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Honeycutt Inc. produced Microsoft’s Virtual Ninja Training video featuring Corina Feuerstein. Our creative team focused on capturing expertise and insights from this valuable guest, weaving a conversation into a compelling narrative that reflects the mission of Virtual Ninja Training Show - empowering professionals to learn, connect, and grow. Through dynamic visuals, purposeful pacing, and a storytelling-first approach, we delivered a piece that engages and englightens audiences while reinforcing Microsoft’s commitment to building a more secure digital future.

At Honeycutt Inc., we make digital events feel less like buttons and screens—and more like moments people actually remember. You bring the content; we bring cameras, cues, and a slight obsession with flawless timing. We start by understanding your goals: audience, messaging, and that special spark that makes your event worth tuning in for. From there, we design the flow, visuals, and tech setup—so every slide, video, and live segment lands perfectly. When it’s go-time, our team runs the show—switching feeds, mixing audio, managing graphics, and keeping everything smooth enough to make you forget it’s digital. Post-event, we edit highlights, polish recordings, and package assets so your event lives on across platforms for a digital experience that actually feels human.

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We partnered with Microsoft Security to create the Microsoft Entra Suite Summer Camp video, designed to bring energy and clarity to a complex, vital topic: identity and access management. Our team focused on showcasing technical concepts that highlight how Microsoft Entra empowers organizations to strengthen security, streamline access, and build digital trust. By blending creativity with purpose, this became a piece that educates, inspires, and positions Microsoft Entra as a leader in shaping the secure, connected future of work. We captured the collaborative spirit of the Summer Camp experience through the innovation behind Microsoft’s Entra Suite and this video celebrates not only the technology but also the people and community driving progress in cybersecurity.

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Partnered with Microsoft Security, we created the Virtual Ninja Training 2025 celebration video. Our team focused on blending cinematic visuals with a fast-paced narrative that highlights the creativity, expertise, and collaborative spirit of the Virtual Ninja Training Show. By showcasing the people, products, and culture that define this project, we crafted a piece that celebrates the achievements of the show in 2025. The video emphasizes Microsoft’s commitment to empowering security professionals worldwide while reflecting our own passion for producing content that inspires, informs, and engages. Through bold transitions, custom animations, and compelling design, we delivered a video that takes highlight reel to the next level.

We make digital events feel less like buttons and screens—and more like moments people actually remember. You bring the content; we bring cameras, cues, and a slight obsession with flawless timing. We start by understanding your goals: audience, messaging, and that special spark that makes your event worth tuning in for. From there, we design the flow, visuals, and tech setup—so every slide, video, and live segment lands perfectly. When it’s go-time, our team runs the show—switching feeds, mixing audio, managing graphics, and keeping everything smooth enough to make you forget it’s digital. Post-event, we edit highlights, polish recordings, and package assets so your event lives on across platforms for a digital experience that actually feels human.

We make digital events feel less like buttons and screens—and more like moments people actually remember. You bring the content; we bring cameras, cues, and a slight obsession with flawless timing. We start by understanding your goals: audience, messaging, and that special spark that makes your event worth tuning in for. From there, we design the flow, visuals, and tech setup—so every slide, video, and live segment lands perfectly. When it’s go-time, our team runs the show—switching feeds, mixing audio, managing graphics, and keeping everything smooth enough to make you forget it’s digital. Post-event, we edit highlights, polish recordings, and package assets so your event lives on across platforms for a digital experience that actually feels human.

In this Windows Server Summit keynote-style kickoff, host Rick Claus roams the (figurative) halls and chats with the humans behind the pixels about what’s landing in Windows Server 2025. He’s joined by Ian LeGrow, Corporate Vice President of Azure Edge and Platform, who digs into Azure-to-on-prem goodness like hotpatching—security patches without the monthly reboot ritual, brought to the on-prem world as an Arc-enabled service. Elden Christensen, Group Program Manager for Windows Server 2025, adds the bigger picture (and the practical bits): hotpatching in Server 2025 via Azure Arc on Standard and Data Center editions, monthly LCUs paired with a quarterly “baseline,” and the promise of fewer reboots and higher availability.

Along the way, the team shows off upgrades (including N-4 media upgrades all the way from Windows Server 2012 R2 to 2025 via Setup.exe, plus feature updates through the Settings dialog for N-2, and SConfig upgrades for Server 2022 Core), storage performance work with NVMe and Storage Spaces Direct, failover clustering improvements like rack-aware/campus clusters and four-way mirror resiliency, and security features like the Silicon-Assisted Security Tool, Security Baseline with drift control configuration, and Windows LAPS. Priya Satheesh and Theo Tran also walk through Windows Admin Center and Azure Arc management services (including Azure Update Manager, Azure Change and Tracking Inventory, and Azure Policy at no additional cost with Software Assurance or Pay-as-you-go), plus a lightweight Windows Admin Center extension for online migration from ESXi to Hyper-V. And because it’s Microsoft, we even detour into SQL Server 2025—Bob phones in from an AI conference in Silicon Valley to talk “AI built in,” vector store capabilities, embeddings, and vector search to support the RAG pattern.

Filmed on location at the Microsoft campus in Redmond, we produced this as a pre-recorded, streamed event built to feel effortless on the audience side and suspiciously calm behind the curtain. We handled show development, designed a full graphics package, prepped guests so they came off like polished pros (without feeling like robots wearing human suits), produced the footage, edited it into a tight, bingeable show, then streamed it to multiple social channels with the kind of smoothness that makes you wonder if time is being gently edited for your convenience. The payoff: a polished live-event vibe, blissfully free of last-minute meltdowns, plus an on-demand version that keeps working long after the stream ends.

In this Windows Server 2025 Summit session, Pierre Roman sits down with Mike Rhoads (cloud solution architect, Azure), Giles Pauli (Windows engineer supporting all things Active Directory), and Jeff Hughes (supportability program manager for storage and high availability—failover clustering, Hyper-V, storage, and Azure Local) to unpack the kinds of troubleshooting and support calls that keep popping up in the real world. They start with KMS activation and KMS client errors (including which Windows versions can activate which clients and where to find the KMS host compatibility guidance on learn.microsoft.com), then pivot into the ever-popular “how do I upgrade from Windows Server 2022 to Windows Server 2025?” conversation—especially when clusters are involved.

From there, Giles digs into common Active Directory pain points and performance sleuthing with the built-in Active Directory Collector Set in PerfMon (hello, giant HTML report) and Windows Performance Recorder, while the team keeps coming back to the usual culprit: network connectivity—ports, packet captures, and the kind of TCP basics (like spotting SYN retransmits) that quickly explain why blocking TCP port 88 tends to summon Kerberos issues. They also connect the dots on hybrid management with Azure Arc, including using Azure Update Manager and Azure Policy to orchestrate patching for on-prem servers, and when Extended Security Updates via Azure Arc can help you stay protected while you plan your upgrade path.

We produced this as a pre-recorded, streamed event designed to feel calm, crisp, and confidently “live” to the audience—without the behind-the-scenes chaos that usually requires snacks, deep breathing, and a minor pact with the streaming gods. We handled show development, designed the full graphics package, prepped the guests so they sounded like themselves (just…slightly more unstoppable), produced the footage, edited it into a tight, watchable episode, and streamed it to multiple social platforms. The result: a polished, professional show that’s easy on your team, friendly for your speakers, and built for both live impact and on-demand replay value.

Orin Thomas breaks down what happened after the MCSE and what Microsoft’s Windows Server certification story looks like now—especially for Windows Server 2025-era realities. He explains the difference between certifications and newer “credentials,” walks through the Windows Server Hybrid Admin Associate path (two exams: AZ-800 and AZ-801), and calls out a key modern twist: the exams are “open book” to Microsoft Learn in a split view—helpful, but not “ask an LLM to do your homework” helpful. He also highlights practical options like the Active Directory Applied Skills Credential, then maps what gets measured across real admin work: deploying and managing Active Directory in hybrid scenarios, managing Windows Server and workloads with tools like Windows Admin Center and Azure Arc, securing servers, handling virtualization with Hyper-V, working with containers, planning failover and recovery, migrating servers and workloads, and monitoring/troubleshooting the stuff that actually breaks on Tuesdays.

We produced this as a pre-recorded, streamed event that feels confident and live—without forcing your speakers to learn interpretive dance with a countdown timer. We handled show development, built a cohesive graphics package, prepared the guest so the delivery stayed crisp and human, produced the footage, edited it into a clean, watchable session, and streamed it to multiple social channels. The result is a polished digital event that protects your team’s time, keeps presenters relaxed, and delivers a professional on-air experience that’s ready for both the live moment and on-demand life afterward.

In this Windows Server Summit session, Modernizing Server Management and Connectivity With Azure Arc, Thomas Maurer is joined by Aurnov Chattopadhyay (PM, Azure Arc) to show how Azure Arc brings on-prem, multicloud, and edge servers into the Azure control plane—so you can manage them like native Azure resources. They walk through onboarding options (PowerShell script, at-scale automation, Windows Admin Center, and Arc Setup built into Windows Server 2025), then get specific about connectivity choices: public endpoints, transparent proxy, Private Link over VPN/ExpressRoute, and the Arc Gateway (preview) to funnel many servers through a single gateway.

Once servers are connected, Aurnov demos the “Windows Server Management enabled by Azure Arc” experience and the services it unlocks, including Azure Update Manager, Azure Machine Configuration (Azure Policy Guest Configuration), Azure Change Tracking and Inventory, and Azure Run Command for secure remote scripting—plus how properly licensed Windows Server machines can access key Azure management capabilities at no additional cost.

We produced this Windows Server Summit session as a pre-recorded, streamed event that feels relaxed and polished—because we did the hard parts so your team doesn’t have to. We handled show development, built the graphics package, prepped the guests so they sounded natural (not rehearsed into oblivion), produced the footage, edited it into a clean, watchable episode, then streamed it to multiple social channels with calm direction and rock-solid execution. The result: a professional live-event vibe, happier speakers, fewer surprises, and an on-demand asset that keeps working long after the stream ends.