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Upcoming fixes in the Service Manager 2012 R2 Update Rollup 3
Hi folks, the next update rollup (UR 3) for Service Manager is scheduled to be available on the Download Center on the 29th of July. This UR has a total of 8 fixes spanning console usability issues, a...
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Out-of-band Initial Replication (OOB IR) and Deduplication
A recent conversation with a customer brought out the question: What is the best way to create an entire Replica site from scratch? At the surface this seems simple enough – configure initial...
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RC Preview of .NET Auth Libraries. Now 100% Open Source!
Howdy folks, We are one step away from releasing wave 2 of our authentication libraries for .NET! Today we published the release candidates of both our Active Directory Authentication Library (ADAL)...
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Bitlocker PIN on Surface Pro 3 and Other Tablets
Hey guys, here’s Joao Botto again. You may already know that I spend most of my time helping customers be safe and productive with Windows 8.1. Some of you may also have seen my name associated with...
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Learning from Cloud: What does a server upgrade mean for your organization?
Customers often ask why it’s so important to migrate to the more recent versions of Windows Server. Today we mark exactly one year remaining until the end of support for Windows Server 2003, which...
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July 2014 Security Bulletin Webcast and Q&A
Today we published the July 2014 Security Bulletin webcast questions and answers page along with the webcast replay. We answered eight questions on air, with the majority focusing on the update for...
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How to Install the Windows Update Agent on Client Computers
Author: Harini Muralidharan, Program Manager, Configuration Manager Sustained Engineering Applies To: System Center 2012 Configuration Manager SP1, and System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager. This...
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How to Install the Windows Update Agent on Client Computers
Author: Harini Muralidharan, Program Manager, Configuration Manager Sustained Engineering Applies To: System Center 2012 Configuration Manager SP1, and System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager. This...
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Recap: Worldwide Partner Conference 2014
Earlier today I was a part of the Day 1 keynote at Microsoft’s annual Worldwide Partner Conference. This is one of the biggest events of the year for Microsoft, and we covered some HUGE topics today....
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Learning from Cloud: Success with Hybrid Cloud Episode 3
Hear from our experts on migration options. With less than a year left until end of support for Windows Server 2003, we thought it would be a great time to get some of our experts talking.On Thursday...
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How to disable weekly emails in System Center Advisor
Each week System Center Advisor sends out an email with a summary of new and existing alerts in your Advisor account.This report makes it easy to share a summary of Advisor activity with others in your...
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Missed LyncUp Call – Service Management
Team, We regret the inconvenience this morning. We had an unavoidable circumstance today and unfortunately the key people that are involved in setting up this call were unavailable. We still very much...
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Deploying Surface Pro 3 Pen and OneNote Tips
Hi, my name is Scott McArthur and I am Senior Support Escalation Engineer on the Deployment/Devices team. In today’s blog I am going to go over some tips for deploying Surface Pro 3 related to the Pen...
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Microsoft Azure RemoteApp: You can now create cloud deployments with your own...
My name is Sandeep Patnaik, and I’m a program manager on the Remote Desktop team. When we released the preview of Azure RemoteApp, we had just one goal in mind – deliver the best remote application...
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Countdown to End-of-Support for Windows Server 2003: Take Your Datacenter by...
Yesterday represented the final countdown to the end-of-support for Windows Server 2003 – just a year away on July 14, 2015! This means that everyone celebrating Bastille Day next year will be able to...
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Deploy Windows to Surface Pro 3 using Microsoft Deployment Toolkit
Hi, my name is Scott McArthur and I am Senior Support Escalation Engineer on the Deployment/Devices team. In today’s blog I am going to go over the steps to deploy Windows 8.1 Enterprise X64 Update to...
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Learning from Cloud: Expanding hybrid options for business continuity
Hybrid capabilities are changing the game in many areas of IT. Business continuity is a great example, since the use of cloud resources can offer cost savings or increased flexibility. As part of our...
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KB: "Error ID: 470" when you run the dpmsync -restoredb command in Data...
When you use the Dpmsync.exe utility to restore a Microsoft System Center 2012 Data Protection Manager (DPM 2012) database, the restore operation fails and you receive the following error message:...
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Azure Site Recovery adds InMage Scout to Its Portfolio for Any Virtual and...
Azure Site Recovery with Hyper-V Replica already supports the ability to set up disaster recovery between your two Windows Server 2012+ Hyper-V data centers, or between your Windows Server 2012 R2...
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Azure Site Recovery Now Offers Disaster Recovery for Any Heterogeneous IT...
If you have been following the progress of Azure Site recovery service, you will recall that our priority has been to make Disaster Recovery (DR) solutions available to everyone, available everywhere,...
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