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Slides for the Instructor-Led Lab on Windows Server 2012 Storage from MMS 2013
I delivered an instructor-led lab on Windows Server 2012 Storage at MMS 2013 yesterday (4/8), with a repeat scheduled for tomorrow (4/10) at 2:45 PM. You can find the details on this lab at...
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As Seen at MMS: Scripts and Overviews of All Six Keynote Demos!
My keynote at MMS yesterday featured six separate demos (if you haven’t seen it yet, you can watch it on-demand here), and, as promised on-stage, this post will provide a detailed overview of each...
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KB: Using the Service Manager Authoring console to add a custom property to a...
Here’s another KB article we published today. This one talks about an issue where using the Authoring console in SCSM 2012 to extend the class from a UNIX management pack to an unsealed management pack...
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MSRT April 2013 – Vesenlosow
It has been another month and we have found some more families that need some special attention that the Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT) is ideal to give.This month we are focused on cleaning up...
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Get the best RDP 8.0 experience when connecting to Windows 7: What you need...
The Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) 8.0 update for Windows 7 provides many advantages for the remote work experience; for all the details, see KB2592687. However, to benefit from the experience...
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MMS 2013 Demo: Hyper-V over SMB at high throughput with SMB Direct and SMB...
Overview I delivered a demo of Hyper-V over SMB this week at MMS 2013 that’s an evolution of a demo I did back in the Windows Server 2012 launch and also via a TechNet Radio session.Back then I showed...
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RaaS-Active Directory The Engineers Point Of View
My name is Bryan Zink and I am a Microsoft Premier Field Engineer focused on supporting Windows Server and Active Directory. You’ve probably read the fantastic post by Yong Rhee introducing RAP as a...
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KB: Registering the Operations Manager data source in Service Manager fails...
Here’s a new KB article we published today. This one explains how to resolve an issue where you get the following error message when trying to register the Operations Manager Data Source against the...
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Now Available: Update Rollup 5 for System Center 2012
Update Rollup 5 for System Center 2012 is now available and it includes a few fixes for OpsMgr 2012, including:Issue 1: The Solaris agent could run out of file descriptors when many multi-version file...
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Update Rollup 5 for System Center 2012–VMM 2012 Fixes
Update Rollup 5 for System Center 2012 is now available for download. It includes a variety of System Center fixes, including one for an issue in VMM 2012 where a host that is put into maintenance mode...
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Why Domino’s Pizza® Decided to Move 10,000 Store Servers to Hyper-V
Your stomach rumbles. Your mind dreams of pizza. Your fingers type “dominos.com.” If the servers don’t respond with “May I take your order?” in about two seconds flat, your stomach, mind, and fingers...
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The further exploits of the rogue distributors
We can safely say that since we encountered our first rogue, they've always commanded a presence in the malware ecosystem. That was, until recently we observed a decrease in rogue activity. That's not...
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VMM Refreshers: What’s new and what it means to you
Microsoft’s own Cheng Wei (Senior Program Manager) posted a great article on Refreshers in VMM 2012 SP1 back during the beta but everything he talks about is still relevant for the released version of...
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Announcing new Windows Server/System Center MVP Speaker Series
We are excited to announce a new series open to everyone. Starting Tuesday April 16, 2013 we will have MVP’s share their knowledge on a variety of topics to the broader community. If you are...
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From the MMS 2013 Keynote: A Datacenter Full of Pizza
If you were able to catch my keynote on Monday (either in person, or on demand), you got to see a pretty remarkable story from Domino’s Pizza.I’ve been thinking a lot about Dominos ever since last...
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TechNet Radio series covers Windows Server 2012 File Server and SMB 3.0...
I have been working with Bob Hunt at the TechNet Radio team to provide a series of webcasts with information about SMB 3.0 and the File Server role in Windows Server 2012.These are fairly informal...
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Updated Links on Windows Server 2012 File Server and SMB 3.0
In this post, I'm providing a reference to the most relevant content related to Windows Server 2012 that is related to the File Server, the SMB 3.0 features and its associated scenarios like Hyper-V...
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Update Rollup 5 for System Center 2012 is now available
Update Rollup 5 for System Center 2012 is now available for download and includes fixes for Virtual Machine Manager and Operations Manager. The article below discusses the issues that are fixed in...
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Xerox Improves Developer Efficiency by 40 percent, Reduces Costs with DevOps
If your developers are in India, your IT operations team is in the United States, and your customers are all over the world, you have a big coordination challenge. The Xerox India Development Center...
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KB: Installing Microsoft BitLocker Administration and Monitoring (MBAM) 2.0...
Just a quick tip to let you know that we just published a new KB article on MBAM and ConfigMgr that explains an issue where the MBAM installer fails during the prerequisite check with the following...
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