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...
View ArticleSupport 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...
View ArticleAnnouncing 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...
View ArticleWindows 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...
View ArticleWindows 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....
View ArticleSystem 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...
View ArticleSMA 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...
View ArticleHow to enable Updatable Help for your PowerShell Module
PowerShell 3.0 lets the user update Help content on a per module basis. In this article, I will explain how you can enable this for your own PowerShell module. Prerequisites: Have a new (script/binary)...
View ArticleTop Support Solutions for System Center Endpoint Protection 2012
This is a collection of the top Microsoft Support solutions to the most common issues experienced using System Center Endpoint Protection 2012 (updated quarterly).1. Solutions related to malware is not...
View ArticleTop Support Solutions for System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager
This is a collection of the top Microsoft Support solutions to the most common issues experienced using System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager (updated quarterly).1. Solutions related to the VMM...
View ArticleTop Support Solutions for Microsoft Windows Server 2012
This is a collection of the top Microsoft Support solutions to the most common issues experienced using Microsoft Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2 (updated quarterly). Note that some...
View ArticleKB: Event 26001 is logged regularly on Windows Server 2012 R2 host computers
We just published a new KB article covering the following issue:Every 30 minutes, an entry that resembles the following is logged in the Application log on a computer that is running Windows Server...
View ArticleDeployment–Why does PDT think my Variable.xml is invalid?
One question that I hear often on PDT is this – why does PDT think my Variable.xml is invalid?When you run any of the PDT scripts – Downloader.ps1, VMCreator.ps1, or Installer.ps1 – the script reads...
View ArticleKB: System Center 2012 R2 Data Protection Manager upgrade fails and generates...
Here’s some information on a new KB article we just published. The issue here is that when you try to upgrade Microsoft System Center 2012 Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2012 Service Pack 1 (SP1) to...
View ArticleAhead of the Game Tech Series now available in the Partner Learning Center
[This post comes to us courtesy of Corina Radovanovich from Partner/Channel Marketing]Hi, we are excited to announce the availability of a new Learning Path on the Microsoft Partner Network to help you...
View ArticleThe Cloud Olympics
Today marks the beginning of the 2014 Sochi Olympics, and the entire world will get to watch all 98 events (without the risks of a Russian hotel room!) live and on-demand from any internet connected...
View ArticleAdvance Notification Service for February 2014 Security Bulletin Release
Today we are providing advance notification for the release of five bulletins, two rated Critical and three rated Important, for February 2014. The Critical updates address vulnerabilities in Microsoft...
View ArticleError 0x80090303 when enabling replication
When trying to enable replication on one of my VMs in my lab setup, I encountered the following error – Hyper-V failed to authenticate the Replica server using Kerberos authentication. Error: The...
View ArticleAutomation–System Center Orchestrator Service Configuration Dependencies for...
Hey Readers! I have somewhat of an academic post for you all today to help document a topic that has come up from time to time around System Center 2012 Orchestrator and service dependencies....
View ArticleMigrate from Windows XP to the future with the Microsoft Assessment and...
Hello, Jeff Stokes here, the dude as it were...so, if you hadn't noticed, XP end of life is quite soon. If you are still trying to find the random XP machine in your environment, Ashley McGlone, Mr....
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