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Date: September 28-30, 2014Location: Washington, D.C.
FSI will be hosting the second annual Financial Advisor Summit in Washington, D.C. The Financial Advisor Summit is a truly unique advisor conference created for financial advisors, by financial advisors. FSI's Financial Advisor Council and Task Force are developing yet another great year of holistic programming. Stay tuned for updates on the different track topics, and new unique offerings for 2014.
This year's event has a dynamic schedule of events.Download the printable schedule at a glance.
Sunday, September 28, 2014
Monday, September 29, 2014
Tuesday, September 30, 2014
Sunday, September 28, 2014 | 5:00 p.m. – 6:15 p.m.
Technology and sales executive Tim Sanders knows about business problems. As a best-selling author, people-centric business expert, and former Yahoo! executive, he been on the ground floor of some of the most disruptive eras of modern times. For those in financial services, it's getting increasingly complex to find and retain clients. For leaders in the industry, team building is one of the biggest challenges as well as one of the best solutions to current issues.
Sanders will share research, case studies and his personal experience related to overcoming those challenges. His remarks will center around positive thinking through lifestyle design, creative thinking throughout the sales and service process and alignment of teams through shared values and purpose.
To him, success comes down to mastering the human side of the business, even in this technology and regulatory laced era we operate in. "If we feed our mind good stuff, think beyond the box and lead others through example," he writes, "anything is possible!"
Monday, September 29, 2014 | 8:30 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.
You know what happens in Washington directly impacts your business and your clients future. Get a jump on your competition by learning what's coming next out of Capitol Hill, the SEC, FINRA and other governmental agencies.
Monday, September 29, 2014 | 4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
You'll gain valuable insight during this informative interview of Susan Axelrod, head of FINRA's Executive Vice President of Regulatory Operations, by FSI's President & CEO, Dale Brown. Susan will share FINRA's examination priorities, discuss important regulatory developments that impact your business and respond to your questions.
Tuesday, September 30, 2014 | 8:30 a.m. – 9:30 p.m.
Early in 2013, Andy Friedman, an expert on Washington political affairs, predicted a downturn in the markets in September as the nation approached the twin deadlines of funding the government and raising the nation's borrowing limit. He also predicted that Congress would not permit the United States to default on its debt, and that such a downturn would be a buying opportunity for investors, as the markets would rebound once an agreement was in sight. This is exactly what transpired, with the markets suffering a downturn as the funding battles ensued in September and early October, only to recover and hit new highs when it became clear they would be resolved.
In this session, Friedman will discuss these matters and their likely effect on investors and the markets. The ongoing budget battles, as well as the upcoming elections, are likely to spark more market fluctuations. Tax reform could have a significant impact on investors, as it could alter current exemptions, deductions, and preferential rates for capital gains and dividend income on which investors rely. Friedman also will provide strategies that investors and financial advisors can consider to take advantage of (or protect against) changes arising from the above initiatives, including specific strategies for investment, wealth transfer, and retirement planning.
The Financial Advisor Summit agenda includes sessions on:
View the onsite guide with a complete list of educational sessions.
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FSI's Financial Advisor Summit will be held at the Washington Hilton. As of September 8, 2014, FSI's room block is now closed.
Washington Hilton (Sold out 9/29)
1919 Connecticut Ave, NWWashington, D.C. 20009Phone: (202) 483-3000
If you still need hotel reservations please note the Washington Hilton is now sold out of rooms on Monday, September 29.
FSI has negotiated a small block of additional rooms at the Dupont Circle Hotel, located ½ mile away from the Washington Hilton (approximately a 10 minute walk). The rate is $219/night plus tax. To reserve a room at the Dupont Circle Hotel in our block, please call the hotel at 202-483-6000 and reference the "Financial Services Institute" room block.
There are a few other hotels nearby that currently have availability, in addition to the Dupont Circle Hotel: Courtyard Washington Marriott, located across the street from the Washington Hilton (very limited inventory).Washington Marriott Wardman, 2-3 minute drive north on Connecticut Avenue from the Washington Hilton.
If you still have difficulty in securing a room after contacting the above hotels, please contact us at firstname.lastname@example.com so that we can assist you.
Metro: Dupont Circle (Red Line) is a 4 block walk from the Washington Hilton.Parking: Parking is available at the Washington Hilton. Valet Parking is $46 a day, and self parking is $36 per day.
The Washington Hilton is 20 minutes from Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA) by car or by the metro subway system (a 4 block walk from the Dupont Circle Station). The Baltimore-Washington International Airport (BWI) or Dulles International Airport (IAD) are both approximately one-hour away. It is also easily accessible by Amtrak, and Union Station is less than 15 minutes from the Washington Hilton by car or by metro.
View directions and additional details for your arrival at the Washington Hilton.
While in D.C., be sure to check out other sites our nation's capital has to offer. The Washington Hilton is located conveniently near downtown, with easy access to many tourist spots. View local attractions.
The Washington Hilton does not provide airport shuttle service. Estimated transportation costs from the three major airports are listed below. Estimated rates do not include tax, tolls and driver gratuities. Rates are subject to change.
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Valet parking is available at the main Lobby Level entrance on Connecticut Avenue. The rate is $46 for a 24-hour period with in-and-out privileges. The entrance to Washington Hilton's on-site, covered self-parking garage is located near the corner of 19th Street and Florida Avenue. Self-Parking rates are $36 for a 24-hour period with in-and-out privileges.
Should your participation in the Financial Advisor Summit change, we kindly ask that you contact us no later than September 19 to receive a full refund less a $75 processing fee. After September 19, no refunds will be issued.
Questions? Contact customer service at 1 (888) 373-1840 or via email.
Each week through the end of August, we will be giving away a prize to one lucky registrant from the previous week.
Week 1 Prize: Sedan transportation to and from the conference WINNER: Bob Johnston, Western International Securities, Inc.
Week 2 Prize: FREE one-on-one image consultation with certified image professional, Jane SeamanWINNER: Steven Blouse, Raymond James Financial Services
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Week 4 Prize: Complimentary hotel room upgradeWINNER: Brian Everett, Everett Financial Group
Week 5 Prize: Complimentary hotel room amenityWINNER: Tiffany Potts, Transamerica Financial Advisors
Week 6 Prize: VIP Seating during the Opening General SessionWINNER: Mark Ciulla, Capital Advisors, Ltd.
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Boomerang III Phrase SamplerSince 1995, the Boomerang has been one of the more popular loopers out on the market, road- and studio-tested by such respected guitarists such as Andrew Belew and Daniel Lanois, as well as plenty of bedroom experimenters all over. Mike Nelson and Lee Hardesty of Boomerang Musical Products have taken their original creation to a much higher level with the III Phase Sampler.First off, the Phase III Sampler now offers you 4 different play styles, each with its own benefit to your creativity side. The Serial Play Style allows you to create one loop after the other, while the Serial Master Play Style is for serial style loopers who like to lay down rhythmic backgrounds behind their melodic loops, perfect for creating verse, chorus, and bridge parts while maintaining a consistent rhythm under all three looped parts. You can even stack on each of the different initial loops for truly intricate soundscapes. Sync Play Style plays all loops simultaneously and in sync while Free Play Style plays all loops simultaneously but not in sync, ideal for those who like to experiment with no boundaries. The Phase III Looper even lets you stutter your start loops for a DJ-scratch like effect or stack loops at half speeds.There are six knobs to let you control Decay, Volume, Vol 2, Vol 3, Vol 4, and Fade Time, the final 4 being available with a simple tap or hold of one of the two Bonus footswitches. The Bonus footswitches also open up your ability to unlock a plethora of options, including stacking unlimited loops; undo/redo; erasing loops one at a time or all at once; copying a complete loop; Copy Live to enable resampling so the pedal's output is routed to a new loop; Octave for playing a loop at half speed and octave lower; Reverse for playing a loop backwards, Once to play a loop one time through, or if it's already playing, stop it at its end; Stutter gives you a record scratching like effect by repeatedly starting a loop over before it plays all the way through; Fade to fade a loop in or out from 3 to 43 seconds; Reverse Solo enabling you to create reverse leads live; and even a panic button which will stop all recording, stacking & playback, and will cancel all active functions without erasing or altering your loops. An expression pedal jack gives you the option of connecting an expression pedal for foot control of overall playback volume or Decay Rate.The Phase III Sampler offers two sample rates: 48kHz or 24kHz (both use 20-bit samples; through signal is always 48kHz/24-bit), so you will never have to worry about losing tone or signal loss no matter how intricate your stacking gets. At that sampling rate, you get up over 8 minutes of recording time in mono or 4 minutes-plus in stereo, or drop it down to 24kHz but recording and plying at half speed (12kHz) and you can get a whopping 35 minutes of recording in mono and over 17 minutes in stereo.Before you mess around with the ready-to-use-out-of-the-box Phase III Sampler, be sure to read the manual to get the most out of this versatile looping machine, and for some great one liners from the Boomerang team.
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The 'American Idol' panel is shaping up to be an interesting one! Dr. Luke has been confirmed as the third judge of the Fox ratings juggernaut.
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Sounds like there may be two Jennifers on the 'American Idol' panel this fall. Jennifer Hudson reportedly signed on to judge the somewhat struggling Fox juggernaut, and now former judge Jennifer Lopez may be rejoining the judges' table.
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As had been rumored for a while, Mariah Carey and Nicki Minaj have both publicly confirmed that they are leaving 'American Idol' after this season, following the announcement that Randy Jackson was also retiring. This leaves Keith Urban as the last judge standing, though perhaps not for long.
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There were rumors that there was going to be a big 'American Idol' shake-up, but before anything was made official Randy Jackson has given the show his walking papers. Jackson announced today that Season 12 will be his last on the hit show.
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Kelly Clarkson is an American original, and not just because she was the Season 1 winner of 'American Idol.' The girl doesn't care about anything but belting out songs and as a result, she is super cute and without an ounce of pretense. She returned to the stage that launched her career on tonight's (April 11) results episode. She performed her new single, the rockin', uptempo 'People Like Us.' She also wasn't shy about being an uber fan girl for Mariah Carey.
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By now, you've probably heard about the seriously scandalous story of nine former 'American Idol' contestants suing the show because they believe it's a racist attempt at a ratings boost.
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Is deep sleep like meditation?
Why we sleep is still a mystery. Is it possible that just like meditation that invigorates and refreshes us so is deep sleep. The main thing is how to create conditions to always have deep sleep. A small article on it is; http://www.nariphaltan.org/sleepmeditation.pdf
Any new ideas and thoughts on this subject?
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Let's compare with a computer:
(1) Meditation ---- Clearing all programs in RAM but basic ones.
. . .Then, you can solve a new problem easily.
(2) Deep sleep ---- Servicing all brain as well as background-processing the data acquired during daytime.
. . .Then, you will have energetic brain and body.
(See the 1st article, point 12 (3), at https://skydrive.live.com/?cid=D24D89AE8B1E2E0D&id=D24D89AE8B1E2E0D%21283&sc=documents)
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Devolutionary deals?
Bids for more devolved powers are flooding in from the English regions.
Here's a guest post from my colleague, Tim Donovan, the BBC's political editor in London.
"London's mayor Boris Johnson seized on the prime minister's remarks that details about a new devolutionary deal for cities will be revealed soon.
He had just the plan, he said. Proposals in his London Finance Commission - chaired by the LSE expert Tony Travers - would give control of all property taxes - stamp duty, business rates, council tax (which would be revalued) - to City Hall and the boroughs.
It would amount to London raising about 12% of what it spends - still way behind cities like New York - and it appears to have cross-party support and backing across sectors in the capital.
Aftershocks and apprehension
The aftershocks of the referendum will dominate the next parliament.
Here's why.
Week ahead in the European Parliament
MEPs return to Strasbourg for the first time since the summer recess, and for only the second plenary session since May's European Parliament elections.
My colleague Alasdair Rendall has been having a look at what's happening this week in the European Parliament.
Why Andrew George's benefit bill may become law
A glimpse of the coalition yet to come?
A Lib-Lab alliance has just voted Andrew George's Affordable Housing Bill through second reading and registered a considerable parliamentary/political coup in the process.
Week ahead
Next week offers a blend of solemn world affairs and feverish internal politicking, as Westminster debates crises across the world and attempts to solve its internal battle over the appointment of a new Clerk of the Commons.
Meanwhile, will the week end with a bill to commit the UK to meet the UN's target for aid spending being humanely killed to clear the way for the EU Referendum Bill?
Clerk row rumbles on
Mr Speaker Bercow is now on an ASBO - an Amiable Speaker Behaviour Order.
His retreat from appointing the Australian Parliament's Carol Mills as the successor to Sir Robert Rogers as Clerk of the Commons should - just - be enough to ensure his survival in the Chair until the next election, so long as he allows the process to be managed by MPs and refrains from intervening, and from finding other ways to annoy Conservative MPs.
Private members games
Two layers of parliamentary game-playing should make Friday's sitting of the Commons an interesting affair.
It's the start of the private members bill season, with the first measure in the queue the Lib Dem Andrew George's Affordable Homes Bill.
Week ahead
It was supposed to be a quiet uncontroversial couple of weeks, with the Commons September sitting observing pre-referendum purdah, in much the same way as MPs avoid controversial business in the run-up to local and euro-elections.
But events, dear boy, have intervened, and so the pre-arranged agenda for the first week of September may be little more than a basis for negotiation, when MPs return.
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It is quite easy for the backbenchers, the parliamentary rank and file, who're not holders of grand office as ministers or party spokespersons, to fall into thinking of themselves as pondlife, but the last parliamentary year has provided an object lesson on what an individual MP or peer can achieve. So today I thought I'd nominate my most influential backbench MP and Peer of the year.
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So, Shell is starting its ad campaign promoting its upcoming destruction of the arctic in search for more oil. Because they're idiots, they decided to open their server to an ad contest to see who could come up with the best ad. Shell underestimated the internet, so here's my six favorite Shell Ad Campaign Trolls.
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Chicken Breast with Parmesan Pesto
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- 3 whole(s) chicken breasts boneless & skinless
- 1 cup(s) fresh basil leaves, lightly packed
- 3/4 cup(s) parmesan cheese, grated
- 1/4 cup(s) olive oil
- 1 clove(s) garlic
- 1 1/2 tablespoon(s) butter or margarine
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- 1/2 cup(s) all-purpose flour
- Place chicken breasts between plastic wrap and firmly pound with mallet until approx 1/4" thick. Cover and chill while making pesto.
- In blender or food processor, combine basil, cheese, oil and garlic and whirl until it becomes a thick paste.
- Spoon equal portions of pesto onto each chicken breast. Roll up each breast to enclose pesto and secure with toothpick.
- In 12-14" fry pan, melt butter in oil over medium-high heat. Dip each chicken roll in flour, shake off excess, and add to pan. Cook, turning as needed, until golden brown and meat is opaque in center, 6 to 8 minutes.
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I bumped into Sui He @NewYorkModels yesterday.
She jumped.
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It was cold. I don't think it's possible for Sui He to look bad.
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There just isn't enough spoofing of Monkey Island 1 and 2 for my taste. Granted, it's hard to spoof games that are already so funny on their own, but still. This movie started as an idea for one scene, then one by one the others were added, as well as some saucy SECRETS... keep your mouse peeled to find them. If you're getting sick of the music, press "m" to break it off. To jump to the scene selector, where you can also view secrets you've found, press "s". Happy hunting, Monkey Island fans! Flooring inspectors need not apply. Grog! Grog! Grog!
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A great hommage
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This was hilarious! I still can't stop laughing. Him dancing to that song was very funny.
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Long Live Monkey Island!
Hahaha! I liked the No Questions Asked, what a great reference to the first Monkey Island!
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I have always enjoyed the Monkey Island series and this video has some funny observations in it.
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As the legendary founder of Motown Records, Berry Gordy Jr. signed many now-iconic stars in the '60s, but one child singer still stands out in his mind. Watch Berry recall seeing a young Michael Jackson audition for Motown with the Jackson 5, and find out why he considered Michael a master even at that age.
In 1956, 16-year-old Tom Brokaw was working at a local radio station in Yankton, South Dakota, on the night of the presidential election. Watch as Tom reveals why he still thinks of the smallest tasks he performed that night every time he anchors the election night coverage for NBC News.
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Today in San Francisco, Microsoft unveils Windows 10, the next Windows Operating System Platform.
You can read the Windows Blog post from details on what we announced today.
While Windows 10 brings back the Start Menu and other great enhancements from the UI perspective, its also going to great for Enterprises from Security, manageability and data protection perspective.
You can read more about the announcement from the enterprise perspective here on Official Windows for Business Blog.
Enterprise mobility is more than a set of services which an organizations can deploy to enable a rich mobile work environment. There is a huge play of the Operating system platform you use to enable Mobility directly from the platform itself.
Today I am going to talk about how Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2 is built on a strong foundation of this whole philosophy of Mobility, While Windows 8.1 has been around for a while and lot has been said and written about its capabilities but it doesn't hurt to review them again and how it enables a Flexible Workstyle or Mobility. If you are an IT PRO, it will help you take steps towards thinking about your Enterprise Mobility Strategy and enable your users to be more productive on the go by harnessing these capabilities out of the box.
Windows Tablets and 2 in 1 Devices: With Windows 8.1 now powering Tablets and 2 in 1 Devices (Hybrids) Computing has gone to a whole new level. Now you don't need a place to sit and a desk to place your mouse and keyboard to be productive. With these devices with Modern apps and touch optimized Interface of Windows 8.1 you can be productive while on the move (even when you are standing in the queue waiting to order your favourite coffee at Starbucks) and still is business ready so corporate IT teams can control it. In short, Windows 8.1 is the Business Personal device.
Windows To Go : Windows To Go is an enterprise feature of Windows 8.1 that enables the creation of a Windows To Go workspace that can be booted from a USB-connected external drive on any PCs that meet the Windows 7 or Windows 8 certification requirements, regardless of the operating system running on the PC. Windows To Go workspaces can use the same image enterprises use for their desktops and laptops and can be managed the same way. So next time you are traveling to your branch office and you are certain to find a PC Hardware, you can now travel light with your Windows to Go drive along with all your applications, customizations, data and settings.
DirectAccess: Windows 8.1 Enterprise provides capabilities like DirectAccess which allows you to seamlessly connect to corporate network without launching VPN client and dialing in. As and when you connect to a Internet connection whether at home or at public hotspot you'll securely get connected to your corporate network. Trust me you'll love this confidence of being "Always on LAN" while sitting at your favourite coffee shop.
Bitlocker and Bitlocker to Go : "Superpowers (read Mobility) often comes with great responsibility..!". Responsibility to protect corporate sensitive and confidential data from leak and theft. With Bitlocker in Windows 8.1 PRO and Enterprise encrypts your hard disk and prevents data loss in the event of device theft or Loss. Bitlocker to Go allows you to also encrypt your mobile HDD and USB Flash drives while carrying sensitive data. I am not sure about you but I tend to loose those tiny little things all the time…
Workplace Join: A Windows 8.1 PC was either domain joined or not. If it was a member of the domain, the user could access corporate resources (if permissioned) and IT could control the PC through group policy and other mechanisms. With the advent of BYOD, Employees are now more comfortable with working on the devices of their choice even if it means non-corporate approved devices. Workplace Join allows a middle ground between all or nothing access, allowing a user to work on the device of their choice and still have access to corporate resources IT administrators now have the ability to offer finer-grained control to corporate resources. If a user registers their device, IT can grant some access while still enforcing some governance parameters on the device. One of the benefit of Workplace Join is single sign-on and access to corporate data and apps. Who likes entertaining multiple login prompts?
Oh did I mention, Workplace join is now not limited just to Windows 8.1. You can now Workplace join your Windows 7 and iOS and gain secure access to corporate resources.
Work Folders: With most of us now have more than 1 devices in our lives, there are more reasons than ever to have our documents and data synced across all those devices securely. One of reason of mobility is the freedom to use any device, right? Not every organisation has deployed SharePoint with OneDrive for Business to enable fidelity of documents on multiple devices. Work Folders allows your work documents to be available on all your devices from a centralized file share. So you create document on one device and consume it on a different device, while its fully backed up on your organizations file server.
In my next few posts, I'll talk about what are the other technologies from Microsoft helps you deliver an end to end Enterprise Mobility in your organization.
Till then, Cheers. !
Okay.. After two years of asylum, I decided to come back to Blogosphere ( Homeland eh?) as I was finding 140 characters were too less to communicate my thoughts. If you've been following me on Twitter you know I have changed roles in Microsoft and now taken up role of Technology Solutions Specialist for Mobility and Devices.
As we all know how the proliferation of devices has completely changed the way we now live our lives. I don't even remember last time I took out my work laptop just to check my mails and reply few of those which needed my immediate attention and response. I am not just saying it because I work for worlds greatest technology company, its happening to everyone and in every Industry.
As I speak to lot of employees of other organizations as a part of my day to day job, they tell me that they don't want to be tied down to their seats and their PC anymore. they'd like to work wherever they are and whatever device they have.
Gone are those days when you have to drive to office on weekends just because you have to prepare an urgent business report that your boss have asked you to prepare on Friday evening and have to be submitted on Monday. If you are not one of those consider yourself lucky, privileged and blessed
As a Modern Employee, I need the flexibility to work from anywhere anytime and still be productive and contribute effectively to my and my organisation success and at the same time take care of my personal life, be with my family and friends when they need me.
I have seen people replying emails, chatting on IMs and even on call while waiting for a doctors consultations at a clinic on a working day. ( Too bad if you couldn't get a doctor's appointment on a weekend )
Organizations understand that this is a new trend or is more sophisticatedly called "Consumerization of IT". Whether they like it or not it's happening. Many organizations are now considering adopting this trend and enabling their employees to be productive on the move. This allows a better employee satisfaction as they get more flexibility to work while taking care of other important "Life" things and Organizations are able to squeeze more productivity out of an employee which otherwise may not be possible while they are on their desk for 8-9 hours.
Tip for Employers: Just blocking Facebook on your office network doesn't necessarily mean you are getting better productivity from your employees..
In the next few posts, I'll talk about how Microsoft is enabling mobile productivity for employees and as an Organization what do you really need to get best from your employees while they may not be necessarily on their desk.
Talk soon…
Dear all,
I know I've been kind of away for an extended period from blogging, there has been quite a lot of things which kept me busy here at Microsoft, ofcourse changing role in the company was one of them. Now that I have quite settled down and started matching up with the pace of things here, I really look forward to resume my contribution here at blogsphere and share some interesting information with all of you.
In the meanwhile, you can follow me on twitter.
If you were not hooked up to your twitter timeline or Live blogging sites about Microsoft Media Conference at Los Angeles yesterday, You can watch the Keynote session on demand where Microsoft announced Microsoft Surface Tablet devices for Windows RT and Windows 8 Pro.
for more information, please visit http://www.Surface.com and check out the video.
Exciting times ahead..!!
At TechEd North America, which is happing right now in Orlando, Microsoft has demoed some great features of Hyper V in Windows Server 2012.
There are a few demos you've got to see:
If you don't believe these numbers, please go ahead and watch the Day 1 Keynote on Demand
Microsoft has just released brand new Windows Server '8' Hyper V Component architecture poster, if you haven't seen it yet, you can download it from following link
While we are gearing up for General availability of System Center 2012, SC product group is constantly working on new capabilities and features to be included in future releases.
Last Friday, Microsoft announced CTP (Community Technology Preview) version of an update to System Center 2012 which supports "Windows Server 8 Beta"
This update is targeted to Virtual Machine Manager and Data Protection Manager component to support and Manage "Windows Server 8 Beta"
You can get more information from this blog post put up by Vijay Tiwari from VMM Team
This is the time of the year when anybody who works on Microsoft Virtualization and System Center technologies gets excited about Microsoft Management Summit which happens every year where thousands of IT PROs joins to share knowledge, exchange ideas, indulge in networking and get to do some deep dive technical learning on new technologies and make themselves aware about new innovations that are happening around Microsoft Virtualization and System Center Technologies.
Historically MMS has gained its reputation of a platform for major product announcements and launches, Last year at MMS 2011, we announced the availability of System Center 2012 Beta and discussed through our keynotes and sessions how it enables Microsoft Private Cloud Platform. It was really nice speaking and meeting lot of you last year at Mandalay Bay.
I am really excited about our upcoming MMS 2012 which is scheduled to be held from April 16 – 20, 2012 at The Venetian, Last Vegas for so many reasons.
We published the following abstract of Brad Anderson's Keynote Speech to give you an insight what is stored for you in MMS 2012.
Day 1: Microsoft Private Cloud. Built for the Future. Ready Now. Cloud computing and the delivery of true IT as a Service is one of the most profound industry shifts in decades. Join Brad Anderson, Corporate Vice President of Microsoft's Management and Security Division, as he shares Microsoft's vision for cloud computing and shows how System ...Center 2012, as part of the Microsoft private cloud, will enable you to deliver the promise of cloud computing in your organization today.
Day 2: A World of Connected Devices Clouds and cloud-connected devices are changing the world of work and our daily interactions. Tech-savvy and always-connected, people want faster, more intuitive technology, uninterrupted services, and the freedom to work anywhere, anytime, on a variety of devices. Join Brad Anderson, Corporate Vice President of the Management and Security Division at Microsoft to learn how System Center 2012 and Windows Intune can help IT embrace this new reality today, and in the future, by making the right intelligent infrastructure investments.
I am also excited to present this year about all new capabilities of System Center 2012- Virtual Machine Manager with following objectives in mind.
You can get more information about the session below and if you are a registered attendee you should be able to add it to your Session builder.
In addition to the speaking opportunities, I would also be available to meet you all during "Speaker Q&A" session at the end of the day of the session and also at Microsoft Pavilion.
Since I work very closely with Microsoft partners, I would like to meet few of you and discuss how we can enable you to drive, develop and design System Center and Microsoft Private Cloud solutions for our customers.
Please use the Email Author link to drop me an email if you would like to meet, please mention your partner id so that I can get more information about your organization.
And if you are a twitter enthusiast like me and would like to keep up with the event, follow me at www.twitter.com/iftekharh
See you at Las Vegas.
My colleague Nikunj is delivering an online workshop for our Microsoft partners on Automating Audit of Windows, UNIX and Linux Servers with Operations Manager 2007 R2,
Please feel free to register for the event using the link below if interested.
Presenter Information
First Name: Nikunj
Last Name: Kansara
Email: email@example.com
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Primary Track: Systems Management
Additional Track: Monitoring, Windows, Unix and Linux
Session Type: Live meeting Session
Level: 300 – Advanced
Session Title: Automated Audit of Windows, UNIX and Linux Servers with Operations Manager 2007 R2
Description: Most of the organization today want to meet various security standards. But the auditor and IT security professionals struggle to keep the audit data at centralized location for later use. This session describes why security is important to organizations, how we can Meet regulatory compliance and Keep IT environment secure using SCOM 2007 ACS.
Major Products or Technologies Covered: SCOM 2007 R2, Windows 2008 R2, Red hat Linux 5
Audience Category: IT Professional
Audience Type: Infrastructure Architect, IT Manager, Network Administrator, Systems Administrator, Systems Engineer
Partner Type : Hosted Services, Independent Software Vendor, Large Account Reseller (LAR), Network Services, Software Asset Management, Systems Integrator/Services, Value Added Reseller (VAR)
Audience Key Learning:
Proposed Demo – How to use Audit Collection Service Management Packs and Usage ACS reports, Example Scenarios for Audit Collection
Date & Time : Sep 27th 2011, 7:00 AM – 8:30 AM Pacific Standard Time
These sessions will be delivered through Microsoft Office Live Meeting with no extra cost, but time will be deducted from your available Partner Advisory Hours (Microsoft Partners are entitled to 10, 20, or 50 hours of Partner Technical Services Advisory Benefits based on your partner level or competencies.)
Please contact me or email email@example.com with your Partner ID, and contact number if you need more information.
In case you need further information about the Partner Technical Services benefits,
please visit us at the Partner Technical Services Web site, call us today at 1-800-MPN-SOLVE (1-800-676-7658), or email us to start taking advantage of your benefits.
Latest Information! To stay updated on the latest offerings and Web seminars on new Microsoft technologies and solutions, subscribe to the U.S. Partner Technical Services Newsletter.
Check out PTS Web seminars to view the lists of upcoming live Web seminars. Also, for more information download the PTS Catalog.
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If you haven't seen it already, we gave a sneak peak into next release of Hyper V coming with "Windows Server 8" at Worldwide partner conference last week.
We only demonstrated 2 of hundreds of features which is going to be available with next release of Hyper V to help your Private Cloud initiatives.
You can take a look at these cool two features in the video hosted on WPC site
Skip to At 36:50 of this online video to see them in action.
And stay tuned for our BUILD conference in September for more revelation
I am happy to announce my first app for Windows Phone 7 is now available at Marketplace. I am not really a professional developer but I like coding and this time I took the opportunity to brush up some of my programming knowledge from my school and college days.
Please review and provide feedback at Marketplace. App is not perfect and there may be some bugs unhandled, so please report them I promise to work on them in my free time.
Have fun
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Dear Microsoft Partners,
My team is delivering some great webinars on Microsoft System Center technologies. In our continuous effort to ramp up our Microsoft partners on Microsoft technologies we are bringing some interesting of 1:Many Technical Webinars.
If you are partner company focused on Systems management and networking and would like to learn more about new Management packs for System Center Operations Manager, I would strongly recommend you to attend the following webinar.
Title: Power Start Workshop : Understanding the Latest Management Packs for Operations Manager 2007 R2, SharePoint 2010 and Exchange 2010.
Description : This session will describe the features and configuration for the latest management packs from Microsoft and how that can be leveraged by IT professionals.
Date & Time : July 8th 2011, 11:00 AM Pacific Standard Time
This article is cross posted from my original post on PTS Official Blog
See the first two parts of this series here: Private Cloud Management with VMM 2012 (Part 1): What's new with System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 Private Cloud Management with VMM 2012 (Part 2): Creation of a Hyper-V Cluster Using VMM 2012
In my last blog post, we saw how to create a Hyper V Cluster using the VMM 2012 cluster creation wizard as a part of preparing a fabric for the cloud.
Virtual Machine Manager 2012 also provides a feature by which you can manage updates for your virtual machine hosts, library servers, PXE servers, the Windows Server Update Management (WSUS) server, and the VMM server itself in the VMM console.
When you perform update remediation on a host cluster, VMM orchestrates the updates, in turn placing each cluster node in maintenance mode, migrating virtual machines off the host by using intelligent placement, and then installing the updates. If the cluster supports live migration of Windows Server-based virtual machines, live migration is used. If the cluster does not support live migration, VMM saves state for the virtual machines and does not migrate them.
To manage updates in VMM 2012, you need a WSUS server
Here are the prerequisites:
Once you have configured the WSUS server, lets add the WSUS server in VMM 2012.
1. Open the Fabric workspace.
2. On the Home tab, in the Add group, click Add Resources, and then click Update Server.
3. My WSUS server name is sccm.dd181028.com, hence I have put SCCM as Computer name with port number and credentials.
4. Once the WSUS server is added, click on Synchronize to sync the WSUS updates with VMM.
5. You will all the update metadata showing on your VMM
Create Baseline
After you enable update management in VMM, you are ready to prepare for patching by configuring update baselines. An update baseline contains a set of required updates. During a compliance scan, computers that are assigned to a baseline are graded for compliance to their assigned baselines. After a computer is found noncompliant, an administrator brings the computer into compliance through update remediation.
6. Provide a Name and Description for your Baseline
7. Add the updates to your baseline against which your Hyper V hosts will be compared.
8. Assign the Baseline to the host groups.
9. Finish the wizard
10. You'll see your newly created Baseline
To find out the compliance status for each baseline, you must scan the computer for compliance. When a computer is scanned for compliance, WSUS checks each update in the assigned update baselines to determine whether the update is applicable and, if the update is applicable, whether the update has been installed.
After a compliance scan, each update has a compliance status of Compliant, NonCompliant, Error, or Unknown.
To scan computers for compliance
1. In Compliance view of the Fabric workspace, select the computers that you want to scan.
2. On the Home tab, in the Compliance group, click Scan.
While the scan is in progress, the compliance status changes to Unknown. After the compliance scan completes, the computer's compliance status of each update is Compliant, NonCompliant, or Error.
To perform update remediations, the target computers must be noncompliant. To make a compliant computer noncompliant, you might need to use Add and Remove Programs to temporarily uninstall one or more of the updates listed in Compliance view.
On the Home tab, in the Compliance group, click Remediate. (The Remediate task is only available when the selected objects are noncompliant.)
If you select the host cluster by its cluster name, VMM orchestrates remediations of the hosts in the cluster.
VMM rolls through the host cluster, remediating one cluster node at a time. If a cluster node is compliant, VMM bypasses that node.
Before VMM begins remediating a host, it places the host in maintenance mode and migrates all virtual machines to other hosts in the cluster. If the cluster supports live migration, live migrations are performed. If the cluster does not support live migration, VMM saves state before migrating virtual machines.
If you prefer to restart the computers manually after remediation completes if any updates require a restart, select the Do not restart the servers after remediation check box.
Once the remediation is over, you'll see your Hyper V cluster hosts as Compliant.
Hope this post was helpful for some of you who are evaluating VMM 2012 its update management feature.
In my next post, we'll configure the rest of the fabric components like Logical Network, Storage and Load Balancers.
Stay tuned.
See part one of this series here: Private Cloud Management with VMM 2012 (Part 1): What's new with System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012
Before you start deploying cloud and services, we need to first start prepare the fabric.
A cloud can also host HA applications and services and we need to setup a Hyper V cluster to enable that. VMM 2012 has now introduced inbuilt capability of deploying Hyper V Clusters.
Fabric Prerequisites
Make sure that fabric configuration meets the following prerequisites:
1. Before you deploy Hyper V cluster, you need to add the hosts in the VMM.
Also if you are not using automated storage unmasking, you need to unmask the shared storage on these hosts.
2. Go to Fabric tab and click on Create Clusters
3. Specify the cluster name and provide your domain credentials which has rights to create clusters.
4. Select the host group where your standalone Hyper V hosts are located.
5. Select the hosts which you would like to be part of the cluster and click ADD
6. Ensure that the Network cards are picked up properly.
7. Provide a cluster IP address to the respective network card.
8. Wizard should automatically detect all the unmasked LUNs on the hosts and it will give you options to format the drives as NTFS or leave it unformatted.
9. You can also enable Cluster Shared Volume from here itself.
10. Wizard will automatically configure the volume with lowest capacity as Witness disk.
11. Now you can configure Virtual Network on all the hosts in a cluster from this wizard itself, In order to do that you need to configure Logical Network on the physical network card.
12. This way you can ensure that all the hosts has an identical Virtual Network to support HA VMs
13. Now on the summary page, click on the FINISH button and your cluster is on its way.
During the cluster creation process, VMM does the following:
14. Enabling Cluster Shared Volumes
Now your Hyper V cluster is deployed and you are ready to deploy HA VMs on it.
You can also destroy the cluster using VMM console.
If you choose to destroy cluster using VMM 2012, you need to go to your Active Directory and delete the Cluster object manually.
That's pretty much for today. In my next post, we'll talk about update management and how VMM 2012 helps patching clustered nodes in an orchestrated manner.
I have been delivering a lot of sessions on the all-new VMM 2012 lately to both external and internal audiences, so I thought of sharing some information with our online community as well.
I am putting together a 3-part series of blog posts to cover all the aspects of VMM 2012 and how it enables Private Cloud Management. If you are new to Private Cloud concepts and its benefits, you may want to read some of my earlier posts on the same topic:
Private Cloud– Part 1
Private Cloud– Part 2
In March at the Microsoft Management Summit 2011 held in Las Vegas, we announced the public availability of VMM 2012 Beta. I know most of you are evaluating VMM 2012 in your environment and may need some guidance—hence this blog series.
When we talk about Private Cloud, we expect following benefits:
1. Reliability and predictability: We would want our application to be highly available and fault-tolerant, the remediation from failure should be simple, and it should be simple to re-start and re-deploy applications.
2. Highly automated: We want our infrastructure to be highly automated to complete tasks like provisioning new systems and configuring storage, networking, and applications on its own without any manual intervention.
3. Agility of speed: We would also expect better responsiveness and turnaround time to meet user needs. We want applications to be deployed faster, and changes to be made much easier and faster—not taking weeks to happen.
4. Focus of Applications and services: Let's face it, at the end of the day the consumer only cares about applications and services, uptime, and quality of the service as a measure for success of your private cloud. So as a cloud consumer I would want to focus on the application rather than underlying infrastructure.
Today let's go through a high-level overview of VMM 2012 and what kind of advanced management capabilities it brings to the table to for virtualized infrastructures and the Private Cloud.
Microsoft has made investments in 4 different areas in VMM 2012:
1. Deployment
2. Fabric Management
3. Cloud Management: In VMM 2012, a private cloud provides the following benefits:
4. Services Management: It's not VM Management anymore. Now with VMM you can deploy and manage multi-tier applications across multiple servers as a single unit. Scale out the service with minimal effort based on demand.
We'll discuss some of these great details in my new few blog posts and will also see how to deploy some of these. Stay tuned!
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I do not have my own homepage as of now so for now this will redirect you all to my blog.
but do expect some new content to go to my site.
Stay tuned..
I am really a great fan of DirectAccess and use it all the time to connect back to my corporate network when I am at home, traveling and sometimes even when I am on vacation .
I know being a Infrastructure consultant, I do not cover much on core Windows Server technologies like BranchCache and DirectAccess which are equally interesting as Virtualization. Thankfully I have some great colleagues who are passionate about these core technologies and working really hard to help customers and partners to realize the value of some of these new features which we added in Windows Server 2008 R2 and also enabling them to deploy and configure them effectively.
Manoj Ravikumar Nair has posted a great screencast on Configuring DirectAccess using Forefront UAG 2010 SP1 and I couldn't resist to share it with you all.
In this video, you would learn the following:
I personally feel this is a great way of learning for someone who is deploying and supporting DirectAccess.
Manoj is also a fellow blogger, you can also check his Blog at http://www.powershell.ms for more information on Windows server Technologies, Virtualization and PowerShell.
And if you have any questions, want to give him feedback or suggestions about the topics you want him to do more screencasts on, contact him using this link
Microsoft Partners, if you have joined our web seminar today for Datacenter Automation using System Center : Part 1, you must have seen some cool demos how you can do an automated provisioning of Virtual Machines by triggering a workflow from System Center Service Manager and using Opalis to initiate a VM creation using VMM 2008 R2.
Part 2 of the series will be webcast live on 27th May 2010, I would strongly recommend you to join the session
Join the PTS team in part two of "Datacenter Automation Using System Center." This session will help IT professionals optimize their technology, investments, and staff and also help them simplify data center management. Customer pain points and automation scenarios will be discussed.
IT is always under constant pressure to contain and in many cases reduce costs. Much of the work performed today in Datacenter is manual involving multiple teams. In addition to the time, risk and latency the manual approach introduces, another huge concern for IT is the inability to scale. This session will help the IT professionals a path to optimize their technology investments, staff and simplify the datacenter management
In this session, you'll see a automatic consolidation of your physical server into Virtual Machines done by VMM 2008 R2 by triggering a workflow from Service Manager and few other cool demos
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Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) is getting momentum and more and more organizations are looking at VDI to provide Operating system environment to their users.
One of the challenges that VDI is facing today is to be able to provide the same graphic experience of desktop Operating system as they have today on their physical PC.
If you are following this blog and read my previous posts about features like RemoteFX and Dynamic Memory brought in by Service Pack 1 for Windows Server 2008 R2, you probably already know what is RemoteFX.
Just to recap,
" RemoteFX adds new capabilities to the Remote Desktop Services platform by delivering a full-fidelity Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) and high-density, scalable, client-agnostic session virtualization capabilities, shifting delivery intelligence to host-based systems running RemoteFX. Through a new graphics payload purpose-built for RemoteFX and Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), the session virtualization platform is tightly integrated with the RDP protocol, which enables shared encryption, authentication, management, and local device support."
In layman's term, RemoteFX extends the capabilities of GPU on your server hardware into your Virtual Machines running Windows 7 so that you can get rich graphic capabilities which are on par of a physical desktop running Windows 7.
It leverages the power of virtualized graphics resources and advanced codecs to recreate the fidelity of hardware-assisted graphics acceleration, including support for 3D content and Windows Aero, on a remote user's device. This allows for a local-like, remote experience.
RemoteFX USB Device Redirection
RemoteFX also provides awesome Device Redirection of Virtually any USB devices, some of the features are:
Microsoft has recently released bunch of documents on Remote FX deployment and I would like collate all these documentations right here for you.
Before I take you through the documentations, let me touch briefly on the deployment guidelines of RemoteFX.
The RemoteFX encoder is optional and can be installed for additional scalability on the Microsoft® RemoteFX™ server,
Latest Operating systems :
Hyper- V Host
VDI Virtual Machine
Remote Client Device
Now lets review some of the great documentation released couple of weeks back about RemoteFX deployment.
Microsoft RemoteFX for Remote Desktop Virtualization Host Capacity Planning Guide for Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1
This white paper is intended as a guide for capacity planning of Microsoft RemoteFX in Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1. It describes the most relevant factors that influence the capacity of a given deployment, methodologies to evaluate capacity for specific deployments, and a set of experimental results for different combinations of usage scenarios and hardware configurations.
Deploying Microsoft RemoteFX on a Single Remote Desktop Virtualization Host Server Step-by-Step Guide
This step-by-step guide walks you through the process of setting up a working virtual desktop that uses RemoteFX and is accessible by using Remote Desktop Connection (RDC) in a test environment. Upon completion of this step-by-step guide, you will have a virtual desktop with RemoteFX that can be connected to by using Remote Desktop Connection. You can then test and verify this functionality by connecting to the virtual desktop from a client computer as a standard user.
Deploying Microsoft RemoteFX for Virtual Desktop Pools Step-by-Step Guide.
This step-by-step guide walks you through the process of setting up a working virtual desktop pool that uses RemoteFX in a test environment. Upon completion of this step-by-step guide, you will have a virtual desktop pool with RemoteFX that users can connect to by using RD Web Access.
Deploying Microsoft RemoteFX for Personal Virtual Desktops Step-by-Step Guide
This step-by-step guide walks you through the process of setting up a working personal virtual desktop that uses RemoteFX in a test environment.Upon completion of this step-by-step guide, you will have a personal virtual desktop with RemoteFX assigned to a user account that can connect by using RD Web Access. You can then test and verify this functionality by connecting to the personal virtual desktop from RD Web Access as a standard user.
This step-by-step guide walks you through the process of setting up USB redirection with RemoteFX in a test environment. Upon completion of this step-by-step guide, you will have a personal virtual desktop with RemoteFX assigned to a user account that can connect by using RD Web Access.
Microsoft RemoteFX for Session Virtualization: Architectural Overview
This paper provides an architectural overview of RemoteFX in the context of session virtualization—using a new Windows Server role called the Remote Desktop Session Host (RD Session Host) designed specifically for modern session virtualization environments using Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1.
Deploying Microsoft RemoteFX on a Remote Desktop Session Host Server Step-by-Step Guide
This document walks you through the process of setting up a working Remote Desktop Session Host that uses RemoteFX and is accessible by using Remote Desktop Connection in a test environment.
I believe these documentations provides enough information about best way of deploying RemoteFX, in case you need more information or clarifications, please feel free to reach me.
Hello Everybody,
This is again a part of year where Microsoft reaches out to all its customers, partners, IT Pros and developers through its back to back technical conferences with some great announcements, Technical Sessions and demonstrations of its latest and cutting edge products and solutions.
Year 2011 will start with Microsoft Management Summit 2011 next week in Las Vegas, followed by TechEd North America 2011 in May and then Worldwide Partner Conference 2011 (WPC) in July.
MMS 2011 too expected to be all about Private Cloud, Datacenter Automation and Virtualization Management. The products which I am really looking forward to at MMS this year is VMM 2012, Opalis and Service Manager
I'll be working at MMS 2011 in Las Vegas next week as a Microsoft Speaker and product specialist for Virtual Machine Manager 2012. All you partners, customers and IT Pros, Virtualization enthusiasts who are interested in Next Gen capabilities of Virtual Machine Manager 2012 and learn how it helps creating and doing end to end management of Private Cloud can meet me at VMM Booth at Microsoft Pavilion.
In addition to my booth duty, I am really looking forward to meet and present to and some of customers, partners whom I work with and discuss their Virtualization and Private Cloud Practice, also hanging out with some old friends and explore Vegas..
Though MMS 2011 is completely sold out for general attendees but here are other options. http://www.mms-2011.com/registrationoverview
For those who are not attending but would like to be updated with what's happening in Vegas, I am planning to do some heavy duty tweeting..
See you in Las Vegas.
This article is cross posted from my post on PTS Official Blog
As you all know that SP1 for Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 just gone RTM adding two new virtualization capabilities: Dynamic Memory and RemoteFX
Let's first understand these capabilities in details.
Dynamic Memory: An enhancement to Hyper-V R2, Dynamic Memory pools all the memory available on a physical host. Dynamic Memory then dynamically distributes available memory, as it is needed, to virtual machines running on that host. Then with Dynamic Memory Balancing, virtual machines will be able to receive new memory allocations, based on changes in workload, without a service interruption.
RemoteFX: Microsoft RemoteFX leverages the power of virtualized graphics resources and advanced codecs to recreate the fidelity of hardware-assisted graphics acceleration, including support for 3D content and Windows Aero, on a remote user's device. This allows for a local-like, remote experience.
In the light of new features, service Pack 1 will also be released for VMM 2008 R2 to manage Dynamic Memory and RemoteFX on multiple Hyper V Servers from a single pane of glass.
Lets understand the requirements on your Hyper V hosts and VMs to be able to manage by VMM 2008 R2.
System Requirement for Manage Dynamic Memory:
RemoteFX Requirements on Hosts
RemoteFX requirements on VMs
VMM 2008 R2 SP1 now has settings to manage Dynamic Memory setting of VMs which are as follows:
To manage the RemoteFX , following settings have been added
Since RemoteFX requires you to have SLAT CPU and specific GPU and available GPU memory, VMM 2008 R2 SP1 will also let you identify the following on the hosts.
1. CPU Supports SLAT
2. GPU and available Memory
3. Intelligent Placement
While creating a new VM or migrating a new VM from one host to another, VMM 2008 R2 SP1 added new check for Dynamic Memory and RemoteFX in the Intelligent placement.
o Use Current Memory footprint for DM VMs on hosts: While doing the migration or creating new VM, VMM will check how much is the current memory the VM is running with, for E.g, you have specified startup memory as 1 GB and max memory as 6 GB but at the time of migration the VM is running at 2 GB memory. In that case, VMM will check if the other host has at least 2 GB free memory to be able to migrate this VM.
o Check for GPU-compatibility when migrating RemoteFX VMs : While migrating a RemoteFX based VM, VMM 2008 R2 checks if identical GPU is available on the other hosts with required memory, Remote FX should be enabled in RDS.
4. Updates to Performance and Resource Optimization
PRO ties specific Operations Manager alerts to remediation actions in VMM, VMM moves a load-balance VMs in a cluster when CPU or Memory exceed a threshold. SP1 update to VMM PRO Pack a consider Current Memory utilization and not the fixed memory for DM VMs and matches it with the memory available on the other nodes.
How do I upgrade from SCVMM 2008 R2 to SP1.
Pretty simple, just 4 steps to upgrade
VMM 2008 R2 SP1 will take the virtualization management to a whole new level and is scheduled to be released within 30 days of SP1 released by the Windows Server Team. So we can expect it sometime next month.
I hope this post was of some help for those who are expecting VMM to be able to manage Dynamic Memory and RemoteFX on multiple hosts from a single console instead of managing it locally using Hyper V manager on each box.
If you have any further queries, please feel free to reach me
Dear Partners,
As you know, the PTS teams are available to help you accelerate your sales cycle, win against the competition, reduce development costs, lessen your time-to-market, and architect and deploy successful solutions.
Partner Technical Services is now offering a workshop on how to deploy Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) using Remote Desktop Services (RDS).
Session Content:
Day 1:
Day 2:
This session is targeted to Microsoft Partners who are selling, designing, and deploying the VDI solution to their customers. This session will cover Microsoft VDI Stack; and provide a step by step guide for deploying Personal Virtual Desktop and Pooled Virtual Desktop. We will use the RDS tool from Windows Server 2008 R2, and APP-V to deploy applications in those Virtual Desktops.
These sessions will be delivered through Microsoft Office Live Meeting with no extra cost, but time will be deducted from your available Partner Advisory Hours (Microsoft Partners are entitled to 10, 20, or 50 hours of Partner Technical Services Advisory Benefits based on your partner level or competencies.)
Please contact me or email email@example.com with your Partner ID, and contact information. The Event dates and timing will be sent to the registered partners later.
At this time this offering is only available to Microsoft Partners in North America.
please visit us at the Partner Technical Services Web site, call us today at 1-800-MPN-SOLVE (1-800-676-7658), or email us to start taking advantage of your benefits.
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Part 2 of the series on Private cloud posted on GPS Blog
In my last blog post, I talked about the how Virtualization plays a vital role in setting up a Cloud infrastructure and enables the kind flexibility, elasticity, and automation which cloud services requires.
I also mentioned about Microsoft Hyper V Cloud offerings which we introduced in Berlin at TechEd Europe 2010.
With Microsoft, partners can participate in the full range of cloud offerings across the public and private spectrum to create new business models and generate new revenue streams. Partners will be able to expand their role as trusted advisors through broader customer engagements. They'll also be able to deliver increasing business value to customers by offering dramatic improvements in business agility, operational efficiency, and IT maturity—with significant cost savings. And they'll be able to win more business by closing larger deals and expanding into new markets.
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I think his points were valid and his opinions backed up. I, as well, would have liked to see an example of some of the bigger and smaller talents they were planning on adding, and I enjoy the idea of being able to customize a guild.
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