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Upgrade Active Directory to Windows Server 2012 - Phase 1: Assessment
Doug Symalla and Greg Jaworski here, tag-teaming to give you a hefty blog, full of detail.In Doug's last blog, he laid out an Active Directory upgrade roadmap. We promised you some practical detail for...
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Nodes being removed from Failover Cluster membership on VMWare ESX?
Welcome to the AskCore blog. Today, we are going to talk about nodes being removed from active Failover Cluster membership when the nodes are hosted on VMWare ESX. I have documented node membership...
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TechEd North America 2013 Editor’s Choice: System Center
TechEd North America is officially underway, and it's time to roll out the red carpet! It began this morning with a post and video on the new Microsoft Cloud OS YouTube channel from Microsoft Server...
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TechEd North America 2013 Editor’s Choice: Windows Server
Welcome to the start of TechEd North America 2013! So far, we’ve kicked off the conference with a post and video on the new Microsoft Cloud OS YouTube channel from Microsoft Server and Tools President...
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Microsoft is Cloud First at TechEd North America 2013, Day 1 Highlights
Big data. Cloud. Bring your own device. All of these converging technology trends demand a response from IT. TechEd 2013 in New Orleans Louisiana is the place to be to learn about developing,...
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Brad Anderson at TechEd 2013: Delivering on our vision with cloud-first approach
About 2 months ago, Brad Anderson kicked off a more regular and in depth cadence of blogging on our Microsoft Server and Cloud Blogs through the In the Cloud Blog. In this really short amount of time...
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PFE Sessions At Tech Ed 2013 and The Krewe
Hey y’all, Mark here with a real quick post. For our readers that are at Tech Ed 2013 in New Orleans (home of everyone’s favorite X-Men Gambit). We got several PFEs delivering sessions that you should...
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Two lines that can save your AD from a crisis
Editor's note: This is the first of very likely many "DS Quickies". "Quickies" are shorter technical blog posts that relate hopefully-useful information and concepts for you to use in administering...
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Shaken, Not Stirred, TechEd North America, Day 2 Highlights
Yesterday’s keynote featured several customers, including luxury car manufacturer Aston Martin. The company is an example of the many enterprises that use the full range of Microsoft products and cloud...
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Exciting Updates to People-centric IT
As a growing majority of organizations face the need to let their employees choose the devices they want to use for their jobs, IT organizations are looking for ways to enable consumerization without...
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Cloud First - System Center 2012 R2 and Windows Intune
This week at TechEd, we’re sharing our excitement about the upcoming releases of Windows Server 2012 R2, System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager, and Windows Intune. By itself, System Center 2012...
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Hybrid Cloud Computing with Windows Server and System Center
Over the past 15 months, we’ve delivered 3 waves of industry leading datacenter innovations with System Center 2012, Windows Server 2012 and System Center 2012 SP1. With these three releases, we have...
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Logical Networks (Part IV) – PVLAN Isolation
In this blog, we continue our review of tenant isolation by looking at the implications of PVLANs on your logical network design – we will look at Network Virtualization and complete our review of...
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Are We There Yet?
Like most children, I got a lot of (rarely heeded) advice from my parents. One thing that my dad was particularly fond of reminding me of was that “the journey is as important as the destination”. I...
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TechEd 2013: Recapping Yesterday’s Big Announcements
Yesterday was a HUGE day for the IT community, the tech industry, and Microsoft. In case you missed my keynote or any of the other sessions, you can watch them on-demand here (you can also read the...
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Intune Maintenance: Downtime Notification
Hello -The Windows Intune service will undergoing a brief maintenance window that will require 30 minutes of downtime. During this downtime window, you will be unable to access the Windows Intune...
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Storage Transformation
Organizations face many challenges when it comes to storage. Data volumes are exploding, increasing the cost of storage and the headaches of storage management. The rise of Big Data analytics means...
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90% of the Worlds Data Has Been Created in the Past Two Years, TechEd North...
We are entering the dog days of summer here in the south, but don’t let that fool you. TechEd North America 2013 is still in full swing with breakout sessions, hands on labs, Ask the Experts sessions,...
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Power, Beauty and Soul – How Aston Martin is Using Cloud Technologies to...
Aston Martin sports cars are synonymous with luxury, heritage, and authentic craftsmanship. Alongside these core values comes passion about the cars the company produces: all models are hand crafted...
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Service Manager support tip: Creating an Exchange connector fails with...
- Santosh Killekar| System Center Support EngineerHere’s an issue I ran into the other day that I thought you might be interested in hearing about. It’s probably not something that will be very common...
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