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Troubleshooting WMI Series coming
Hello AskPerf! My name is Jeffrey Worline and I wanted to let you know that I will be writing several troubleshooting WMI blog posts over the next few days. These will not be your typical Blog post,...
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Desired State Configuration (DSC) Nodes Deployment and Conformance Reporting...
In any configuration management process, once the configuration is applied to the target systems, it is necessary to monitor these systems for any configuration drift. This is an important step and...
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Desired State Configuration (DSC) Nodes Deployment and Conformance Reporting...
In this post, we will cover how a pull service endpoint can be installed, and how nodes can be configured to point to this server and retrieve their DSC configurations.There are already a few blog...
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Desired State Configuration (DSC) Nodes Deployment and Conformance Reporting...
This blog post covers how to deploy/configure, and work with the conformance endpoint. It includes details about the type of information returned, as well as sample ways to generate reports with...
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WMI: Common Symptoms and Errors
Quota Violation Issues: Memory and/or HandleSymptomsGeneral WMI-based scripts or applications fail or fail intermittently Applications such as SMS/SCCM produce errors on server and/or inventories fail...
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Edge Show - Log Management and Other Intelligence Packs in System Center Advisor
Check out this video to see how System Center Advisor helps Enterprise Operation teams transform machine data and unstructured logs into Real Time Operations Intelligence:...
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WMI: Repository Corruption, or Not?
ScenarioWindows Management Instrumentation failing due to repository being corrupted The WMI Repository (%windir%System32\Wbem\Repository) is the database that stores meta-information and definitions...
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MDT 2013 – Part II: Create a Deployment Task Sequence and Deploy a Custom...
Hey there Mike Hildebrand here with Part Two of this MDT series. To catch up, go here and read Part One and then come back...
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SMB3 PowerShell changes in Windows Server 2012 R2: Simpler setting of ACL for...
Introduction Windows Server 2012 R2 introduced a new version of SMB. Technically it’s SMB version 3.02, but we continue to call it just SMB3. The main changes are described at...
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SMB3 PowerShell changes in Windows Server 2012 R2: Scale-Out Rebalancing...
Introduction Windows Server 2012 R2 introduced a new version of SMB. Technically it’s SMB version 3.02, but we continue to call it just SMB3. The main changes are described at...
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SMB3 PowerShell changes in Windows Server 2012 R2: SMB Witness improvements
Introduction Windows Server 2012 R2 introduced a new version of SMB. Technically it’s SMB version 3.02, but we continue to call it just SMB3. The main changes are described at...
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SMB3 PowerShell changes in Windows Server 2012 R2: SMB Bandwidth Limits
Introduction Windows Server 2012 R2 introduced a new version of SMB. Technically it’s SMB version 3.02, but we continue to call it just SMB3. The main changes are described at...
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SMB3 PowerShell changes in Windows Server 2012 R2: SMB Multi-instance
Introduction Windows Server 2012 R2 introduced a new version of SMB. Technically it’s SMB version 3.02, but we continue to call it just SMB3. The main changes are described at...
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SMB3 PowerShell changes in Windows Server 2012 R2: SMB Delegation
Introduction Windows Server 2012 R2 introduced a new version of SMB. Technically it’s SMB version 3.02, but we continue to call it just SMB3. The main changes are described at...
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SMB3 PowerShell changes in Windows Server 2012 R2: SMB1 can now be completely...
Introduction Windows Server 2012 R2 introduced a new version of SMB. Technically it’s SMB version 3.02, but we continue to call it just SMB3. The main changes are described at...
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WMI: Missing or Failing WMI Providers or Invalid WMI Class
ScenarioWindows Management Instrumentation fails due to receiving an event or error concerning missing or failure to load WMI Provider, or Invalid WMI class, or WMI Invalid Namespace.Below are some...
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WMI: High Memory Usage by WMI Service or Wmiprvse.exe
ScenarioWindows Management Instrumentation Service (Winmgmt) or WMI provider (wmiprvse.exe) is consuming high amounts of memory. There are many reasons why WMI might experience high memory...
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Sample C# code for using the latest WMI classes to manage Windows Storage
This blog post shows a bit of C# code to use the Windows Storage Management API (SM-API) classes that were introduced in Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8.You can find a list of these classes at class...
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Top Support Solutions for Windows Server 2012 Essentials and Windows Server...
These are the top Microsoft Support solutions for the most common issues experienced when you use Windows Server 2012 Essentials and Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials.1. Solutions related to Remote Web...
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Top Support Solutions for Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2
Top Microsoft Support solutions for the most common issues experienced when you use Windows Server 2008 (updated quarterly).1. Solutions related to bugchecks, stop errors, and unexpected...
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