Matt Hester's WebLog
Candygrams for the IT Pro on Windows Server 2012, Hyper-V Server, System Center 2012, Azure, Windows 8, PowerShell, Cloud and Office 365
Deploying Windows 10 with Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT)
One of my passion areas in Windows technology is deployment. With recent changes in Windows 10...
Date: 01/28/2016
Azure in 5 Minutes: Customize the Microsoft Azure Preview Portal
In this brief screencast, I take you through the basics of customizing the Microsoft Azure Preview...
Date: 06/04/2015
Azure in 5 Minutes: A Quick Tour of the New Azure Portal
In this brief screencast, I take you through the basics of the Microsoft Azure Preview Portal. For...
Date: 06/03/2015
IE Support Policy Information and Resources
We have been asked several times by partners what is the support policy and EOL of Internet...
Date: 06/01/2015
Upgrading to build 10122 of Windows 10
Good morning everyone. If you are a part of the Windows 10 Tech Preview, you may have been taking...
Date: 05/29/2015
Ramping up on Windows 10 --- Get Ready With Upcoming Training!
As you know Windows 10 is right around the corner and will be available shortly. We want to ensure...
Date: 04/28/2015
Want to see what is coming in the Microsoft Cloud take a look at the Cloud Platform Roadmap
I get asked all the time “…when will Microsoft’s cloud platform get XYZ feature or variations of...
Date: 02/04/2015
Walt Disney World Marathon Dopey Challenge 2015: Race Week!
I am so sorry I have not posted my training as much as I would have liked to. This training year has...
Date: 01/06/2015
Walt Disney World Marathon Dopey Challenge 2015 Week 18 Training: All About the Hydration, even when it is Cold.
As I am coming off a great 20 miles this last weekend. I am reminded of an important topic and that...
Date: 11/13/2014
Dallas TechFest Presentation: To Cloud or Not To Cloud
I had the privilege to speak at Dallas TechFest last week and I delivered one of my favorite...
Date: 10/24/2014
ANNOUCEMENT: SCU is now available on Channel 9!
I am excited to announce the partnership between SCU and Channel 9, allowing for all SCU content and...
Date: 10/23/2014
Walt Disney World Marathon Dopey Challenge 2015 Week 14 Training: Songs that Get Me Going #3
Happy Training week 14! Here are 3 more songs I love to run to. Enjoy! Too Close by Alex Clare Come...
Date: 10/15/2014
TechNet Radio: Sneak Peak 1 MVA Live Event - Modernizing Your Data Center
Jennelle Crothers and myself give you a sneak peak into what we are going to be discussing on our...
Date: 10/14/2014
Walt Disney World Marathon Dopey Challenge 2015 Week 13 Training: Tyler Rose 1/2 Recap
Two letters: P. R. This Sunday I ran the Tyler Rose 1/2, this was the last race in my four seasons...
Date: 10/08/2014
Walt Disney World Marathon Dopey Challenge 2015 Week 12 Training: 4 Months and many miles away!
Sorry for another delay, another fun few weeks of travel on the horizon for me. I am about 4 months...
Date: 10/02/2014
TechNet Radio: (Part 6) Modernizing Your Infrastructure with Hybrid Cloud - Introduction to Migrating Server Workloads to Windows Server 2012 R2 and Microsoft Azure
In part 6 of our “Modernizing Your Infrastructure with Hybrid Cloud” series, Blain Barton and Tommy...
Date: 09/22/2014
Walt Disney World Marathon Dopey Challenge 2015 Week 10 & 11 Training: Tips for Travel and Your Training (and Goofy Giveback information)
I write this post as I am on the road this week (this is why you get the bonus day). This gave me...
Date: 09/19/2014
TechNet Radio: (Part 5) Modernizing Your Infrastructure with Hybrid Cloud - Hybrid Cloud Management and Automation
In part 5 of our "Modernizing Your Infrastructure with Hybrid Cloud" series, Yung Chou and...
Date: 09/15/2014
Microsoft Virtual Academy New Course: VMware to Hyper-V Migration
Are you interested in the benefits of Microsoft virtualization with Windows Server 2012 R2 and...
Date: 09/10/2014
Walt Disney World Marathon Dopey Challenge 2015 Week 9 Training: Songs that Get Me Going #2
Happy Monday, welcome to the 2nd version of songs that get me going while running and working out....
Date: 09/08/2014
TechNet Radio: (Part 4) Modernizing Your Infrastructure with Hybrid Cloud - Planning Hybrid Cloud Virtualization
In part 4 of our “Modernizing Your Infrastructure with Hybrid Cloud” series, Blain Barton and Keith...
Date: 09/06/2014
TechNet Radio: (Part 3) Modernizing Your Infrastructure with Hybrid Cloud - Planning Hybrid Cloud Networking
Kevin Remde and Keith Mayer continue our series on “Modernizing Your Infrastructure with Hybrid...
Date: 09/05/2014
5 Bold Predictions for the NFL 2014: Cleveland Browns Edition
Happy NFL season everyone! I hope this year will be better than last year’s predictions which you...
Date: 09/04/2014
Walt Disney World Marathon Dopey Challenge 2015 Week 8 Training: I Learned Something New
Happy Tuesday! I hope everyone had a great long weekend. This past week was actually a nice recovery...
Date: 09/03/2014
Modernizing Your Infrastructure with Hybrid Cloud - Step-by-Step: Building Microsoft Azure Virtual Networks (Part 14)
In today’s part of the series I take you on a quick tour of one of the key building blocks in any...
Date: 09/03/2014
Modernizing Your Infrastructure with Hybrid Cloud - Hyper-V over SMB (Part 8)
In today’s post in the modernizing your infrastructure with Hybrid Cloud series, I am going to talk...
Date: 08/27/2014
Modernizing Your Infrastructure with Hybrid Cloud - Storage Spaces in Windows Server 2012 R2 (Part 7)
In this part of the Modernizing Your Infrastructure with Hybrid Cloud, we are focusing on of the...
Date: 08/26/2014
Walt Disney World Marathon Dopey Challenge 2015 Week 7 Training: Hottest Half Race Recap and Thoughts
I had a solid week of training this week! My long run for the week was supposed to be 9 miles, but I...
Date: 08/25/2014
TechNet Radio: (Part 2) Modernizing Your Infrastructure with Hybrid Cloud - Planning a Hybrid Cloud Storage Architecture
Kevin Remde and Dan Stolts continue our series on “Modernizing Your Infrastructure with Hybrid...
Date: 08/25/2014
TechNet Radio: (Part 1) Modernizing Your Infrastructure with Hybrid Cloud - Why NOW is a good time to plan for Modernizing Your Infrastructure
In this episode Keith Mayer and myself kick off a special 6 part series on “Modernizing Your...
Date: 08/18/2014
Walt Disney World Marathon Dopey Challenge 2015 Week 6 Training: Plan and Creative in Your Training
Happy Monday! Week 5 was a solid week of training even with a very busy schedule. During training, I...
Date: 08/18/2014
Walt Disney World Marathon Dopey Challenge 2015 Week 5 Training: Songs that Get Me Going!
Happy Monday! The training so far is going really well, and had a great 7 mile run last week with my...
Date: 08/11/2014
Register for Live! 360 in Orlando and save $600
I have mentioned this conference before in the past, and hopefully one day I will get to speak at...
Date: 08/07/2014
Walt Disney World Marathon Dopey Challenge 2015 Week 4 Training: Listening to your body
Happy Monday! Last week was not as solid of a week as I would like, but I had a little bit of knee...
Date: 08/04/2014
Walt Disney World Marathon Dopey Challenge 2015 Week 3 Training: Adding Races to your Training Plan
Okay so I missed posting last week but I did my training and I am really enjoying the plan! I know...
Date: 07/28/2014
Walt Disney World Marathon Dopey Challenge 2015 Week 1 Training: Here I Go Again!
Enjoy this 80’s interlude and this is an all skate song: I have decided to run in the happiest place...
Date: 07/14/2014
TechNet Radio: (Part 10) Accelerate DevOps with the Cloud - Monitoring, Measuring & Learning for Continuous Improvement
Concluding our special “Accelerate DevOps with the Cloud” series on TechNet Radio, Keith Mayer...
Date: 06/30/2014
TechNet Radio: (Part 9) Accelerate DevOps with the Cloud - Scaling Cloud Applications
In part 9 of our “Accelerate DevOps with the Cloud” series on TechNet Radio, Keith Mayer and Yung...
Date: 06/27/2014
TechNet Radio: (Part 8) Accelerate DevOps with the Cloud - Rollback Plan? What rollback plan?
In part 8 of our “Accelerate DevOps with the Cloud” series on TechNet Radio, Keith Mayer and...
Date: 06/26/2014
Windows 8.1 Deployment In Action: Putting MDT and WDS Together (Part 6)
In this part we put all the parts together, to have your first deployment environment ready to go....
Date: 06/25/2014
TechNet Radio: (Part 7) Accelerate DevOps with the Cloud - Configuration Management
In part 7 of our "Accelerate DevOps with the Cloud" series on TechNet Radio, Keith Mayer...
Date: 06/24/2014
TechNet Radio: (Part 6) Accelerate DevOps with the Cloud - Automating for Predictability
Continuing our “Accelerate DevOps with the Cloud” series on TechNet Radio, Yung Chou welcomes Sr....
Date: 06/23/2014
Windows 8.1 Deployment In Action: Working with Task Sequences (Part 5)
In this part we will take a look at how to build a task sequence, that will allow you to put...
Date: 06/20/2014
TechNet Radio: (Part 5) Accelerate DevOps with the Cloud - Testing in the Cloud with Microsoft Azure and Visual Studio Online
In Part 5 of our “Accelerate DevOps with the Cloud” series on TechNet Radio, Tommy Patterson...
Date: 06/19/2014
TechNet Radio: (Part 4) Accelerate DevOps with the Cloud - Source Control in the Cloud with Microsoft Azure & Visual Studio Online
In Part 4 of our “Accelerate DevOps with the Cloud” series on TechNet Radio, Keith Mayer welcomes...
Date: 06/18/2014
Windows 8.1 Deployment In Action: Working with Deployment Shares (Part 4)
In this part, you will get to take a look at the basic building block in an MDT environment, the...
Date: 06/18/2014
TechNet Radio: (Part 3) Accelerate DevOps with the Cloud - Enabling Self-Service On-Demand Developer Environments in the Cloud
In Part 3 of our “Accelerate DevOps with the Cloud” series on TechNet Radio, Blain Barton and Keith...
Date: 06/16/2014
Windows 8.1 Deployment In Action: Installing the Tools (Part 3)
In this part of the series we will take a look at how to install the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit...
Date: 06/13/2014