In Berlin, we are hosting the Hackaton with our partner Chef, and will in one day, hack your DevOps world with great tools and lots of fun.

In Austria, we are taking two days to introduce you to the world of DevOps and to let your hack the projects that you are working on.

I hope to see you in either Berlin or Vienna

\Rasmus - @RasmusHaldDK

Ps. We are also planning new DevOps Hackatons in Netherlands and Denmark. – Follow to know more.

Join us for 60 minutes online while Microsoft and community experts give deep dive demonstration about Microsoft technologies.

TechNet Friday. Windows Server Storage Spaces
Join us for an hour of practical and technical insight into to world of Windows Server Storage Spaces. The session will dig deep in the technical aspect of Microsoft storage virtualization solutions build on Windows Server.
Spend an hour with us, and be part of this exclusive session delivered by the team that trains the trainers, and get all your questions about Windows Server Storage Spaces answered.

Presented by: Jan Ahrenkiel Mortensen & Jason Ochoa, Premier Field Engineers, Microsoft
Tech Level: 300

November 6, 2015 10.00 – 11.00

Register now

The current schedule for DevOps Hackathon looks like this. Please click the links to find more information about the event and what you will learn

Ghent in Belgium - September 22 & 23
Agenda and registrations

Vianen in the Netherlands - September 28 & 29
Agenda and registrations

More events are being planned . These events will be hosted in English

I hope to see you there

\Rasmus

TechNet Friday. Azure Site Recovery
High availability and disaster recovery are key components of an Enterprise’s IT environment. While more and more companies are adopting Hyper-V on Server 2012 R2 for their private cloud solution, this session will show you how you can leverage on the power of Microsoft Azure, for building a Hyper-V based disaster recovery datacenter. That’s right! You can migrate your in-house VM’s to Microsoft Azure, guaranteeing uptime and availability of the machine and the applications to your end-users. No using Hyper-V yet?? No worries, Azure Site Recovery can also act as failover for your Vmware or physical host platform.
Learn from Peter De Tender, appreciated technical speaker, Microsoft Infrastructure Architect, Microsoft Certified Trainer and Windows IT Pro MVP

Presented by: Peter De Tender, MVP
Tech Level: 300

TechNet Friday Extra. Azure Backup
Azure Backup is a multi-tenanted Azure service that enables you to back up your data present anywhere: on-premises or in Azure. It replaces your existing on-premises or offsite backup solution with a reliable, secure and cost competitive cloud based offering. It also provides the flexibility of protecting assets running in the cloud. Azure Backup is built on top of a world class infrastructure that is scalable, durable and highly available. Using this solution, you can back up data and applications from their System Center Data Protection Manager (SCDPM) servers, Windows servers, Windows client machines or Azure IaaS virtual machines.
In this session we will walk you through the technical capabilities of Azure Backup and show you how it works in real life.

Presented by: Rasmus Hald, Microsoft
Tech Level: 300

Watch it now

TechNet Friday: Azure Site Recovery (2/10)

https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/TechNet-Friday/TechNet-Friday-October-2015-Azure-Site-Recovery

TechNet Friday: Azure Backup (2/10)

https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/TechNet-Friday/TechNet-Friday-Extra-Azure-Backup

Recorded on October 2, 2015 10.00 – 12.00

The PowerShell script below will take any certificate in .pfx format and convert it to an BASE 64 string, and output it to a .txt file

---

$bytes = [System.IO.File]::ReadAllBytes("C:\sslwebapp.azurewebsites.net.pfx");

$b64 = [System.Convert]::ToBase64String($bytes);

[System.Io.File]::WriteAllText("C:\sslwebapp.azurewebsites.net.txt", $b64);

---

I hope it helps

Kind regards,

@RasmusHaldDK

Background
Azure Resource Manager (ARM) is relative new and will over time, replace Azure Service Management (ASM) that for many, are the current default, when working with Azure. You can, in many ways, compare it to the new and old Azure Portals, where ASM will represent the old portal and ARM is the new “Preview” portal.

What does it do?
ARM is everywhere! You are using ARM if you are building Azure services through the Azure Preview Portal, deploying via the ARM cmdlets in PowerShell or building and deploying JSON templates in Visual Studio.

Consider ARM the engine that builds and modifies your services on the Azure platform and there are many ways of telling it what to do.

Getting started
There are lots of great resources out there and more will be published as ARM is maturing. I have a few recommended resources below

At Microsoft Virtual Academy, we recently published a set of videos about ARM:

Building Infrastructure in Azure using Azure Resource Manager

At Deploy and Manage Virtual Machines using Azure Resource Manager Templates and PowerShell you can find a great article that goes into depth on working with ARM

If you are looking for a more Cloud Agnostic view on ARM, a whitepaper about Cloud Consistency with Azure Resource Manager can be found at TechNet Gallery

The tools

PowerShell is key to working with automation and ARM. If you have no prior PowerShell knowledge, this is actually a good place and absolutely central to what we are doing.

Visual Studio or a good .txt editor is central when working with templates. Visual Studio comes in a free version as well as professional editions. Check out the free Visual Studio Code, it will save you a lot of time while working with JSON templates. Any .txt editor will work, as long as it keeps the formatting.

The Future
ARM is here to stay and will be expanded to cover more Azure services. The future also brings a new product from Microsoft called the Azure Stack,  an on-premises version of Azure. It will feature many of the services you know from Azure, and will be build on Azure Resource Manager.

This blog will continue to cover ARM in details and give you practical examples on how to use it.

Cheers,

@RasmusHaldDK

Det er blevet tid til at lave ændringer til hvordan vi har struktureret vores danske TechNet blogs.

Denne side har i de sidste par år været stedet hvor du kunne holde dig opdateret på hvad der sker omkring Microsoft infrastruktur, i Danmark og de fleste indlæg har været omkring events, både online og med personligt fremmødeog netop dette fortsætter på Dansk TechNet Blog – Jeg håber du vil følge med der.

Denne blog fortsætter under navnet Cloud Admins og vil fremover beskæftige sig med Cloud Computing og DevOps (der også er mine nye fokusområder) Sproget bliver byttet ud med engelsk, så flere kan få glæde af det og du vil fortsat kunne læse om relevante internationale events og aktiviteter herunder et nyt spændende koncept vi lancere snart

Jeg håber meget at du fortsat vil følge med

De bedste hilsner

@RasmusHaldDK

• Understanding Active Directory – En introduktion til Active Directory
• Windows 8.1 Deployment Jump Start – Tips og tricks til Windows 8.1 deployment
• Advanced Tools & Scripting with PowerShell 3.0 Jump Start
• Microsoft Azure IaaS Deep Dive Jump Start

Find konkurrencebetingelserne her: https://aka.ms/itpronu

IT Camp: Extend Your Datacenter with Azure detailed Agenda

Agenda is subject to change and times may vary

Fakta om dagen:

Sprog: Dansk (Materialer på Engelsk)
Teknisk Niveau: Level 300
Produkter: Microsoft Azure
Format: Interaktivt, Præsentation, Demonstration & Hands-on
Underviser: Rasmus Hald  - @RasmusHaldDK
Pris: Gratis
Tid: den 30. april fra 9.00 til 17.00
Sted: Scandic Aarhus City, Østergade 10, 8000 Aarhus

HUSK: Medbring egen laptop (og evt. tablet til instruktionerne) til gennemførelse af hands-on labs

Tilmeld dig gratis i dag (Brug invitationsnøgle 0F7ACF)