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Recent Updates to the Email Profiles Extension for System Center 2012 R2...
Author: Karan Daftary, Program Manager, Enterprise Client and Mobility In November, we made available a new version of the Email Profiles Extension for customers using System Center 2012 R2...
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Top Support Solutions for System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager
Top Microsoft Support solutions for the most common issues experienced when you use System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager (updated quarterly).1. Solutions related to the Virtual Machine Manager...
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Top Support Solutions for IIS
Top Microsoft Support solutions for the most common issues experienced when using IIS (updated quarterly).1. Solutions related to slow page response or hang:Performance issuesManaging Performance...
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Securely allocating GUIDs in PowerShell Desired State Configuration Pull Mode
Nicholas Dille recently posted a good blog on GUID management in PowerShell Desired State Configuration. In that blog, he goes through several approaches to GUID management and talks about the pros and...
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Top Support Solutions for Windows Server 2012 R2
This is a collection of the top Microsoft Support solutions for the most common issues experienced when using Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2 (updated quarterly). Note that some content...
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Before you enable those macros…
The Microsoft Malware Protection Center (MMPC) has recently seen an increasing number of threats using macros to spread their malicious code. This technique uses spam emails and social engineering to...
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Azure Active Directory for the Old-School AD Admin
Greetings! Hilde here to wish you a Happy New Year and to welcome you to the first Monday of 2015 and the first post of 2015 for AskPFEPlat!As you may know from reading my posts here, I tend to...
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Case Studies on Storage Spaces, Scale-Out File Servers with SMB3 or both
There are many customers out there using Storage Spaces and Scale-Out File Servers with SMB3 since their initial release in Windows Server 2012 a few years back.Every once in a while, someone will ask...
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Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5.2 availability via WSUS
Hi WSUS Admins, The Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5.2 will be made available via Windows Server Update Services on 13 January 2015 . You can learn more about .NET Framework 4.5.2 here . Useful information...
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Large Scale VDI deployment using Hyper-V with Storage Tiers and Data...
Need some help planning a large scale, highly efficient Personal Desktop deployment that leverages Storage Tiers and Data Deduplication? If so, our friends on the File Server team published a detailed...
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HOTFIX: Applications may not install after a computer restart in System...
Just a quick note about a ConfigMgr 2012 hotfix we recently released. There’s an issue in Configuration Manager 2012 where multiple applications in a dependency chain may not install after the...
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Deduplication of DPM Storage: Reduce DPM Storage Consumption
DPM is an enterprise class backup solution that provides simple yet powerful workflows for protecting server and client deployments in a data center. DPM can be leveraged to backup data to any...
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Setting up Port Mirroring to Capture Mirrored Traffic on a Hyper-V Virtual...
Hi folks Gopal here again from the Microsoft Networking Escalation team. The article below provides steps on how a Hyper-V virtual machine running on Windows Server 2012/2012 R2 can be used to capture...
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Improved Azure AD Graph API and Client libraries for .Net, Android, iOS and...
Howdy folks, We're starting off the year with two pieces of news for developers writing apps for Azure AD: 1. A new set of Azure AD Graph client libraries for .Net, Android and iOS 2. An...
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KB: Signed drivers are displayed as unsigned in System Center Configuration...
Consider the following scenario: - An administrator tries to import drivers into ConfigMgr 2007 or ConfigMgr 2012. - The site server is running Windows Server 2008 R2. - The drivers are signed.In this...
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Emotet spam campaign targets banking credentials
A new variant in the Win32/Emotet family is targeting banking credentials with a new spam email campaign. The emails include fraudulent claims, such as fake phone bills, and invoices from banks or...
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Hyper-V Reporting Script
Serhat AKINCI, a Hyper-V MVP, has just posted this very useful script:https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Hyper-V-Reporting-Script-4adaf5d0In his own words:It can be difficult to monitor and assess...
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2014: A Great Year for IT
Now that the holidays are behind us, our bodies can start recovering from the food and our favorite holiday albums are already gathering dust until next year. Before we get too deep into the new year,...
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KB: You can't import drivers into System Center Configuration Manager
Consider the following scenario: - An administrator tries to import drivers into ConfigMgr 2007 or ConfigMgr 2012. - The site server is running Windows Server 2008 R2. - The drivers are signed. In this...
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Have a say on the future of System Center
The System Center leadership team is looking to hear from you on the challenges you face with your Management tools and where you would like to see us invest going forward.We put together a short...
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