TechEd 2013 North America announcements

Last week TechEd 2013 North America was held in New Orléans. Instead of Microsoft Management Summit (MMS) this year, there were a lot of announcements to make. In this blogpost I will mention the highlights, and what to expect for the next months. It will be a great year with lot's of new functionality!

What can we expect later this year?

• Windows Server 2012 R2
• System Center 2012 R2
• Windows Intune 5.0 (Wave E)
• SQL Server 2014 (wow, that's fast!)
• Windows 8.1 (with Outlook RT)
• Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2013

There will also be new features available:

• Windows Azure Pack for Windows Server
• Intune: Workplace join, Selective wipe, Android support
• Azure: No charge for stopped VM's, per minute billing
• Azure: Live migration Compression (faster then default)
• Azure: Live migration RDMA (faster then Compression)
• Hyper-V recovery manager (site by site replication)

Hope you are as excited as I do!