Thank you #Community and #Microsoft for this Awesome Year 2022! Happy Holidays

What a Year 2022!!

I like to thank you Community for Supporting, Sharing and Reading New Microsoft technologies on my Blog, Twitter, Facebook and
LinkedIn Community Groups 💗 I wish you all happy Holidays, Merry Christmas and a Healthy New Year 2023 may the Best Wishes comes true ! 🎄🥂

I’m very proud and Honored  on the Microsoft Global MVP Awards 2022-2023 !

• MVP Award for Cloud and Datacenter Management
• MVP Award for Windows Insiders
• MVP Award for Azure Hybrid

Thank you Microsoft Product Groups, MVP Award Program, Windows Insider Team, Azure Hybrid Team, Windows Server and Azure Stack HCI Team for all your support, NDA PGI sessions, and for the Awesome software, Features, solutions you are building 🙂
Wish you all Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas and a Healthy New Year 2023 may the Best Wishes comes true ! 🎄🥂

Here are some Great links for Reading and Sharing :

JOIN these LinkedIn Community Groups for free and Share New Microsoft Technologies Together:

Windows Admin Center Community Group

Containers in the Cloud Community Group

Microsoft Azure Monitor & Security for Hybrid IT Community Group

Azure Hybrid Community Group

Azure DevOps Community Group

What I really love is the Microsoft Tech Community platform

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For Microsoft Azure Hybrid:

Azure Arc Jumpstart site

Azure Hybrid and Multi Cloud documentation

Microsoft Azure Arc Community monthly Meetup (GitHub)

Follow on Twitter for Azure Hybrid:

@ThomasMaurer

@LiorKamrat

@rcTibi

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For Windows Insiders:

Microsoft Windows Insiders Blog

Windows Insider Team on YouTube

The Windows Insider Program Team is really active on Twitter:
@WindowsInsider

@JenMsft

@NorthFaceHiker

@brandonleblanc

@amanda_lango

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Get started with the Windows Server Insider program

What’s New in Windows Server 2022

Overview of Windows Admin Center

What’s New in SQL Server 2022

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Happy Holidays and I wish you a Healthy 2021 #Azure #Cloud #MVPBuzz #Winserv #Security #Healthcare

It’s a year full of misery with the Covid-19 virus around the world. People who lose their loved one, It’s a very sad time for all of us! Microsoft technologies are still going on strong with new features in Azure Cloud Services but also supporting the people who are working in the healthcare, data analytics, Microsoft Teams for Collaboration and much more. But what I want to say to all HealthCare people over the world : THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ALL THE WORK YOU DO 👍
I have deep respect for you all !
Community, Microsoft Product Teams, MVP Lead, WIndows Insiders, I wish you and your family happy holidays and a Healthy 2021 with lot of Success! 🎄😍

 

Happy Holidays and Thank you ! #MSOMS #Azure #AzureStack #Hyperv #Sysctr #HybridCloud

Thank you for following me @Jamesvandenberg
Thank you Community 😉
Thank you Microsoft
Wish you all the Best !
#MVPbuzz

Wish you all Merry Christmas & Happy New Innovative Year 2016 !

Wow a lot has happened in 2015, I don’t even know where to begin with a recap of 2015 in a Mobile and Cloud first world ! What I have learned that’s it’s all about
applications on your Mobile Phone, Tablet, or any Device to Work, Learn in any environment you want. Sharing Microsoft technology with the Community and in Education via Social media is what I love to do on a daily bases. I hope you enjoyed the information in 2015 with Microsoft Products like :

• Microsoft Azure Cloud Services
• Azure Backup Server
• Azure Security Centre
• Microsoft Operations Management Suite
• Windows Server 2016 TP4
• Windows Containers
• Nano Server
• System Center 2016 TP4
• Bringing Azure to your Datacenter with Microsoft Azure Stack
• Microsoft Azure Dreamspark Subscription for Students
• Microsoft Loves Linux and GitHub and OpenSource
• and much more !

I wish you all a Healthy Life and a lot of Success in 2016 !

Microsoft is transforming Datacenters with New Technology and making Hybrid Cloud possible for your Applications.
What I personally like is the Microsoft Hololens this is something different, but very Cool to be in a Virtual Reality World with
awesome possibilities in 2016 and in the Future 🙂

Thank you Community, Followers, Microsoft Product Teams, MVP Award Program, MVP’s, Developers, ITpro’s, Students, for Sharing !

Best Regards, James van den Berg.

 

USE #UserVoice for Feedback to the #Microsoft Developer Teams Make IT BETTER TOGETHER

Use Uservoice for getting features into Microsoft Products and give the Developer Teams your feedback.
It’s based on a voting system, the feature or special feedback with the most votes from users around the world will be picked out by the product team 🙂
Here you find some links to Microsoft Product Teams on Uservoice to give your feedback :

• Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 Uservoice
• Microsoft Office 365 Uservoice
• Microsoft Health and Microsoft Band Uservoice
• Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager Uservoice
• Microsoft Xbox Uservoice
• Microsoft Windows Server Uservoice
• Microsoft System Center Operations Manager Uservoice
• Microsoft Azure Feedback

MAKE IT BETTER TOGETHER 😉

Very Proud on the 5th #Microsoft Global MVP Award for SCCDM #SYSCTR

I’m very proud to receive the 5th Microsoft Global MVP Award for System Center Cloud and Datacenter Management (SCCDM) !
A Big Thank YOU community for following me via Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and my Blog, is really appreciated 🙂
A Big Thank YOU Microsoft for all the support and PGI sessions, really Awesome working together as a Great Team 😉
A Big Thank YOU MVP Mates for sharing information with the community 🙂
A Big Thank YOU to my Family for supporting me all the way ! 🙂

2015 – 2016 will be a beautiful Microsoft year with Awesome new technologies in Windows Server 2016, Hyper-V, System Center, Azure, and we will Bring
Microsoft Azure Cloud Services to your Datacenter with AzureStack.
A lot of New Microsoft information and Great solutions for blogging and sharing with the Community on Social Media.

List of Build Numbers for System Center Virtual Machine Manager #SCVMM #sysctr

2012 R2

 

Build Number	Knowledge Base Article ID	Release Date	Comment
3.1.7200.0	n/a		System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager Preview
3.2.7510.0	n/a		System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager RTM
3.2.7620.0	2904712	2014-01-27	Update Rollup 1 for System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager
3.2.7634.0	2932926	2014-04-21	Update Rollup 2 for System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager
3.2.7672.0	2965414	2014-07-29	Update rollup 3 for System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager
3.2.7768.0	2992024	2014-11-08	Update Rollup 4 for System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager
3.2.7828.0	3011473	n/a	Update Rollup 5 Preview for System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager
3.2.7895.0	3023195	2015-02-10	Update Rollup 5 for System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager
3.2.8002.0	3050317	2015-04-28	Update Rollup 6 for System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager

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2016

Build Number	Knowledge Base Article ID	Comment
3.2.9013.0	n/a	System Center Technical  Preview Virtual Machine Manager. Blog info
3.2.9234.0	n/a	System Center Technical  Preview 2 Virtual Machine Manager. Blog info

Here you can find all the System Center Virtual Machine Manager Build Versions

Microsoft Azure (Iaas) Cost Estimator Tool #Azure #Hyperv #SCVMM #VMware

Select Machine Type in the Microsoft Azure Cost Estimator tool

Enter the Machine Details.

You can Profiling from Run Once til four weeks

The Azure (IaaS) Cost Estimator has been designed keeping in mind the need to provide the IT manager of next generation organizations the ability to quickly assess running cost of her existing on-premises workload on Azure.

About the tool

1. The tool provides real world machine hardware usage
2. It recommends appropriate Azure instance to match the scanned workload
3. It also generates 30-day cost estimates of running such an Azure instance

Features

1. The tool supports
   1. Microsoft technologies (Hyper-V, SCVMM)
   2. VMware technologies (vCenter, ESXi)
   3. Physical environments (Windows, Linux)
2. It is able to export to Excel/.csv that can be used for discussions with Systems Integration partner or a Microsoft representative
3. No data is sent to Microsoft at any time. All report and profile information resides on the machine where the tool is installed

Value Proposition

1. Can be Installed and a profile scan completed within 15 minutes (can be deployed on a Windows client)
2. Enables a comparison with on-premises running costs (e.g. hardware, power, cooling, building, security, and systems management among others)

If you have any questions about the tool, or would like to send us your valuable feedback/comments, please write to Microsoft at feedbackAzureCalc@microsoft.com

You can download the Microsoft Azure Cost Estimator tool here

Making a NVGRE Gateway with System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager #SCVMM #sysctr

We made in our TestLAB ICTCUMULUS (Means CLOUDS) a NVGRE (Network Virtualization using Generic Routing Encapsulation) Gateway with System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager.

Before you make the Microsoft NVGRE Gateway see these blogposts here :

From Microsoft Private #Cloud to Hybrid Cloud Services Part 2 of 5 #SCVMM 2012 R2

The Microsoft Windows Server Gateway is active.

Here we set the right settings for Front and backend Connection.

Now we create VM Network with isolation called Tenant Blue.

We create an IP Pool for the Blue Tenant network.

We now create a Hyper-V Port Profile for the VM’s in Tenant Blue

Now we deploy a Virtual Machine

We Create a Virtual Machine in the isolated Blue Tenant.

VM is automatically configured with an IP-adress from the IP-Pool (192.168.99.2):

VM communicates via the NVGRE (via NAT) with the internet:

Our virtualization gateway host is using a Provider Address (192.168.98.2) used for network virtualization:

We created two more VM in the blue tenant to see some more results in the next step:

We can see our three created VMs with Customer address mapped to Provider Address if we run the powershell command Get-NetVirtualizationLookupRecord on the gateway host (ras01):

UPDATE: Technical Documentation for System Center 2012 R2 – Virtual Machine Manager #SCVMM #Hyperv

You can download the SCVMM documentation here