What's New in Remote Desktop Services for the next version of Windows Server?
Hi, I’m Shanmugam Kulandaivel from the Remote Desktop team.Remote Desktop Services (RDS) in Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2 brought significant enhancements to the user experience,...
View ArticleThe Quadruple: MSFT is a leader in Four Gartner MQ’s
Every year, during the Spring and Summer, there is a flurry of analysis released from Gartner and some of the most anticipated insights come via what Gartner calls the Magic Quadrant (MQ). The MQ...
View ArticleStorage Replica Guide Released for Windows Server Technical Preview
With the release of the Windows Server Technical Preview, we’ve unveiled a new feature, Storage Replica. Today we released a step-by-step guide to match. Storage Replica enables storage-agnostic,...
View ArticleNew Hyper-V Whitepaper: High Performance Storage for Clustering
Our storage performance team has published a fascinating new whitepaper, available here:http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=44300This whitepaper steps you through the configuration...
View ArticleOne-Click Orchestrated Failover of Virtual Machines to Azure
Azure Site Recovery, with its Disaster Recovery to Azure capabilities, can now protect your workloads and recover them in Azure as IAAS VMs. Brad Anderson announced the preview of disaster recovery to...
View ArticleWindows Intune to be renamed to Microsoft Intune
Today we are announcing that in its next major update, coming later this year, Windows Intune will be renamed to Microsoft Intune.This change reflects Microsoft’s ongoing strategy for Intune as a...
View ArticleThe Curious case of QoS and the intermediate devices
Hi! My name is Gopal and I work with the Microsoft Networking Escalation team. I write this blog to discuss an interesting scenario that we faced recently with our troubleshooting experiences here with...
View ArticleAutomatic Scaling of Remote Desktop Session Hosts in Azure Virtual Machines
Hello everyone. This is Clark Nicholson from the Remote Desktop team. Many of you have deployed Remote Desktop Services (RDS) in Azure Infrastructure Services based on the Azure Desktop Hosting -...
View ArticleHow to troubleshoot scheduled backup job failures in DPM 2012
~ Sekar RajuHi everyone, Sekar Raju here from DPM support team with few tips on troubleshooting scheduled backup job failures in System Center 2012 Data Protection Manager (DPM 2012 or DPM 2012 R2). We...
View ArticleDesired State Configuration (DSC) Nodes Deployment and Conformance Reporting...
In the previous post for this series, we discussed how the conformance server reports on the health of configuration download/application on the nodes. Here, we will look at how you can report if nodes...
View ArticleThe Endpoint Zone: Episode 2!
In Episode 2 of “The Tech Industry’s Official Enterprise Mobility Talk Show” we return to the Channel 9 studios to review the last month in EMM.This month The Endpoint Zone examines:How Windows 10...
View ArticleBest Practices for Windows Server 2003 End-of-Support Migration: Part 4
We hope that you’ve been following along with this blog series so far, and that you’ve completed the Discovery phase of your migration planning. Whether you are a Microsoft Partner or IT professional,...
View ArticleHow to Resolve Errors with Duplicate ConfigMgrEndpoint Certificates in...
~ Scott RachuiHi everyone, Scott Rachui here with some tips on how to troubleshoot issues with duplicate certificates when trying to configure SQL Broker in System Center 2012 Configuration Manager....
View ArticleAdvance Notification Service for the October 2014 Security Bulletin Release
Today, we provide advance notification for the release of nine Security Bulletins. Three of these updates are rated Critical, five are rated as Important, and one is rated Moderate in severity. These...
View ArticleRecap: Gartner Symposium 2014
I spent a few days in Orlando this week at the annual Gartner Symposium. Every year Symposium is a cool event a great opportunity to meet with some of the best and brightest in the tech industry.
View ArticleAzure AD Enhanced Auditing and Activity Logging now in preview!
Howdy folks, Many of you have asked for the ability to access audit and activity logs to ensure compliance or investigate issues. I'm excited to share that we've released four new reports in Preview...
View ArticleIntroduction to Network Trace Analysis Using Microsoft Message Analyzer— Part 2
Hi folks, Lakshman Hariharan here again with the second post in the series of posts introducing how to read network traces using Microsoft Message Analyzer, aka MA. The first post, which can be found...
View ArticleFixing Service Manager Data Warehouse Registration Information
Mihai Sarbulesco, Support Escalation Engineer from Romania, have written a cool blog post on troubleshooting and fixing a Service Manager Data Warehouse registration. The blog post includes a small...
View ArticleWant to Spend a Day Learning About Azure? For Free?!
On October 21st, 2014, Microsoft will be hosting AzureConf 2014, a free event for the Azure community, as well as any developer or IT decision maker who simply wants to learn more about Azure and cloud...
View ArticleWorkday inbound user provisioning with Azure AD now in preview!
Howdy folks, Today I'm pleased to announce a preview of our just completed integration with Workday. In additional to our existing SAML-based single sign-on with Workday, we have just turned on...
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