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Office 365 & Single Sign-On: How to Handle Different UserPrincipalName (UPN)...
Hey folks, Keith Brewer here to discuss an issue I encountered while working with a Microsoft Premier Customer. As a PFE we are often asked to assist our Premier customers with a specific technology....
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Service Catalog Migrations
Kath McBride one of our Senior Program Managers, in charge of the SCDemo environment, just posted a great article on Service Catalog Migrations. Kath gives the details on the challenge they had in our...
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Understanding Licensing for Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials and the Windows...
[Today's post comes to us courtesy David Fabritius from Windows Server Marketing]In this article, I’ll explain a licensing change that has been made to Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials as well as some...
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Seize the Opportunity for a Deeper Engagement with the Product Engineering...
On the 7th of July we announced the public preview release for the new application access enhancements for Windows Azure Active Directory that enables you to provide Single Sign On for all kinds of...
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Automation–Service Management Automation Runbook Spotlight–Virtual Machine...
Microsoft’s Charles Joy posted his follow-up post to Automation–Service Management Automation Runbook Spotlight–Virtual Machine Startup by Priority (Part 1) . In that first post he provided SMA Runbook...
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Automation–Service Management Automation–Utility Runbook Spotlight–VMM Custom...
Microsoft’s own Charles Joy has the final part of his Service Management Automation series posted: “There comes a time when a project’s complexity increases to the point of requiring pre-requisites....
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IaaS Usage and Service Reporting using System Center 2012 R2 and Windows...
Anders Ravnholt has a new article that describes how to deploy usage metering & reporting in System Center 2012 R2 & Windows Azure Pack for IaaS:Following up Brad Anderson & Srikanth’s blog...
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IaaS Usage and Service Reporting using OpsMgr 2012 and VMM 2012 R2 and...
Anders Ravnholt has a new article that describes how to deploy usage metering & reporting in System Center 2012 R2 & Windows Azure Pack for IaaS:Following up Brad Anderson & Srikanth’s blog...
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What’s new in SMB PowerShell in Windows Server 2012 R2
Windows Server 2012 R2 introduced a new version of SMB. Technically it’s SMB 3.02, but we continue to call it just SMB3. The main changes are described at...
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Evaluating Windows Server and System Center on a Laptop (or two, or three) –...
How to build a Failover Cluster on a couple of laptopsThis is a continuation of our playing with (learning) Failover Clustering for our evaluation of Windows Server and System Center.Note: This is NOT...
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Automation–Service Management Automation–Getting Started with SMA Runbooks
Microsoft’s own Jim Britt posted a great article that covers the specifics around getting setup to use Service Management Automation (SMA) as well as how to import our future examples and fire them off...
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The Hybrid Cloud Storage Transformation
A frustrating reality for IT leaders is that their teams continue to struggle with the complications of data growth even though they spend more money on storage every year. It’s not surprising that IT...
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Top Picks from TechEd 2013: A Virtualization Medley
In this week’s Top Picks from TechEd 2013, we have selected some sessions on virtualization. They are all highly reviewed and we are sure the topics will be interesting to you. Virtualization has...
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Support Tip: ConfigMgr 2012 Management Point fails with a 500 error after...
~ Muhammad Adil | Senior Consult-Escalation EngineerHi Everyone, hope you all doing good! I’m writing this post regarding a recent case that was escalated to me. During my research and troubleshooting,...
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Support Tip: Exchange 2010 mailbox provisioning may be disabled by the...
~ Richard Pesenko | Senior Support Escalation EngineerNew mailbox provisioning in Exchange 2010 may be disabled if the Exchange mailbox server is an agent of System Center Operations Manager and the...
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Heads up on a new TechNet Blog you may find useful
Hello Folks, this is a quick post to inform you of a new TechNet blog that is now available. For the past year or so, our own Robert Mitchell has been sending us “Tips of the Day” to our inbox, which...
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KB: An anti-malware platform update for Endpoint Protection clients is...
This KB article describes an anti-malware platform update package for both Microsoft System Center 2012 Endpoint Protection Service Pack 1 (SP1) clients and Microsoft Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010...
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Advance Notification Service for September 2013 Security Bulletin Release
In celebration of kids heading back to school, today we’re providing advance notification for the release of 14 bulletins, four Critical and 10 Important, for September 2013. The Critical updates...
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Happy Birthday Windows Server 2012 – What Superhero Is it?
Birthdays are always special and we wanted to take this moment to celebrate the birthday of a special product. This week we are celebrating the birthday of Windows Server 2012. The product has done...
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