Tag: Interview

Nov212019November 21, 2019November 21, 20190Commentby Thomas Maurer
Video Microsoft Ignite Live 2019 - Azure Arc for Server

Video Microsoft Ignite Live 2019 – Azure Arc for Server

Posted in Cloud, Cloud Advocate, Microsoft, Microsoft Azure, Speaking, Thomas Maurer, Windows Server, Windows Server 2019, Work

At Microsoft Ignite 2019, I had the chance to interview different people across the Microsoft product groups on the Microsoft Ignite Live stage. In the next couple of weeks, I will share with you the links to the recordings of these videos. In this video, I was able to speak to Jian Yan from the Azure Management team about the new Azure Arc for Servers service.

Microsoft Ignite Live

Video: Azure Arc for Server

Azure is built from the ground up to manage at-scale, cross-geography environments with multiple operational models and DevOps patterns. The vision is to keep Azure at the center of the enterprise as the control plane for governance, management, and modern development and bring the Azure management capabilities and services to any customer environment. In this session, we demo one of the extension service to enable you to bring servers from anywhere to Azure and use Azure to get a compliance view for all your server assets.

I hope this gives you a short overview of Azure Arc for Server. You can check out the following links to get more information:

Microsoft Ignite 2019 was a lot of fun, and you can also watch my session about Hybrid Cloud Management at Microsoft Ignite. If you have any questions, please let me know in the comments.


Nov022018November 2, 2018November 2, 20180Commentby Thomas Maurer
Thomas Maurer speaking at Experts Live Europe

Azure Stack Operations Interview at Experts Live Europe

Posted in Cloud, Microsoft, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Azure Stack, Microsoft MVP, Speaking, Windows Server, Windows Server 2019, Work

As you may know I was speaking at Experts Live Europe 2018 in Prague a couple of days ago, which was a lot of fun. In my sessions, I was talking about Azure Stack Operations and Windows Server 2019. Between does sessions I had time to quickly talk about Azure Stack Operations and Experts Live Europe in a short interview.

I really enjoyed the conference and hopefully I will be back next year. If you want to see more videos from Experts Live Europe 2018, check out the Experts Live TV YouTube channel. Thanks to the Experts Live team for the great conference and the great opportunity to speak there.


Jun302017June 30, 2017September 1, 20180Commentby Thomas Maurer
Azure Stack Administration and Operation

Interview: Microsoft Azure Stack – An Introduction

Posted in Cloud, Containers, Hyper-V, Microsoft, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Azure Stack, Microsoft MVP, Nano Server, PowerShell, Virtualization, Web, Windows Server, Windows Server 2016, Work

Back at Experts Live Australia 2017 I had the chance to talk to Veeam’s Senior Technical Evangelist Clint Wyckoff about the upcoming Microsoft Azure Stack Solution.

Veeam’s Senior Technical Evangelist Clint Wyckoff and Thomas Maurer, Cloud Architect at itnetX and Microsoft Cloud & Datacenter MVP discuss the upcoming Microsoft Azure Stack Solution.

If you want to know more about Azure Stack: Check out my blog post: Microsoft Azure Stack – Azure Extension in your Datacenter


Oct152014October 15, 2014October 18, 20140Commentby Thomas Maurer
System Center Universe Europe 2014

Videointerview with Thomas Maurer at the SCU Europe in Basel

Posted in Cloud, Events, Fun, Hyper-V, Microsoft, Microsoft Azure, PowerShell, Private Cloud, System Center, Virtual Machine Manager, Virtualization, Web, Windows Azure Pack, Windows Server, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2, Work

Carsten Rachfahl (Microsoft MVP Hyper-V) did interview me at System Center Universe Europe 2014 in Basel. We talked a little about my sessions I did at SCU 2014 and my job at itnetx.


Jul152013July 15, 2013July 15, 20130Commentby Thomas Maurer

Interview with Marcel Zehner und Thomas Maurer about System Center Universe Europe in Switzerland

Posted in Cloud, Events, Hyper-V, Microsoft, Microsoft Azure, Private Cloud, System Center, Virtualization, Web, Windows 8.1, Windows Server, Windows Server 2012 R2, Work

System Center Universe EuropeCarsten Rachfahl, Microsoft MVP for Virtual Machine, released another of his video interviews. This time the video includes an interview with Marcel Zehner (Microsoft MVP System Center Could and Datacenter Management) and me where we talk about our jobs at itnetx and System Center Universe Europe which will be Bern, Switzerland in September 2013.

The Interview (German) was recorded back in March in Seattle where we met after another Microsoft MVP Briefing in Redmond.


Feb262013February 26, 2013February 26, 20131Commentby Thomas Maurer

Videointerview with Ben Armstrong at the MVP Global Summit 2013

Posted in Hyper-V, Microsoft, Web, Windows, Windows 8, Windows Server, Windows Server 2012, Work

Carsten Rachfahl (MVP Virtual Machine) had the chance to interview Ben Armstrong (Hyper-V Program Manager) also known as “Virtual PC Guy”.


Oct142012October 14, 2012October 14, 20120Commentby Thomas Maurer

Interview: Hyper-V-Server.de Podcast

Posted in Hyper-V, Microsoft, Private Cloud, System Center, Virtual Machine Manager, Virtualization, Web, Windows Server, Windows Server 2012, Work

Carsten Rachfahl (MVP Virtual Machine) from hyper-v-server.de just released one of his Hyper-V and Microsoft Private Cloud podcasts. In this podcast Carsten collects a lot of information about Hyper-V like blog posts, whitepapers, videos and events. In this blog post he also included two interviews, one with Bernhard Frank (Microsoft Private Cloud Evangelist) and also one with me. In 10 to 15 minutes Carsten and I talked about my new Microsoft MVP award, new features in Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V and my visit in Redmond during the Microsoft System Center TAP Airlift event.

The podcast can be found here: Microsoft Virtualisierungs Podcast Folge 24: Interview mit einem Private Cloud Evangelisten und einem MVP Virtual Machine (German)

Some months ago I already had the chance to talk to Carsten during a Video interview (German).

In the podcast Carsten also added some events where I will talk about Microsoft Private Cloud, Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V and System Center Virtual Machine Manager.

  • October 26 – Geekmania (Sessions about Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V and Storage with Philipp Witschi from itnetx gmbh)
  • November 20 – IT-Pro TechDays Schweiz (Session about System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 SP1 with Michel Lüscher from Microsoft)


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