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New information on the recent Microsoft Anti-Malware Platform Update
As you may be aware, after our recent announcement regarding the Microsoft Anti-Malware Platform Update, the two stand-alone releases (KB2831312 and KB2831316) were temporarily removed from Microsoft...
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File Server Tip: How to rebalance a Scale-Out File Server using a little...
A Scale-Out File Server is a cluster role that offers the same SMB file share (or set of shares) on every node of the cluster. As clients come in, they are spread across the nodes using a round-robin...
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Continually Improving Continuous Availability
Several weeks ago I met with a customer who expressed a very common problem: “If we can’t access our data at any moment, from any location, we immediately begin losing money.”This comment was made...
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KB: Windows Update Fails With Error 0x80243004 or 80243004
Just wanted to let you know about a new KB article we published. This one’s a WSUS article that talks about an issue where running Windows Update or Microsoft Update fails with error 0x80243004 or...
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Everyone benefits from antimalware software
How important is it really to run antivirus software? That’s a question that has been asked by many people: your average user who might question the effort required to install it or keep their...
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Announcement: Special Windows Server/System Center MVP Speaker Series...
We will be having a special additional MVP speaker series session on 4/25/13 titled: Keeping Your CIO Happy: Executive Scorecarding with SQL, SharePoint and System Center 2012 Operations Manager.If you...
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NTttcp Version 5.28 Now Available
Leveraged extensively by both external customers and Microsoft Product Groups alike to profile and measure Windows networking performance, updated versions of NTttcp (a Winsock-based port of BSD’s TTCP...
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Reduce backup storage consumption of private cloud deployments using System...
System Center 2012 SP1 - DPM has enabled data protection for Windows 2012 Private Cloud deployments. Customers have been looking for a way to exclude some of the VHD/VHDX that have temp data or...
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KB: Running Operations Manager reports fail with...
Just wanted to let you know about a new KB article we published today. This one is an article for Operations Manager that discusses an issue where running reports using the Operations Manager console...
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New HOTFIX available: The content status of a package is stuck at "In...
We published a new hotfix today for Configuration Manager 2012 Service Pack 1 to correct the following issue:Consider the following scenario: You configure a Microsoft System Center 2012 Configuration...
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How to install integration services when the virtual machine is not running
We’ve been talking to a lot of people about deploying integration services (integration components) lately. As it turns out, they’re pretty easy to patch offline with existing Hyper-V tools.First, why...
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Installing ICs offline in Hyper-V
There is a great post over on the virtualization team blog about how to install the Hyper-V integration components offline. Go check it out:...
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Some Other PFE Blogs You’ll Want To Be Reading
Hey y’all, Mark here with some quick links for you. We have two other PFE team blogs that have been getting some steam as of late we thought we’d pass along so our fine readership can check them out...
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Windows Server Essentials Integration Module for Windows Azure Backup is Now...
[Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Yang Cao and Ashish Sukhija]Hello everyone, we would like to update you on an Add-In software that is now available for Windows Server 2012 Essentials. We have...
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Episode 3 of the ‘In the Cloud’ Podcast: Enabling the Modern Workforce
In this episode I take a look at how enterprise IT can really support the modern workforce’s desire to work from any location with any device – and how organizations can embrace this trend. I touched...
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Patching Orchestrator Runbook Servers while Maintaining High-Availability
Balancing server patching with maintaining the availability of the services that run on these servers can be a difficult task for an IT Pro, with lots of repetitive, time-consuming, and error-prone...
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Choosing a Hash and Encryption Algorithm for a new PKI?
I frequently get asked to consult on building out new Public Key Infrastructures here in Premier Field Engineering. One of the things that I get asked commonly is “How do I choose a key length and Hash...
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Threats at home and work
People act differently at home and at work, so it’s no surprise that malware also acts differently at home and in enterprise. As seen in the latest edition of the Microsoft Security Intelligence...
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Troubleshooting Walkthrough of ConfigMgr 2012 SP1 Provisioning
Buz Brodin| Senior Support Escalation EngineerHi everyone, Buz Brodin here. I recently had an interesting AMT provisioning case with System Center 2012 Configuration Manager where we hit multiple...
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New HOTFIX available: Some newly added access accounts for a package may be...
We published a new hotfix today for Configuration Manager 2007 Service Pack 2 to correct the following issue:Consider the following scenario: You create a package in Microsoft System Center...
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