Jennelle Crothers’ Presenting on Extending Your Datacenter to Azure with Virtual Networks and PowerShell at Next SITPUG Meeting

The next Seattle IT Pro User Group (SITPUG) meeting will be held on May 13, 2015, at Microsoft’s Civica Office in Bellevue. The guest speaker will be Microsoft’s Technical Evangelist Jennelle Crothers. The topic of her presentation is “Extending your Datacenter to Azure with Virtual Networks and PowerShell.”

You might love your on-premises datacenter and the GUI tools Microsoft has provided since the NT 4.0 days but the cloud is here to stay and it’s sometimes easier to manage the cloud if you leave the GUI behind. Learn how you can use a VPN to connect your datacenter to Azure, or how to create your own test lab in the cloud, then use PowerShell to create and manage Virtual Machines (VMs) from your desktop.

Before joining Microsoft, Jennelle spent 15 years as a Systems Administrator. Now as a Technology Evangelist for IT Professionals, she speaks to members of the IT community about what’s new and cool with Microsoft technologies. Jennelle has received the coveted Microsoft MVP award 4 times. She is a Microsoft Azure Specialist, MCITP, MCSE for Server 2003/Messaging, and an MCSA for Windows 8.

About SITPUG

Seattle IT Pro User Group is primarily focused on Microsoft networking technologies, such as Windows Server 2012/2008/2003, Windows 8/7/Vista, Active Directory, Windows Azure, Cloud Computing, Forefront, Office 365, Exchange, Internet Information Server, TMG Server, Lync Server, Internet Explorer, Mobile/Wireless, Scripting, SharePoint, Small Business Server, SQL Server, System Center, Virtualization, Windows Phone, etc. SITPUG’s goal is to provide useful information to IT professionals so that they can better install, configure, deploy, maintain, support, manage, troubleshoot and secure Microsoft products and utilities. The topics covered include servers, clients, software, and hardware.