AoE: Castle Siege - Connection Error
[Warning! This blog post is nothing to do with Hyper-V or virtualization. It is Friday night and I am playing computer games!]It has been a long busy week of working on Hyper-V – and now it is time...
View ArticleSmbStorageTier.ps1: A simple way to pin files to tiers in Scale-Out File Servers
Storage Spaces Tiering Storage Spaces has an interesting new feature introduced in Windows Server 2012 R2: you can create a single space using different types of disk (typically HDDs and SSDs) and it...
View ArticleMicrosoft Infrastructure as a Service Network Foundations
This document discusses the network infrastructure components that are relevant for a Microsoft IaaS infrastructure and provides guidelines and requirements for building an IaaS storage infrastructure...
View ArticleCloud Platform System: Azure Innovation Now in Your Data Center
Yesterday was an exciting day with the announcement of the Microsoft Cloud Platform System (CPS). It’s fantastic to finally take the wraps off of the result of a close engineering partnership between...
View ArticleTest Drive the new Microsoft Remote Desktop Beta app for Android
Hello, my name is Ayesha Mascarenhas, and I work on the Remote Desktop team. Today, I would like to tell you about the new Microsoft Remote Desktop Beta app we released on Google Play. Those of you...
View ArticleSecurity Advisory 3010060 released
Today, we released Security Advisory 3010060 to provide additional protections regarding limited, targeted attacks directed at Microsoft Windows customers. A cyberattacker could cause remote code...
View ArticleCome Hear the Future of Monitoring @ TechEd Europe 2014
For those of you who are planning to attend TechEd Europe 2014 in Barcelona, we will have 2 fantastic sessions discussing the future of monitoring & operational intelligence.Since the advent of...
View ArticlePowerShell DSC Does Exchange!
One of the more complex products to deploy and configure has just been made easier with the release of the xExchange PowerShell DSC Resource Module. Mike Hendrickson, the creator of these resources,...
View ArticleGetting Ready for TechED Europe 2014
Next week I will be in Barcelona, talking about all the cool stuff we are doing with virtualization in the next release of Windows Server. Here are my session details:Title: CDP-B225 Software Defined...
View ArticleWindows Server Technical Preview – Storage Survival Guide (links to articles,...
This blog post offers a collection of links to the publicly available content for those experimenting with the Windows Server Technical Preview, with focus in Storage. Blog posts about the Windows...
View ArticleCome see Windows Server Technical Preview sessions at TechEd Europe next week!
Hi folks, Ned here again. I will be presenting at TechEd Europe in Barcelona Oct 28-31, with my focus on Storage Replica. There are plenty of great presentations on our latest Windows Server 2012 R2...
View ArticleRDP Fails with Event ID 1058 & Event 36870 with Remote Desktop Session Host...
Hello AskPerf! Sanket here from the Windows Platforms team here to discuss an issue with Remote Desktop Services where RDP does not work when you try to connect from a remote machine. With that,...
View ArticleUnable to restart server due to registry bloat over 2GB
Hello AskPerf! Pushing up a blog today to discuss the registry bloat issue that has been recently addressed in the following KB: Computer cannot be restarted if the registry hives are larger than 2...
View ArticleStorage Spaces Survival Guide (Links to presentations, articles, blogs, tools)
In this post, I'm sharing my favorite links related to Storage Spaces in Windows Server 2012 R2. This includes TechEd Presentations, TechNet articles, Blogs and tools related to Storage Spaces in...
View ArticleNew SQL Server Assessment Intelligence Pack in Advisor!
With all the buzz about our new Advisor Preview features, many people have been asking questions on the feedback forum with regards to the original Advisor ‘Configuration Assessment’ scenario and what...
View ArticleWindows Azure Pack WhitePaper based on Building Clouds
Hi ReadersAbout a year ago, a series of blog posts about Windows Azure Pack was released as an easy way to get readers of Building Clouds started with Windows Azure Pack:Windows Azure Pack Blog Post...
View ArticleBest Practices for Windows Server 2003 End-of-Support Migration Part 5
Assessment – Application Considerations We’ve reached our fifth blog post! We are still talking about assessment, but this week, we’re going to focus on Assessment as it relates to reviewing your...
View ArticleMicrosoft Infrastructure as a Service Compute Foundations
This document discusses the compute infrastructure components that are relevant for a Microsoft IaaS infrastructure and provides guidelines and requirements for building an IaaS network infrastructure...
View ArticleBig Announcements on the Way!
Quick update to the Enterprise Mobility community: Over the next couple weeks I’m going to be blogging about some major announcements that will be game-changing in the Enterprise Mobility Management...
View ArticleOctober 21 Service Manager #LyncUp Call is now Available
Thanks for the great call on October 21st. Our brief presentation had Srikanth Ranganathan and Rahul Gupta sharing and demonstrating how to use Connect to feedback and bugs to improve Service Manager....
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