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IPAM engineering team at Microsoft is looking for customers having any IPAM solution, who can provide feedback on pain points, preferences, and usage behavior. We are starting a customer panel for IPAM...
View ArticleRemote Desktop Services (RDS) 2012 session deployment scenarios “Quick Start”
Good morning AskPerf! Jason here to continue our mini-series on RDS Session Deployment. Please see RDS 2012 Session Host deployment scenarios for an overview of the different ways to deploy RDS on...
View ArticleMailbag: Opening Day (Issue #10)
Hey y’all Mark and Tom here. Bet you thought we’d miss this week too. We’ve been a bit busy over here so that would mostly explain it. That and I’m in two fantasy baseball leagues this year. My...
View ArticleRethinking Enterprise Storage: That’s a Wrap! Summary and glossary of terms...
Last week we published experts from Chapter 7, the final chapter in Rethinking Enterprise Storage: A Hybrid Cloud Model. This week we provide a few final thoughts and a glossary of terms for hybrid...
View ArticleUsing PowerShell to Look at a VM Configuration
I was recently asked to provide a PowerShell sample that would let you see everything inside a virtual machine configuration file - without having to import the virtual machine in question. Here is...
View ArticleMore Enterprise Mobility Successes with EMS
Take a quick look how the National Institute for Insurance Against Accidents at Work (INAIL), a very forward-looking organization in Italy, is using the Enterprise Mobility Suite to enable it’s 3,000...
View ArticleMicrosoft partners with Interpol, industry to disrupt global malware attack...
'Simda.AT' designed to divert Internet traffic to disseminate other types of malware.Today Interpol and the Dutch National High Tech Crime Unit (DNHTCU) announced the disruption of Simda.AT, a...
View ArticleBecoming an WPA Xpert Part 12: Timing User Login Credentials (Sometimes it IS...
Hi everyone here is Randy Reyes with a much needed updated to our slow boot slow login (sbsl) series. It’s been a while since our last entry and I ran into an interesting customer question. Customer:...
View ArticleVirtual PC Guy @ Ignite
I will be at Microsoft Ignite this year. What will I be speaking about? Well - let me tell you:Looking forward to seeing everyone there!Cheers,Ben
View ArticleBioazih RAT: How clean-file metadata can help keep you safe
As mentioned in our previous blog post about the Microsoft Clean-File Metadata initiative, there are a number of benefits for our partners and customers who use our clean or released-file metadata,...
View ArticleMSRT April: Unskal, Saluchtra, Dexter and IeEnablerCby
This month we added four new malware families to the Malicious Software Removal Tool: Win32/Saluchtra, Win32/Dexter, Win32/Unskal and Win32/IeEnablerCby, further protecting customers against malicious...
View ArticleKB: Error 800706D3 occurs and a push installation fails for an Operations...
When you try to push a Windows System Center 2012 Operations Manager agent from a Windows Server 2012-based management server to a Windows Server 2012-based agent server, the installation fails and you...
View ArticleHow Do I Extend My Datacenter in Microsoft Azure?
How do you grow your puppy into a full fledged dog? It takes time, patience, work, and some knowledge of raising and training up a dog right. It’s not easy, but if you do the work, the benefits are...
View ArticleApril 2015 Updates
Today, as part of Update Tuesday, we released 11 security bulletins . We encourage customers to apply all of these updates. For more information about this month’s security updates, including the...
View ArticleManage users in Azure RemoteApp based on Active Directory groups, with...
Freek Berson, Microsoft MVP for Remote Desktop Services, recently posted on how to synchronize users assigned to Azure RemoteApp services based on group membership via PowerShell. To make billing more...
View ArticleHyper-V PowerShell One-Line-Challenge - Part 3
After posting my Hyper-V one-line PowerShell snippets last week - I had numerous people ask me: "Can you make this export to a CSV file?". How could I resist the ability to make this command even...
View ArticleConsiderations when applying Update Rollup 5 for System Center 2012 R2 Data...
Hello, Dwayne Jackson and Andy Nadarewistsch here. We wanted to take a minute today to detail a quick point to consider after applying Data Protection Manager (DPM 2012 R2) Update Rollup 5 (UR5)....
View ArticleSupport Tip: ConfigMgr 2012 update scan fails and causes incorrect compliance...
~ Larry Mosley | Senior Escalation EngineerHi everyone, we are seeing a few cases where a System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager update scan is failing so I wanted to mention it here in case any...
View ArticleITC Podcast, ep. 25: Making Your SCCM Infrastructure Accessible from Anywhere
In episode 25 of the ITC Podcast, I sit down with Mark Florida (Principal Program Manager of SCCM) to talk about how to make your SCCM infrastructure optimally efficient. When it comes to managing...
View ArticleAnnouncing Centralized and Customizable backup reports using Data Protection...
This blog post explains how DPM reports have been enhanced with Update Rollup 5. Till Update Rollup 4, we shipped six standard reports inbox with DPM which were useful for auditing and monitoring basic...
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