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Support Tip: Mounted volumes within mounted volumes cannot be backed up in DPM
~ Jitendra Mishra | Support EngineerJust a quick note on an issue we get here in DPM support every once in a while. There have been some cases where customers cannot change the mount point directory...
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Support Tip: The Remove-SCOMDisabledClassInstance cmdlet times out in OpsMgr...
~ R.B.Ganesh | Senior Support Escalation EngineerIn System Center 2012 Operations Manager, running the Remove-SCOMDisabledClassInstance cmdlet may time out with the following message:Started. This...
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Top Picks from TechEd 2013: VP Brad Anderson and Distinguished Engineer...
In this week’s Top Picks from TechEd 2013, we are going to circle back to the opening keynote Microsoft VP Brad Anderson delivered, and a foundation session delivered by Microsoft Distinguished...
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Support Tip: ConfigMgr 2012 App catalog error "network communication or...
~ Gagan Mehra | Support Escalation EngineerHere’s an interesting issue I saw the other day that I thought was worth mentioning here on the blog just in case anyone else runs across it. I was talking to...
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Windows Intune Update Available October 18th
In news today, Microsoft announced that on October 18th, eligible customers will able to download Windows Server 2012 R2, System Center 2012 R2, and the use the latest update to Windows Intune. On the...
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System Center 2012 R2 Available October 18th
In important news today, we are extremely excited that on October 18th, eligible customers will able to download Windows Server 2012 R2, System Center 2012 R2, and the use the latest update to Windows...
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Windows Server 2012 R2, System Center 2012 R2, and Windows Intune Update...
Today, Microsoft is excited to announce that on October 18th, eligible customers will able to download Windows Server 2012 R2, System Center 2012 R2, and the use the latest update to Windows Intune....
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Windows Server 2012 R2 Available October 18th
Today we are pleased to make several important announcements. We are extremely excited that on October 18th, eligible customers will able to download Windows Server 2012 R2, System Center 2012 R2, and...
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Mark Your Calendars for Oct. 18: The R2 Wave is Coming!
As some of you may have already noticed, earlier this morning Microsoft announced that Windows 8.1 will be available to consumers and businesses worldwide on October 18, 2013. But before you start...
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Application Management – SQL Server using STEK
I constantly hear around the water cooler and in different places, ‘wouldn’t it be nice to have a SQL server service as a VMM service template?’ and my reply is almost always the same thing every time,...
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Automation–Service Management Automation Runbook Spotlight–Exchange...
Hello Readers! I’m excited to provide you all with some cool new stuff that was introduced recently with System Center 2012 R2. If you haven’t reviewed our Introduction post on SMA, go check it out...
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List of all cumulative update releases for System Center 2012 Service Manager...
~ Bruno Gabrielli | Premier Field EngineerThis article lists all cumulative updates that were released for Microsoft System Center 2012 Service Manager (SCSM 2012) SP1. The updates are listed according...
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Important Announcement: AD FS 2.0 and MS13-066
Hi everyone, Adam and JR here with an important announcement.We’re tracking an important issue in support where some customers who have installed security update MS13-066 on their AD FS 2.0 servers are...
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Important Announcement: AD FS 2.0 and MS13-066
Hey y’all, Mark here with a quick announcement. There have been reports of customers running into some ADFS issues after applying this past Tuesday patches, specifically MS13-066. Our partners in...
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What’s New in 2012 R2: Cloud-integrated Disaster Recovery (DR)
Disaster can strike anywhere at any time. Ask any business owner in New Orleans about the importance of Disaster Recovery (DR). You can bet Katrina left an indelible impression on the importance of...
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KB: Error 2927 when you add a Hyper-V server or a Hyper-V cluster node in...
Consider the following scenario. You add a Hyper-V server or a Hyper-V cluster node on a server that is running one of the following versions of Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM): -...
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WSUS no longer issues self-signed certificates
We've had some questions recently about why WSUS in Windows Server 2012 R2 no longer supports generating self-signed certificates for signing update packages. We removed this feature because it was...
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Check out the Operations Manager 2012 Learning Roadmap
There’s a new app available that you’ll want to check out if you’re needing a quick and easy way to get started learning the basics of System Center 2012 Operations Manager. It’s called the Operations...
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The Edge Show: Talking About the “Transform the Datacenter” Pillar
Now that we’ve wrapped up the “Transform the Datacenter” pillar in the ongoing What’s New in 2012 R2 blog series, I sat down (well, we stand the whole time) for another conversation with Rick Claus,...
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Reversal of fortune: Sirefef’s registry illusion
I have mentioned in a previous blog that the use of the right-to-left-override (U+202E) unicode character is nothing new. This blog also went on to show the various file name tricks used by...
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