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Announcement: Configuration Manager Documentation Library Update for March 2013
The Documentation Library for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager has been updated on the web and the latest content has Updated: March 1, 2013 at the top of the topic. We also released a Windows...
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Copying User Roles Between Management Servers in Service Manager 2012
If you’ve ever created user roles in a test or pre-production Service Manager environment and wanted to copy them to a production environment, you’ll have noticed there is no ability to export from one...
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Copying User Roles from One Management Group to Another
I’ve always wanted to do this, but Andrew Barton (aka the “Blogging Machine”) beat me to it. He has written a PowerShell script that will sync user roles (which are not stored in MPs) between...
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MP Blog – Knowledge, Knowledge, Knowledge
Knowledge is power right? Operations Manager is at its core a knowledge based monitoring system, it’s the knowledge that differentiates it from its competitors. It is fairly easy to collect some data...
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Mailbag: How do you set network adapter settings with PowerShell in Windows 8...
Here’s an interesting question that came to us from one of our readers. If you have a question for us, don't forget that you can contact us using the Contact tile just to the right of this article when...
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Introducing the “In the Cloud” Podcast
I get to talk about the Cloud with customers and colleagues every day – and these discussions always leave me even more excited about this industry and the work we’re collectively doing. To share some...
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Q and A: Is it possible to run SMB Direct from within a VM?
Question received via blog mail:Jose-I picked up a couple ConnectX-2 adapters and a cable off of ebay for cheap (about $300 for everything) to test out SMB Direct. I followed your blog "Deploying...
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Q and A: Can I use SMB3 storage without RDMA?
Question received via e-mail:Is it practical use SMB3 storage without RDMA or do we have a use case for production rather than development or test?I thought RDMA would be essential for production...
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Q & A: I only have two NICs on my Hyper-V host. Should I team them or not?
Question via e-mail:I am using blade servers for my Hyper-V cluster and I can only have two NICs per blade in this configuration.I am considering two options on how to configure the NICs:1) Use...
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Live Customer Q&A with Virtualization Experts! (Microsoft Virtual Academy)
The IT Pro Evangelism team, Microsoft Learning and the Microsoft Virtual Academy are pleased to announce the next FREE&PUBLIC event Live Q&A: Introduction to Hyper-V on Wednesday April 3rd,...
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Join us at MMS2013 to see how you can leverage and extend the OpsMgr 2012...
Most of you have seen the out-of-the-box dashboards we provided in OpsMgr 2012. We now want to share with you our extensibility story for dashboards and show you how you can build custom dashboards...
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One Little Victory – Get Value from the Remote Server Administration Tools on...
If you've read any of my prior posts, you know I like to be able to do things without a lot of prep, in a short amount of time. Yes, I like the K.I.S.S principle – Keep It Simple, Stan. I also enjoy...
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A System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager Perspective on SMBv3 Files...
Chuck Timon | Senior Support Escalation Engineer | Microsoft CTS Management and Security DivisionOne of the more exciting features in Windows Server 2012 is the ability to support Hyper-V virtual...
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RemoteFX vGPU Setup and Configuration for Windows Server 2012
I’m happy to let everyone know that thanks to Claus Emrich, we now have a TechNet Wiki post about how to set up and configure a RemoteFX virtual graphics processing unit (vGPU) using Windows Server...
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Networking in Virtual Machine Manager Poster!
Who doesn’t love IT wallpaper? Network diagrams, data model diagrams, Active Directory replication topology diagrams, server room floorplans – they can turn a bland cubical or office wall into a...
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#IM-B318 – Panel Discussion on System Center Operations Manager at MMS 2013
Have a question on Management Packs, Network Monitoring, Storage Monitoring, Application Monitoring, DevOps, GSM, High Availability or something else Operations Manager related then this is the session...
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Announcement: System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Upgrade Assessment...
We are pleased to announce that the System Center 2012 Configuration Manager SP1 Upgrade Assessment Tool (UAT) has been released and can be downloaded from the Microsoft Download Center here . The...
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Multi-tenant disaster recover solution using Windows Server 2012
Windows Server 2012 introduces fundamental improvements that make it a cloud-ready operating system. The capabilities provide a flexible and scalable solution which opens up a wide range of...
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Easy Checking for MaxConcurrentApi Problems
Hi folks! I’m due for my (now) semi annual blog post, and I have a pretty good one. Short and sweet. Remember my blog posts about MaxConcurrentApi problems? Well, of course not but they are here and...
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KB: How to install and configure a SQL Analysis Server using service...
System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager (VMM 2012) does not provide a way to install and configure a SQL Analysis server using service templates, however there’s still a way to accomplish this goal....
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