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DPMDB Maintenance Part 2: Identifying and dealing with fragmentation in your...
~ Chris Butcher| Senior Support Escalation Engineer Hi folks, it’s Chris Butcher again with part 2 in my series of posts on DPMDB maintenance. This installment covers identifying and dealing with...
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Announcing New Ignite Session: Jeffrey Snover, Mark Russinovich & Jeremy...
Guest post by Jeffrey Snover, Distinguished Engineer & Lead Architect, Windows Server and System Center, MicrosoftAs I talk to customers, I consistently hear a common theme – they need to...
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TCO reduction with the Azure Backup pricing in DPM deployments
Azure Backup has announced a new pricing model for data being backed-up to Azure. This new model is based on the number of machines that are being backed-up, and is measured and reported in the monthly...
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Hyper-V on Windows 10 Technical Preview Build 10049
Last night we released Windows 10 Technical Preview Build 10049 to Windows Insiders on the Fast ring.This is an exciting release - as it has some key new technology in it. Most notably it is the first...
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KB 3046555: End-to-end guide for Deploying MBAM 2.5 in a stand-alone...
This guide provides step-by-step instructions for installing Microsoft BitLocker Administration and Monitoring (MBAM) 2.5 in a stand-alone configuration. In this guide we will use a two-server...
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Zero-Downtime Patch & Update Orchestration on the Microsoft Cloud Platform...
We are privileged to have a guest blogger on Building Clouds, Justin Incarnato. Justin is a Program Manager in Microsoft’s Enterprise Cloud Solutions Group where he has been responsible for developing...
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Service Manager 2012 SP1 now supports SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 2
We know that our Service Manager 2012 SP1 customers would be waiting for this, so here it is!Service Manager 2012 SP1 now officially supports Service Pack 2 for SQL Server 2012 with Update Rollup 6...
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Removing a Missing Network Adapter
I recently hit a problem with one of my virtual machines. I had copied a virtual hard disk from one server to another, created a new virtual machine that used this virtual hard disk, and found that my...
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DPMDB Maintenance Part 3: Dealing with a large DPMDB
~ Chris Butcher| Senior Support Escalation Engineer Hi everyone, Chris Butcher here again with part 3 in my series of posts on DPMDB maintenance. This article addresses DPMDB size and the possibility...
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A new Update Rollup for Microsoft Monitoring Agent is now available
A new update rollup is available for Microsoft Monitoring Agent. The KB article below describes the issues that are fixed in this update and as well as installation instructions.Issues that are fixed...
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Migrating your Certification Authority Hashing Algorithm from SHA1 to SHA2
Hey all, Rob Greene here again. Well it’s been a very long while since I have written anything for the AskDS blog. I’ve been heads down supporting all the new cool technology from Microsoft.I wanted...
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Remote Desktop Services (RDS) 2012 Session Host deployment scenarios
Hello AskPerf! Jason here from the Windows Reliability team. As more customers migrate from Remote Desktop Services (Session Host) on Windows 2008 R2 to Windows 2012 R2, we occasionally get calls...
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Modernization Goes Beyond Technology
By now, many of you are likely well aware of the end of support date for Windows Server 2003 (July 15th, 2015). After support ends, many organizations may fail to meet many industrywide compliance...
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New update for Azure Backup to enable Protected Instances pricing
When you use Microsoft Azure Backup to back up data, the size of the primary data source is currently not sent to the service. The new Protected Instances pricing model needs this information for...
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Rethinking Enterprise Storage - Imagining the possibilities with hybrid cloud...
Recently, Microsoft published a book titled Rethinking Enterprise Storage – A Hybrid Cloud Model– the book takes a close look at an innovative infrastructure storage architecture called hybrid cloud...
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SCOM & OpInsights Sessions at Ignite Conference in Chicago
We are excited to share that we will have 5 SCOM & OpInsights sessions led by the engineering team at Ignite Chicago. If you are attending the conference please join us at these sessions. We would...
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Announcement: Preview of IaaS VM Backup Capability
I’m excited to announce the preview of IaaS VM backup capability in Azure using the Azure Backup service to provide enterprise-level data protection for workloads running on Azure IaaS. This preview...
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Hyper-V and "Event ID: 157 - Disk x has been surprise removed"
After posting about Hyper-V and Event ID 58 the other week - I had a number of people ask me about Event ID 157. They told me that each time they backed up a virtual machine they were seeing this...
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Server Hung/Becoming Unresponsive
A server hang is typically defined as a condition where a machine is non-responsive locally or over the network.Hard Hang (Not necessary referring to hardware):The server is not accessible using any...
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How to Continue Using Windows Server Technical Preview
In October 2014, we released the first Technical Preview of the next version of Windows Server. To those of you who tried it out, thank you.If you are still using the preview released last October, you...
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