Reinventing the electricity grid
Thank you for tuning into the "Reinventing the electricity grid" interview at Microsoft Ignite 2020 with Brian Janous. I wanted to share some more information about some of the things we talked about. Project Natick was an under water datacenter that was submerged in Scotland for 2 years, it's been a great research programme that's taught the team a lot of about running datacenters under water. 😉 Azure's new West US 3 region is making great strives to be sustainable with solar energy and water positive projects being incorporated into the building of the datacenters. To understand the overall plan for Azure's sustainability plan you can read more here. Better understand your the impact of cloud usage on your emissions with the Microsoft Sustainability Calculator.Schedule customer meetings with Microsoft Bookings
Allowing your customers or potential customers book time with you or book your services in a self service way is a great tool to be able to provide. I've been leveraging Microsoft Bookings to allow the community to book time with me, take a look at how you can leverage Microsoft Bookings to do the same.How does the PXE boot process work?
Within the IT department imaging devices for end users is something that we’ve probably all had to do at some point, either manually or with an automation product such as Windows Deployment Services (WDS), Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) or System Centre Configuration Manager (SCCM). There are a lot of moving parts to imaging devices using one of the tools mentioned above, and there can be a lot of pain points in the process. One of the pain points is often how to get the device to boot into the PXE environment, in this article we explore how that process works and understand why it can be a pain point.
