Ensuring your GCE scripts that use Run As accounts continue to execute in...
~ Jeff Towarnicki | Software Engineer Beginning with the February security patch for Windows (MS15-011) and Update Rollup 6 for System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager (VMM 2012 R2), you may need...
View ArticleHow Windows Defender harnesses the power of machine learning to help make...
Windows Defender harnesses the power of machine learning, contributing to making Windows 10 Microsoft’s most secure client operating system and providing increased protection against security threats...
View ArticleMicrosoft Security Intelligence Report: Strontium
The Microsoft Security Intelligence Report (SIR) provides a regular snapshot of the current threat landscape, using data from more than 600 million computers worldwide.The latest report (SIRv19) was...
View ArticleProtecting your datacenter and cloud: November update
This post was authored by the Windows Server Security and Assurance TeamSix months ago, in a previous blog post “Protecting your datacenter and cloud from emerging threats” we introduced our strategy...
View ArticleAn in-depth look at grooming in Microsoft System Center Service Manager: Part 3
~ Scott Walker | Senior Support Escalation EngineerIn the first installment in this series, I discussed a few items related to grooming. In Part 2 we focused on the Internal Job History which keeps...
View ArticleIntroducing the Microsoft Graph –The Azure AD GraphAPI goes big time!
Howdy folks, Those of you who have seen my presentations on Azure AD know that our GraphAPI is the one of the things I think is the most exciting and innovative elements of Azure AD. So you can imagine...
View ArticleNow Available: System Center Configuration Manager Technical Preview 4
Today, we are making available System Center Configuration Manager and Endpoint Protection Technical Preview 4 . This is the last technical preview before the general availability (GA) of the current...
View ArticleNow Available: System Center Configuration Manager Technical Preview 4
Today, we are making available System Center Configuration Manager and Endpoint Protection Technical Preview 4 . This is the last technical preview before the general availability (GA) of the current...
View ArticleDesigning Windows Server in the cloud-first world
This post was authored by Jeffrey Snover, Microsoft Technical Fellow“There is an unlimited demand for computing.” That is what Buck Rodgers said in his great 1988 book The IBM Way. Buck connected the...
View ArticleMake innovation easier with Windows Server 2016 and System Center 2016...
Doing more with less has been a theme for IT for years. The name of the game today is speed. The move to the cloud-first world is about getting ahead of the competition. New apps and new features for...
View ArticleAnnouncing the release of Hyper-V Containers in Windows Server 2016 Technical...
Today marks an exciting moment on the journey to bring world class container technologies and options to our customers. With the release of Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview 4, we’re excited to...
View ArticleAnnouncing the release of Hyper-V Containers in Windows Server 2016 Technical...
Today marks an exciting moment on the journey to bring world class container technologies and options to our customers. With the release of Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview 4, we’re excited to...
View ArticleData Deduplication in Windows Server Technical Preview 4
With the release of Windows Server Technical Preview 4, I’d like to send one primary message to all of our customers using or evaluating Windows Server Data Deduplication (which I assume applies to you...
View ArticleThe new checkpoint options in Microsoft Virtual Machine Manager
~ Dipti Goyal | Software Engineer IIHello, my name is Dipti Goyal and I’m an engineer on the System Center Virtual Machine Manager Team. System Center 2016 Virtual Machine Manager has the capability to...
View ArticleDiscrete Device Assignment -- Description and background
With Windows Server 2016, we're introducing a new feature, called Discrete Device Assignment, in Hyper-V. Users can now take some of the PCI Express devices in their systems and pass them through...
View ArticleSystem Center Management Packs for SQL Server and Replication have been updated
Just a quick note to let you know that the "System Center Management Packs for SQL Server and Replication" have been updated. You can find more details about the update at the blog post here.Suraj...
View Article"Management Pack Recommendations and Updates" in SCOM Technical Preview 4
We added a new capability to Operations Manager in the Technical Preview 4 release of System Center 2016. The new Updates and Recommendations screen in the Operations Manager console lists Management...
View ArticleHyper-V Documentation for All!
With the recent release of Windows Server Technical Preview 4 - I now have a huge amount of material that I need to write about. But before I get to that - there is something else I want to talk...
View ArticleDiscrete Device Assignment -- Machines and devices
In my last post, I talked about a new feature of Windows Server 2016, Discrete Device Assignment. This post will discuss the machines and devices necessary for making this feature work.First, we're not...
View ArticleIssue with the Windows ADK for Windows 10, version 1511
Author: Aaron Czechowski, Senior Program Manager, Enterprise Client and Mobility The Windows 10 ADK was recently updated on the Microsoft Hardware Dev Center, aligned with the Windows 10, version 1511...
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