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Windays 2013 conference is over

Marin Franković — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 10:33:24 +0000

At least technical part of it. Business part is still going on and today is its last day. I had a great time and met some old and some new friends. Community dinner was a great success and I hope after two times we did it, it will become tradition on this conference. Again, this [...]

Windows Server 2012 Networking

Marin Franković — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 07:38:00 +0000

This is a recording of my MS Network 3 conference session named “Windows Server 2012 Networking”. In this session I covered three new networking features of Windows Server 2012, NIC Teaming, DHCP Failover and IPAM role. Session is recorded in Croatian language.

Windows Server 2012 Sales Technical Readiness

Marin Franković — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 07:35:47 +0000

This is a recording of my Windows Server 2012 Sales Technical Readiness session for Microsoft sales partners in Croatia. Session is recorded in Croatian language. This sessions covers high level overview of Windows Server 2012 technologies such as virtualization, VDI, networking, storage, management and automation. At the end of the session there are couple of [...]

SCVMM 2012 SP1 Cookbook

Marin Franković — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 09:51:21 +0000

Just yesterday Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 Cookbook has been published by Pakt Publishing. It is the first and only book that covers this topic. Author is MVP Edvaldo Alessandro Cardoso. You can grab a copy from publishers page: http://link.packtpub.com/POCsIQ. Table of content: Chapter 1: VMM 2012 Architecture Chapter 2: Installing SCVMM 2012 [...]

Long time no write

Marin Franković — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 09:07:47 +0000

Prelude First of all I would like to wish good luck to all women and moms around the world, especially my own wife Andrijana for raising our two beautiful children and all the hard work she does and at the same time puts up with me. Now, sadly I did not have very much time [...]

Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V server

Marin Franković — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 16:41:42 +0000

This is a recording of IT PRO User Group session in Zagreb delivered by freshly elected Virtual Machine MVP Romeo Mlinar. Session is in Croatian.

Windows Server 2012 Technical Readiness (What is new)

Marin Franković — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 09:34:00 +0000

This is recording from several Windows Server 2012 Technical Overview sessions that I did for Microsoft Croatia office. Recording is in Croatian.

MVP competency changed and status renewed

Marin Franković — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 14:40:09 +0000

Just now I have received mail notification that my MVP status is renewed for one extra year, making this fourth in a row. I have also change competencies from Management infrastructure to System Center Cloud and Datacenter Management, first and only one in Croatia. Congratulations to all who renewed or gain MVP status in this [...]

Boot Windows Server 2012 from USB in virtual machine

Marin Franković — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 10:12:00 +0000

This article is follow up on my previous article on creating Win 8 To Go USB stick. This scenario is not supported in any way by Microsoft and I did it just to show the extent of technology and what can be achieved with it. Here is short step-by-step tutorial on how to do this. [...]

Disable cell broadcast on some Android devices

Marin Franković — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 09:32:02 +0000

This post is just for fun, since I had huge problems on disabling cell broadcast messages on my wife’s new Samsung Galaxy Ace Plus Android phone. Every time her phone changed base station, message would appear on her phone with annoying sound. I looked for option to disable this in every menu on the phone [...]

Conferences past and future

Marin Franković — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 19:15:17 +0000

Several conferences passed and each and every one had some charm to it. At Windays (two sessions and a workshop) I got to see old friends and meet some new ones, NT Konferenca (two sessions) offered some new perspective on how to prepare for longer sessions and enabled me to meet some great people and [...]

Windows 2012 Networking

Marin Franković — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 20:20:45 +0000

Finally, as Microsoft Hungary didn’t yet delivered my session recording from NTK, I redelivered same lecture for Zagreb IT Pro user group. Session is in Croatian. Enjoy!

Windows Server 2012 Readiness Follow Up

Marin Franković — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 09:03:49 +0000

This is a short follow up on my yesterdays session “Windows Server 2012 Technical Overview” that was delivered at local Microsoft office in Croatia. There where several questions that where left unanswered or in a grey area of explanations so I am taking this opportunity to clear thing up and give some definite technical answer. [...]

Win 8 To Go

Marin Franković — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 14:58:55 +0000

Windows 8 has many great new features but one that looks very interesting is Win To Go option. In short, this enables you to install Windows 8 Enterprise version on a supported USB stick od external disk drive and to plug it in any computer that supports Windows 8 and have access to you applications [...]

Kulendayz 2012 Private Cloud track

Marin Franković — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 11:22:23 +0000

Kulendayz 2012 Private Cloud track is now live. We covered almost all relevant technologies and products that combined enable users to create and fully utilize Microsoft private cloud solution. List of speakers and their topics (1.9.2012.): Damien Caro, MS France, Private Cloud Keynote Damir Dizdarević, MVP Bosna and Hercegovina – Whats new in Windows Server [...]

KulenDayz 2012

Marin Franković — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 10:34:08 +0000

Today I was selected to be content owner for IT Pro track on Microsoft Community conference KulenDayz 2012. Main theme of the track is Private Cloud. If you wish to do a session for this event, please e-mail me no later than 10.8.2012. Track has only 7 sessions so competition will be huge. Make sure [...]

Windows Server 2012 and SCVMM 2012 SP1 CTP

Marin Franković — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 14:05:48 +0000

Since I have received my donated server (thanks Vedran Dakić), I have installed Windows 2012 RC on it and now I will share some info on configuring it with SCVMM 2012 SP1 CTP. Be aware that SCVMM CTP at this moment only supports Windows 2012 as guest OS and all roles of SCVMM CTP must [...]

System Center App Controller 2012 NT konferenca

Marin Franković — Thu, 24 May 2012 17:34:34 +0000

Although I already posted same session before, this one has much better audio track and it lasts longer, 1:15 hours in total. My other session, “Windows Server 2012 Networking” was recorded with professional equipment and as soon as I get access to it I will post it on my blog.

Microsoft VS VMware

Marin Franković — Wed, 09 May 2012 12:03:00 +0000

Which virtualization technology will prevail? Who will win in this epic war between two giants, one defending and one aspiring to be a champion! Learn from this great session that Robert Petrunić did on the last IT Pro UG Zagreb meeting! Language is Croatian.

Windays 2012 session recordings

Marin Franković — Fri, 04 May 2012 13:25:00 +0000

As promised, here are my two sessions recorder during Windays 2012 conference. Unfortunately, sound is not best of quality but it is understandable. Voice is in Croatian. System Center App Controller Hyper-V 3.0 and business cvontinuity