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Ask an Expert your Windows Azure Questions
Learn more about Windows Azure directly from the experts at Microsoft: Join Microsoft Technical Evangelist, David Tesar and Microsoft Group Product Manager, David Aiken at 9am PT on August 27 for a...
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Orchestrator Back to Basics – Use Cases Spotlight
With automation getting an increasing focus in our stack and datacenter/cloud discussions, we thought it would be interesting to take a step back and look at some of the usage cases for automation,...
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Better Together - The New Windows Server 2012 R2 Innovations – Download Now
There are quite a few products that make up the Microsoft Cloud OS vision. Windows Server 2012 R2 is in preview right now and ready for your evaluation. We also have a strong management platform that...
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TechNet Radio: Talking about how to really “Transform the Datacenter”
Last week I got to sit down with the guys from TechNet Radio and talk about the 2nd big pillar in the What’s New in 2012 R2 series: Transform the Datacenter.In this episode – which is a follow up to...
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How to troubleshoot blank reports in OpsMgr 2007 and OpsMgr 2012
Many calls that we get here on the Operations Manager support team involve blank or empty reports so I wanted to be sure everyone knew about the KB article we have that will help walk you through...
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DFS Replication in Windows Server 2012 R2: If You Only Knew the Power of the...
Hi folks, Ned here again. By now, you know that DFS Replication has some major new features in Windows Server 2012 R2. Today we dig into the most comprehensive new feature, DFSR Windows PowerShell....
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What’s New in 2012 R2: Enabling Modern Apps with the Windows Azure Pack
Part 8 of a 9-part series. Don’t let the title fool you – this post is critically important for Developers and IT pros.The reason I call out this warning up front is that often, when I’m speaking at...
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Optimizations in protecting SQL databases with high churn by DPM
This blog discusses solutions for the two issues,which might be encountered while protecting high churn databases using DPM. Incremental backup job triggered by DPM transfers transaction logs from SQL...
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Service Management Automation: Getting Started with SMA Runbooks
This post covers the specifics of getting setup to use Service Management Automation (SMA) as well as how to import future examples and fire them off in order to review the solutions in action! This...
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What’s New in 2012 R2: Developing Modern Apps with the Microsoft Windows...
Modern applications are pushing the boundaries of architecture. IT Professionals need to keep up with the platform innovations for developers, because it creates new opportunity for architecture and...
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How to Troubleshoot the Installation of the System Center Operations Manager...
The System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) agent can be deployed to Windows computers either via "remote push" from a management server or it can be manually installed on a target computer using...
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Bulk Registering Virtual Machines with PowerShell
I recently rebuilt a Hyper-V server – where all of my virtual machines were shutdown first and stored on a secondary disk. Once I had finished installing the operating system and had Hyper-V up and...
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Known Issue: Pull Distribution Point Unable to Download Migrated...
This blog post describes a problem that prevents pull-distribution points, which were introduced with System Center 2012 Configuration Manager SP1, from acquiring packages that were migrated from...
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Known Issue: Pull Distribution Point Unable to Download Migrated...
This blog post describes a problem that prevents pull-distribution points, which were introduced with System Center 2012 Configuration Manager SP1, from acquiring packages that were migrated from...
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Update Rollup 3 for System Center 2012 Data Protection Manager Service Pack 1...
The System Center 2012 SP1 UR3 package for DPM was re-released on 8-20-13 and fixes the two issues mentioned in our original article here:Important Update on DPM 2012 SP1 Update Rollup 3–Issues and...
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DFS Replication Initial Sync in Windows Server 2012 R2: Attack of the Clones
Hi folks, Ned here again. By now, you know that DFS Replication has some major new features in Windows Server 2012 R2. Today I talk about one of the most radical: DFSR database cloning. Prepare for a...
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Setting Relationship Object Properties Using the SDK
There are some relationship types in the system which have properties defined on them just like classes do. In fact, way deep down in the covers of the system, relationship types are really just...
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How to Troubleshoot UNIX/Linux Agent Discovery in System Center 2012...
If you ever have any trouble with UNIX/Linux Agent Discovery in System Center 2012 Operations Manager (OpsMgr 2012) then the article below is a great place to start. And, since it’s on our TechNet Wiki...
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Orchestrator Run .Net Script Activity: Unexpected Data Flattening Behavior...
The Run .Net Script activity in System Center 2012 Orchestrator handles the output of array data very differently than it did in previous versions of Orchestrator/Opalis Integration Server. In fact, if...
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Finding User Groups, Finding Speakers and Project Aware
Hey y’all, Mark here again with some info I think our readers will like to get involved with and one that is near and dear to my heart. That is IT User Groups and community as a whole. I know I’m a sap...
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