Microsoft is introducing the New Windows Admin Center ( former Project Honolulu )
Last weekend I made my MVPLAB.LOCAL domain with Project Honolulu version 1803 and Windows Server Insider version.
I Made my Domain controller first and later a Cluster with the Windows Server Insider Build version 17639
With Microsoft Windows Admin Center it’s great to manage Windows Server Core version Servers, you got a great GUI interface and you still have a small footprint for your Server OS with Core 🙂
Windows Admin Center is a new, locally-deployed, browser-based management tool set that lets you manage your Windows Servers with no Azure or cloud dependency. Windows Admin Center gives you full control over all aspects of your server infrastructure and is particularly useful for managing servers on private networks that are not connected to the Internet.
Windows Admin Center is the modern evolution of “in-box” management tools, like Server Manager and MMC. It complements System Center and Operations Management Suite – it’s not a replacement.
Architecture
In my MVPLAB.LOCAL I was busy to make a Gateway to Azure for Hybrid Cloud Management :
But with the Microsoft announcement of Windows Admin Center version 1804 yesterday, I will Upgrade my MVPLAB 😉
It’s Really Awesome to Help Microsoft on the #MSTechSummit in Amsterdam for the community doing Q&A on the Microsoft Experts Center Booth and talking with customers on real scenarios about moving to the Microsoft Azure Cloud. Questions like What are the best practices, and what can I do with Microsoft Azure Stack in my own datacenter. Where can I get more information ? Solving problems for the customer by giving them directions where they can find the solution. Supporting customers with the On-Demand LABS and answering the questions they have, It’s just Great to be a Microsoft MVP Cloud and Datacenter Management and support the Community in this way on the Microsoft Tech Summit 2018 in Amsterdam 🙂
Here you see some impressions of the two days Event :
The Entrance in Amsterdam RAI on the Day before the Event
Getting registered as a Speaker on the Day before the MSTechSummit begins.
The Azure Keynote with Tad Brockway
Impressive Virtual Machine on Azure Cloud Services
Supporting the Community on the Experts Booth doing Q&A
And of course you can meet Great Microsoft employees from Redmond 🙂
Each organization has a unique journey to the cloud based on its own starting point, its history, its culture, and its goals. This document is designed to meet you wherever you are on that journey and help you build or reinforce a solid foundation around cloud application development and operations, service management, and governance. An important concept covered in this book is a strategy for identifying and moving specific workloads based on their actual value to the business. Some emerge in a new form infused with cloud design principals that were otherwise not available in the past. Others receive targeted improvements to extend their lifetimes. Still others move as-is, using the “lift and shift” approach that requires minimal change. Because of the unique capabilities of the Microsoft Cloud and the Microsoft Azure platform, workloads that must remain on-premises because of latency or compliance requirements can fully participate in the journey because of the ability for an organization to run Azure services on-premises using Azure Stack. A Great E-book to Start your journey to the Cloud
Microsoft created The Developer’s Guide to Microsoft Azure to help you on your journey to the cloud, whether you’re just considering making the move or you’ve already decided and are underway. This eBook was written by developers for developers. And it is specifically meant to give you, as a developer, a fundamental knowledge of what Azure is all about, what it offers you and your organization and how to take advantage of it all.
This guide is intended for enterprise IT architects and executives. Using the lens of the physical datacenter, the guide discusses an approach to designing secure, trusted virtual datacenters on the Azure platform. Azure Virtual Datacenter is not a specific product or service but rather a way to think about cloud infrastructures. It offers proven practices and guidance to help smooth your migration to the cloud. At the end of this guide, you can learn about the upcoming Virtual Datacenter Automation guidance. This guidance includes a collection of scripts and Azure Resource Manager templates that will help you build an Azure Virtual Datacenter using the trusted extension model.
This guide is a starting point when considering the migration of existing applications and services. The processes described below are meant to be iterative. By working to identify a first round of candidates for lift and shift, you will build an understanding of what’s required to host and maintain applications in Azure, along with increasing the accuracy of cost estimates. This knowledge will make identifying subsequent candidates much easier. Note that the Azure platform is continuously adding features and services, and costs can change (generally lower) as new capabilities come online. Although applications and services might not be candidates for lift and shift migrations now, they might be in the future, and any iterative review process should take platform changes into account.
May these Awesome Azure E-books help you to build your Cloud Services Today
Break down video of the essentials needed to plan and implement your solutions on Microsoft Azure IaaS. This 7-minute intro covers compute, virtual machines, containers, networking, storage and management options in Microsoft Azure.
When you transform your datacenter on-premises to Microsoft Azure Cloud Service, these Architecture references can help you
to make the right chooses for your business needs. The Azure Architecture Center contains guidance for building end-to-end solutions on Microsoft Azure. Here you will find reference architectures, best practices, design patterns, scenario guides, and reference implementations.
On the left site of this page you can download the complete content of Microsoft Azure Architecture Center into a PDF file 😉
Looks like this :
When your transition and your Architecture is done on Paper you can move save to Microsoft Azure Cloud Services.
Accelerate your digital transformation:
Now is the time to move to Azure and reap the rewards of cloud technology, including the ability to scale up or down quickly, pay only for what you use, and save on compute power. Whether you are deploying new virtual machines, moving a few workloads, or migrating your datacenters as part of your hybrid cloud strategy, the Azure Hybrid Benefit provides big savings as you move to the cloud.
Here you find the Whitepaper of Azure Virtual Datacenter Lift and Shift Guide but also an E-book of Azure Virtual Datacenter from the Azure CAT Guidance Team which can help you to start your transition of your datacenter to the Microsoft Azure Cloud.
When you have workloads in your on-premises Datacenter which may not run in any public Cloud or via Internet, you can run Microsoft Azure in your Datacenter via Microsoft Azure Stack.
Build modern applications across hybrid cloud environments
Azure Stack is an extension of Azure, bringing the agility and fast-paced innovation of cloud computing to on-premises environments. Only Azure Stack lets you deliver Azure services from your organization’s datacenter, while balancing the right amount of flexibility and control—for truly-consistent hybrid cloud deployments.
The Microsoft 25th Global MVP Summit 2018 was just AWESOME !
I like to Thank you all the people at Microsoft who was helping at the Global MVP Summit 2018 and made this Great Event to a big Success.
I had a Great time with the Microsoft Product teams and PM’s, with Good interactive sessions and Awesome NDA content. I Love to be an MVP in Cloud and Datacenter Management and learning a lot about Microsoft Azure, AzureStack, Analytics, in a DevOps way on Microsoft HQ Campus. First in Building 92 and later in Building 33.
Thank you Tina StenderupLarsen for being on the Summit for all your MVP’s and organize everything !
Welcome to the February 2018 release of Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer.
• Support for File Share snapshots:
o Create and manage snapshots for your File Shares.
o Easily switch views between snapshots of your File Shares as you explore.
o Restore previous versions of your files.
• Preview support for Azure Data Lake Store:
o Connect to your ADLS resources across multiple accounts.
o Connect to and share ADLS resources using ADL URIs.
o Perform basic file/folder operations recursively.
o Pin individual folders to Quick Access.
o Display folder statistics.
Azure Storage Explorer (Preview) is a standalone app that enables you to easily work with Azure Storage data on Windows, macOS, and Linux. In this article, you learn several ways of connecting to and managing your Azure storage accounts.
Azure File Sync agent release notes
Azure File Sync (preview) allows you to centralize your organization’s file shares in Azure Files without giving up the flexibility, performance, and compatibility of an on-premises file server. It does this by transforming your Windows Servers into a quick cache of your Azure File share. You can use any protocol available on Windows Server to access your data locally (including SMB, NFS, and FTPS) and you can have as many caches as you need across the world.
When you installed VSC you can add Extensions to your Visual Studio Code and one of them is Called Azure Account.
When you Add this extension you can connect to Microsoft Azure Cloud Shell in Visual Studio Code.
But before we can use this Extension to connect to Azure CloudShell we need NodeJS version 6 or higher installed on your OS.
