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Popular new features in Windows 8.1
We are very excited, as are many of you, about our latest OS. Windows 8.1 is readily available across the globe. We thought of listing some of the top/new features it brings to the table. Here is a...
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A Look Into the Future and the January 2014 Bulletin Release
In January, there are those who like to make predictions about the upcoming year. I am not one of those people. Instead, I like to quote Niels Bohr who said, “Prediction is very difficult, especially...
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SCVMM, Hyper-V Replica, UI and PowerShell
Before I get started on this – I do want to be upfront about the context for this post. In my house I am currently running Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 with Hyper-V Replica enabled. I am then managing my...
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MSRT January 2014 – Bladabindi
This month the Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT) includes a new malware family - MSIL/Bladabindi. An interesting part of this family is that the author made three versions of this RAT, written in...
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Protection metrics – December results
Happy New Year! December 2013 was an exciting month for monitoring our protection results and watching malware trends. The good news - our customer infection rate for December (0.06 percent) was lower...
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Windows Azure Pack VMRole Gallery Items for Database Workloads : SQL Server...
A couple weeks ago, my colleague Michael Greene posted a terrific set of VMRole Gallery Items for Collaboration Workloads, including Lync Server 2013, Exchange Server 2013 and SharePoint Server Server...
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Understanding the UserAccountControl Attribute in Active Directory
Dougga here. Not a password policy blog post, I am finally off of that issue. But I couldn’t help myself and included something about passwords in this post .Users and Computers have and attribute...
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BYO-Poetry Contest Winners Announced!
Results are in! We received dozens of inspired and amusing poems from the BYOD trenches. After much caffeine-fueled consideration, two winning poems came out on top for their creativity, spirit, and...
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Taking a closer look at ConfigMgr client registration failure when the site...
Hi folks, Jagat Singh Kathiar here from the Configuration Manager team with another support tip for you. Implementation of a Microsoft PKI with Configuration Manager has been very popular so I thought...
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Checking Integration Services Versions with SCVMM
I have done a number of posts about checking your integration services versions in the past (here and here for example). But this have all been written using the in-box Hyper-V management tools. Now...
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Microsoft antimalware support for Windows XP
Microsoft has announced the Windows XP end of support date of April 8, 2014. After this date, Windows XP will no longer be a supported operating system. To help organizations complete their migrations,...
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Real Talk about TechEd North America 2014
Most of North America may be recovering from a polar vortex, but the sunshine and warm weather of TechEd 2014 is already on the horizon.This year’s TechEd is going to be a veritable Super Bowl of...
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Support Tip: Reports fail to show up after installing a ConfigMgr 2012...
Hello Everyone, Prabhat Joshi here with another System Center 2012 Configuration Manager support tip for you, this time for reporting services. At times we have seen issues wherein after installing a...
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Announcing the GA of Windows Azure Hyper-V Recovery Manager
Over the last several weeks this blog has featured a series of posts about the benefits of the Hybrid Cloud– and today marks a major Hybrid Cloud milestone. I am excited to announce the General...
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Windows 8.1 preview build reboots every 2 hours
Today’s blog is regarding the expiration of the Windows 8.1 preview build which occurred yesterday January 15th, 2014. If you installed the Windows 8.1 preview build and have not upgraded to 8.1 RTM...
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Windows Azure Hyper-V Recovery Manager is Now Generally Available
Protecting application availability – especially against threats like regional disasters – can be a high-cost endeavor involving complex planning and the need to remotely monitor service availability....
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System Center 2012 Operations Manager - Supported Configurations/Interop etc..
This blog has been updated to reflect the current state of OpsMgr support and Interop.Supported Configurations:The supported configurations for Operations Manager are detailed as per the below and...
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SMA Capabilities in Depth: Controlling Runbook Streams for Testing and...
When you use Service Management Automation (SMA) to create and run runbooks, a couple of key tasks are the testing of runbooks during authoring and the troubleshooting of production runbook jobs. In...
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GA of Hyper-V Recovery Manager (HRM)
We are excited to announce the General Availability of Hyper-V Recovery Manager or HRM for short. HRM is an Azure hosted service which orchestrates the protection and recovery of virtual machines in...
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Antimalware Support for Windows XP and the January 2014 Security Bulletin...
Today we’re publishing the January 2014 Security Bulletin Webcast Questions & Answers page . We answered 16 questions in total, with the majority of questions focusing on the Dynamics AX bulletin (...
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