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User Groups and Distribution Groups in Windows Server Essentials
[Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Yang Cao and Yuheng Cai from Sustained Engineering]To easily manage more than one user simultaneously, Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials (or the Windows Server...
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What Happens When You Release Your Domain Name from Windows Server 2012 R2...
[This post comes to us courtesy of Swapnil Rane and Charanjeet Singh from Commercial Technical Support]If you wish to change the public domain name linked to the Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials...
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Holiday Gift – Desired State Configuration (DSC) Resource Kit Wave-1
Continuing with the tradition of holiday gifts to the PowerShell community, the PowerShell team has just released DSC Resource Kit Wave-1 - a set of PowerShell modules that contain DSC resources and...
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PowerTip: Display a Blinking Message by Using PowerShell
Summary: Use this one-line Windows PowerShell command to display a blinking message. Is there a one-line command that I could use to blink a message in the Windows PowerShell console to get the users...
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Phantom Elements in a Hash Table
Summary: Microsoft PFE and guest blogger, Chris Wu, talks about working with hash tables.Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Welcome back guest blogger, Chris Wu…Admittedly, hash tables didn’t...
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PowerTip: Use PowerShell to Create Hash Table
Summary: Use a Windows PowerShell cmdlet to create a hash table. How can I use Windows PowerShell to create a hash table if do not remember the special syntax? Use the ConvertFrom-StringData cmdlet,...
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The Year in Migration 2013
It’s that time of year when the web fills up with top 10 lists (btw, The Migrator doesn’t get ‘twerking’) and to reflect on the year that’s coming to an end. In that spirit, I thought it would be good...
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Faster Live Migration with RDMA in Windows Server 2012 R2
Today I want to go deep on faster live migration using RDMA. In the past I have talked about faster live migration with compression– which is the default option for live migration in Windows Server...
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Deployment–Version 6.3 of Convert-WindowsImage.ps1 released
When I introduced VMCreator.ps1, I recommended the use of Convert-WindowsImage.ps1 for creation of the parent disks. A new version – version 6.3 – of Convert-WindowsImage.ps1 has now been released....
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I/O Performance impact of running Start-DedupJob with –Priority High
My name is Steven Andress and I am a Support Escalation Engineer with Microsoft’s Platforms Support Team. This is a short blog post to alert you to a condition you might encounter when running a...
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Measuring Replication Health in a cluster
As part of running a mini-scale run in my lab, I had to frequently monitor the replication health and also note down the replication statistics. The statistics is available by by right clicking on the...
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Faster Live Migration–Which Option Should You Choose?
Okay, now that I have talked about faster live migration with compression and faster live migration with RDMA– one of the first questions that comes to mind is: which option is right for you?When we...
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How to create a service integration add-in for Windows Server Essentials...
[Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Zachary Yang and Rui Ling from Sustained Engineering]Several Microsoft online services, such as Office 365, Windows Azure Backup, and Dynamics CRM Online, use...
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SCVMM 2012 R2 and Alternate Credentials
A little while ago I updated my home installation to run Windows Server 2012 R2. This provided the perfect opportunity to deploy System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) in my home. Overall this...
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Linux Integration Services 3.5 Announcement
We are pleased to announce the release of Linux Integration Services version (LIS) 3.5. As part of this release not only have we included several awesome features much desired by our customers but we...
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Deployment–PDT 2.5.2509, resolves Configuration Manager media validation
Just posted a tiny update to the published version of PDT to resolve the media validation issue with System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager Prerequisites. There are no other changes in this...
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SCVMM 2012 R2 – Error 2912 NO_PARAM when using Hyper-V Replica
Another early issue that I hit when using System Center Virtual Machine Manager in my home deployment was that a number of operations would generate this error message:It took a fair bit of...
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Using Event Logs to Diagnose Errors in Desired State Configuration
Windows PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC), just like any other Windows software, records errors and events in logs that can...
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Week of December 30: KB alerts, new book on IPv6, new application...
Happy New Year! I’m back at work after a much-needed vacation. Check out the blogs from the last couple of weeks, discussing new KBs, the complete documentation for Windows Server 2012 R2 in...
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Microsoft PKI OCSP Responder Now JITC Certified and Lab Setup Guide
Hello all, my name is Jesse Esquivel and I’m a platforms PFE with one of my specialty’s being security/PKI. I’ve been working with PKI in the Department of Defense (DoD) and Federal spaces for the last...
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