Learn Live: Azure Hybrid Cloud Study Hall
Join us for the new Azure Hybrid study hall series. This fourteen-party weekly series will answer your questions live, walk through how to configure, deploy, manage your hybrid cloud resources using services and hybrid cloud technologies, and walk-through Microsoft Learn ... continue reading

SONiC opens more opportunities for network innovation
SONiC, as an open-source operating system for network devices, has been growing rapidly in the last five years. According to Gartner Market Guide for Data Center Switching published early this year, they predict, “By 2025, 40 percent of organizations that ... continue reading

Architect and optimize your internet traffic with Azure routing preference
At Microsoft, we see our customers going through rapid digital transformation to accelerate business growth and empower their employees. And the shift to the digital sphere means a phenomenal growth in internet traffic. The global pandemic has transformed the way ... continue reading
One Ops Question: How can I simplify management of my Windows Servers on-prem and Azure?
Today Sarah answers a questions that is on every on-prem IT person. When you have systems in all kinds of different location and platform how do you keep track of them all without going nuts? how do you tame the ... continue reading
Introducing SDNSecurityToolkit
Thanks to William Conlon for authoring today's post! Every software producer has faced this challenge at some point: balancing flexibility with security. The most basic requirement of quality in any piece of software is that it will not expose the ... continue reading
Azure SQL Database Connectivity and Network Security improvements
Azure SQL Database Connectivity and Network Security improvements Reviewers:- Andreas Wolter, Rajesh Setlem We are proud to announce several improvements to Azure SQL Database in the areas of Connectivity and Network Security. Customers can now choose to connect to SQL ... continue reading
Can't connect to Windows Share – Error code: 0x80070035. The network path was not found.
Hello everyone, my name is John Clyburn and I am a Sr. consultant in MCS. I recently ran into a problem connecting to a share on a Hyper-V server configured using the SDNExpress PowerShell scripts. I’ve been working with Software ... continue reading
Teaming in Azure Stack HCI
Written by Dan Cuomo, Senior PM at Microsoft. Follow him on Twitter @dan2_2023 Windows Server currently has two inbox teaming mechanisms with two very different purposes. In this article, we’ll describe several reasons why you should use Switch Embedded Teaming ... continue reading
The NcHostAgent Service Cannot be Located on the Computer
Hello everyone, my name is John Clyburn and I am a Sr. consultant in MCS. I’ve recently been working with Software Defined Networking (SDNv2). I’ve been primarily working with Windows Server 2019 and VMM 2019, deploying the solution using VMM ... continue reading
Talking Failover Clustering and Azure Stack HCI Ignite 2019 Announcements
Microsoft Ignite 2019 at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida was a huge success with approximately 26,000 in attendance. We had a great time meeting and talking with our partners and customers. We also had a few announcements ... continue reading