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System Center Advisor now supports Windows Azure Active Directory (formerly...
Organizational accounts (formerly OrgID) in Windows Azure Active Directory originated for the Office365 Suite of Services which includes Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Lync Online. WAAD is an...
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Automation–Service Management Automation Tip/Trick–Leveraging InlineScript...
Microsoft’s Jim Britt has another great article where he goes over the underlying moving parts of why we do what we do in SMA. This is post that came about due to questions generated by a previous...
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Enable the forwarding function on Windows Server Gateway: a use case study
Windows Server Gateway in Windows Server 2012 R2 is a key element of Hybrid Networking , which enables enterprises to connect to service providers via site-to-site VPN. This blog describes a different...
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SQL Server Self-Service Kit : Provisioning SQL Server as a Service with the...
“Can I use System Center to provision SQL Server components?”… “Can I provide database as a service to my business users or application owners?”…The ability to automate SQL Server provisioning is...
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SQL Server Self-Service Kit : Gimme the details (part 1)
This is the first of two posts getting into more details about the “SQL Server Self-Service Kit”. It goes through 3 sample uses of the SQL Server Self-Service Kit, to highlight how the solution works...
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SQL Server Self-Service Kit : Gimme the details (part 2)
This is the second of two posts getting into more details about the “SQL Server Self-Service Kit”.Table of content of the full seriesIntroduction postOverview and scenarios Download link What you get,...
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Windows Intune Maintenance on September 9th
The Windows Intune service is performing scheduled maintenance beginning on Monday, September 9th 2013, at 3:00 PM UTC. The duration of this maintenance is scheduled for eight hours.During this...
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Application Management - Clustering SQL Guest Instances in R2
With the preview release of System Center 2012 R2, there are a few additions to VMM that make clustering with Windows Failover Clustering in guest VMs significantly easier. In this post, I’d like to...
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Why you want to be using VHDX in Hyper-V whenever possible and why it’s...
Hello, Jeff “The Dude” Stokes here for another post. The other day I was implementing in my lab a pure Microsoft VDI solution (blog coming soon) leveraging the latest and greatest Hyper-V on Server...
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Windows Server 2012 RTM Now Available for MSDN and TechNet Subscribers
You asked, we delivered. As announced on Steve Guggenheimer's blog, and Microsoft VP Brad Anderson’s blog post, “Ready Now for TNS & MSDN: Download Windows Server 2012 R2”, the Released to...
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Windows Server 2012 R2 RTM Now Available for Download by MSDN and TechNet...
As you know, we’ve been filling in the Microsoft Cloud vision with products chock-full of innovation. As announced on Steve Guggenheimer's blog, and Microsoft VP Brad Anderson’s blog post, “Ready Now...
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Ready Now for TNS & MSDN: Download Windows Server 2012 R2
Earlier today, Microsoft announced that we are making the current RTM bits for Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2 available to TechNet and MSDN subscribers effective immediately.Visual Studio 2013...
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Attention TechNet and MSDN Subscribers: Windows Server 2012 R2 available for...
Hi, all, If you're a TechNet or MSDN subscriber, I have good news for you: in response to your requests, Windows Server 2012 R2 (and Windows 8.1) will be available for download from TechNet and MSDN...
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RTM bits now available on MSDN/TechNet for Win8.1 & Server 2012 R2
Hello folks,We have just announced the availability of Windows 8.1 RTM and Windows Server 2012 R2 on MSDN and TechNet. Please see the following “Official” blog for more information on downloading...
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VMQ Deep Dive, 1 of 3
Virtual Machine Queues (VMQ) is an incredibly powerful performance technology introduced in Windows Server 2012. A concern we’ve noticed as Windows Server 2012 is increasingly deployed in datacenter...
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Using your Office 365 Azure AD tenant with application access enhancements...
Hi folks, I'm Eran Dvir, a lead program manager in Active Directory; in a previous post I described how to quickly access our new application access enhancements in Windows Azure Active Directory. In...
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Intune Service Upgrades Begin September 23rd
Just a few short weeks ago, Microsoft announced that the latest update to the Windows Intune service will be available on October 18th. Existing customers will be upgraded ahead of that date! This post...
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Top Picks from TechEd 2013 - Windows Server Active Directory (AD) Double Shot
Active Directory (AD) still continues to be a topic of interest for new and seasoned IT Professionals. Directory services provide the core for organization, security and management of many type of...
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Lovely tokens and the September 2013 security updates
Helen Hunt Jackson famously wrote, “By all lovely tokens September is here, with summer’s best of weather and autumn’s best of heer.” I share Helen’s clear adoration for this time of year. As a sports...
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MSRT September 2013 - Win32/Simda
This month’s Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT) release includes one new malware family – the high-volume banking trojan Win32/Simda. Simda is a multi-component malware family that...
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