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Authentication in Windows Azure Pack follows Claims-based principles and works with a customized ASP.Net Membership provider based Tenant Authentication Site for Tenants and a Windows Authentication Site for Administrators out of the box. You can also...

  A couple weeks ago, my colleague Michael Greene posted a terrific set of VMRole Gallery Items for Collaboration Workloads , including Lync Server 2013, Exchange Server 2013 and SharePoint Server Server 2013. Today, I’m happy to post two VMRole...

Just posted a tiny update to the published version of PDT to resolve the media validation issue with System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager Prerequisites. There are no other changes in this release – a much larger update with lots of interesting...

When I introduced VMCreator.ps1, I recommended the use of Convert-WindowsImage.ps1 for creation of the parent disks. A new version – version 6.3 – of Convert-WindowsImage.ps1 has now been released. Amongst other things, this new version supports creation...

It’s that time of year when the interwebs fill up with Top 10 lists and reflections on the year that’s coming to an end (btw, Migration Mark doesn’t get ‘twerking’). In that spirit, I thought it would be good to look at the...

Windows Azure Pack blog posts on Building Clouds & TechNet You might be thinking, that was a lot of Windows Azure Packs blog posts going out on Building Clouds over the past two months, what's going on? You are right, there has been a lot...

In few of the previous posts, Anders Ravnholt discussed Installation & Configuration of WAP and Reconfiguration with FQDNs, ports and Trusted Certificates in detail. In this series, I will discuss how to configure AD FS and enable it to provide Identities...

In few of the previous posts, Anders Ravnholt discussed Installation & Configuration of WAP and Reconfiguration with FQDNs, ports and Trusted Certificates in detail. In this series, I will discuss how to configure AD FS and enable it to provide Identities...

In few of the previous posts, Anders Ravnholt discussed Installation & Configuration of WAP and Reconfiguration with FQDNs, ports and Trusted Certificates in detail. In this series, I will discuss how to configure AD FS and enable it to provide Identities...

During a discussion with some Microsoft consultants using PDT today for some more advanced deployment scenarios, I was reminded that there is a very useful feature of PDT that I have never blogged about – the ability to use existing SQL instances, instead...

Hi again, it’s Jeff Buller. I am a Program Manager on the Windows Server and System Center CAT team. This is the first of two posts on how to deliver Windows 8/RT applications to users, utilizing Configuration Manager 2012 R2 and Windows Intune...

Hello Readers! I wanted to provide you with a quick update post today to let you know what our colleagues over on the System Center Orchestrator Engineering Blog have been up to… As you may recall, I cross-posted something from Eamon O’Reilly...

By now, you may have read Tiander Turpijn’s blog series on how Service Management Automation (SMA) Runbooks can call Orchestrator Runbooks (and vice versa). If not, I highly encourage you to do so, as the scripts used in this blog post build on the concepts...

Hello readers! This is Part 2 of the “Calling an Orchestrator Runbook from SMA” blog post. In the previous blog post I talked about how you can call - or actually invoke - an Orchestrator Runbook from within Service Management Automation (SMA). In this...

I recently took on a special project to create example gallery items for Windows Azure Pack. I was given a few goals to work with: Think about the example service templates our team has released, especially Exchange, Lync, and SharePoint, and use...

Readers of BCB, I am happy to announce the first round of Building Clouds Blog Windows Azure Pack VMRole Gallery Items! Table of Contents Building Clouds Blog           Windows Azure Pack VMRole Gallery...

This post is part of a series for the Building Clouds Blog Gallery Items for Collaboration Workloads . For more information see the following Table of Contents post - http://aka.ms/bcbgicw . Overview The Exchange Server 2013 gallery resource enables...

This post is part of a series for the Building Clouds Blog Gallery Items for Collaboration Workloads . For more information see the following Table of Contents post - http://aka.ms/bcbgicw . Overview The SharePoint Server 2013 gallery resource enables...

This post is part of a series for the Building Clouds Blog Gallery Items for Collaboration Workloads . For more information see the following Table of Contents post - http://aka.ms/bcbgicw . Overview The Lync Server 2013 gallery resource enables...

This post is part of a series for the Building Clouds Blog Gallery Items for Collaboration Workloads . For more information see the following Table of Contents post - http://aka.ms/bcbgicw . Overview This project is meant as a resource for someone...

Recently we are seeing many customers (including service providers) building external systems (specifically Billing) to integrate with Windows Azure Pack (WAP) for collecting usage and notification data. The Usage and Notification data in WAP is collected...

This is post #5 out of 5 in the “ Orchestrator – Back to Basics – Use Cases ” series, full series posts are located here: #1 : Alert Remediation , where automation is used to monitor specific situations, and react automatically. This is also the introduction...

This is post #4 out of 5 in the “ Orchestrator – Back to Basics – Use Cases ” series, full series posts are located here: #1 : Alert Remediation , where automation is used to monitor specific situations, and react automatically...

This is post #3 out of 5 in the “ Orchestrator – Back to Basics – Use Cases ” series, full series posts are located here: #1 : Alert Remediation , where automation is used to monitor specific situations, and react automatically...

This is post #2 out of 5 in the “ Orchestrator – Back to Basics – Use Cases ” series, full series posts are located here: #1 : Alert Remediation , where automation is used to monitor specific situations, and react automatically...