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What’s New in 2012 R2: Enabling Open Source Software
Part 4 of a 9-part series.The Common Engineering Criteria (CEC) that I’ve talked about in previous posts have been instrumental in ensuring that the teams contributing to 2012 R2 met rigorous and...
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Support Tip: VM does not boot following P2V or Disk2VHD in Virtual Machine...
Microsoft’s own Jonathan Jordan has a great blog post on how to troubleshoot boot problems you may encounter after doing a P2V or Disk2VHD in Virtual Machine Manager. If you haven’t seen it yet you’ll...
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KB: PRO group names contain Chinese characters in System Center Operations...
In an English-language version of Microsoft System Center 2012, after you connect Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) to Operations Manager you may notice that group names in the Performance and Resource...
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Deploying a VM to Windows Azure with Orchestrator leveraging the Service...
Hello readers! I’m Tiander Turpijn, I’m a Program Manager within the Customer Architecture & Technology (CAT) team here at Microsoft and I will start contributing to our Building Clouds team blog...
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Active Directory IT controls to manage risk when users access company...
Hi, I’m Samuel Devasahayam (you can call me ‘Sam’) and I am a lead program manager in the Active Directory team responsible for Active Directory Federation Service (AD FS) In prior posts, you read how...
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Can’t we convert faster?The most common complaint I hear when working with customers who are converting VMs from a VMware platform is that it’s slow. Now for many customers technologies like MVMC or...
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The evolution of Ronvix: Private TCP/IP stacks
We recently discovered a new breed of the bootkit Ronvix that introduces a private TCP/IP stack. It seems this is becoming a new trend for this type of malware.The implementation of the private stack...
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Happy 20th Birthday Windows NT!
Hey y’all, Mark here with a quick history post. Tomorrow July 27th 2013 will be the 20th birthday of Windows NT which is quite the birthday. It can almost drink legally! Just the thought of 20 years...
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Evaluating Windows Server and System Center on a Laptop (or two, or three) -...
Because we don’t all have six servers lying around!The System Center 2012 R2 Evaluation Guide says I need six physical servers, each with 24 cores and 128GB memory, just to follow along!I’m Dave...
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Advanced Tools and Scripting with PowerShell 3.0
Join our next Microsoft Virtual Academy (MVA) Jump Start free online training event on August 1, featuring Microsoft’s Jeffrey Snover, Distinguished Engineer and Lead Architect for the Windows Server...
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Upgrade Active Directory to Windows Server 2012 - Phase 2: Build Your Plan
**Be sure to read the entire series on the AD Upgrade**Upgrading or Migrating Active Directory to Windows Server 2012 – Build Your Roadmap NowUpgrade Active Directory to Windows Server 2012 - Phase 1:...
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Announcing the 2013 MSRC Progress Report featuring MAPP expansions
Over the years, our customers have come to expect a certain regularity and transparency in both our security updates and the guidance that goes with them. One regular piece of communication about our...
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PowerShell Sessions, Slides and Demos from TechEd 2013
We presented following sessions at this year’s edition of TechEd(s). At TechEd, we announced the newest feature in Windows PowerShell 4.0 – Desired State Configuration, so do check out the attached...
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Update Rollup KB2855336 released for Windows Server 2012
Products which belong to Essentials and Small Business Server family might crash if virtualized on Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V host in the event that the host crashes or loses power. The active...
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Cloud OS Video Series 1–Service Template Building Blocks
The Cloud OS Video series is a collection of videos that help you understand the technology, deployment, and management of the Cloud OS leveraging Windows Server 2012 and System Center 2012 SP1.Each...
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Microsoft Presents “Enabling Consumerization without Compromising Compliance”...
BriForum kicks off today in Chicago. BriForum 2013 is the only technical virtualization conference that is 100% dedicated to desktop virtualization, VDI, application virtualization, Remote Desktop...
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KB: Operations Manager 2007 R2 Data Warehouse Update Script
In System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 environments you may see the following:- The Data warehouse size grows, and upon investigation you discover that partitions are not being dropped/optimized...
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Top Picks from TechEd 2013: Hacker Tools You Should Know and Worry About
If you look at the most popular sessions from TechEd Europe and TechEd North America, security is still top of mind for IT Pros. It should not come as shock that one of the most highly rated and...
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Important Update on DPM 2012 SP1 Update Rollup 3–Issues and Workarounds
The recently released Update Rollup 3 for System Center 2012 Data Protection Manager Service Pack 1 (DPM 2012 SP1) has 2 issues that impact protected server agent upgrade and the ability to modify...
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Windows Server 2012 R2 Storage: Step-by-step with Storage Spaces, SMB...
This post is a part of the nine-part “What’s New in Windows Server & System Center 2012 R2” series that is featured on Brad Anderson’s In the Cloud blog. Today’s blog post covers Windows Server...
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