This is the last of my news posts before TechEd Europe. Expect crazy flurries of news on Tuesday morning during the keynote. I’ll be live blogging so my updates will be there.
System Center
- Windows Azure Pack WhitePaper based on Building Clouds: A combination of posts on deploying Windows Azure Pack
Azure
- Automate Linux VM OS Updates Using OSPatching Extension: Azure VM OSPatching extension for Linux enables the Azure VM administrators to automate the VM OS updates with the customized configurations.
- Using Azure Automation to check health of Minecraft server in Azure: Yeap, there’s a Minecraft VM image in the Azure Gallery
Miscellaneous
- Microsoft Announces Record First-Quarter Revenue, Thanks To Cloud And Hardware Growth: Revenues up, profits down a bit thanks to redundancies, and Surface sales double (from 10 to 20 – LOL). Windows Server, System Center, Azure, and Office bringing home the bacon.