Hyper-V Replica Saves the Day
Today our SMB organization published a great blog entry: “With Windows Server 2012, my customers where prepared for Hurricane Sandy”. It tells the story of a partner, WorkITsafe, and their customers...
View ArticleNow available: Windows Server 2012 Essentials Management Pack for OpsMgr 2012
The System Center Monitoring Pack for Windows Server 2012 Essentials helps you monitor features that are specific to Windows Server 2012 Essentials. It does not monitor features in the Windows Server...
View ArticleUsing the Storage Pools page in Server Manager to create storage spaces
With Windows Server 2012, Server manager includes simple and easy to use, user interface that enables management of WindowsStorage Spaces and other Storage Subsystems such as EMC Clariion VNX and Dell...
View ArticleEverything you want to know about Network Teaming in Windows Server 2012
I was recently given a pointer to the following document:Windows Server 2012 NIC Teaming (LBFO) Deployment and ManagementIt is a very comprehensive guide to setting up network teaming in Windows Server...
View ArticleWhy adding Hyper-V Replica Connection Broker Fails (in Failover Cluster Manager)
By Roger OsborneLike many of you, when I test out new Windows features, I often turn to TechNet documentation, to be certain I’m following Microsoft guidelines and recommendations along the way. A lot...
View ArticleKB: Description of the cumulative update for Lync Server 2010 Monitoring...
This cumulative update fixes the issue that is documented in the following Microsoft Knowledge Base (KB) article: 2735318 You receive Secure Reference Override Failure warnings after you install...
View ArticleNew Print Server Management Pack Supports Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows...
A new version of the print server management pack adds support for Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2012. The management pack can be used in Operations Manager 2007 R2 or in System Center...
View ArticlemyITforum Webcast Series – Presented by Cireson, ING, and Cubic Corporation
The largest System Center community site myITforum has been hosting a series of webcasts about System Center – Service Manager lately. The second webcast in the series was presented by our partner...
View ArticleTechNet Radio series covers Windows Server 2012 File Server and SMB 3.0...
I have been working with Bob Hunt at the TechNet Radio team to provide a series of webcasts with information about SMB 3.0 and the File Server role in Windows Server 2012.These are fairly informal...
View ArticleRemote Desktop Windows Store App: Working with RemoteApp and Desktop...
Hi, I’m David Bélanger, a program manager on the Remote Desktop Virtualization (RDV) team. Our team is responsible for developing Microsoft RemoteFX for Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8 as well as the...
View ArticleConvert-WindowsImage Script
In the past I havepointed out the excellent WIM2VHD tool, that allows you to take Windows installation media and create template virtual machines without ever starting a virtual machine. There is now...
View ArticleListing Disabled GPOs in a Forest
This blog post is written by Judith, our technical writer, and based on an old blog post by Jeffrey Snover. (http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2007/01/11/sorting-out-groupby.aspx) Jeffrey...
View ArticleIt’s That Time of Year, For the December 2012 Bulletin Release
Happy holidays! I hope everyone is enjoying the festive season. I like to get my holiday shopping done early, and this year was no exception. In the middle of my holiday shopping last week, as I passed...
View ArticleNew Windows Server 2012 Remote Desktop Services Showcase Videos
Hi, Klaas here again. I wanted to point out the showcase videos we produced to help explain some of the great features we’ve shipped in Windows Server 2012 Remote Desktop Services. In May I provided...
View ArticleHow to increase the timeout for Migration Jobs in System Center 2012 Virtual...
Alvin Morales here, and today I wanted to talk for a moment about how you can control the timeouts for multiple migrations in VMM 2012. In System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager Service Pack 1, we...
View ArticleConnection to Office 365 Account may Fail or Timeout When You Try to Connect...
When you try to connect to Office 365 from the Windows Server 2012 Essentials Dashboard, the connection may fail or timeout. Here is how the Office 365 tab shows up:It will eventually time out without...
View ArticleUpdate Rollup 4 for Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials Available Now
Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials Update Rollup 4 has been released today and is available for download from Microsoft Update. You can read about the issues this rollup addresses in...
View ArticleUsing Windows Server 2012 Essentials with more than 25 users
[Today's post comes to us courtesy David Fabritius from Windows Server Marketing]Windows Server 2012 Essentials is primarily designed as a first server solution for small businesses that need support...
View ArticleStarting a saved virtual machine–with a missing virtual hard disk
I came across a person with this problem on our forums recently:If you have a virtual machine that is in a saved state, but one of the virtual machines disks is now missing for some reason, you cannot...
View ArticleVMM Support Tip: Adding hosts fails with Error 2927
Alvin Morales here again, and today I wanted to talk briefly about an issue that I ran across in System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager (VMM 2012) Service Pack 1 but is probably applicable to...
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