date: 01/30/2015
xPDT – Remoting Tasks and Validation
In “xPDT – the next generation of deployment automation”, I outlined the...
Author: Rob Willis (MSFT) Date: 01/27/2015
xPDT – the Next Generation of Deployment Automation
In my last post, I introduced a new set of DSC resources available in the DSC Resource Kit Wave 8...
Author: Rob Willis (MSFT) Date: 01/27/2015
Microsoft uses Cloud Platform System (CPS) in production for engineering workloads
You don’t often think about enterprise private clouds and high scale going together. 45K VMs...
Author: Russ Wilson MSFT Date: 01/23/2015
IT Pros: Trade Your Tech Support Stories for a Surface Pro 3
The Enterprise Mobility Suite team has just launched a contest looking for the best tales from tech...
Author: Date: 01/23/2015
Azure Pack Tenant portal extensibilities – Part 2
Multiple domain names and themes on a single Tenant portal On to the First extensibility then!...
Author: Shriram Natarajan (Azure Stack) Date: 01/20/2015
Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) with Azure Pack Tips, Tricks & Troubleshooting
We have been getting a lot of interesting questions from customers and partners who have implemented...
Author: Shriram Natarajan (Azure Stack) Date: 01/08/2015
Azure Pack Tenant portal extensibilities – Part 1
Hello folks! Hope everyone had a great holiday! Its been a while since I last blogged and so I...
Author: Shriram Natarajan (Azure Stack) Date: 01/07/2015
Deployment–PDT 2.65.2620 is now available on the TechNet Gallery
In my last post I mentioned that PDT was being maintained by a group inside Microsoft that actively...
Author: Rob Willis (MSFT) Date: 12/05/2014
Modern Datacenter Architecture Patterns–Hybrid Networking
This document provides an overview of Microsoft Azure networking capabilities for hybrid...
Author: Date: 12/02/2014
Modern Datacenter Architectural Patterns-Azure Search Tier
The Azure Search Tier design pattern details the Azure features and services required to deliver...
Author: Date: 12/02/2014
Modern Datacenter Architecture Patterns-Multi-Site Data Tier
The Multi-Site Data Tier design pattern details the Azure features and services required to deliver...
Author: Date: 12/02/2014
Modern Datacenter Architecture Patterns-Global Load Balanced Web Tier
The Global Load Balanced Web Tier design pattern details the Azure features and services required to...
Author: Date: 12/02/2014
Cloud Platform Integration Framework–Overview
The Cloud Platform Integration Framework (CPIF) provides workload integration guidance for...
Author: Date: 12/02/2014
Microsoft Cloud Platform Integration Framework – Architecture
The Cloud Platform Integration Framework (CPIF) provides an enterprise or cloud service provider...
Author: Date: 12/02/2014
Microsoft Infrastructure as a Service Foundations
The goal of the Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) Foundations series is to help enterprise IT...
Author: Date: 12/02/2014
Microsoft Infrastructure as a Service Foundations-Multi-Tenant Designs
As part of Microsoft IaaS Foundations series, this document provides an overview of one of the...
Author: Date: 11/18/2014
Microsoft Infrastructure as a Service Foundations-Software Defined Architecture Pattern
As part of Microsoft IaaS Foundations series, this document provides an overview of one of the...
Author: Date: 11/15/2014
Microsoft Infrastructure as a Service Foundations—Converged Architecture Pattern
This document discusses one of several design patterns that you can use for building out your...
Author: Date: 11/14/2014
Private Cloud Security Considerations Guide-Security Challenges
This section of the Private Cloud Security Considerations Guide covers a number of security design...
Author: Date: 11/09/2014
Private Cloud Security Considerations Guide–Introduction and Overview
The purpose of this document is to provide you with design considerations and architectural view for...
Author: Date: 11/09/2014
Microsoft Infrastructure as a Service Virtualization Platform Foundations
This document discusses the virtualization platform infrastructure components that are relevant for...
Author: Date: 11/06/2014
Thank You TechEd Europe 2014!
Hello Readers and Viewers! Quite a few Enterprise Cloud Group CAT Team Members / Building Clouds...
Author: Charles Joy [MSFT] Date: 11/03/2014
Claim Fundamentals WhitePaper for Windows Azure Pack
Hello Readers Some people find the concept of claims in connection with Windows Azure Pack hard to...
Author: Anders Ravnholt [MSFT] Date: 10/29/2014
Deployment–DSC Resources for System Center Deployment
Readers of this blog are familiar with the PowerShell Deployment Toolkit (PDT), which was developed...
Author: Rob Willis (MSFT) Date: 10/24/2014
Introducing the JEA Toolkit Helper
Note: This tool has been replaced by the "JEA Helper Tool 2.0", which has been designed to...
Author: Bruno Saille [MSFT] Date: 10/24/2014
Microsoft Infrastructure as a Service Compute Foundations
This document discusses the compute infrastructure components that are relevant for a Microsoft IaaS...
Author: Date: 10/23/2014
Microsoft Infrastructure as a Service Network Foundations
This document discusses the network infrastructure components that are relevant for a Microsoft IaaS...
Author: Date: 10/21/2014
Unveiling The Microsoft Cloud Platform System, powered by Dell
Yes!!! At last we can talk about what we have been working on for close to 18 months - “San...
Author: Steve Linehan AzureCAT Date: 10/20/2014
Teched Barcelona opportunities for direct engagement with Windows Server & System Center Engineering teams
Dear Building Clouds readers If you are going to Teched Europe in Barcelona, Spain and would like to...
Author: Anders Ravnholt [MSFT] Date: 10/20/2014
Microsoft Infrastructure as a Service Storage Foundations
This document discusses the storage infrastructure components that are relevant for a Microsoft IaaS...
Author: Date: 10/15/2014
Automate and Manage Windows Operating System Deployments Now Online
Hey folks! Jeff Gilbert here. It’s no secret that enterprise Windows operating system deployments...
Author: Date: 10/15/2014
Desired State Configuration (DSC) Nodes Deployment and Conformance Reporting Series (Part 4): Using Operations Manager to check for configuration enforcement
In the previous post for this series, we discussed how the conformance server reports on the health...
Author: Bruno Saille [MSFT] Date: 10/09/2014