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Virtual Machines not shutting down on host shutdown in Windows Server 2012 R2
Just wanted to let everyone know of a fix for Hyper-V that was included in the November 2013 update rollup for Windows Server 2012 R2 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2887595).The fix in question...
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Success with Hybrid Cloud: Best Practices for Operating Your Hybrid Cloud
Over the last three “Best Practices” posts, I’ve looked at how to Plan, Build, and Deploy a Hybrid Cloud – and, now that your Hybrid Cloud is up and running, it’s time to look at how to keep it running...
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Announcement: Creating Custom Reports by Using SQL Server Views in System...
We are pleased to announce, in response to many customer requests, that the SQL Server Views documentation for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager is now available. This documentation is split...
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Announcement: Creating Custom Reports by Using SQL Server Views in System...
We are pleased to announce, in response to many customer requests, that the SQL Server Views documentation for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager is now available. This documentation is split...
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Announcement: Creating Custom Reports by Using SQL Server Views in System...
We are pleased to announce, in response to many customer requests, that the SQL Server Views documentation for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager is now available. This documentation is split...
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System Center Universe: US & Simulcast
The third annual System Center Universe is schedule for January 30th, 2014. SCU is designed to be a community driven event bring together the best-of-the-best presenters in System Center with the user...
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Advance Notification Service for the January 2014 Security Bulletin Release
Today we provide advance notification for the release of four bulletins for January 2014. All bulletins this month are rated Important in severity and address vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows,...
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Disabling VM heartbeat monitoring for a clustered VM
A Microsoft support engineer recently contacted me with an interesting problem. They were working with a customer who had an application that was having problems. They had been trying to diagnose the...
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KB: Orchestrator Designer generates a prompt for a license key after you...
When you migrate the Orchestrator database from one instance of Microsoft SQL Server to another and then try to open Orchestrator Designer in Microsoft System Center 2012 Orchestrator or in System...
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Separating "What" from "Where" in PowerShell DSC
As you already know we introduced PowerShell Desired State Configuration to the work at our TechEd NA 2013 Session. The session also introduced the notion of structural configuration (what) and...
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Tackling the Sefnit botnet Tor hazard
Sefnit, a prevailing malware known for using infected computers for click fraud and bitcoin mining, has left millions of machines potentially vulnerable to future attacks. We recently blogged about...
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Reducing Storage Costs with Microsoft VDI
As enterprises are adapting to more personally owned devices, IT is looking for a way to manage these devices and provide the users with access to corporate applications and data while ensuring...
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Virtual Machine Stop Action in a Cluster
One of the interesting philosophical debates on the Hyper-V team is “What is the right thing to do when a user stops a clustered virtual machine?”. Some of us believe that if the user asked to stop...
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SMA Capabilities in Depth: Runbook Input, Output, and Nested Runbooks
With Service Management Automation (SMA), the new capability in Windows Azure Pack and Orchestrator 2012 R2 , creating and running runbooks are core tasks for IT professionals who are automating...
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Quick Reference: Troubleshooting, Diagnosing, and Tuning MaxConcurrentApi Issues
Hi this is Brandon Wilson again. In my newest “Quick Reference” (get the joke?), we will be narrowing the scope for troubleshooting and tuning MaxConcurrentApi issues.There is a lot of information out...
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Configuring native VPN client through PC Settings
To make VPN profile management easier for end user, there is a new intuitive modern user interface to manage VPN profiles in Windows 8.1. This new interface resides in PC Settings and provides a...
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Troubleshooting “An unexpected error occurred” message when using Remote Web...
[This post comes to us courtesy of Manish Kapoor from Commercial Technical Support]We occasionally come across scenarios where memory consumption on an SBS Server increases and this may cause the...
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MP Blog – The right tool for the right job
First of all let me start by saying Happy New Year. The System Center Operations Manager team thanks you for your continued business and looks forward to working with you in 2014.It’s been a busy time...
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Targeting Group Policy at Hyper-V VMs
I make heavy use of group policy in my home environment. It makes it very easy to push out defaults to all of my various computers and virtual machines. However, there are times when I have a setting...
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2014 and the year of the #LyncUp
Last year we started a Service Manager #LyncUp,, a monthly “Lync” call intended for community members communicate and network in an open forum. The design was to eliminate predetermined speakers and...
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