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Customer Spotlight: Marquette University reins in storage costs with Windows...
I recently blogged about some of the positive sentiments and comments Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V has been receiving from the press and recently surveyed customers, as well as the sharp uptick in...
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Configure Remote Desktop Connection Broker in Windows Server 2012 with SQL...
Hello, this is Jingyuan, Munindra and Sriram from the Remote Desktop Virtualization team. In our previous blog post, we described how to configure RD Connection Broker high availability in Windows...
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System Center Management Pack for Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS)
Overview The System Center Management Pack for Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) monitors events that the AD FS 2.0 Windows service records in the AD FS 2.0 event logs, and it monitors the...
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Unable to install license key on SCOM 2012
I was working on a customer’s System Center 2012 Operations Manager, which was failing to register their application, even when they were using the steps provided in KB2699998. Symptoms Using the steps...
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Introducing DFS Namespaces Windows PowerShell Cmdlets
Overview In this blog post, let me introduce you to the new DFS Namespaces (DFSN) Windows PowerShell cmdlets that we have added in Windows Server 2012. Windows PowerShell is designed for automation and...
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SNIA Tutorials cover a wealth of Storage knowledge (SNW Fall 2012 Update)
I’m always amazed by the vast amount of knowledge being posted online for free download. If you are an IT Professional who deals with Storage (or if you manage one of them), check out the high-quality...
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Windows 8 / Windows Server 2012: Upgrade Paths and Editions
Welcome to day 1 of our Windows 8 / Windows Server 2012 Launch Series! We hope you will enjoy reading this series as much as we enjoyed putting the content together. With that said, our first post is...
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Introducing Scale-Out File Server in Windows Server 2012 for VDI Deployments
Hello, this is Jingyuan and Sriram from Remote Desktop Virtualization team. In this blog post, we’re really excited to introduce the new Scale-Out File Server feature in Windows Server 2012 for VDI...
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Installing System Center 2012 Update Rollup 3 – Operations Manager
Update Rollup 3 was recently released and is a little different than previous updates because we distributed the updates through Microsoft Update. Stefan Stranger, a Senior Premier Field Engineer...
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Windows 8 / Windows Server 2012: Start Screen and User Interface Part 1
Welcome to day 2 of our Launch Series. This is part one of a two part series regarding the new Start Screen and User Interface in Windows 8. Today, we will look into tiles and groups. The Start...
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Digging a little deeper into Windows 8 Primary Computer
[This is a ghost of Ned past article – Editor] Hi folks, Ned here again to talk more about the Primary Computer feature introduced in Windows 8. Sharp-eyed readers may have noticed this lonely beta...
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RDP 8.0 Update for Windows 7 SP1 Released to Web!
A few weeks back we detailed the RDP 8.0 update for Windows 7 SP1 and the scenarios it enables for Remote Desktop Services users. Today, the entire RDV team is glad to announce that the update package...
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How to Register SPF as System Center IaaS Provider for Windows Server Service...
Following the recent Beta release of the Service Management Portal and API for Windows Server , a couple of our hosting solutions field guys in Europe reported issues getting the portal to successfully...
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Windows 8 / Windows Server 2012: Start Screen and User Interface Part 2
Welcome to day 3 of our Launch Series. This is part two of the new Start Screen and User Interface in Windows 8. In part one, we covered tiles and groups. Today, we will look into switching between...
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How to configure SQL 2012 AlwaysOn Availability Groups in System Center 2012...
Hello I am Dipti Goyal and I am a part of the System Center Virtual Machine Manager Team. System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager (VMM 2012) Service Pack 1 can now be configured with SQL 2012...
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Quick Create Incident
A while back we blogged about a solution to quickly apply a template to an incident using the task pane instead of opening the template picker dialog....
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Service Manager Customer LyncUp!
Problem: The interest level in Service Manager is through the roof since we released System Center 2012. I’ve had so many customers lately through various channels asking to speak with other customers...
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Windows Server 2012 iSCSI Target: Is it the same as the downloadable target...
As mentioned in my prior post about Storage Spaces, Windows Server 2012 contains many new capabilities. The integrated iSCSI Target happens to be one of those. Many have used the downloadable iSCSI...
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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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Windows 8 / Windows Server 2012: Faster Boot Process
Welcome to day 4 of our Launch Series. Today we are going to talk about the speed at which Windows boots up. Windows 8’s fast startup mode is the default option on a Windows 8 client computer....
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