My Last Presentation For 2015
SQL Server 2005 End of Life and Modernization Event
Tomorrow I will be presenting at this in-person event being held at the Microsoft Office in Trinidad and Tobago. See
the invite below for more details.
A New Journey
Unbeknownst to most people, I
resigned from my Account Technology Strategist (ATS) position at Microsoft Trinidad and Tobago in October. The
job, just like everything in life, had its ups and downs. I was not able to
focus on some of the technology that I wanted to but, at the same time, I was
able to learn a lot from being on the other side of the wall and seeing the
world from a different point of view. I was able to get a refresher on technologies
that I stopped focusing on, such as System Center, and also learn
first-hand about new products and programs. Another great benefit of the
positon was the friends that I made in the local Microsoft office and in the IT
community.
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M4 Technical Session: Evolving your Infrastructure
This Thursday, Microsoft Trinidad and Tobago team will be
hosting their annual M4 event at the Hyatt Regency, Trinidad. This year they
also have a separate technical session for the IT Professionals in the
Caribbean starting at 1pm. See the invite below for more information and
register here.
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Speaking for Windows 10 IT Pro Readiness
I will be presenting
at the Powered by MVPS - Windows 10 IT Pro Readiness event on October 12th for
the US/Canada region. This event will provide insights and guidance on Windows
10 Enterprise for the IT pro community. It consists of a series of free live
webcasts delivered worldwide during the week of October 12th to 17th 2015.
Finding Your Active O365 Usage
Your organisation
owns a number of office 365 (O365) licenses but how do you know that they are
being used and ensure you are getting value for your money? There are few
reports available to the administrator but the one that will answer this
question is the Licensing vs Active Usage.
AzureCon and Azure Tour
AzureCon is a free,
virtual event where experts from Microsoft and the community will present the
latest in Azure innovation and easy-to-adopt solutions. This event has three
(3) Keynotes, fifty (50) technical breakout sessions and live Q&A with Microsoft
executives, Azure engineers and community members including:
• Scott Guthrie,
Executive Vice President, Cloud & Enterprise
• Jason Zander,
Corporate Vice President, Cloud & Enterprise
• Bill Staples,
Corporate Vice President, Cloud & Enterprise
• Mark Russinovich,
CTO, Microsoft Azure
Event details:
September 29, 2015 9am - 5pm PST
The Azure Tour
starts in Philadelphia and continues in eight (8) different cities around the
world from October 2015 to March 2016. Each city will host a free, in-person,
one-day technical training event that offers technical breakout sessions,
hands-on experiences and full-day immersions. The tour site has more details.
Developer Resources for Windows 10
I usually blog about
SQL Server and database related topics but since Windows 10 is still relatively
new I decided to post some links to help the developer community:
Announcing SQL Server 2016 CTP 2.3, Upgrade Advisor 2016 Preview 1.1 and Management Studio August Preview
The SQL Server 2016 CTP 2.3
release includes enhancements to the core SQL Server components and also
addresses issues that were reported for CTP 2, CTP 2.1 and CTP 2.2. The full list
of features and improvements can be found on SQL Server blog. Download CTP 2.3 here.
Row-level Security Available for SQL Database
Earlier this week, Microsoft made
Row-Level Security (RLS) available for SQL Database. This feature, which was
released as a preview in January, allows the customer to control who has access
to rows in their database table based on a user's characteristics such as
identity, role and execution context.
The concept is similar to having
all the data is in one table and then using a query with predicates to
decide what data is returned, the query doesn’t change only the values being
used in the where clause changes.
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Dude, Where's my GUI - Windows Server 2012/R2
During one of my classes, a
student encountered an issue with his virtual machine (VM) which was running
Windows Server 2012. After attempting multiple solutions to fix the issue the
VM restarted but all that came up was the command prompt, the Server Manager
tool didn’t start, there was no task bar. Holy crap, we just lost our GUI!
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Clone Virtual Disk Image (VDI) as a Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) file
Due to some laptop
issues I needed to move some virtual machines (VM) to my replacement machine
but this time I decided to run them on Hyper-V. Instead of trying to convert
the disk image files to VHD I decided that having a VDI and VHD copy for future
would be best. Virtual Box has a command-line interface called VBoxManage that
allows you to clone the hard disk image using the clonehd command.
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