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Update: Expanded (and free) Resources for VMware Experts!
Back in October, I announced some new resources from Microsoft to help VMware Experts “Future-Proof” their career. The resources included the new Microsoft Virtualization Certification, free live...
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Important Changes to the Forefront Product Line
Today, Microsoft is announcing important changes to the roadmaps of Forefront Identity Manager (FIM) and Forefront Unified Access Gateway (UAG):We plan to ship another major release of FIM in the first...
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Deployment–Using existing SQL instances with PDT
During a discussion with some Microsoft consultants using PDT today for some more advanced deployment scenarios, I was reminded that there is a very useful feature of PDT that I have never blogged...
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Federated Identities to Windows Azure Pack through AD FS – Part 1 of 3
In few of the previous posts, Anders Ravnholt discussed Installation & Configuration of WAP and Reconfiguration with FQDNs, ports and Trusted Certificates in detail. In this series, I will discuss...
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Federated Identities to Windows Azure Pack through AD FS – Part 2 of 3
In few of the previous posts, Anders Ravnholt discussed Installation & Configuration of WAP and Reconfiguration with FQDNs, ports and Trusted Certificates in detail. In this series, I will discuss...
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Unable to launch Cluster Failover Manager on any node of a 2012/2012R2 Cluster
When Failover Cluster Manager is opened to manage a Cluster, it will contact all the nodes and retrieve Cluster configuration information using WMI calls. If any one of the nodes in the Cluster does...
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Open sourcing our developer libraries
Howdy folks, We’re rapidly closing out the year here in the Active Directory team, but I’ve got one last piece of news to share before we all turn into elves and head out for holiday feasting a little...
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What’s new in Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials: protecting data on the...
Hello, this is Yang. Today let’s talk about data protection. Depending on your needs, Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials provides various backup solutions to make sure that your data is safe and...
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Cannot Extend Simple Virtual Disk in Windows Server 2012 R2
I’m writing this blog to help shed some light on extending simple virtual disks in Windows Server 2012 R2. We have had questions from various customers that have been using simple virtual disk and...
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Federated Identities to Windows Azure Pack through AD FS – Part 3 of 3
In few of the previous posts, Anders Ravnholt discussed Installation & Configuration of WAP and Reconfiguration with FQDNs, ports and Trusted Certificates in detail. In this series, I will discuss...
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Veeam RDP virtual appliance for remote management of Hyper-V
Hyper-V has a number of options available for remote management. System Center Virtual Machine Manager provides a great remote management experience. The in-box Hyper-V manager works remotely, even...
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Free ebook: Introducing Microsoft System Center 2012 R2
If you work with Hyper-V, you very well also use System Center to manage it. If you do not use System Center, you should download this free ebook and give it a review.We’re happy to announce a new...
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Success with Hybrid Cloud: Best Practices for Deploying a Hybrid Cloud
Over the last two “Best Practices” posts, I’ve looked at how to Plan and Build a Hybrid Cloud, and with these technical exercises complete, this post will focus on the best practices for deploying this...
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Windows Azure Pack Blog Post Overview on Building Clouds & TechNet
Windows Azure Pack blog posts on Building Clouds & TechNetYou might be thinking, that was a lot of Windows Azure Packs blog posts going out on Building Clouds over the past two months, what's going...
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Using data deduplication with Hyper-V Replica for storage savings
Protection of data has always been a priority for customers, and disaster recovery allows the protection of data with better restore times and lower data loss at the time of failover. However, as with...
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How to Build Your ADFS Lab on Server 2012, Part2: Web SSO
Mark and Tom here again, continuing our series on ADFS. In this post, we'll show you how to use some sample-code to configure a web application for Web Single Sign-On (Web SSO) with ADFS. What's Web...
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Turkey: Understanding high malware encounter rates in SIRv15
In our most recent version of the Security Intelligence Report (SIRv15), we compared the encounter rates of malware categories for the top 10 countries with computers reporting the most detections in...
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Automatically resuming Windows PowerShell Workflow jobs at logon
PowerShell Workflow helps IT Pros automate the long running tasks, or workflows, that can affect multiple managed computers or devices at the same time. Windows PowerShell Workflow is designed to be...
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Protection metrics – November results
In our October results, we talked about a trio of families related to Win32/Sefnit. Our November results showed progress against Sefnit and the installers and downloaders of Sefnit (Win32/Rotbrow and...
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