Announcing the Microsoft Azure Stack
Guest post by Natalia Mackevicius, Partner Group PM Manager, MicrosoftChange is in the air! I love the change of seasons, especially this time of year when days get longer and we get to watch our...
View ArticleCloud Solutions news at Ignite
Vijay Tewari is at Ignite and he joins us to tell us about some of the CPS-related news there.Welcome to Ignite! The number of people and the sheer energy and excitement here are amazing. It is indeed...
View ArticleHow to get even better insights into your Configuration Manager data using...
System Center Configuration Manager and Microsoft Intune allow IT Pros to manage PCs and mobile devices, keep software up-to-date, set configuration and security policies, and monitor system status....
View ArticleIcons of unpublished/old remote apps appearing on RDWEB Page in Server...
Hello Askperf! This is Ishu Sharma from Microsoft Performance team. Today I am going to discuss a peculiar issue I came across in a couple of cases involving Server 2012 and 2012 R2. In these case,...
View ArticleIT’s First Big Moment of 2015: Recapping Day 1 at Microsoft Ignite
Yesterday at 9am local time, Satya Nadella took the stage to kick off the inaugural Microsoft Ignite– a huge event for the tech industry, and one of the most exciting days in recent memory for the IT...
View ArticleData Deduplication in Windows Server Technical Preview 2
What’s New in Data Deduplication?If I had to pick two words to sum up the major changes for Data Deduplication coming in the next version of Windows Server, they would be “scale” and “performance”. In...
View ArticleNext-generation storage for the software-defined datacenter
This is a post from Siddhartha Roy, Group PM Manager, High Availability and Storage and Paul Luber, Group PM Manager, Storage and File SystemsStorage is a foundational component of the datacenter...
View ArticleProtecting your datacenter and cloud from emerging threats
This is a post from Nir Ben Zvi, Principal PM Manager, MicrosoftCybersecurity has hit the mainstream. You would be hard pressed to find someone who doesn’t know about a company that has been breached...
View ArticleEnterprise-grade virtualization and next-gen app platform
With the releases of Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2, we made huge improvements across the board in software defined compute, storage, networking and more. We’re regularly hearing about...
View ArticleSupport Tip: Establishing SQL Server Instance Auto Protection on a Secondary...
~ Dwayne Jackson | Senior Support Escalation EngineerHi Everyone, Dwayne Jackson here again with a quick tip for you in case you ever run into an issue where SQL Server instance auto-protection for...
View ArticleDesired State Configuration Resources for PackageManagement Providers
IntroductionYou may have heard of, or even already used PackageManagement (aka OneGet). Recently, I was reading the OneGet blog and OneGet in GitHub, and decided to give it a try by installing the...
View ArticleKB: Event IDs 31551 and 31565 when the Operations Manager management server...
Consider the following scenario: - You had an instance of Microsoft SQL Server that no longer exists. - The Operations Manager Data Warehouse database is moved to new instance of SQL Server. - The...
View ArticleDell PowerEdge R630 Configuration for Microsoft Private Cloud Fast Track v4
We are honored to host Kristine Lindely, senior strategist in the Enterprise Solutions Group at Dell, to tell us about the new Dell PowerEdge Private Cloud Fast Track configuration that Dell is showing...
View ArticleCisco and EMC VSPEX with Microsoft Private Cloud Fast Track 4.0
We are honored to host as a guest blogger Rex Backman, from the data center solutions team at Cisco. Rex tells us about the Private Cloud Fast Track solution that Cisco is showing at Ignite.I am Rex...
View ArticleSecureGUARD Unified Cloud Block platform overview
We are honored to host Helmut Otto, founder and managing director of SecureGUARD GmbH, and a Microsoft MVP. Helmut will tell us about the recently announced SecureGUARD Unified Cloud Block (UCB)...
View ArticleWhat’s new in SMB 3.1.1 in the Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview 2
1. IntroductionEvery new version of Windows brings updates to our main remote file protocol, known as SMB (Server Message Block).If you’re not familiar with it, you can find some information in this...
View ArticlePowerShell DSC for Linux is now available!
We are pleased to announce that PowerShell Desired State Configuration for Linux (version 1) is available for download. You can now use the powerful Desired State Configuration (DSC) platform to manage...
View ArticleMigrating User Profile Disks in Remote Desktop Services
Good morning AskPerf! This is Sree Krishna and Ramesh from Remote Desktop Services Team. Today we will discuss User Profile Disk migrations.As you may know, Microsoft released a new feature to manage...
View ArticleTroubleshoot ADFS 2.0 with these new articles
Hi all, here's a quick public service announcement to highlight some recently published ADFS 2.0 troubleshooting guidance. We get a lot of questions about configuring and troubleshooting ADFS 2.0, so...
View ArticleMicrosoft Loves Linux
In a press and analyst briefing a few months back, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella put up a slide proclaiming “Microsoft ♥ Linux”. Wow! What a great slide and what a change for Microsoft! The trade...
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