Orin Thomas

The new edition of Windows Server Inside Out is available. It includes everything from Securing AD and Hardening Windows Server, to how to host and manage Hyper-V, integrate with Azure Services and how to host generative AI workloads like Ollama and Foundry Local. www.amazon.com/Windows-Serv...

@birmo.bsky.social You probably need one of those new iPhone Duos cos otherwise you'll be distracted from productivity by the longing for the shiny

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Windows Server: Today, tomorrow, and what’s next www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdDj...

Windows Server Summit: aka.ms/WSSummitSave...

New Windows Server on Azure Lab. Self paced exercises that walk you through deploying Windows Server in an availability set, configuring applicaiton gateway, monitoring, backup and Entra domain services github.com/microsoft/wi...

Want to in-place upgrade your servers to Windows Server 2025 to upgrade using the Windows Update service, and without the need for Windows Server 2025 physical media? Configure a special registry setting (or group policy) to enable this functionality: techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/windows...

Overview of Azure Monitor Pipeline www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUh7...

Overview of App Migration with Azure Migrate www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWv5...

Windows Admin Center: Virtualization Mode Public Preview 2 is now available: techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/windows...

Troubleshoot and optimize IIS performance learn.microsoft.com/en-us/traini...

Overview of Migrating MySQL Workloads to Azure. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5v6R...

Overview of migrating Oracle workloads to Azure www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPgt...

In the Administer Internet Information Services learning path, you learn how to install, configure, and manage IIS to host web applications and services. Learn how to harden IIS security, backup config, sites, & applications, & enable detailed monitoring &logging. learn.microsoft.com/en-us/traini...

Migrating to Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwCh...

Overview of migrating SQL Workloads to Azure www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rstx...

Manage Internet Information Services learn.microsoft.com/en-us/traini...

SQL on Azure Platform Options www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSnv...

Microsoft Azure Infra Summit 2026 May 19-21. Online event with deep technical Azure infrastructure content for IT professionals, platform engineers, SREs, and infrastructure teams who want to go deeper on how Azure really works in production techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/itopsta...

Choosing the right Azure Database Migration Target www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-k_...

Overview of Azure Workload Monitoring: www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3Cr...

Secure and harden Internet Information Services learn.microsoft.com/en-us/traini...

Introduction to Azure IaaS VM High Availability www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkEq...

Azure Immutable Storage Demo: What Happens When Ransomware Tries to Delete a Protected Blob www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnCx...

Create a Cloud Witness quorum resource using managed identity while creating a new Windows Server failover cluster: techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/failove...

Introduction to Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEBG...

Overview of Defender for Cloud, App Service, and SQL www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0ln...

Overview of Entra Workload Identities www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_sf...

Windows Server 2025 Native NVMe: Storage Stack Overhaul and Benchmark Results www.storagereview.com/review/windo...

Overview of Azure workload Modernization www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JJr... techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/itopsta...

Windows NVMe-over-Fabrics (NVMe-oF) Initiator in Windows Server Insiders Builds. NVMe-oF extends the NVMe protocol across a network fabric, allowing hosts to communicate directly with remote NVMe controllers using the NVMe command set techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/windows...

Windows Server Summit is May 11-13, 2026. Hear directly from Microsoft engineers and product leaders on best practices for modernization, security, and operational excellence. To add the event to your calendar, visit aka.ms/WSSummitSaveTheDate #WindowsServer #Windows

Introduction to Agentic Migration & Modernization Tools www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg5d...

Get started with GitHub Copilot CLI: A free, hands-on course dev.to/azure/get-st...

The 6 Rs of planning Azure workload migration and modernization youtu.be/jrthbSI7O0c

A short introduction to Cloud Adoption Framework and Azure Landing Zones www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7Un...

Azure Migration Challenges (& how to overcome them) www.youtube.com/watch?v=nydD...

A presentation I did for Microsoft Reactor on Migration, Modernization & Agentic Tools www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaVI...

Prepare your servers for Secure Boot certificate updates www.microsoft.com/en-us/window...

Public Preview of DNS over HTTPS (DoH) for Windows DNS Server aka.ms/dohserver

@wsvguy.bsky.social

DNS & DHCP Server Monitoring, Health & Automation survey for Windows Server Admins (including requests for future features) forms.microsoft.com/pages/respon... (It's always DNS!)

Windows Admin Center Architectural Changes techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/windows...

Advancing Windows security: Disabling NTLM by default techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/Windows...

Configure Backup & Recovery for Windows Server IaaS VMs hosting IIS websites in an Azure availability set www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP-I...

Native NVMe in Windows Server 2025 (~80% IOPS gains over WS22) techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/windows...

Announcing Support for S2D Campus Cluster on Windows Server 2025 techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/failove...

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Windows Server Failover Clustering with Storage Spaces Direct & SAN Storage techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/failove...