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Advance Notification Service for November 2012 Security Bulletin Release
Today, we’re providing advance notification for six bulletins to help protect customers against 19 CVEs. The four Critical-rated updates will address 13 vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows, Internet...
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Windows Server 2012 File Server Tip: Switch to the High Performance power...
When you install a fresh copy of Windows Server 2012 and configure it with the File Server role, the default Power Settings favor power efficiency over performance.For this reason, even if you a few...
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Windows Server 2012 File Server Tip: Make sure your network interfaces are...
The new SMB Multichannel feature improves performance for network interfaces by using multiple TCP connections for a single network interface automatically. SMB will only do this if your network...
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MCM: Active Directory Indexing For the Masses
Hi dudes and dudettes! Adrian Corona here. I'm a transactional PFE at Microsoft and I'm really excited because this is my first blog post ever, it's a doosey so I hope you're not limited on your data...
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Windows Server 2012 File Server Tip: Use multiple subnets when deploying SMB...
SMB Multichannel will let you use multiple network interfaces at once for added throughput and network fault tolerance. When using it with non-clustered file servers, you have the most flexible...
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DFS Replication Improvements in Windows Server 2012
Hi folks, Ned Pyle here. As promised when I left AskDS and MS Support for greener pastures, I’m still in the blogging game – I told you I’d be back! Let’s start things off talking about improvements in...
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KB: Orchestrator does not reconnect when the SQL server is restarted
Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published. This one talks about an issue with System Center 2012 Orchestrator that happens when the SQL Server instance it’s using is restarted. ===== Symptoms...
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ADAMSync 101
Hi Everyone, Kim Nichols here again, and this time I have an introduction to ADAMSync. I take a lot of cases on ADAM and AD LDS and have seen a number of problems arise from less than optimally...
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The IPD guide for System Center 2012 - Operations Manager is now available...
The Infrastructure Planning and Design team is pleased to announce that the IPD guide for System Center 2012 - Operations Manager is now available for download. This guide outlines the infrastructure...
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November 2012 Bulletin Release
Security Updates Today we released six security bulletins to help protect our customers - four Critical, one Important, and one Moderate – addressing 19 vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows Shell,...
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Verifying update hashes
Some of you may have noticed us improving our defense-in-depth practices for bulletins by supplying sha1 and sha2 hashes in the Knowledge Base (KB) articles . This has been most visible in the KB with...
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Easier User Data Management with User Profile Disks in Windows Server 2012
Hi, this is Rob Leitman. I’m a developer working on the Remote Desktop Virtualization team. This post describes the new user data management available in Windows Server 2012.In an earlier post, we...
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Windows Server 2012 File Server Tip: Disable 8.3 Naming (and strip those...
This has been a performance tip for File Servers for some time now: disable short names. There are big performance savings in disabling 8.3 naming and also for removing existing short names on a...
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Windows Server 2012 File Server Tip: Continuous Availability does not work...
When deploying the Continuous Availability feature of the new File Server clusters in Windows Server 2012, be careful not to use volumes that have either 8.3 naming or NTFS compression enabled.If you...
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Next Stops for the Windows Server 2012 Community Roadshow: Australia,...
Hi, we're back with another list of Windows Server 2012 Community Roadshow events... We are really flying now with events. Lot's of great participation and education on Windows Server 2012 from our...
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Windows Server 2012 File Server Tip: Enable CSV Caching on Scale-Out File...
Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV) in Windows Server 2012 has a great new feature to allow using system memory as a write-through cache. Since Scale-Out File Server Clusters use CSV, enabling this CSV cache...
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Windows Server 2012 File Server Tip: Avoid loopback configurations for...
When deploying Hyper-V over SMB (storing your live configuration and live VHD/VHDX files on an SMB 3.0 file share), make sure you don’t use a loopback configuration. A loopback configuration means that...
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PFE Live Chat with Us!
Hey y’all, Mark here again. We thought we’d try something new with our readers. We write this blog for you guys, the community. We love hearing from you! We read all the comments, seriously we do. Not...
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SendEmail Solution for Service Requests
A few weeks ago I provided the source code to the SendEmail solution to one of our MVPs, Patrik Sundqvist, so that he could extend the solution to also work for Service Requests. You can read about...
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VMware (finally) admits that its costs are higher than Microsoft’s
Recently we came across the updated VMware cost per application calculator and discovered what our customers and partners have been telling us all along – VMware vSphere 5.1 costs more than Windows...
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