Friday, May 30, 2014

End to End demo of Microsoft data platform.


Here’s an end-to-end demo of the Microsoft data platform and how we bring together Microsoft SQL Server StreamInsight, Azure HDInsight Service, Parallel Data Warehouse, and Power BI for Office 365 to deliver a seamless, integrated big data solution to customers.

Thanks to Vu Le from MTC Singapore for sharing.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mtcblog/archive/2014/05/29/mtc-singapore-check-out-this-demonstration-of-a-complete-data-platform.aspx


Basic skills to troubleshooting DPM agent connection and deployment issues

This is a pretty good guide from MS's TechNet blog for troubleshooting DPM agent connection issues. I think the steps will easily solve most of the issues if they exist.

Have a read: http://blogs.technet.com/b/dpm/archive/2012/02/06/data-protection-manager-agent-network-troubleshooting.aspx.


Saturday, May 03, 2014

Windows Hyper-V Best Practises in a nutshell.

Thanks for Noel for posting this on the SCUG @ Facebook.
Great list of Windows 2012 and 2012 R2 best practices, right down to the hotfixes that are recommended.

Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Best Practices (In Easy Checklist Form)
http://blogs.technet.com/b/askpfeplat/archive/2013/03/10/windows-server-2012-hyper-v-best-practices-in-easy-checklist-form.aspx