August updates to Azure RemoteApp
Within the month of August 2015, we released the following new features and capabilities for Azure RemoteApp: We went live with our #1 feature ask (over 1,000 votes) to add apps to the start menu for...
View ArticleTop Support Solutions for IIS 2015Q2
Top Microsoft Support solutions for the most common issues experienced when using IIS (updated quarterly).1. Solutions related to runtime errors and exceptions, including HTTP 400 and 50x...
View ArticleUpdated DSC Resource Kit available in the PowerShell Gallery
We’ve been focusing on improving the quality of DSC Resource Kit during last few weeks and are glad to announce that all the fixes are now available in the newest versions of modules on the PowerShell...
View ArticleLearn all about the Azure AD B2B Collaboration Preview!
Howdy folks, By now, hopefully you've already read my first blog post from today announcing the exciting news about the preview releases of Azure AD B2B and our Azure AD Collaboration features. This...
View ArticleHow to Deploy Host Guardian Service using Service Templates in VMM Tech...
~ Maha Ibrahim | Senior Software EngineerHost Guardian Service (HGS) is a main component for configuring guarded hosts and running shielded VMs in Windows Server and System Center Virtual Machine...
View ArticleAzure AD B2C and B2B are now in Public Preview!
Howdy folks, I've been looking forward to this blog post for many weeks! It's definitely the coolest news we've shared with you since the GA of Azure AD Premium in April of last year. Since then we've...
View ArticleIdentity-driven Security for your External Identities
As cyber attacks increase in frequency and severity, the ability to secure the identities of your end users is central to keeping your organization secure.In a mobile-first, cloud-first world,...
View ArticleDo you know how fast your disks are?
You really should! For a while now I have been talking to people about how disk throughput is the most common bottleneck in private cloud deployments. But yet most people do not know how fast their...
View ArticleAzure DSC Extension v2.5 released
NOTE: For information on OS support, and other features, please refer to our release history.Today we released version 2.5 as a minor update that includes additional debug information helpful to...
View ArticleLunch Brea, ep. 4: Scott Guthrie (part 2)
In part 2 of my great conversation with Scott Guthrie, we tackle some more important topics:How many red polos does Scott have in his closet? What did Scott foresee himself doing back when he was...
View ArticleRedirecting Windows Special Folders to Work Folders
Before I startIf you are not familiar with or not currently using Folder Redirection, you can simply ignore this blog post. It’s not my intention to evangelize Folder Redirection with Work Folders....
View ArticleFixing a storage space that does not attach on reboot
Recently one of my Hyper-V servers developed a bad problem. Whenever it was rebooted it would not attach the storage space that contained all of my virtual machines. The result was that every time...
View ArticleAnnouncement: General Availability of IaaS VM Backup
I’m excited to announce general availability of IaaS VM backup in Azure using Azure Backup service. With this GA, users can now provide reliable and secure enterprise-level data protection for Azure...
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 ArticleAzure DSC Extension v2.6 released
NOTE: For information on OS support, and other features, please refer to our release history.Today we released version 2.6 as a minor update that includes additional debug information helpful to...
View ArticleDisaster Recovery – A Reminder
Happy Monday, folks!A short post to remind us all about one of my favorite topic "families" (and one of my customer's most over-looked).We all know that disaster recovery and business continuity...
View ArticleVisio Stencils / PNGs for all things Microsoft Cloud
We have all been there - trying to put together a PowerPoint Presentation / Visio Architecture around cloud computing - and coming face to face with the fact that we are engineers, not artists....
View ArticleKB: A VM that Azure Site Recovery helps protect goes into a resynchronization...
A virtual machine (VM) that Microsoft Azure Site Recovery (ASR) helps protect in a Hyper-V to Azure scenario may repeatedly go into a resynchronization state. You cannot manually resynchronize, and you...
View ArticleHow to become a Remote Desktop MVP
Are you a Remote Desktop Services expert and community leader that desires to participate in a deep and meaningful way with Microsoft and the engineering team that develop RDS and related technology?...
View ArticleRaw notes from the Storage Developer Conference 2015 (SNIA SDC 2015)
Notes and disclaimers:This blog post contains raw notes from one of the SNIA’s SDC 2015 presentations (SNIA’s Storage Developers Conference 2015)These notes were typed during the talks and they may...
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