Update Rollup 5 for System Center 2012 R2 Data Protection Manager is now...
We are excited to announce the release of Update Rollup 5 for System Center 2012 R2 Data Protection Manager. This is a feature-rich release and an important milestone in our cloud integrated backup...
View ArticleCopying the VHD of a Generation 2 Linux VM–and not booting afterwards…
If you have installed Linux in a Generation 2 virtual machine – everything is probably working great for you! You can even export the virtual machine and import it somewhere else. However, things...
View ArticleUsing Azure AD to land users on their custom login page from within your app
Howdy folks! One of the question we're hearing regularly from our developer community is "How can I optimize the sign in experience to my app so that end-users immediately land on the sign-in page for...
View ArticleFive Customers, a New Year and Straight Talk: Q&A with Zkipster
This is the last post in a series featuring five of our customers that are driving business innovation through application development. As you plan your priorities, projects and investments into 2015...
View ArticleUpcoming webinar on managing apps with Microsoft Intune
Register to join us on Monday,February 16, 2015 at 10:00AM PT for a 30 minute webinar where we will discuss the mobile application management capabilities delivered by Microsoft Intune and demonstrate...
View ArticleThe future of Azure ACS is Azure Active Directory
Howdy folks, One of the topics I get asked about all the time is the roadmap for Azure Access Control Service (ACS). Today I want to share some of the details of our plans for merging ACS into Azure AD...
View ArticleNow Available: February 2015 anti-malware platform update for Endpoint...
Microsoft has a new anti-malware platform update package available for the following clients: - Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager Endpoint Protection clients - System Center 2012...
View ArticleManaging JBoss Application Server 7 with System Center Operations Manager...
This blog is a continuation of “Managing JBoss Application Server 7 with System Center Operations Manager 2012 R2: Part 1 - Standalone Mode” found here.As a reminder, JBoss Application Server 7 can be...
View ArticleMicrosoft steps up in industry efforts on mitigating false positives
Antimalware vendors write signatures so that their corresponding products can detect and take action on malicious files. Every once in a while, a signature also detects a clean file – a file that...
View ArticleUPDATE: Upcoming URL change for OpsMgr-attach to Azure Operational Insights
IMPORTANT for Azure Operational Insights users is using Operations Manager attach communicating behind proxies or firewalls that only allow specific destinations!This is a reminder of the upcoming...
View ArticleDFSR: Limiting the Number of Imported Replicated Folders when using DB cloning
Hello! Warren here to talk about a very specific scenario involving the new DB cloning feature added to DFSR in Windows Server 2012 R2. The topic is how to limit or control which RFs you import on the...
View ArticleFinding a Virtual Machine Configuration File
Oh, how I do like a PowerShell challenge.The other day a colleague asked me this – “Ben, do you have a PowerShell snippet that I could give to a customer that tells them which virtual machine...
View ArticleKRBTGT Reset Script Now Available at the Script Gallery
Tom here with a quick Friday update...Here's something that we hope you'll never need, but has become an unfortunate necessity. Jared Poeppelman, one of our colleagues over in Microsoft Consulting...
View ArticleReplicate Azure Pack IaaS Workloads to Azure using ASR
A few months back, we announced Azure Site Recovery (ASR)’s integration with Azure Pack, which enabled our Service Providers to start offering Managed Disaster Recovery for IaaS Workloads using ASR and...
View ArticleAttending Microsoft Ignite? A Local’s Guide to Chicago
Hey y’all, Mark back again this time with a completely non-technical post. As you’ve probably heard by now, Microsoft Ignite is taking place in Chicago May 4-8th. This is great news as many of us from...
View ArticleManage Tenant Database Workloads with Resource Governor in Azure Pack
As of the Azure Pack Update Rollup 5 release, WAP administrators can now use the functionality of SQL Server 2014 Resource Governor in WAP to manage tenant workloads on the same SQL Server. You can...
View ArticleNew updates to Cloud App Discovery
Howdy folks, It's been a while since I provided an update on Cloud App Discovery. There's just been a ton of other news to cover so I've been a bit neglectful. Cloud App discovery is our fastest...
View ArticleHyper-V Backup doesn’t interrupt running virtual machines (anymore)
Hyper-V has always provided the ability to backup all your virtual machines from the host operating system. In order to provide a consistent backup of the virtual machine – Hyper-V has traditionally...
View ArticleWhite paper: Modern Application Modeling and Configuration for Infrastructure...
Hello readers!This blog post introduces the “Modern Application Modeling and Configuration for Infrastructure Clouds” white paper from the Enterprise Cloud Group (ECG) CAT team, that you can download...
View ArticleHOTFIX: The SMS Agent Host service on a client computer exits unexpectedly in...
The Systems Management Server (SMS) Agent Host service on a client computer exits unexpectedly during the processing of task sequences in an environment that is running Cumulative Update 5 for...
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