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HOTFIX: A task sequence stops responding when multiple task sequences are...
Consider the following scenario: - You create 10 packages from an .msi file on a Microsoft System Center 2012 Configuration Manager site server. - You create 10 task sequences that contain "Install...
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New System Center Courses on Microsoft Virtual Academy (MVA)!
Hopefully everybody has been reading and enjoying the “What’s New in 2012 R2?” series from our VP Brad Anderson. If you haven’t been following along, check it out!...
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Welcome to the UDM Track
Welcome to the User and Device Management (UDM) Track of the Building Clouds Blog. This new track will provide information about UDM as it relates to Microsoft’s People Centric IT strategy.Hi, I’m Jeff...
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How to Determine if Smart Card Authentication Provider Was Used
Hey folks, Keith Brewer here to discuss how to determine how a user has authenticated. Recently I was onsite with a Microsoft Premier Customer and they asked if there was a way for them to determine if...
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Troubleshooting a Stop 0x7B in Windows
The purpose of this blog is to provide information about the common Stop 0x7B bugcheck/Reboot Loop issue, and the best methods available to resolve it. We will discuss the main components involved in...
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Updated .NET developer library with new name
Howdy folks, Happy Monday! We are opening the week with some good new. Friday we released a new refresh of the preview of our developer libraries for .NET! You can find the NuGet package here . The...
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Support Tip: Deploying large templates in AppController fails with "Server...
~ John Behneman| Senior Support Escalation EngineerHello everyone, John Behneman here again. Here’s an issue I saw the other day that you might run into when deploying large templates to Azure using...
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How to Cleanup TPM information from AD for Windows 8 computers
For Windows 7 machines, TPM Owner Password is stored in msTPM-OwnerInformation which is attribute of Computer object in AD. So if you delete the computer object, TPM Owner Password is also deleted.For...
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Enhancements to Dell DVS Enterprise for Windows Server 2012
Our friends over at Dell recently blogged about the Dell PowerEdge VRTX platform delivering a first class Microsoft VDI solution for 250 or 500 users. This was followed up with a more detailed post....
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Enabling web applications synthetic transactions as a service
As you may know, there are different ways to give visibility into “client side” monitoring of web apps within Operations Manager : on-premise synthetic transactions, cloud-based synthetic transactions...
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New Windows Server 2012 R2 Innovations – Download Now
Windows Server 2012 R2 is in preview right now and ready for your evaluation. We have been rolling out detailed information on our Cloud OS vision though Brad Anderson’s What’s New in 2012 R2 blog...
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KB: The Service Manager connector to Configuration Manager does not transfer...
Software that is installed on computers is successfully brought over to Microsoft System Center 2012 Service Manager through the Configuration Manager connector, however when you uninstall the software...
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Now Available: The System Center 2012 Management Pack for Java Application...
The preview version of Java Application Performance Monitoring (aka Java APM) is now available download. This builds upon the previous release (available here:...
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Support Tip: The VMM service crashes or fails to start with Event ID 19999 -...
~ Richard Mascarenhas| Support EngineerWe recently came across an issue in System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager (VMM 2012) where the VMM service would crash and we wanted to pass along the info...
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Top Picks from TechEd 2013: Combo on Windows 8 Security
When we started this series, we planned to do one episode a week and highlight a single session. However, if we did that it would take us well into the fall season and there is some risk the content...
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Deployment–PDT 2.5 is now available on the TechNet Gallery
PowerShell Deployment Toolkit version 2.5 has now been posted to the TechNet Gallery here. Version 2.5 adds a number of enhancements:Deployment of System Center 2012 R2 Preview.Creation of Active...
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Announcement: Configuration Manager Documentation Library Update for July 2013
The Documentation Library for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager and the Configuration Manager 2007 Documentation Library have been updated on the web and the latest content has Updated: July 1,...
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Announcement: Configuration Manager Documentation Library Update for July 2013
The Documentation Library for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager and the Configuration Manager 2007 Documentation Library have been updated on the web and the latest content has Updated: July 1,...
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Support Tip: The data in statusreportingctrl.ct0 may be reset if recovering...
~ Winds Wu | Support EngineerWe recently came across an issue related to restoring the site database in System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Service Pack 1 (ConfigMgr 2012 SP1) and we wanted to...
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Known Issue: Update to MCS.msi fails to upgrade the Multicast Configuration...
When you use the multicast option on distribution points in your environment and apply an update to Configuration Manager that contains a new MCS.msi, the multicast configuration does not properly...
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