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Your Personal Isolated Lab - Featuring Windows 8 + Hyper-V
By Mike LearyWith Windows 8 + Hyper-V you have the opportunity to create a great lab environment on a single workstation. When I build a lab I like it to be isolated from any production network but...
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Free Jump Start course: Microsoft Tools for VMware Integration & Migration
The IT Pro Evangelism team, Microsoft Learning and the Microsoft Virtual Academy are pleased to announce the next Jump Start course Microsoft Tools for VMware Integration & Migration on Thursday,...
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Become More Marketable at Certified Career Day
Would you like to help your company transform their IT operations, reducing costs and delivering a whole new level of business value? Windows Server 2012 Certification will allow you to cloud optimize...
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Automating Service Manager Service Request Catalog Deployment through...
GoalsThe purpose of this post is to provide users of System Center 2012 – Service Manager with the ability to deploy a service catalog of any size to their Service Manager environment through...
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New Operations Manager Management Packs for Cluster, NLB, WDS
Windows Server ClusterThe System Center Management Pack for Windows Server Cluster monitors the health of the Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, and Windows Server 2012...
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How Microsoft Uses Service Manager: Automated Service Catalog Deployment
Andrew Barton, one of our IT Service Engineers, runs Service Manager for our internal “Monitoring and Management” team here at Microsoft. This team runs the infrastructure for some of Microsoft’s...
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Looking for Windows Server 2012 Clustering and Hyper-V Hotfixes?
In a previous blog, it was discussed on where you can get a list of the Failover Clustering and Hyper-V hotfixes for Windows Server 2008 R2.Looking for Windows Server 2008 R2 Cluster and Hyper-V...
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Microsoft VDI vs. VMware View: Freedom of Choice
I’m Adam Carter, the technical product manager for Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) in Windows Server at Microsoft. VMware® recently published a datasheet about why you should choose VMware View™...
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VMM 2012 Tip: How to assign an IP Address using PowerShell during deployment
Hi everyone, Yuvraj Attarde here and today I ‘d like to pass along a trip on how to easily assign an IP address using PowerShell during deployments in System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager. Let’s...
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Microsoft VDI vs. VMware View: Freedom of choice
Adam Carter just put up a good blog describing the overall value that session-based and virtual machine-based desktop deployment provides in response to a VMware datasheet. For anyone considering...
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Support Tip: No reports show up in the console after installing a System...
Hi everyone, Prabhat Joshi here. After installing and configuring a System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Reporting server, you may find that you are unable to find any reports in the Reporting...
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Support Tip: Adding a Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 core server to VMM 2012...
Hi, Richard Mascarenhas here and I wanted to mention an issue you might run into when adding a Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Core computer to System Center Virtual 2012 Virtual Machine Manager (VMM). When...
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System Center Advisor is now a FREE service!
Hi everyone, This month we have some exciting news for our System Center Advisor users: as of January 2013 , Advisor is free to Microsoft customers in supporting countries . Trial periods are a thing...
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Announcement: Configuration Manager Documentation Library Update for February...
The Documentation Library for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager and Configuration Manager 2007 Documentation Library have been updated on the web and the latest content has Updated: February 1,...
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Announcement: Configuration Manager Documentation Library Update for February...
The Documentation Library for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager and Configuration Manager 2007 Documentation Library have been updated on the web and the latest content has Updated: February 1,...
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Sending mail to users in the “Configuration Items: Computers, Services and...
The latest revisions to the Exchange Connector creates configuration items for the users on the To or Cc lines of an e-mail, then adds a relationship to those objects via the “Configuration Items:...
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How Microsoft Uses Service Manager: Sending Mail to Related User CIs
Andrew Barton has just written up another good blog post on how to send mail to users in the “Configuration Items: Computers, Services and People” field in System Center 2012 SP1 – Service Manager....
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When fake malware phones
The other day I was hard at work trying to find and stop actual computer viruses and other malware when my home phone rang. A pleasant man, who gave his name as "David" with what sounded like an Indian...
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Advance Notification Service for March 2013 Security Bulletin Release
Today we’re providing advance notification for the release of seven bulletins, four Critical and three Important, for March 2013. The Critical bulletins address vulnerabilities in Microsoft...
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Updated Version of Cloud Services Process Management Pack Now Available!
The original Cloud Services Process Management Pack cannot be installed on System Center 2012 SP1 – Service Manager without some manual workarounds. Just last night we released an updated version of...
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