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Azure Videos

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How Do I: Configure SQL Azure Security?

How Do I: Configure SQL Azure Security?
In this video, Max Adams introduces security within SQL Azure. The creation of Logins, Databases and Users is discussed and demonstrated. The views sys.sql_logins and sys.databases which allow the display of logins and databases from the master database are also discussed.
Monday, Jun 21

How Do I: Managing SSL Certificates With Azure ?

How Do I: Managing SSL Certificates With Azure ?
In this video, Max Adams describes how to create and deploy SSL certificates to Windows Azure applications. An x509 certificate is also deployed to the Azure account for use with the Windows Azure Management API.
Tuesday, Jun 1

How Do I: Deploying With CS Pack ?

How Do I: Deploying With CS Pack ?
There are times when using command line utilities instead of an IDE to deploy Azure applications just make sense. In this video, Max Adams introduces the Azure SDK’s command line utilities – CSPack and CSRun to do this type of packaging and deployment.
Wednesday, May 26

Deployment Videos

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Deploying Windows Server 2012 with the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit

Deploying Windows Server 2012 with the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit
John Weston and Michael Niehaus join TechNet Radio as they discuss the latest version of the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit and how this free tool can help enterprises deploy Windows Server 2012 as well as earlier versions of Windows Server and Windows operating systems to their environment.
Thursday, Aug 30

Windows XP Migration: Building the Deployment Environment

Windows XP Migration: Building the Deployment Environment
Learn how to build media that will automatically migrate computers from Windows XP to Windows 7 with user data, custom applications and drivers. This demonstration will walk you through the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) Deployment Workbench and how it works.
Wednesday, Mar 21

Windows XP Migration: Initiating the Install and Migrating the PC

Windows XP Migration: Initiating the Install and Migrating the PC
Explore the user experience for migrating the Windows XP computer to Windows 7 and how brief - or "lite touch" - interaction is required up front to automate the entire process of data migration, OS installation, driver and application customization, and domain join.
Wednesday, Mar 21

Internet Explorer Videos

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Deploying and Managing Windows Internet Explorer 8?

Deploying and Managing Windows Internet Explorer 8?
In this video, Kyle Rosenthal shows you how to use the IEAK 8 Internet Explorer Customization Wizard to create a custom installation of Internet Explorer 8 ready for deployment to your corporate environment.
Wednesday, Jun 17

Web Slices

Web Slices
In this video, Matt Hester demonstrates Internet Explorer 8’s Web Slices - a technology that allow users to subscribe to snippets of any page and view them by using the Favorites toolbar. The video will show how to create and use Web Slices.
Monday, Apr 13

HTML 5 Networking Events

HTML 5 Networking Events
In this video, Matt Hester demonstrates Internet Explorer 8’s new support for the networking events, from the W3C’s HTML 5 working draft, including the onHashChange, onOnline, and onOffline events.
Monday, Apr 13

Internet Explorer 8 Security Videos

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Cross Domain Requests

Cross Domain Requests
In this video, Matt Hester discusses Internet Explorer 8 and its support for Cross Domain Requests by providing a safe and reliable anonymous communication mechanism with remote servers to exchange data safely while helping to prevent cross-site scripting attacks.
Friday, Sep 4

Extended Validation Certificates - Technical Considerations

Extended Validation Certificates - Technical Considerations
In this video, Matt Hester discusses Internet Explorer 8 and its support for EV certs, and some of the technical considerations of implemented properly.
Friday, Aug 28

Protected Mode

Protected Mode
In this video, Matt Hester demonstrates Internet Explorer 8 and its protected mode which provides enhanced security for Windows Vista users by helping to defend against elevation of privilege attacks.
Thursday, Aug 20

Exchange Videos

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Exchange Online Screencast Part 1 - Account Logon and Domain Setup

Exchange Online Screencast Part 1 - Account Logon and Domain Setup
Get an overview of the initial setup, some of the administrative pages, steps and tips for setting up Exchange Online.
Friday, Aug 6

Exchange Online Screencast Part 2 - Adding and Testing Users

Exchange Online Screencast Part 2 - Adding and Testing Users
See how easy it is to add a user and configure an email client to send and receive email.
Friday, Aug 6

How Do I: Size Exchange 2010?

How Do I: Size Exchange 2010?
Exchange 2010 introduces new functionality in server roles, including new high availability features. Join Nicolas Blank as he discusses how to size critical Exchange 2010 server roles using tools and calculators to establish the disks, IOPS, replication bandwidth, CPU cores, and memory requirement for each role.
Tuesday, Jul 20

Exchange Online Videos

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Exchange Online administration

Exchange Online administration
In this video, Marc Hoppers explains how to use the Exchange Administration features provided in Microsoft Online Services. Topics include, adding and editing users, creating distribution lists, setting ups safe senders and blocked senders.
Tuesday, Oct 28

Forefront Videos

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How to Create a Policy with Microsoft Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010

How to Create a Policy with Microsoft Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010
This video will show you how to create a Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010 policy by using Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007.
Tuesday, Aug 23

How to Deploy the Microsoft Forefront Endpoint Protection Client to a Computer

How to Deploy the Microsoft Forefront Endpoint Protection Client to a Computer
This video will show you how to use Microsoft Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010 and the Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 to deploy the FEP Client to a computer.
Friday, Jul 1

How to Update Antimalware Definitions with Microsoft Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010 using WSUS

How to Update Antimalware Definitions with Microsoft Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010 using WSUS
This video will show you how to configure Microsoft Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010 and Microsoft Windows Server Update Services to automatically download FEP cliend definition updates to client computers.
Wednesday, Jun 29

Microsoft Online Videos

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Add Users to SharePoint Site Collection in MOS and Configure Security

Add Users to SharePoint Site Collection in MOS and Configure Security
This video shows how to add users and configure their security settings within Microsoft Online Services' SharePoint Online. This demo shows how to: - Access the SharePoint Online Site Settings website - Add users using the browse function - Add users using the check names function - Configure user security settings for a site collection
Tuesday, Jul 14

Provison a SharePoint Site Collection with Microsoft Online Services

Provison a SharePoint Site Collection with Microsoft Online Services
This video shows how to create a new SharePoint site collection using SharePoint Online, part of Microsoft Online Services This demo shows how to: - Find the SharePoint Online administration page within MOS - Create a new SharePoint Site collection - Choose a site template < - Allocate space to the site collection
Tuesday, Jul 14

Convert Trial Account to Paid Subscription of BPOS

Convert Trial Account to Paid Subscription of BPOS
This video shows how to convert a trial account of the Microsoft Online Business Productivity Suite to a paid subscription.
Tuesday, Jul 7

Office Communications Server Videos

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How Do I: Change or Enable the External Reverse Proxy URL for OCS?

How Do I: Change or Enable the External Reverse Proxy URL for OCS?
Changing the reverse proxy or forgetting to enable it during setup may lead to untold frustration during both external and federated Communicator and LiveMeeting Client access. Join Nicolas Blank as he demonstrates how to solve this issue using a Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 command line utility.
Tuesday, Jan 6

How Do I: Get Started with Meeting and Voice Policies in OCS?

How Do I: Get Started with Meeting and Voice Policies in OCS?
Join Nicolas Blank as he demonstrates how to get started with both Meeting and Voice Policies in Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007.
Tuesday, Jan 6

How Do I: Enable Anonymous and Federated Users in OCS?

How Do I: Enable Anonymous and Federated Users in OCS?
Join Nicolas Blank as he demonstrates how to enables two massively useful features in Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007, Anonymous and Federated Live Meeting Users as well as Federation for Instant Messaging users.
Tuesday, Jan 6

Script Center Videos

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Power Shell Variables

Power Shell Variables
In this video Nicholas Blank shows us the flexibility of using variables in PowerShell
Wednesday, Dec 17

Powershell Scripts and the Command Line

Powershell Scripts and the Command Line
In this video Nicolas Blank discusses command line arguments in functions and scripts.
Tuesday, Oct 7

Power Shell and WMI

Power Shell and WMI
In this video Nicholas Blank shows us how easy it is to use WMI in PowerShell.
Thursday, Oct 2

Security Videos

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The Cloud Fundamentals Video Series - Series Wrap Up

The Cloud Fundamentals Video Series - Series Wrap Up
Tim Rains, Director, Trustworthy Computing and host of the Cloud Fundamentals Video Series gives a brief wrap up of the series.
Wednesday, Aug 29

Security Bulletin Overview for August 2012

Security Bulletin Overview for August 2012
This is a basic overview of the security bulletin released by the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) in August 2012.
Tuesday, Aug 14

Security Bulletin Overview for January 2012

Security Bulletin Overview for January 2012
This is a basic overview of the security bulletin released by the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) in January 2012.
Tuesday, Jan 10

SharePoint Server Videos

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How Do I: Install Service Pack 2?

How Do I: Install Service Pack 2?
Earlier this year, Microsoft released Service Pack 2 for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. This service pack includes a variety of updates, fixes and improvements to these products but installing a Service Pack, Infrastructure Update or Cumulative Update for SharePoint can involve a few different steps. Also, different approaches exist for doing these updates. In this video, Hilton Giesenow from The MOSS Show SharePoint podcast (http://www.TheMossShow.com/) takes us through creating a “Slipstream” installation, upgrading an existing WSS installation, and looking at how we can stage these updates across the various content databases in the farm.
Thursday, Jan 28

How Do I: Enhance User Profiles with BDC Data?

How Do I: Enhance User Profiles with BDC Data?
In previous videos in this series we’ve looked at how to configure the User Profile Import to import user profile information from Microsoft Active Directory. We’ve also looked at how to configure Business Data Catalog (BDC) connections. In this video, Hilton Giesenow from The MOSS Show SharePoint podcast (http://www.TheMossShow.com/) shows us how to bring these two together to enhance user profile data with additional data from external Line of Business (LOB) systems.
Thursday, Jan 28

How Do I: Configure My Sites On My SharePoint Server 2007 Farm?

How Do I: Configure My Sites On My SharePoint Server 2007 Farm?
The My Sites functionality in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 provides a rich location for users to interact, identify colleagues, store personal information, etc. In this video, Hilton Giesenow from The MOSS Show SharePoint podcast (http://www.TheMossShow.com/) looks at creating a new My Sites web application, targeting the My Sites link to specific users and creating shared My Sites menu items.
Monday, Jan 25

SQL Server Videos

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Viewing Reporting Services Reports on a Microsoft Surface RT Device

Viewing Reporting Services Reports on a Microsoft Surface RT Device
In this video I’ll demonstrate how to view a Reporting Services report on a Microsoft Surface RT device. You'll learn how to access the report in Windows Azure, SharePoint, and Report Manager. You'll learn how to navigate the report, interact with data using features such as parameters and sort, export the report, upload a report file to Report Manager, and view data alerts for the report.
Wednesday, Mar 13

Viewing Reporting Services Reports on an iPad

Viewing Reporting Services Reports on an iPad
In this video I’ll demonstrate how to view a Reporting Services report on an Apple iPad that has Apple iOS 6 and Apple Safari. You'll learn how to access and navigate the report, interact with the data using features such as parameters and sort, and export the report to a file. Developer Center page Center Page
Wednesday, Dec 26

Setup a VM Test Server for Power View and PowerPivot: Part 1 - Prepare Your Virtual Machine

Setup a VM Test Server for Power View and PowerPivot: Part 1 - Prepare Your Virtual Machine
In this video, I will walk you through setting up a test machine on a VM that can be used to host SharePoint with Power View and PowerPivot enabled, and a client machine for building models and creating reports. You will learn how to configure a domain controller in a VM, add a client machine, add the services, and prepare the software that must be installed on all machines.
Tuesday, Dec 11

System Center Videos

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Application Management in Configuration Manager 2012 at Microsoft

Application Management in Configuration Manager 2012 at Microsoft
This video discusses Application Management at Microsoft on System Center Configuration Manager 2012 Beta 2 on 150,000 clients in the Microsoft IT environment. Hear the benefits Microsoft IT sees with Configuration Manager 2012 for application management.
Friday, May 27

System Center Configuration Manager 2012 Beta How-Do-I? Video series

System Center Configuration Manager 2012 Beta How-Do-I? Video series
Watch short videos that focus on specific tasks and show you how to accomplish them in System Center Configuration Manager 2012 Beta.
Wednesday, Mar 23

Getting to 50,000 clients in less than 100 days - Configuration Manager 2012 Beta 1 at Microsoft

Getting to 50,000 clients in less than 100 days - Configuration Manager 2012 Beta 1 at Microsoft
This video discusses the hardware and migration strategy used to get to 50,000 System Center Configuration Manager 2012 Beta 1 clients in the Microsoft IT environment. Hear the benefits Microsoft IT sees with Configuration Manager 2012 for client management.
Wednesday, Jan 12

Virtualization Videos

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Virtualized SLES 10.2 on Hyper-V v2

Virtualized SLES 10.2 on Hyper-V v2
This Video demonstrates deploying SUSE Linux Enterprise Server as a virtual guest on Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V. It includes the details for installing integration services (ICs), as well as (optional) mouse driver.
Monday, May 17

Virtualized Ubuntu 9.10 on Hyper-V v2

Virtualized Ubuntu 9.10 on Hyper-V v2
Virtualized Ubuntu 9.10 on Hyper-V v2.
Friday, May 14

How Do I: Configure a Cluster Shared Volume to support Live Migration with Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 and Hyper-V ?

How Do I: Configure a Cluster Shared Volume to support Live Migration with Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 and Hyper-V ?
Windows Server 2008 R2 introduces the Cluster Shared Volume (CSV) feature which allows multiple nodes in a cluster to share a single LUN. This great new feature simplifies storage administration for clusters by removing the need to place each virtual machine on its own LUN to ensure maximum flexibility with regards to VM failover and ownership. In this video Gordon Ryan shows how to enable CSV support in a cluster and then configure a volume and multiple virtual machines to use the volume as well as demonstrating the live migration feature.
Monday, Mar 8

Windows Client Videos

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Configure the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit Database to Automate Windows Deployment

Configure the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit Database to Automate Windows Deployment
Watch this demonstration to learn how to create and configure the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) database to further automate the deployment of Windows operating systems.
Wednesday, Aug 26

Download and Install Windows PowerShell for Windows Vista

Download and Install Windows PowerShell for Windows Vista
Find out how to obtain, download, and install Windows PowerShell in a Windows Vista environment. This demonstration also provides an overview of some basic PowerShell commands to get you started.
Wednesday, Aug 26

Configure Task Sequences in the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit

Configure Task Sequences in the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit
In this video, you’ll learn how to create and configure a custom task sequence in the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) and leverage the automated deployment functions.
Wednesday, Aug 26

Windows Mobile Videos

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Application Management in Configuration Manager 2012 at Microsoft

Application Management in Configuration Manager 2012 at Microsoft
This video discusses Application Management at Microsoft on System Center Configuration Manager 2012 Beta 2 on 150,000 clients in the Microsoft IT environment. Hear the benefits Microsoft IT sees with Configuration Manager 2012 for application management.
Friday, May 27

System Center Configuration Manager 2012 Beta How-Do-I? Video series

System Center Configuration Manager 2012 Beta How-Do-I? Video series
Watch short videos that focus on specific tasks and show you how to accomplish them in System Center Configuration Manager 2012 Beta.
Wednesday, Mar 23

Getting to 50,000 clients in less than 100 days - Configuration Manager 2012 Beta 1 at Microsoft

Getting to 50,000 clients in less than 100 days - Configuration Manager 2012 Beta 1 at Microsoft
This video discusses the hardware and migration strategy used to get to 50,000 System Center Configuration Manager 2012 Beta 1 clients in the Microsoft IT environment. Hear the benefits Microsoft IT sees with Configuration Manager 2012 for client management.
Wednesday, Jan 12

Windows Server 2008 Videos

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How Do I: Add additional Management Packs to System Center Operations Manager 2007?

How Do I: Add additional Management Packs to System Center Operations Manager 2007?
In this video, Kyle Rosenthal demonstrates how to extend the usage of SCOM 2007 by installing additional Management Packs.
Tuesday, Jun 8

How Do I: Using Windows PowerShell V2 to manage active directory objects?

How Do I: Using Windows PowerShell V2 to manage active directory objects?
In this video, Kyle Rosenthal will demonstrate how to use Windows PowerShell V2 to manage objects in Active Directory. This will include how to manage single objects as well as making bulk changes.
Tuesday, Jun 8

Using AD RMS to Protect Documents in a SharePoint Document Library

Using AD RMS to Protect Documents in a SharePoint Document Library
In this video, we demonstrate how AD RMS integrates with other applications by showing you how documents can be protected with specific permissions in a SharePoint document library.
Monday, May 3

How Do I: Activate AD RMS in Windows Mobile?

How Do I: Activate AD RMS in Windows Mobile?
Before you can create and consume AD RMS protected content using Windows Mobile 6.0 or later, you must first activate AD RMS on the mobile device. This video explains the necessary steps and prerequisites to activating AD RMS on a mobile device.
Wednesday, Apr 14

Windows Server Terminal Services Videos

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Terminal Services - Overview

Terminal Services - Overview
In this video, Matt Hester gives you a general overview of the new features available with Terminal Services in Windows Server 2008.
Tuesday, Jan 15

Terminal Services - TS Gateway Server

Terminal Services - TS Gateway Server
In this video, Matt Hester talks about TS Gateway, which enables a secure scenario and authorizes remote users to connect to resources on another network.
Tuesday, Jan 15

Terminal Services - RemoteApp

Terminal Services - RemoteApp
In this video, Matt Hester talks about the RemoteApp capabilities in Terminal Services that allow us to share out applications across the different areas in our environment.
Tuesday, Jan 15

Windows SharePoint Services Videos

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How Do I: Use the Permission Reporting Tool?

How Do I: Use the Permission Reporting Tool?
Part of the SharePoint Administration Toolkit from Microsoft, the Permission Reporting Tool provides various components to help better understand how security is being derived and applied across and within sites, lists and item. The tool includes three components – the Compare Permissions Sets function, the Check Effective Permissions function and the Broken Inheritance Reports function. In this video Hilton Giesenow from The MOSS Show (http://www.TheMossShow.com/) takes us through installing the Permission Reporting Tool (including the required cumulative update) as well as looking at each of these three functions in turn.
Monday, Nov 23

How Do I: Use the SPDiag Tool to Analyze my SharePoint Farm?

How Do I: Use the SPDiag Tool to Analyze my SharePoint Farm?
Part of the latest SharePoint Administration Toolkit from Microsoft, the SharePoint Diagnostic (SPDiag) tool provides a wealth of information of all kinds across the entire server farm, offering both static and trend analysis and reporting as well as real-time details to assist in analysis, planning and problem avoidance and resolution. In this video Hilton Giesenow (http://www.TheMossShow.com/) takes us through downloading, installing and setting configuring the tool, and looks at how to use some of its features.
Tuesday, Jul 7

How Do I: Work with Document Templates?

How Do I: Work with Document Templates?
Rather than work with a standard, blank Word, Excel or PowerPoint template off the “New” button in a document library in Windows SharePoint Services,wouldn’t you rather offer your users the ability to create new documents using a more customized company template? Better yet, why not offer multiple predefined templates in the same library, perhaps with a specific set of metadata fields? Join Hilton Giesenow, host of The Moss Show (http://www.TheMossShow.com/) as he explores various ways to customize the templates used in a document library, within a site, or across an entire site collection.
Wednesday, Jun 24

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