#Microsoft Azure #CosmosDB Globally Distributed Multi-model Database Service #Cloud #Azure

 

Azure Cosmos DB is Microsoft’s globally distributed, multi-model database service for mission-critical applications. Azure Cosmos DB provides turn-key global distribution, elastic scaling of throughput and storage worldwide, single-digit millisecond latencies at the 99th percentile, five well-defined consistency levels, and guaranteed high availability, all backed by industry-leading SLAs. Azure Cosmos DB automatically indexes data without requiring you to deal with schema and index management. It is multi-model and supports document, key-value, graph, and columnar data models. As a cloud-born service, Azure Cosmos DB is carefully engineered with multi-tenancy and global distribution from the ground up.

5-Minute Quickstarts

Learn how to use Azure Cosmos DB to create a globally distributed database using one of the multi-model APIs:

Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB Documentation

From here you see how simple you can Activate Azure Cosmos DB :

Select Azure Cosmos DB and Create

Creating CosmosDB

From here you can select your Platform and Add Collection.

And do Epic Things in Visual Studio 😉

What really Awesome is to replicate with Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB :

Here I have the Write Region in North Europe

Here I have added a Read Region Japan West by Click on the +

Write Region is North Europe
Read Region is Japan West

From here you can do a Manual Failover

Here you see the Failover between Europe and Japan

My Write Region is now Japan West instead of Europe
And you can add more Regions like this.

And of course everything is in the metrics monitoring.

It’s a Great Microsoft Azure Cloud solution for Enterprises doing business all over the world and for Developers to make Epic Things !

#MVPBuzz
#DevOps

Happy Learning with #Microsoft Self Paced LABS Online #Education #Azure #Winserv #SDN #SQL #Cloud

STEP 1

Here you go to the Microsoft Self-Paced-LABS

STEP 2

Happy Learning with your online LAB

#Microsoft System Center Management Pack (CTP) for #SQL Server vNext Replication #Sysctr #SCOM

Microsoft System Center Management Pack (Community Technology Preview) for SQL Server vNext Replication enables the monitoring of Replication as a set of technologies for copying and distributing data and database objects from one database to another and then synchronizing between the databases to maintain consistency.

Here you can download the System Center MP for SQL Server vNext Replication including documentation.

 

#Microsoft MAP Toolkit 9.6 Now Available! #Winserv #SQL2016 #Azure #Office365 #Cloud #Tool

Microsoft MAP Toolkit 9.6

The Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit (MAP) is an agentless, automated, multi-product planning and assessment tool for quicker and easier desktop, server and cloud migrations. MAP provides detailed readiness assessment reports and executive proposals with extensive hardware and software information, and actionable recommendations to help organizations accelerate their IT infrastructure planning process, and gather more detail on assets that reside within their current environment. MAP also provides server utilization data for Hyper-V server virtualization planning; identifying server placements, and performing virtualization candidate assessments. More information about MAP Toolkit can you find here

Software Requirements:

• Operating system. Any of the following:
  • Windows 10 (Professional, Enterprise and Ultimate editions only)
  • Windows 8.1 (Professional and Enterprise editions only)
  • Windows 8 (Professional and Enterprise editions only)
  • Windows 7 with Service Pack 1 (Professional, Enterprise, and Ultimate editions only)
  • Windows Server 2012 R2
  • Windows Server 2012
  • Windows Server 2016
  • Windows Server 2008 R2 with Service Pack 1
• .NET Framework 4.5 (download from http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=389161)
• Installation of all updates for the operating system. Note: In some cases updates may not install automatically. To download updates for your computer manually, go to http://update.microsoft.com/.
• By default, the MAP Toolkit will install SQL Server 2012 Express LocalDB during setup. You may also use an existing installation of SQL Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 R2, or SQL Server 2012 if you create an instance named “MAPS” before running the MAP Toolkit installer. The MAP Toolkit requires the collation order of the database engine to be set to “SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS”.

Notes:

• Some of these prerequisites require restarting your computer. You may have to restart multiple times if all the prerequisites are not met prior to running Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit setup.

Scenario-dependent requirements:

• For machines that will be used to run the Forefront Endpoint Protection Usage Tracking, Lync Usage Tracking, Exchange Server Usage Tracking, or Volume Licensing scenarios, please note: PowerShell 2.0 or higher must be installed.
• For machines that will be used to collect Oracle schema information, please note: The 64 bit Oracle client must be installed on the MAP machine to collect the schema information. If the 64 bit client is not installed, MAP will only be able to collect instance information. MAP will not collect schema information if the 32 bit Oracle client is installed.

Export results in Excel for Windows Server 2016 Assessment Example

Microsoft Azure Virtual Machine Sizing Example in Excel

With MAP Toolkit Training available 😉

You can download MAP Toolkit 9.6 here

Join #Microsoft Community Event of the Year #ExpertsLive2016 Register Now!

Experts Live is an independent platform for IT Pros around Microsoft solutions. A platform by and for the community. Each year Experts Live is organizing a large-scale knowledge event. It has grown to become the largest Microsoft community event of the Benelux where more than 1000 visitors come together.
National and International community experts talk with visitors fully with latest Microsoft technologies in one day. Through the years, well-known speakers and MVPs are associated with this event.
This year find Experts Live on Tuesday 22nd November. Experts Live 2016 offers more than 40 breakout sessions, an opening and closing keynote !

Go to the Website of Experts Live and Register to Join the Microsoft Community world Experts Live 2016 Event

Hope to meet your there 😉

@MS_Ignite Windows Server 2016 and System Center 2016 Sessions #Winserv #Sysctr #Ignite2016

On Monday September 26 – 30, 2016, Microsoft Ignite Event will Kick off ! 🙂

Here you will find the Sessions for

Windows Server 2016 and System Center 2016

Microsoft Ignite is Sold Out, but you can Watch it Live !

and here you find the Home page of Ignite

#Microsoft System Center Management Packs (CTP1) for #SQL Server #Sysctr #MSOMS

INSTANCE VIEW

The new features and fixes introduced in CTP1 management packs are as follows:

New SQL Server 2008/2008 R2/2012 MP Features and Fixes

• Added support for databases stored on SMB Shares
• Fixed error logging in a script for Blocking Sessions monitor
• SQL 2005 MP files were excluded from the installer
• Fixed issue: CPU Usage monitor & rule did not work for SQL Server cluster instance
• Fixed issue: connection to an SQL Server instance was not closing when the destination was wrong
• Fixed Non-Readable Replica detection (Always On)
• Made detection condition stricter for DB User Policy event-based discovery: added management group name
• Made detection condition stricter for Script Failed alerting rule: added management group name

New SQL Server 2014/2016 MP Features and Fixes

• Memory-Optimized Data Garbage Collection Fill Factor monitor and rule were disabled by default
• Memory-Optimized Data workflows were disabled for all SQL Server instances, except for Developer, Enterprise, and Evaluation editions
• Fixed issue: CPU Usage monitor & rule did not work for SQL Server cluster instance
• Fixed issue: connection to an SQL Server instance was not closing when the destination was wrong
• Fixed issue: in some cases, Set Database Online/Offline tasks did not work for databases of SQL Server 2016 cluster instance
• Made detection condition stricter for DB User Policy event-based discovery: added management group name
• Made detection condition stricter for Script Failed alerting rule: added management group name

For more details, please refer to the user guides that can be downloaded along with the corresponding Management Packs.

The Operations Manager team encourages you to provide any feedbacks on the management packs by sending them to sqlmpsfeedback@microsoft.com

Creating Datacenter and Instance Dashboards

With this System Center Management Pack CTP1 for SQL Server there is also an Awesome SQL Server Dashboard Guide to help you
building your own Dashboards in SCOM.

Here you can download the System Center Management Pack CTP1 for SQL Server and the Documentation.