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Establishing Network Connectivity to a Share in the Windows Recovery Environment
Hi there! My name is Neil Dsouza and I’m a Support Escalation Engineer with the Windows Core team.Today I’m going to cover a scenario where you have a server that fails to boot and all you want to do...
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Where’s the Macro? Malware authors are now using OLE embedding to deliver...
Recently, we’ve seen reports of malicious files that misuse the legitimate Office object linking and embedding (OLE) capability to trick users into enabling and downloading malicious content....
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The Version Store Called, and They’re All Out of Buckets
Hello, Ryan Ries back at it again with another exciting installment of esoteric Active Directory and ESE database details!I think we need to have another little chat about something called the version...
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Trusted cloud considerations and financial services
A discussion with Bill Fearnley, research director for compliance, fraud, and risk analytics at IDC Financial Insights.This is the third in a guest blog post series by IDC on trusted cloud. This post...
View ArticleDetails on the June 2016 Microsoft security update release
Yesterday we released security updates to provide additional protection against malicious attackers. As a best practice, we encourage customers to apply security updates as soon as they are released....
View ArticleReading a pixel on a VM Screen
Two weeks ago I provided a code sample that allowed you to capture a Hyper-V virtual machine screen to a bitmap. As part of this script – the virtual machine screen is stored in a Windows bitmap...
View ArticleKB: Data Warehouse jobs fail and event ID 33502 is logged in Microsoft System...
We recently published a new Knowledge Base article that discusses an issue where Data Warehouse jobs fail in SCSM 2012. When this problem occurs the following event is logged in the Operations Manager...
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Find a bitmap on the VM screen
Continuing with my series on how to do interesting automation stuff with Hyper-V – today I want to show you how to use PowerShell and the AForge.NET library to locate a bitmap on a virtual machine...
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What’s new in failover clustering: #3 Stretched Clusters
This post was authored by Ned Pyle, Principal Program Manager, Windows ServerWhy should you care about clustered storage? Everyone’s talking about apps, mobile, DevOps, containers, platforms. That’s...
View ArticleWindows – Read me that virtual machine
After a couple of weeks of playing around with Hyper-V APIs for reading virtual machine screens and sending keystrokes – I hit upon an interesting idea. What would it take to make a “virtual machine...
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What’s new in failover clustering: #04 Workgroup and multi-domain clusters
This post was authored by Subhasish Bhattacharya, Program Manager, Windows ServerIntroduction: Active Directory integration with your private cloudActive Directory integration provides significant...
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Reverse-engineering DUBNIUM’s Flash-targeting exploit
The DUBNIUM campaign in December involved one exploit in-the-wild that affected Adobe Flash Player. In this blog, we’re going to examine the technical details of the exploit that targeted vulnerability...
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Comparing Windows Server 2016 Nano TP5 Provisioning Time to GUI/Core...
ForewordHello again from Prague! Here is Jaromir and, in this post, I’ll show you how you can play with ws2016lab to measure I/O consumption of each server installation option.I decided to compare the...
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Comparing Windows Server 2016 Nano TP5 Provisioning Time to GUI/Core...
ForewordHello again from Prague! Here is Jaromir and, in this post, I’ll show you how you can play with ws2016lab to measure I/O consumption of each server installation option.I decided to compare the...
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Configuration Manager as a Managed Installer with Windows 10
IntroductionWindows 10 introduced a new set of features called Device Guard that helps enterprises protect their business critical machines against malware and other unwanted software. Key amongst...
View ArticleUpdate 1606 for Configuration Manager Technical Preview – Available Now!
Hello everyone! Update 1606 for Configuration Manager Technical Preview has been released. New and improved features in this update include:ConfigMgr as a managed installer with Device Guard:You can...
View ArticleQuick Survey: Windows File Server Usage and Pain Points
Hi all,We need your input to help us prioritize our future investments for File Server scenarios. We’ve created a short 5 question survey to better understand File Server usage and pain points. Any...
View ArticleThe Windows Server 2016 Application Platform – Nano Server, Containers and...
This post was authored by Andrew Mason, Principal Program Manager on the Nano Server team.There has been a lot of press on Nano Server and Containers as new technologies coming in Windows Server 2016....
View ArticleCumulative Update 2 for System Center 2016 Virtual Machine Manager Technical...
Cumulative Update 2 (CU2) for Microsoft System Center 2016 Virtual Machine Manager Technical Preview 5 is now available. There are two updates available for Cumulative Update 2 for System Center 2016...
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The Endpoint Zone, Episode 15: How Avanade uses Intune MAM
This might be one of the most interesting episodes of The Endpoint Zone in a really long time.In episode 15, we spend 15 minutes talking with Joseph Paradi, from the consulting firm Avanade, about the...
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