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Key lessons learned from the latest test results
AV-Test just published the results of their most recent antimalware vendor testing, and they didn't grant Microsoft Security Essentials and Microsoft Forefront Endpoint Protection their "AV-Test...
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Creating Membership and Hosting Objects/Relationships Using...
One of our MVPs brought up an interesting scenario this morning. He tried to create a PowerShell script using SMLets to add a new manual activity to an existing parallel activity. This was his script:...
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Updatable Help speaks only English! What’s up with that?
Our customers have certainly not been shy about their interest in multiple languages of Windows PowerShell Updatable Help, and we're grateful to hear how much they would value localized Help. Our...
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Hyper-V MP for Windows Server 2012 Now Available
OverviewThis management pack supports monitoring of Windows Server Hyper-V 2012 systems. This includes monitoring coverage of Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V host servers, including critical services and...
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Expit Updates Their Project Connector and Event Dashboard
Our partner Expit has recently updated their Microsoft Project Client connector and Service Manager event dashboard (version 1.2). Both of these great solutions are available for FREE from their...
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How does New-SmbShare know whether the new share should be standalone,...
I got a question the other day about one of the scripts I published as part of a step-by-step for Hyper-V over SMB, Here's the relevant line from that script:New-SmbShare -Name VMS3 -Path...
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How to use the new SMB 3.0 WMI classes in Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8...
If you're an IT Administrator, you're likely to use the new SMB PowerShell cmdlets to manage your SMB 3.0 file shares. You can find details about those at...
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Is accessing files via a loopback share the same as using a local path?
Question from a user (paraphrased): When we access a local file via loopback UNC path, is this the same as accessing via the local path? I mean, is "C:\myfolder\a.txt" equal to...
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New TechNet Radio Edition: Cloud-Based Management with Windows Intune
A brief note to alert you to a new edition of TechNet Radio, this one with a specific focus on Windows Intune. In this edition, I explain to Technical Evangelist Keith Mayer how Windows Intune can be...
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How much traffic needs to pass between the SMB Client and Server before...
One smart MVP was doing some testing and noticed that SMB Multichannel did not trigger immediately after an SMB session was established. So, he asked: How much traffic needs to pass between the SMB...
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Next Stops for the Windows Server 2012 Community Roadshow: Germany, UAE,...
Hi, this is Christa Anderson, Community Lead for the Windows Server and System Center Group. We’ve got just a little bit more than a month left in the roadshow but we’re still going strong.Register now...
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Minimum version of Mellanox firmware required for running SMB Direct in...
There are two blog posts explaining in great detail what you need to do to use Mellanox ConnectX-2 or ConnectX-3 cards to implement RDMA networking for SMB 3.0 (using SMB Direct). You can find them...
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FREE: Online Microsoft Virtual Academy Virtualization Jump Start Classes
The IT Pro Evangelism team, Microsoft Learning and the Microsoft Virtual Academy are pleased to announce the next Jump Start courses!Introduction to Hyper-VThursday, January 24thThis one-day live event...
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A technical analysis of a new Java vulnerability (CVE-2013-0422)
Recently, a 0-day vulnerability (CVE-2013-0422) was disclosed. Oracle promptly reacted on this 0-day vulnerability, and last weekend a new patch was made available. Here's the advisory from Oracle. You...
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Configuring Change Notification on a MANUALLY created Replication partner
Hello. Jim here again to elucidate on the wonderment of change notification as it relates to Active Directory replication within and between sites. As you know Active Directory replication between...
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Management Pack for Hyper-V 2012
Last week we released the System Center 2012 Management Pack for Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012. You can go grab it here: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=36438One thing I would...
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Thoughts on the Central Certificate Store Feature in Windows Server 2012
One common and potentially time consuming administrative task I hear my customers discuss is maintenance of SSL certificates on large Web farms (initial set up, renewals, etc.). These Web farms can be...
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New Cumulative Update (CU2) from Provance with Support for Microsoft System...
A new Cumulative Update release, version CU2, of the Provance IT Asset Management Pack for Microsoft System Center 2012 is now available for immediate from our community.Provance.com customer...
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KB: How to enable debug logging in System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager...
Here’s a new KB article we published today. This one walks you through the steps necessary to enable debug logging and collect an ETL trace in System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager. This probably...
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Compete Blogger Q & A – Featured Guest Aidan Finn
As a follow up to his first conversation with guest Rand Morimoto of Convergent Computing, Joel Sider, Senior Marketing Manager, Server and Tools Business at Microsoft, continues his discussion of best...
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