HOTFIX: Automatic client updates are unsuccessful for Configuration Manager...
We published a new hotfix today for ConfigMgr 2012 SP1 to correct the following issue:Consider the following scenario: You enable the Upgrade client automatically when new client updates are available...
View ArticleRunning DHCP Server on Windows Server 2012 Essentials
[This post comes to us courtesy of Rituraj Choudhary from Microsoft Commercial Technical Support]Windows Server 2012 Essentials is enabled to run on a network with the DHCP Server service running on...
View ArticleHP StoreEasy and Windows Server 2012 SMB Performance
Hi folks, Ned here again with a quickie post. HP recently released their latest file server SMB testing results, where they used FSCT and IOMeter to collect performance and scalability data with...
View ArticleService Manager 2012 SP1 secondary Management Server–Cannot set availability...
Just a heads up, in Service Manager 2012 SP1, we made certain changes to custom actions in setup which renders fresh installs of the secondary management server incapable of connecting to the...
View ArticleWindows Server/System Center MVP Speaker Series Starting This Week!
We are launching a new Windows Server/System Center MVP Speaker Series this week! This continuing education series of presentations will be delivered by some of our MVPs on various topics around...
View ArticleWindows Server/System Center MVP Speaker Series Starting This Week!...
This is a post that I just put up on the System Center blog, but I also wanted to post it here for better visibility because one of the topics this week is on using Operations Manager to provide data...
View ArticleWindows Server/System Center MVP Speaker Series Starting This Week!...
This is a post that I just put up on the System Center blog, but I also wanted to post it here for better visibility because one of the topics this week is about automating Hyper-V administration using...
View ArticleUnable to connect to a printer using a CNAME record
Good morning AskPerf! My name is Sandeep Bhatia and I work with Networking team here in Microsoft Support. In today’s post, we will discuss Print issues when using a CNAME on Windows 2008 R2 Server,...
View ArticleKnow vSpeak? Learn to be Bilingual
Gordie Howe once famously said, “All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.” No doubt, there are times when most IT Pros feel similarly gifted (like when a production server...
View ArticleSessions from MMS 2013 Now Available
Greetings AskCore fans. I thought I would start creating a blog for a subset of the videos/sessions available at each of the conferences that Microsoft has throughout the year. These sessions will be...
View ArticleNew update available for MS13-036
Portuguese (Brazil) , Русский Today we released a new update to replace KB2823324, which was originally made available through MS13-036 . As we previously discussed , we stopped distributing this...
View ArticleUpdate on System Center 2012 SP1 Update Rollup 2 (UR2) for Virtual Machine...
Posted on behalf of Carmen SummersGreetings All,This is Carmen Summers and I lead System Center Cloud and Datacenter Management Sustained Engineering. I wanted to take the time to announce we are...
View ArticleSC 2012 SP1 – DPM: Windows 2012 VM Mobility – Uninterrupted Data Protection
One of the important features enabled in Windows 2012 is the ability to live migrate VMs anywhere. Whether the VM migrating within a cluster, across clusters, standalone to standalone or standalone to...
View ArticleMicrosoft Fixit for Printing UPDATED for Windows 7 & Windows Server 2008 R2
Hello folks. This is a quick post to inform you that the “Microsoft Fixit for Printing” is now live with .msi packages for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. We know a lot of you have been asking...
View ArticleDistribution vs. development: What’s the story and why does it matter?
In today’s threat landscape, distributing malware and developing malware are two different worlds. Both require a different set of skills in order to work and in order to achieve their separate goals....
View ArticleHow to Manually Create the Windows Small Business Server 2011 Standard and...
[This post comes to us courtesy of Charanjeet Singh and Rituraj Choudhary from Microsoft Commercial Technical Support] Certain Group Policy Objects (GPOs) are created and configured by default...
View ArticleTwo new Hyper-V Books available from Microsoft Press
Microsoft Press is releasing two new titles for IT pros who work with the Hyper-V virtualization platform:http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0790145383068.do...
View ArticleKB: System Center 2012 Operations Manager: Recommended Agent OS Fixes and...
We just published a new KB article that discusses fixes and updates recommended for Microsoft System Center 2012 Operations Manager Agent computers. You can find the complete article and get all the...
View ArticleWant to integrate ConfigMgr 2012 and App-v 5.0? Thamim has you covered
Looking to integrate your virtual application management with App-V 5.0 and System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Service Pack 1 (SP1)? If so then Microsoft’s own Thamim Karim has you covered. You...
View ArticleAnnouncement: Windows Server/System Center MVP Speaker Series presentation...
The session originally scheduled to take place Tuesday 4/30/13, has been moved to Wednesday 5/1/13 at 8 a.m. PST.If you are interested in attending this online meeting, please follow this link where...
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