Ernie is joined by fellow MVP Ben Thomas to talk about the news of Azure Local subsuming Azure Stack HCI, Windows Server 2025 now GA with a ton of awesome features, and new management capabilities by Arc-enabling your infrastructure.
Time Stamps:
0:00 – Intro
1:30 – Ben’s experience with SCVMM, WSSD, S2D, Azure Stack Hub, and Azure Stack HCI
2:35 – Reactions to name change and what it means
6:00 – Azure Local disconnected operations versus Azure Stack Hub and Edge
11:15 – Windows Server 2025 is GA
13:00 – In-place upgrade path is (n-4) now!!!
14:00 – Managed service accounts, SMB over QUIC, GPU, network controller improvements, storage improvements, and more!
16:35 – System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) 2025
17:45 – Windows Server Pay-as-you-Go (PayG) licensing via Azure Arc
22:40 – Caveats with Azure Local and workarounds
26:55 – Last thoughts
Learn more: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azurearcblog/announcing-general-availability-windows-server-management-enabled-by-azure-arc/4303854
Read the Microsoft blog: https://aka.ms/Ignite24/blog/azurelocalintroblog