Microsoft Intune 2016 – a year in review
Where you are today is not where you will be tomorrow. Things change fast these days. Regardless of your industry, youre always in motion evolving and adapting to the shifting needs of your business...
View ArticleWindows Management Framework (WMF) 5.1 Released
We are pleased to announce that we are releasing the Windows Management Framework (WMF) 5.1 today via the Microsoft download center. WMF 5.1 upgrades Windows 7, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2008 R2,...
View ArticleIdentity Admins rejoice: Azure Active Directory meets Power BI!
Howdy folks,We’ve heard from many of our largest customers that it’s critically important to them to have easy access to information that helps them understand how their employees and partners are...
View ArticlePSA – Flickering Laptop Screen with Hyper-V? Update your drivers.
Last year I went out and got an Alienware 13 laptop. Later I got the Alienware Amplifier and put a NVidia 1070 GPU in it. I have been really happy with this setup – as it is a powerful portable...
View ArticleUpdate 1701 for Configuration Manager Technical Preview Branch – Available Now!
Hello everyone! We are happy to let you know that update 1701 for the Technical Preview Branch of System Center Configuration Manager has been released. Technical Preview Branch releases give you an...
View ArticleA closer look at VM Quick Create
Author: Andy AtkinsonIn the last Insiders build, we introduced Quick Create to quickly create virtual machines with less configuration (see blog).We’re trying a few things to make it easier to set up a...
View ArticleSystem Center VMM 2016 features demos on Channel 9
We now have some quick demos (<5 minutes) published on Channel 9 which provide you with good insights of new features of Virtual Machine Manager 2016. They’re definitely worth checking out and you...
View ArticleBuild an Inexpensive Learning Machine
This blog post brought to you by eighteen year veteran Microsoft Premier Field Engineer David Morgan.Goal of this PostIn this post, I’ll be showing you one method you can build out an entire...
View ArticleExploit kits remain a cybercrime staple against outdated software – 2016...
Despite the disruption of Axpergle (Angler), which dominated the landscape in early 2016, exploit kits as a whole continued to be a threat to PCs running unpatched software. Some of the most prominent...
View ArticleDemo Tuesday // Nano Server: the tiny server that could
Welcome to our new Demo Tuesday series. Each week we will be highlighting a new product feature from the Hybrid Cloud Platform. Server operating systems, including Microsoft Windows Server, have...
View ArticlePerspectives on the New Intune Console
Earlier today we also announced Intune for Education an administrative experience that is tailored for schools. We are incredibly excited to share these new experiences with you, and I want to share...
View ArticleDetecting threat actors in recent German industrial attacks with Windows...
When a Germany-based industrial conglomerate disclosed in December 2016 that it was breached early that year, the breach was revealed to be a professionally run industrial espionage attack. According...
View ArticleDSC Resource Kit Release January 2017
We just released the DSC Resource Kit!This release includes updates to 7 DSC resource modules, including 10 new DSC resources. In these past 6 weeks, 71 pull requests have been merged and 37 issues...
View ArticleBulk changing virtual hard disk path
I received this in email today:“I have XCOPY’d a bunch of VHDX files from one volume to another on WS2016. What’s the easiest / fastest way to fix up the paths for the VM’s???”The answer to this is...
View ArticleUse Windows Server 2016 and software-defined networking to build a better...
Windows Server Program Manager Greg Cusanza joins Matt McSpirit to demonstrate the software-defined networking (SDN) capabilities in Windows Server 2016. Watch as Greg explains those capabilities and...
View ArticleMicrosoft Mechanics show features software-defined networking with Windows...
Take a coffee break and watch our new 10-minute video on software-defined networking with Windows Server 2016. Join Windows Server program manager Greg Cusanza as he demonstrates how you can use...
View ArticleIntroducing the Host Compute Service (HCS)
SummaryThis post introduces a low level container management API in Hyper-V called the Host Compute Service (HCS). It tells the story behind its creation, and links to a few open source projects that...
View ArticlePhishers unleash simple but effective social engineering techniques using PDF...
The Gmail phishing attack is reportedly so effective that it tricks even technical users, but it may be just the tip of the iceberg. We’re seeing similarly simple but clever social engineering tactics...
View Article#AzureAD Mailbag: MFA Q&A, Round 7!
Hey yall, Mark Morowczynski here with the second part of our two part MFA mailbag. To read part 1 click here. Also for those that haven’t been reading these mailbags since the beginning you can read...
View ArticleNo more “out of memory” errors for Windows Phone emulators in Windows 10...
For those of you who run emulators in Visual Studio, you may be familiar with an annoying error:It periodically pops up even when task manager reports enough available memory – this is especially true...
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