Orin Thomas
@orinthomas.com
Model Spaceship Gatherer. Author of 45 technical books. Cloud Advocate. aka.ms/orin
Windows Server: Today, tomorrow, and what’s next www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdDj...
Windows Server: Today, tomorrow, and what’s next
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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...
GitHub - microsoft/windows-server-azure-lab: Exercises for deploying and managing Windows Server on Azure
Exercises for deploying and managing Windows Server on Azure - microsoft/windows-server-azure-lab
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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...
Opt-In Windows Server 2025 Feature Update from the WS 2022 and WS 2019 Settings Dialog | Microsoft Community Hub
This capability allows customers who want to in-place upgrade their servers to Windows Server 2025 to upgrade using the Windows Update service, and without...
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Overview of Azure Monitor Pipeline www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUh7...
Overview of Azure Monitor pipeline
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Overview of App Migration with Azure Migrate www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWv5...
Overview of App Migration with Azure Migrate
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Windows Admin Center: Virtualization Mode Public Preview 2 is now available: techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/windows...
Announcing Windows Admin Center: Virtualization Mode Public Preview 2! | Microsoft Community Hub
Download Windows Admin Center: Virtualization Mode Public Preview 2 here. Provide feedback on Public Preview 2 on our GitHub page. At Microsoft Ignite...
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Overview of Migrating MySQL Workloads to Azure. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5v6R...
Overview of Migrating MySQL Workloads to Azure.
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Overview of migrating Oracle workloads to Azure www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPgt...
Overview of Migrating Oracle Workloads to Azure
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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...
Migrating to Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server
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Overview of migrating SQL Workloads to Azure www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rstx...
Overview of migrating SQL Workloads to Azure
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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...
Join us at Microsoft Azure Infra Summit 2026 for deep technical Azure infrastructure content | Microsoft Community Hub
Microsoft Azure Infra Summit 2026 is a free, engineering-led virtual event created for IT professionals, platform engineers, SREs, and infrastructure teams...
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Choosing the right Azure Database Migration Target www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-k_...
Choosing the right Azure Database Migration Target
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Overview of Azure Workload Monitoring: www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3Cr...
Overview of Azure Workload Monitoring
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Secure and harden Internet Information Services learn.microsoft.com/en-us/traini...
Secure and Harden Internet Information Services - Training
Learn how to secure and harden Internet Information Services (IIS) to protect your web applications and data from potential threats. This module covers best practices for authentication, authorization...
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Introduction to Azure IaaS VM High Availability www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkEq...
Intro to Azure IaaS VM high availability
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Azure Immutable Storage Demo: What Happens When Ransomware Tries to Delete a Protected Blob www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnCx...
Azure Immutable Storage Demo: What Happens When Ransomware Tries to Delete a Protected Blob
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Create a Cloud Witness quorum resource using managed identity while creating a new Windows Server failover cluster: techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/failove...
Using Failover Clustering Cloud Witness with Managed Identity in Windows Server 2025 | Microsoft Community Hub
Failover Clustering has a strong quorum model that is always used to prevent partition in space (AKA Split Brain, Network partition, Cluster partition). We...
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Introduction to Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEBG...
Introduction to Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets
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Overview of Defender for Cloud, App Service, and SQL www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0ln...
Overview of Defender for Cloud, App Service, and SQL
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Overview of Entra Workload Identities www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_sf...
Overview of Entra Workload Identities
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Windows Server 2025 Native NVMe: Storage Stack Overhaul and Benchmark Results www.storagereview.com/review/windo...
Windows Server 2025 Native NVMe: Storage Stack Overhaul and Benchmark Results
Windows Server 2025 native NVMe tested: new storage stack architecture, read gains, CPU efficiency, and real lab benchmarks.
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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...
Introducing the Windows NVMe-oF Initiator Preview in Windows Server Insiders Builds | Microsoft Community Hub
What Is NVMe-over-Fabrics? NVMe-over-Fabrics (NVMe-oF) extends the NVMe protocol—originally designed for local PCIe-attached SSDs—across a network fabric....
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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
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Save the date for three days of architecture guidance, scenario-based deep dives, and actionable insights on the latest in Windows Server capabilities.
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