System Center Universe DACH/Europe (SCU DACH) announced

Posted on April 29, 2013 by Thomas Maurer

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Have you ever heard of the famous System Center Universe (SCU) hosted by Catapult Systems? If not then it’s about time to visit http://www.systemcenteruniverse.com and check out the excellent content.

After talking to Catapult Systems we decided to bring this great event to Europe. We are now in the planning phase, talking to partners, speakers, sponsors etc. that are interested to partner with us and help making this event coming true. Visit the event web site where we will start publishing more information shortly!

http://www.systemcenteruniverse.ch

Speaking at the E2EVC in Copenhagen

Posted on March 22, 2013 by Thomas Maurer

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Last year I was for the first time the Experts 2 Experts Virtualization Conference (E2EVC) in Hamburg where we teach a Microsoft MVP Master Class and also did a video interview (4 Virtual Machine MVPs talking about Hyper-V at the E2EVC).

The next E2EVC conference will take place in Copenhagen on the 30th May to 2th July. I have the chance to present a session with the title “SCVMM-Mania (should or should you not manage all your hypervisor platforms using SCVMM 2012 SP1)” together with Michael Rüefli. The session will include content about System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 SP1 and how you can manage different hypervisors like Hyper-V, VMware ESXi and Cirtix XenServer.

And there a lot of top session form:

Aidan Finn
Jeff Wouters
Alex Juschin

and a lot more…

Swiss Microsoft Surface Event

Posted on February 14, 2013 by Thomas Maurer

Today it’s not only valentines day, it’s also the day where the Microsoft Surface RT comes available in more countries includes Switzerland. And for this Microsoft made a small event for the Microsoft Surface Launch in Switzerland.

The Surface is available in Switzerland via the Microsoft Online Store and some retail stores like Media Markt. And with the launch in Switzerland you can also get the Type Cover and the Touch Cover with a Swiss keyboard layout.

Because I already own a Microsoft Surface RT, I still I hope I can pick up a Microsoft Surface Pro next week on the Microsoft Global MVP Summit 2013.

Microsoft TechDays 2012 Switzerland presentations online

Posted on November 26, 2012 by Thomas Maurer

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Last week Microsoft Switzerland organized their largest event in 2012 called TechDays 12 which took place in the beautiful city Basel.

Two days sessions about the latest and greatest Microsoft technology for IT Pros and developers. I had a session together with Michel Lüscher from Microsoft Switzerland about System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 SP1. Of course there were a lot of great session with itnetx contribution from Philipp Witschi, Marcel Zehner (MVP System Center Data Center and Cloud Management) and the former Microsoft Switzerland employee Markus Erlacher who will be joining itnetx on 1st of March 2013.

After reading my RSS feeds and Twitter feed I saw a blog post from Marcel van den Berg (vExpert 2011 from the Netherlands) that the sessions are now online available.

I recommend the following sessions:

Microsoft Community Open Day in Munich

Posted on November 8, 2012 by Thomas Maurer

In a few hours me and System Center Cloud and Datacenter Management MVP Marcel Zehner from itnetx will travel to the Microsoft Community Open Day in Munich Germany. Also onboard Michel Lüscher Consultant from Microsoft Switzerland. This is my first official Microsoft MVP event and I am sure it will be great to meet other DACH MVPs like Carsten Rachfahl and Stefan Koell, Microsoft employees and other geeks.

E2EVC 2012 in Hamburg

Posted on November 4, 2012 by Thomas Maurer

This weekend I was visiting the Experts 2 Experts Virtualization Conference (E2EVC) in Hamburg to finally meet the other great Virtual Machine MVPs like Aidan Finn, Carsten Rachfahl, Didier van Hoye and Hans Vredevoort and to checkout some great sessions.

They were all presenting in a Master Class about Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V. Unfortunately Hans Vredevoort couldn’t make it and I had the chance to step in and providing a session for the Master Class where I talked about Hyper-V Host design and deployment with Hyper-V Converged Fabric and how you can migrate from VMware to Hyper-V.

I want to thank Carsten, Didier, Aidan for opportunity to speak with them in the Master Class and Alex Juschin for hosting this excellent event.

Geekmania 2012 Recap

Posted on October 29, 2012 by Thomas Maurer

Last Friday I had two session at Geekmania 2012, a the conference for real geeks. Together with other architects and engineers of itnetx we were presenting lot of cool stuff around Microsoft Virtualization and Systems Management at Level 400.

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In my two sessions me and Philipp Witschi from itnetx talked about the new Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V features like Hyper-V Replica and in the second session I focused on Hyper-V over SMB, showing new features and possibilities of SMB 3.0.

A great thing to see was the full cinema hall (around ~120 people) during the Hyper-V and Windows Server 2012 Storage session, which shows the great interested in Hyper-V.

I hope people could learn something new and enjoyed my sessions and Geekmania 2012. It was great to talk to a lot of people about the new Hypervisor.

If you enjoyed my sessions I hope you will attend my session about System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 SP1 on the Swiss TechDays during 19.11. and 20.11. in Basel.