January 2015 Updates
Today, as part of Update Tuesday, we released eight security updates – one rated Critical and seven rated Important in severity, to address eight unique Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) in...
View ArticleCrowti update - CryptoWall 3.0
After almost two months of hiatus over the holidays, a new campaign of Crowti tagged as 'CryptoWall 3.0' has been observed. It uses a similar distribution channel as before, having been downloaded by...
View ArticleConfiguring Intune Wi-Fi Profiles for iOS Devices
OverviewThis post provides guidance on how to properly configure a Wi-Fi profile to connect mobile devices to a secure WPA2-Enteprise network using certificate-based or PEAP-based authentication. For...
View ArticleWhy Architecture Really Matters
One of the things I have learned, re-learned, and re-re-learned during my career as an engineering leader is the importance of having the right architecture. I can’t count the number of times I’ve had...
View ArticleKB: How to troubleshoot SQL time-outs in Data Warehouse after you install...
We recently published a new KB article that contains information about the logging improvements that have been made in the System Center Operations Manager DataWarehouse where SQL time-out exceptions...
View ArticleFive Customers, a New Year and Straight Talk: Q&A with Hogarth Worldwide
This blog series is about driving business innovation through application development. This is not a new topic but one that deserves some attention as we enter 2015 and organizations are revisiting...
View ArticleAzure Authenticator for Android, with support for Workplace Join
Howdy folks, A few months back, I told you that we added support for "Bring Your Own Device" scenarios in Active Directory when we turned on Workplace Join support for Windows 8 PC's and iOS devices....
View ArticleFree Webcasts from Microsoft’s US Central Marketing Organization (USCMO)
The US Central Marketing Organization (USCMO) here at Microsoft is putting on a new and improved webcast and I wanted to put them up for those who wish to view them. Each webcast will stream live with...
View ArticleAnnouncing Data Protection Manager (DPM) Evaluation VHD
We are pleased to announce the release of the Evaluation VHD for System Center 2012 R2 Data Protection Manager. The VHD is a sys-prepped disk with Windows Server 2012 R2 as the operating system and...
View ArticleService Manager 2012 R2 Console deployment via SCCM
Niklas Halme a Senior Consultant in Microsoft Consulting Service, based in Finland, have written this article on how to deploy the SCSM console via SCCM.Great work...
View ArticleSmartsheet and Azure AD: Two great services that work great together!
Howdy Folks, Today's blog post is a topic that I'm personally very excited about, our partnership with Smartsheet. Smartsheet is a pretty cool cloud based project management and collaboration service...
View ArticleWork Folders for iOS – iPad App Release
We are happy to announce that an iPad app for Work Folders has been released into the Apple AppStore® and is available as a free download.OverviewWork Folders is a Windows Server feature that allows...
View ArticleNew Features in the Netlogon Parser (v1.1.4) for Message Analyzer
Hi all! Brandon Wilson here again talking to you about some new features added in the updated Netlogon parser (v1.1.4) for Message Analyzer. This parser was developed with fixes that are specific to...
View ArticleHyper-V Script to move everything off of a physical disk
Hyper-V storage migration makes it very easy to move virtual machines wherever you need them, while they are running. And in the past I have showed you how easy it is to use PowerShell to storage...
View ArticleConnect servers directly to Operational Insights
Hi everyone!Did you know Operational Insights no longer requires Operations Manager? In this post I'll guide show you how to install and connect an agent to Operational Insights, and show you some of...
View ArticleAzure Pack Tenant portal extensibilities – Part 2
Multiple domain names and themes on a single Tenant portalOn to the First extensibility then! Before I go on further to explain how this is done, let’s re-iterate on the scenario we’re trying to tackle...
View ArticleChanging isolation levels in the Operations Manager operational and data...
~ Larry Mosley | Senior Escalation EngineerWe recently had a question about changing isolation levels in the System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager (OpsMgr 2012 R2) operational and data warehouse...
View ArticleMAPS in the cloud: How can it help your enterprise?
Malware can easily send a huge enterprise infrastructure into a tailspin. However, you can get greater protection from malware by using services in the cloud. Yes, there’s an opportunity to get...
View ArticleJanuary 20 – Service Manager #LyncUp Call is Available
Happy New Year, we had a record attendance of 78 attendees to our Service Manager Lync Up call for January. For this call George Wallace one of our System Center Consultants, share his free...
View ArticleEnterprise Mobility Successes
Examples of Convergence of PC Management, Mobile Device Management and IdentityOver the last couple weeks there have been a handful of new stories published about how customers are using SCCM, Intune,...
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