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Upgrading Windows 8 clients to Windows 8.1 in Windows Server 2012 Essentials...
[This post comes to us courtesy of Manish Kapoor from Commercial Technical Support]If you have a Windows 8 client connected to a server running Windows Server 2012 Essentials using the Windows Server...
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Group Management for Admins – Public Preview!
Howdy folks, More cool news to share! Just this week we've turned on a preview of group management capabilities for directory administrators. This is another free capability for Windows Azure Active...
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KB: How to enable debug logging in Virtual Machine Manager
This article describes how to enable debug logging in Microsoft System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager (SC 2012 VMM) Service Pack 1 (SP1) and System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager (SC 2012...
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HOTFIX: An update is available for the "Operating System Deployment" feature...
This update resolves the following issues in Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager. Issue 1 After you enable the PXE Service Point role on an instance of a specific distribution point,...
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Attempts to schedule a mailed report in DPM 2012 fail with “Reporting...
~ Mike JacquetHello, Mike Jacquet here, and today I’d like to discuss a problem you may encounter after installing System Center 2012 R2 Data Protection Manager from scratch or after performing an...
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Advance Notification Service for December 2013 Security Bulletin Release
Today we’re providing advance notification for the release of 11 bulletins, five Critical and six Important, for December 2013. The Critical updates address vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer,...
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KB: The System Center Management service stops responding after an instance...
After an instance of Microsoft SQL Server that hosts the OperationsManager database goes offline, the System Center Management service of the Microsoft System Center 2012 Operations Manager Service...
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Adopting Network Virtualization - Part III
Welcome to the third installment of Network Virtualization in Virtual Machine Manager! This series will be an example-based walkthrough consisting of a few parts:Part I: Configuration with VLAN...
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To scale out or not to scale out, that is the question
Hi folks, Ned here again. If Shakespeare had run Windows, Hamlet would be a play about configuring failover clusters for storage. Today I discuss the Scale-Out File Server configuration and why general...
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Windows Azure Pack - Installing & Configuring Series.
After numerous requests from people we have talked to, we are now doing a blog post on how to install Windows Azure Pack and configuring the basic settings for IaaS and Databases Resource Providers. In...
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Automating Active Directory Certificate Services with Windows PowerShell –...
Hello again, this is Greg Blaum. I am a Program Manager on the Windows Server and System Center CAT team. This is part 1 in a 4 part series on utilizing Windows PowerShell to automate key functionality...
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Orchestrated offline VM Patching using Service Management Automation
My Name is Thomas Roettinger and I am a Program Manager in the Windows Server System Center Customer Architecture & Technology Team working in the fabric management space together with various...
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Hyper-V Management Pack Extensions for WS 2012 and WS 2012 R2
The Hyper-V Management Pack Extensions – a free extension to the Hyper-V SCOM management pack – has been updated for Windows Server 2012 R2. It has also been updated to be able to monitor the state of...
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How to Build Your ADFS Lab on Server 2012 Part 1
Hey y’all Mark and Tom here with a series we think you guys will dig. I feel like half of our blog posts are building a lab of some kind. We love our labs in PFE. That’s how most of us learn. Set up a...
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Now available for download: The System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager...
The Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager Toolkit contains fifteen downloadable tools to help you manage and troubleshoot Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager. The...
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Security Advisory 2916652 released, Certificate Trust List updated
Microsoft is updating the Certificate Trust List (CTL) for all supported releases of Microsoft Windows to remove the trust of a mis-issued third-party digital certificate, which could be used to spoof...
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Hyper-V Replica: Extend Replication
With Hyper-V Extend Replication feature in Windows Server 2012 R2, customers can have multiple copies of data to protect them from different outage scenarios. For example, as a customer I might choose...
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KB: System Center 2012 R2 Data Protection Manager upgrade fails with ID: 4323...
When you try to upgrade Microsoft System Center 2012 Data Protection Manager (DPM 2012) Service Pack 1 (SP1) to System Center 2012 R2 Data Protection Manager (DPM 2012 R2), the upgrade fails and you...
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SMA capabilities in depth – Runbook Tasks (library, configuration, starting,...
If you have been reading about and testing the new features from System Center 2012 R2, you’ve probably heard about Service Management Automation , a new automation engine based on PowerShell Workflows...
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Are You a BYOD Chieftain? Tell Us in Poetry for a Chance to Win an Xbox 360
If you spend your days wrangling devices and your night times ruminating, here’s your chance to do both! Write a poem that shows us how you manage devices, data, and apps in your workplace, putting a...
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