A step-by-step guide to configuring NOIDMIF for Hardware Inventory in...
~ Rafid AliHello Everyone, Rafid Ali here with a Configuration Manager support tip for you. I recently worked an interesting case where we had to configure Hardware Inventory using NOIDMIF files, and...
View ArticleHelp us improve the Microsoft Remote Desktop app for Windows Phone 8.1
My name is David Bélanger, and I’m a program manager on the Remote Desktop team working on Remote Desktop apps for the different Windows platforms. The Microsoft Remote Desktop Preview app for Windows...
View ArticleSMA Capabilities in Depth: Scalability and High Availability
Introduction As a savvy Service Management Automation (SMA) user, you’re probably familiar with the fact that much of what makes SMA great is the fact that it is essentially “PowerShell as a Service.”...
View ArticleAutomation–Microsoft Azure Automation–Create New Azure VM Endpoint
Hello Readers!Here we are again, this time, with another example Runbook ready to use with Azure Automation!This is my 3rd Azure Automation Runbook Contribution to Script Center under the Windows Azure...
View ArticleSuccess with Hybrid Cloud: Identity Management
Over the past couple of years I’ve come to respect the importance of identity and strong identity management as a foundation to any organization’s Enterprise Mobility strategy. Those of you who know my...
View ArticleAdvance Notification Service for the July 2014 Security Bulletin Release
Today, we provide advance notification for the release of six Security Bulletins. Two of these are rated Critical, three are rated as Important, and one is rated Moderate in severity. These Updates are...
View ArticleSetting up a Highly-Available VMM 2012 Environment
~ John PattersonThis article will guide you through the recommended way to setup and configure a typical, highly available (HA) System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) installation. Topics...
View ArticlePlanning Failover Cluster Node Sizing
In this blog I will discuss considerations on planning the number of nodes in a Windows Server Failover Cluster.Starting with Windows Server 2012, Failover Clustering can support to up 64-nodes in a...
View ArticleCall for Feedback on Windows Azure Pack (& IaaS)
Quick repost here of a link to a UserVoice feedback site that went out last week. My colleagues on the Windows Azure Pack (WAP) team have initiated a call for feedback on WAP. Interestingly, a large...
View ArticleBuilding Clouds on TechNet Radio! DevOps, and Automation, and Configuration...
Hello Readers, Listeners, and Viewers!Did You Know?Michael Green and Charles Joy of the Building Clouds Blog each had a part in the June 2014 TechNet Radio Series:Accelerating DevOps with the Cloud...
View ArticleLooking for Operations Manager admins to take a 10 question survey on...
We are looking for Operations Manager admins to fill out a short 10 question anonymous survey to better understand how you use the OpsMgr web console today. This will take only few minutes. We...
View ArticleWindows Azure Pack, Service Provider Foundation and IaaS API Support for VMM...
Introduction Special thanks to Srimathi Santhanam, Thomas Yip, and Filippo Seracini (a.k.a. The Doctor) for putting together and testing the examples in this post. Following the release of System...
View ArticleAzure Site Recovery – case of the “network connection failure”
Luís Caldeira is one of our early adopters who had pinged us with an interesting error. Thanks for reaching out to us Luís and sharing the details of your setup. I am sure this article will come handy...
View ArticleTroubleshooting TLS1.2 and Certificate Issue with Microsoft Message Analyzer:...
Hi folks. Lakshman Hariharan here again with another real world example, this time with a peer of mine, Victor Zapata who previously authored this post about how to stop a network trace...
View ArticleAutomation–System Center Orchestrator Engineering Blog–July 2014 Cross-Post...
Hello Readers!It is that time again; time for me to cross-reference the great work being published over on the System Center Orchestrator Engineering Blog and now the Azure Blog!So, what did the System...
View ArticleLearning from Cloud: Changing the Storage Area Networks Game
One of the big challenges facing IT organizations today is the explosion of demand for storage, which results in both rising costs and increasing management challenges. More data is being collected and...
View ArticleUpdated Links on Windows Server 2012 R2 File Server and SMB 3.02
In this post, I'm providing a reference to the most relevant content related to Windows Server 2012 R2 that is related to the File Server, the SMB 3.02 features and its associated scenarios like...
View ArticleAutomation–MVP Spotlight Series–Integration Story: How to take the Imports...
Okay Readers – we have the next post ready to go!Here is the fifth of six posts in the MVP Spotlight Series for the Automation Track…–MVP Spotlight Series–Integration Story: How to take the Imports...
View ArticleMac OS X 10.9.3 Support for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Clients
Author: Karan Daftary, Program Manager Enterprise Client Management and Mobility Mac OS X 10.9.3 Support for the Configuration Manager Mac Clients Mac OS X 10.9.3 is supported on System Center 2012 R2...
View ArticleMac OS X 10.9.3 Support for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Clients
Author: Karan Daftary, Program Manager Enterprise Client Management and Mobility Mac OS X 10.9.3 Support for the Configuration Manager Mac Clients Mac OS X 10.9.3 is supported on System Center 2012 R2...
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