Now Available: Update Rollup 4 for System Center 2012 R2 Data Protection Manager
The article below describes the issues that are fixed in Update Rollup 4 for Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 Data Protection Manager (DPM 2012). Additionally, this article contains the installation...
View ArticleNow available: Update Rollup 4 for System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager
The article below describes the issues that are fixed in Update Rollup 4 for Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager (VMM 2012). There are two updates available for System Center 2012...
View ArticlePowershell DSC ResKit Wave 8: Now with 100+ Resources!
The DSC Resource Kit Wave 8 has landed! You can find it right here.This wave contains an astounding 48 resources, our largest release ever! We just went from 90 resources released via the Resource Kit...
View ArticleNow available: Update Rollup 8 for System Center 2012 Service Pack 1
The article below describes the components that are updated in Update Rollup 8 for Microsoft System Center 2012 Service Pack 1. Additionally, the article contains download links and links to component...
View ArticleNow available: Update Rollup 8 for System Center 2012 Data Protection Manager...
The article below describes the issues that are fixed in Update Rollup 8 for Microsoft System Center 2012 Data Protection Manager Service Pack 1 (DPM 2012 SP1). Additionally, this article contains the...
View ArticleNow available: Update Rollup 8 for System Center 2012 Operations Manager...
The article below describes the issues that are fixed in Update Rollup 8 for Microsoft System Center 2012 Operations Manager Service Pack 1 (OpsMgr 2012 SP1). Additionally, this article contains the...
View ArticleThree Big Enhancements to the Azure AD Application Proxy preview
Howdy folks, Next in the lineup of the cool news we're sharing this week is a set of enhancements we've added to the preview of the Azure AD Application Proxy. Azure AD Proxy is lightweight and fast...
View ArticleSystem Center 2012 R2 UR4 Exposes Minor Confusion About Relationship Between...
First, the good part: we release UR4 today: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2992012 . Yay! Now for the confusion part. If you go to that URL for the overall release, as always, you will find other...
View ArticleThe dangers of opening suspicious emails: Crowti ransomware
The Microsoft Malware Protection Center (MMPC) has seen a spike in number of detections for threats in the Win32/Crowti ransomware this month as the result of new malware campaigns. Crowti is a family...
View ArticleWindows Server Storage Sessions from TechEd Europe 2014
This blog post includes a list of the Storage-related sessions from TechEd Europe 2014 in Barcelona, Spain.You can use it during the conference to help plan the sessions to attend and after the...
View ArticleProtect SQL Server 2014 using DPM 2012 R2
We are pleased to announce support for SQL Server 2014 as a workload in DPM 2012 R2 Update Rollup 4(UR4).Existing users of DPM will be delighted to know that there is no change in the user experience...
View ArticleExchange Server 2013 Management Pack Update
Today Microsoft released an update to the Exchange Server 2013 Management Pack to address key customer feedback about getting additional information into System Center Operations Manager to allow users...
View ArticleClaim Fundamentals WhitePaper for Windows Azure Pack
Hello ReadersSome people find the concept of claims in connection with Windows Azure Pack hard to understand. To make it easier to understand these concepts, Shri form the WAP teams has created a good...
View ArticleSecurity Advisory 3009008 revised
Today, we revised Security Advisory 3009008 to provide an easy, one-click Fix it for customers to disable SSL 3.0 in all supported versions of Internet Explorer (IE). We are committed to helping...
View ArticleAutomatic RMS Protection of non-MS Office files using FCI and the Rights...
File Classification Infrastructure (FCI) is a built-in feature on Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012, and Windows Server 2012 R2 that helps IT admins to manage their organization's data on...
View ArticleHow to upgrade to Windows 10 using the task sequence in System Center 2012 R2...
Author: Aaron Czechowski, Senior Program Manager, Enterprise Client and Mobility We recently posted information about support for Windows 10 in the next version of Configuration Manager as well as...
View ArticleHow to upgrade to Windows 10 using the task sequence in System Center 2012 R2...
Author: Aaron Czechowski, Senior Program Manager, Enterprise Client and Mobility We recently posted information about support for Windows 10 in the next version of Configuration Manager as well as...
View ArticleMonitoring Azure Site Recovery
In this blog post I will cover the monitoring capabilities of Azure Site Recovery. Specifically, we will answer the following questions:How do I monitor the replication health of my protected virtual...
View ArticleMicrosoft Contributes Next Generation Server Design to Open Compute Project
Today I will be giving a keynote address at the Open Compute Project (OCP) European Summit, where I’ll announce the contribution of the 2nd-generation Open CloudServer (OCS v2) specification. In...
View ArticleMicrosoft Intune to Provide Day 0 Support for Android Lollipop
On October 15, Google announced that the first Nexus devices supporting Android 5.0 Lollipop will be available on November 3. Though the release date was just announced recently, Lollipop has been our...
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