What’s the best way to connect to Office365 and Azure?
Howdy folks, Customers moving to the cloud ask us two questions more than any others: " What's the best way to connect my on-premises directory to Office365?" - and - "What's the best way to connect my...
View ArticleAnnouncing RemoteApp availability in Australia
My name is Nihar Namjoshi from the Remote Desktop team. We made Azure RemoteApp generally available across thirteen Azure regions worldwide in December 2014. The response has been terrific in the...
View ArticleTroubleshooting Cluster Shared Volume Recovery Failure – System Event 5142
In the last post http://blogs.msdn.com/b/clustering/archive/2014/12/08/10579131.aspx we discussed event 5120, which indicates that Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV) observed and error and attempted to...
View ArticleMBAM Configuration Manager reports data is repetitive
Let us consider the following scenario of Microsoft BitLocker Administration and Monitoring (MBAM) 2.5 deployed with integrated topology. This means you have integrated MBAM with Configuration Manager....
View ArticleAnnouncing Azure Site Recovery: Disaster Recovery for VMware VMs, Physical...
Last October, I announced the GA of Disaster Recovery to Azure for Hyper-V workloads and emphasized our commitment to provide Hybrid cloud business continuity solutions for anyenvironment – whether...
View ArticlePowerShell Examples: Adventure House Game
This blog is part of a series that shows example PowerShell code for those learning the language.This time we’re using PowerShell create a text adventure game that requires to find your way out of a...
View ArticleManually modifying IIS bindings to use SSL for MBAM services
Microsoft BitLocker Administration and Monitoring (MBAM) needs web services no matter what topology you are using. These MBAM web services can be installed with or without SSL Certificates. To install...
View ArticleGetting started with the Graph API with the Graph Explorer
Hi Folks. Lakshman Hariharan here with a post on a cool tool from our good friends on the Azure team called Graph Explorer. In a nutshell, the Azure AD Graph API provides programmatic access to Azure...
View ArticleAnnouncing the GA of MDM in Office 365
For those of you keeping score at home, earlier today the Office 365 blog announced that the mobile device management (MDM) capabilities within Office 365 are now generally available. That’s the good...
View ArticleChecking Virtual Machine Health After a Disaster
Last weekend I suffered a human disaster in my "server room". Which is to say that I knocked down a shelf in my garage and accidentally disconnected the UPS. This, in turn turned off all of my...
View ArticleDPMDB Maintenance Part 1: Database consistency check and your DPMDB
~ Chris Butcher| Senior Support Escalation EngineerHi folks, Chris Butcher here again with another DPM blog entry for you. I’ve had a few questions recently about upkeep on the DPM database, and while...
View ArticleAzure AD Device Registration Service is now GA!
Howdy folks, Office 365 announced the availability of MDM for Office 365, which allows you to ensure that Office 365 content can be accessed only from phones and tablets that are compliant with your...
View ArticleSupport Tip: High CPU utilization on Domain Controllers due to WSUS IIS issue
~ Dennis Donahoe| Senior Support Escalation Engineer Last week we mentioned an issue we’ve seen here in product support where System Center Configuration Manager 2007 (ConfigMgr 2007) or System Center...
View ArticleSupport Tip: High CPU utilization on Domain Controllers due to WSUS App Pool...
~ Dennis Donahoe| Senior Support Escalation Engineer Last week we mentioned an issue we’ve seen here in product support where System Center Configuration Manager 2007 (ConfigMgr 2007) or System Center...
View ArticleUpdated: System Center 2012 Configuration Manager SP1 and System Center 2012...
System Center 2012 Configuration Manager SP1 and System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager now support the following versions of Microsoft SQL Server 2014. SQL Server 2014 Standard (CAS, Primary...
View ArticleUpdated: System Center 2012 Configuration Manager SP1 and System Center 2012...
System Center 2012 Configuration Manager SP1 and System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager now support the following versions of Microsoft SQL Server 2014. SQL Server 2014 Standard (CAS, Primary...
View ArticleArchitecture Matters: Micro Services & Macro Results
In the previous blog post in this series, I discussed Intune’s Service Oriented Architecture. In that post, I detailed the collection of loosely coupled micro services that compose Intune, and I went...
View ArticleMark Russinovich & Mark Minasi: How Disruptive is Cloud Computing, Really?
Everything happens so fast in the world of IT that talk of “disruption” is almost too mild. That’s why a gathering like Microsoft Ignite is so important. You get the facts and how-tos you need - and...
View ArticleSupport Tip: Having problems monitoring clients in Operations Manager? Check...
Here’s a quick tip that might help you quickly resolve your monitoring related problem in Operations Manager. In Microsoft product support, we see lots of these kinds of cases get resolved by simply...
View ArticleTips & Tricks with MBAM 2.5 - Part 1: Domain Controller and Group Policy...
We have periodically received requests on some of the Tips and Tricks regarding Microsoft BitLocker Administration and Monitoring (MBAM). So we will be posting a series of blogs and have them listed...
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