Exchange Server 2016 RTM Released: Forged in the cloud. Built for Web-Scale

Exchange Server 2016 is here and available to download!!! What sets this version of Exchange apart from the past, is that it was forged in the cloud. This release brings the Exchange bits that already power millions of Office 365 mailboxes to your on-premises environment. And deploying Exchange 2016 on Nutanix, you can truly create the…

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Nutanix NOS 4.5 Released…

Hi all...It's been a few weeks since my last blog post. I've been busy with some travel to Microsoft Technology Centers and working on the Nutanix Ready Program.  Yesterday, Nutanix released NOS 4.5.  This exciting upgrade adds some great features..  Sit back and get ready to enjoy the ride...release notes below. Table 1. Terminology Updates…

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Understanding Identity with ADFS – Part 1

Identity is always something of a taboo subject and is still not clearly understood out there and the IT security landscape keeps evolving. One of the recent changes past few years is a move away from (Access Control Lists) ACLs on files in the NTFS file system to an access control system that is based…

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Nutanix SCVMM Fast Clones Plug-in

Hi Everyone...I love to show off the cool Microsoft integrations that Nutanix has and most recently Nutanix released System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) 2012 R2 Fast Clones plug-in. With NOS 4.1.3, Nutanix has released a Fast Clone plugin for SCVMM.  The plug-in has the ability to provide space efficient, low impact clones from SCVMM and quickly. The…

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Surface 3 – First Impressions…

Hi everyone....to start, I don't normally write product reviews, but had to share my thoughts and experiences on the new Surface 3 (not the existing Surface Pro 3, which was released last year) as I love it as my new mobile computing device. This surface was released during the week of Microsoft Ignite 2015 (May 4th-8th) of which…

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Nutanix Next Community podcast – ScienceLogic

Again....at my job at Nutanix...I get to work with great partners and one of the first was ScienceLogic  :-) .The Solutions team was great to work with and I really got a chance to see deep integration with Nutanix's REST API and watch the their solution grow. Below is podcast of an Interview that my awesome buddy…

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Microsoft World Wide Partner Conference 2015…Picture Highlights

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Microsoft World Wide Partner Conference 2015 WPC is the largest event for Microsoft partners When it comes to meeting the right people in the right place, bigger is better. The Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) brings together over 15,000 attendees … Continue reading →

Nutanix SCOM Management Pack – Monitor Your Nutanix Infrastructure

As a Microsoft Evangelist at Nutanix, I am always asked...."How would you monitor your Nutanix Infrastructure and can I use System Center suite. And my answer always is, "YES, with SCOM"....What is SCOM you ask?  System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) is designed to be a monitoring tool for the datacenter. Think of a datacenter with…

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