We are grateful for the trust our customers have placed in Windows Server 2012/R2 as a part of their organizations for the past decade. With this release of Windows Server having launched 10 years ago, it reaches end of support on October 10th, 2023, per our 10-year lifecycle policy. After this date, no more security …
Secure Windows Server 2012/R2 workloads with options from Azure Continue Reading
SQL Server has brought reliability and security to mission-critical workloads for 30 years. SQL Server 2022, released November 2022, delivers performance enhancements as well as Azure connectivity for disaster recovery, analytics, and governance. Now customers like Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) are using SQL Server 2022 to expand their capabilities to better support a truly worldwide …
Protect SQL Server 2014 workloads with Azure flexibility Continue Reading
We are in a period of rapid, sweeping change. The converging forces of the post-COVID-19 hybrid world in which we live, a fluctuating financial climate, and the introduction of transformative technologies, such as AI, are driving action within every industry. As a result of these challenges and opportunities, we see customers innovating and leveraging technology …
Accelerating Azure’s edge capabilities through collaborative partnerships Continue Reading
A perennial challenge of server administration is the application of patches and software updates. Applying updates often means a disruption to a service. Hot patch for Windows Server 2022 Datacenter: Azure Edition allows you to apply a special set of software updates that keep the server in a secure state but don’t require the virtual …
How to: Set up hotpatch on desktop versions of Windows Server 2022 running in Azure Continue Reading
Network ATC continues to be the preferred method to deploy host networking for our Azure Stack HCI customers. For most customers, deployment takes just a single command and completes in a few minutes. Network ATC makes all the necessary decisions to ensure that your configuration is stable and optimized. In fact, it will even check …
Network ATC management in Windows Admin Center Continue Reading
Since Azure Stack HCI 21H2, customers have used Network ATC to: Reduce host networking deployment time, complexity, and errors Deploy the latest Microsoft validated and supported best practices Ensure configuration consistency across the cluster Eliminate configuration drift Network ATC has led to HUGE reductions in customer support cases which means increased uptime for your business applications and less headaches for you! But what if you …
In the past year, I have been working on improving our documentation and learning content for Windows containers – in addition to the blog posts you have seen here. Today, I wanted to spend some time on the new content available for Windows containers on Microsoft Learn: New learning path: Deploy, manage, and monitor Windows …
New Windows container content on Microsoft Learn Continue Reading
Hello to our amazing Customers- Can you believe it’s almost April, better yet, almost Spring!? Time is flying and our SDN team is hard at work in coordination with the AKS Hybrid team. The 3-15-23 AKS Hybrid release includes a number of new features designed to improve the overall experience for customers leveraging AKS in …
Hello everyone, I’m Basel Kablawi, PM on the Azure Edge and Platform – Core Networking team, here to announce the latest updates to the physical network switch requirements! Our ecosystem of physical switches is designed to help ensure the compatibility and reliability of network switches with Azure Stack HCI, Microsoft’s hyperconverged infrastructure solution. By participating in …
Physical switch requirement changes for Azure Stack HCI Continue Reading
You’re an Azure Stack HCI Administrator and you’ve worked tirelessly to test your clusters and get them ready for production; you’ve filled out the necessary paperwork, you’ve gotten sign-off from all the stakeholders; and now it’s time to implement your configuration in production. Your boss gives you a short window to deploy your new clusters …
Deploying 100s of Production Clusters in minutes! Continue Reading
