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Windows Server 2012 and System Center 2012 Named CRN Products of the Year
This week CRN named Windows Server 2012 and System Center 2012 to its annual Products of the Year list, which recognizes the best products evaluated by the CRN Test Center in 2012. Earlier this year,...
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Expanded Software Assurance (SA) grant for Windows SBS 2011 Standard
[Today's post comes to us courtesy David Fabritius from Windows Server Marketing]As part of the Windows Server 2012 announcements earlier this year, we shared the Software Assurance (SA) grant...
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The Network Connection Status Icon
Have you ever wondered how Windows knows you’re connected to the Internet? You may have noticed the over the network icon by the clock, have you ever wondered what happens in the background? This blog...
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Windows Server 2012: How to Import a Storage Pool on Another Server
Thanks for great feedback and for reading my prior AskPFEPlat post regarding Storage Spaces in Windows Server 2012. Based on feedback and questions following that post, it seemed like a great time to...
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Microsoft Releases Security Advisory 2794220
Today, we released Security Advisory 2794220 regarding an issue that impacts Internet Explorer 6, 7, and 8. We are only aware of a very small number of targeted attacks at this time. This issue allows...
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Fix it for Security Advisory 2794220 now available
We have updated Security Advisory 2749920 to include the Fix it we discussed in Saturday’s blog post . This easy, one-click Fix it is available to everyone and prevents the vulnerability from being...
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Happy New Year 2013!!!
Happy New Year AskPerf Blog Readers! Can you believe that 2012 is now over? Seems like it just flew by to me. Anyway, we had some HUGE product launches in 2012. Some of which come to mind:Windows...
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Categorizing Knowledge Articles
Out of the box in Service Manager, we provide a number of different properties to help categorize knowledge articles such as category, language, keywords, tag, and description. Let’s look at each of...
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Windows Server 2012: Does ReFS replace NTFS? When should I use it?
When I first heard of ReFS my immediate first question was whether ReFS as a file system was a direct replacement for NTFS. It didn’t take long before my customers began to ask me the same question. In...
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GridPro WebFront Version 2.1 Released!
Our partner GridPro has recently released a new version of their popular WebFront product! WebFront provides a browser- based interface for Service Manager with the ability to view/update work items...
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Advance Notification Service for the January 2013 Security Bulletin Release
On behalf of all of us here at Microsoft, I’d like to wish everyone a very happy New Year! With 2013 starting on a Tuesday, our monthly bulletin release is upon us a bit earlier than usual. Next...
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Security Advisory 2798897 released, Certificate Trust List updated
Hello, Today we released Security Advisory 2798897 to notify customers that we are aware of active attacks using a fraudulent digital certificate issued by TURKTRUST Inc. To help protect customers, we...
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How To Use Common Active Directory Commands In PowerShell
Hey y’all, Mark here with a quick post that all you PowerShell slackers should check out. Ashley McGlone aka GoateePFE (I've seen his goatee in real life and it is magnificent) has written up a nice...
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Updated Links on Windows Server 2012 File Server and SMB 3.0
In this post, I'm providing a reference to the most relevant content related to Windows Server 2012 that is related to the File Server, the SMB 3.0 features and its associated scenarios like Hyper-V...
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Windows Azure + Virtualization = A Lab (in the Clouds) for Every IT Pro
"The Cloud" is here to stay.Businesses continue asking questions to their IT departments and wondering out loud:"Are we 'Cloud-ready' and if not, when will we be?" "What apps can we port to The Cloud...
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Download an update that adds features to Windows Azure Online Backup in...
We recently released an update rollup package that adds the following features to the Windows Azure Online Backup for Microsoft System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 (SP1) Data Protection Manager (DPM) and...
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Intermittent Mail Sack: Must Remember to Write 2013 Edition
Hi all, Jonathan here again with the latest edition of the Intermittent Mail Sack. We've had some great questions over the last few weeks so I've got a lot of material to cover. This sack, we answer...
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What is RaaS? Is That a Real Acronym?
I hope you enjoy the blogs we provide at AskPFEPlat. We love sharing our passion for Microsoft Technologies. But, believe it or not, we do have day jobs. As Premier Field Engineers we spend most of...
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Predictions and the January 2013 Bulletin Release
At the end of each year, some folks take a moment to jot down predictions about what the coming year has in store. I, on the other hand, do not do predictions. I am neither prognosticator, seer,...
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Security Bulletin MS13-003: Vulnerabilities in System Center Operations...
Microsoft has released security bulletin MS13-003. To view the complete security bulletin, visit one of the following Microsoft websites: Home users:...
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