System Center Management Pack for Windows Server 2012 DHCP has been updated
Just a quick note to let you know that the "System Center Management Pack for Windows Server 2012 DHCP" has been updated. The newest version has the below change.- The properties view of Failover...
View ArticleLunch Break, ep. 3: Scott Guthrie
In this week’s episode of the “Lunch Break” series, I talk with the executive vice president of Microsoft’s Cloud & Enterprise business (and my boss!) Scott Guthrie.In part 1 of this discussion, we...
View ArticleTop Support Solutions for Windows 8 or 8.1
Here are the top Microsoft Support solutions for the most common issues IT Pros experience when using or deploying Windows 8 or 8.1 (updated quarterly).1. Solutions related to installing Windows...
View ArticlePowerShell Runspace Debugging: Part 1
This is the fourth in a series of blogs discussing the new PowerShell 5.0 script debugging features. These new features are available through the PowerShell 5.0 preview, which is part of the WMF...
View ArticleHyper-converged with Windows Server 2016
Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview 3 just recently released, and one of the big hot features which has me really excited is Storage Spaces Direct (S2D). With S2D you will be able to create a...
View ArticleWhat do you want to see in Containers and Virtual Machines?
A little while ago the Windows Server team started using "User Voice" to gather ideas and feedback on our different technology areas. We now have channels available for virtualization and...
View ArticleSupport Tip: Ops Manager web application monitoring logs error code 80090326...
~ Arun Kumar | Support Escalation EngineerIf you have a web site hosted on a server that only supports TLS 1.2 as a secure protocol for communication, when you try to monitor the site using an...
View ArticleFind out if your servers are talking to a Malicious IP address with...
One good way to safeguard your servers is to ensure that they aren’t communicating with any Malicious IP addresses. In OMS we now provide you a centralized view showing all the known malicious IP’s...
View ArticleApple Event Recap: Delivering Managed Mobile Productivity on the iPad Pro
I am sure that many of you watched Apple’s announcements yesterday; they are certainly delivering a tremendous amount of innovation across all their devices. Apple’s announcement of the iPad Pro is the...
View ArticleConfiguring site awareness for your multi-active disaggregated datacenters
In a previous blog,I discussed the introduction of site-aware Failover Clusters in Windows Server 2016. In this blog, I am going to walk through how you can configure site-awareness for your...
View ArticleNow Available: An Update to the Configuration Manager Cmdlet Library
The Configuration Manager Sustained Engineering team is pleased to release the summer 2015 update to the System Center Configuration Manager Cmdlet Library. This update adds support for System Center...
View ArticleNow Available: An Update to the Configuration Manager Cmdlet Library
The Configuration Manager Sustained Engineering team is pleased to release the summer 2015 update to the System Center Configuration Manager Cmdlet Library. This update adds support for System Center...
View ArticleHow can we improve the installation and patching of Windows Server? (Survey...
Do you want your server OS deployment and servicing to move faster? We're a team of Microsoft engineers who want your experiences and ideas around solving real problems of deploying and servicing your...
View ArticleHelp us in understanding your workload
Hi everyone. We need your help to have more understanding of your workloads to have better planning of future product enhancements. As a part of this exercise, we are sharing a script with you to...
View ArticleUnable to add file shares in a Windows 2012 R2 Failover Cluster
My name is Chinmoy Joshi and I am a Support Escalation Engineer with the Windows Core team. I’m writing today to share information regarding an issue which I came across with multiple customers...
View ArticleRunning Nano from Windows Server 2016 TP3 on Hyper-V
Last week I blogged about "Running Hyper-V on Nano". Today I want to talk about the opposite process - running Nano from Windows Server 2016 TP3 as a guest on Hyper-V.There are a number of changes in...
View ArticleAzure AD Premium Dashboard is in preview!
Howdy folks, A small bit of cool news to share today. We're just turned on the Azure Active Directory Premium Dashboard . This new feature provides a birds eye for your directory and is the one place...
View ArticleWindows 10 Volume Activation Tips
Hi,Today’s blog is going to cover some tips around preparing your organization for activating Windows 10 computers using volume activationUpdating Existing KMS HostsThe first thing to do is to update...
View ArticleVRTUAL Machine
A while ago we received an email from a colleague inside Microsoft asking if we new about a spelling mistake in our product. They stated that we had used the word "vrtual" instead of virtual....
View ArticleSupport Tip: Expanding a server in the Microsoft DPM console causes the UI to...
~ Chris Butcher| Senior Support Escalation EngineerWhen expanding a server using the (+) symbol to create, add or remove protection in System Center 2012 Data Protection Manager, the DPM console UI may...
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