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Support Tip: Migrating a VM from Windows Server 2008 R2 to Windows Server...
Hi, Donovan Vanhaltren here with a tip on an issue you might see when migrating VMs from Windows Server 2008 R2 in System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager Service Pack 1. When trying to migrate...
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How to provide redundancy for End User Recovery (EUR) of Distributed File...
Hi, Michael Vargo here, and I wanted to take a minute and talk about how you can provide redundancy for End User Recovery of DFS shared data using Data Protection Manager.The environment diagram below...
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How to install System Center 2012 Service Manager SP1 with a SQL 2012...
Hi, Babulal Ghule here, and in this post I will walk you through the steps to install System Center 2012 Service Manager SP1 (SCSM) with a SQL 2012 AlwaysON Availability Groups. First, let’s understand...
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Monitoring .Net Web Applications Using Global Service Monitor and Application...
A Few Details About Our Service and EnvironmentI’m a member of the Monitoring and Management (M&M) team inside the Cloud and Datacenter Management Product Group. Our team runs a System Center-based...
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Backing up Hyper-V virtual machines from the command line
Last week I posted about how you can now use Windows Server Backup in Windows Server 2012 to backup virtual machines. One of the first questions that people had was “how do I do this from the...
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WS-Management ISO/IEC Standard
We’ve talked about it before and we’ll talk about it again, are strong believers in the customer benefits of standards. In Windows Server 2012 we invested heavily in standards based management to...
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Dynamic Memory Pro Tip–be reasonable with your startup ram
Hyper-V now allows you to configure a startup, minimum and maximum memory limit. If you are like me – you probably leave the startup ram at the default of 512mb – but you should really consider...
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Security Advisory 2755801 revised to address Adobe Flash Player issues (Feb....
Today we revised Security Advisory 2755801 to address issues in Adobe Flash Player in Internet Explorer 10 on Windows 8. This advisory revision was released in conjunction with Adobe’s update process....
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Week of February 25: New from Windows Server/System Center MVPs
Hi, all, We took a week off for MVP Summit but we're now back with this week's installment of blogs from our Windows Server/System Center MVPs. Several MVPs posted technical how-to articles for high...
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Where have all my Linux packages gone?
If you have recently installed Cumulative Update 7 for System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 (CU7) on your management servers and then attempted to push install a Linux\Unix agent then you may have...
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List of Fixes/Improvements in System Center 2012 SP1 – Service Manager
At the request of lots of people, we have published a list of the more prominent fixes and improvements to Service Manager in System Center 2012 SP1. You can find the list in this KB...
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The strange case of Gamarue propagation
We have seen variants of Worm:Win32/Gamarue spread via removable drives in the past, but recent variants have adopted a more convoluted method of spreading involving several components. Let's take a...
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Increasing Availability – The REAP Principles (Redundancy, Entanglement,...
Introduction Increasing availability is a key concern with computer systems. With all the consolidation and virtualization efforts under way, you need to make sure your services are always up and...
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Teacher / Student Instant Messaging in MultiPoint Server 2012
Today's post comes to you courtesy of Spandana Battula of the WMS team:This is one of the biggest feature additions in WMS 2012 over WMS2011. Through the Instant Messaging (IM) feature, students will...
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Update Rollup 1 for Windows Server 2012 Essentials Available Now
Windows Server 2012 Essentials Update Rollup 1 has been released today and is available for download from Microsoft Update. You can read about the issues this rollup update addresses in Microsoft...
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Where Did My Space Go?
While working on Windows 8/Windows Server 2012, I have been tied up with other content creation projects and as such have not had time to write for AskCore. However, I’ve had a number of blog ideas...
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Get Knowledge Article Content Programmatically Using the SDK
I’ve had a few people ask how to do this recently so, here goes!Getting knowledge article objects using the SDK is the same as getting any other kind of object except with a slight twist. The...
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When not to use IP Address Ranges as Boundaries in Configuration Manager
It is often surprising to me how what may seem like innocuous decisions on how to configure settings in Configuration Manager can lead to very different performance results. A case that has come up...
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When not to use IP Address Ranges as Boundaries in Configuration Manager
It is often surprising to me how what may seem like innocuous decisions on how to configure settings in Configuration Manager can lead to very different performance results. A case that has come up...
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