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My Daily Hyper-V Status Email–Part 4 of 5
Now that I have talked about displaying event log information and virtual machine health information; the next part of my status email is storage health information.In my experience – the most common...
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Contoso Labs-Network Purchasing (Vendor)
Contoso Labs Series - Table of ContentsNow that our storage is straightened out, it's time to set our sights on network gear. As was mentioned earlier, this entire project is operating as an...
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Automation–The New World of Tenant Provisioning with Windows Azure Pack (Part...
Hello Readers!Yes, it’s only been a couple minutes since Charles published parts 1 to 4 for this series, and maybe you thought we would rest a bit and take a breath before publishing new content… Well,...
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Revisiting SBS 2011 Standard Migrations
We have been experiencing some good amount of volume around SBS 2011 Standard migrations recently. If you are stuck on one of such migration issues please start by following these outstanding...
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Configuring WSUS 6.x for Network Load Balancing (NLB)
Some content in this section was written by Marta Barillas, a SDET on the WSUS engineering team. This blog post applies to Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2. For instructions using WSUS...
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Considerations for multiple WSUS instances sharing a content database when...
When you use System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) to manage updates, SCCM causes clients not to use WSUS servers directly for all operations (such as reporting). In this configuration, it is...
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Becoming an Xperf Xpert Part 9: Where’s My Network? (With Stack Walk)
Hi everyone Randolph (Randy) Reyes with another SBSL blog post. In this particular engagement we went onsite to deliver a workshop in how to utilize the Windows Performance Toolkit (XPERF) to detect...
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Updated Reporting and Analytics Capabilities
Howdy folks, In a blog post last November I introduced some new reporting capabilities. Since then we've been hard at work enhancing this set of features. Our goal with this work is to enable you to...
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Windows XP support ending April 8, 2014
I’m sure you already know this, but if you don’t, XP Support Ends on April 8th, 2014. That is 21 days from this post. Below are a couple of links that will give you more information on moving...
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Hyper-V Networking–DHCP Guard
If you start digging into the advanced settings section of a virtual network adapter – there is a lot of interesting stuff to look at. Today I’m going to talk about the DHCP guard setting:This setting...
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Microsoft Releases Security Advisory 2953095
Today we released Security Advisory 2953095 to notify customers of a vulnerability in Microsoft Word. At this time, we are aware of limited, targeted attacks directed at Microsoft Word 2010. An...
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Failover Clustering and Active Directory Integration
My name is Ram Malkani and I am a Support Escalation Engineer on Microsoft’s Windows Core team. I am writing to discuss how Failover Clustering is integrated with Active Directory on Windows...
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Contoso Labs-Network Purchasing (Device Types)
Contoso Labs Series - Table of ContentsNow that Cisco has been chosen as the vendor for our network, we need to identify the layers of our network fabric, and the devices to be used in those roles....
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Configuration Manager Servicing Update
Author: Brian Huneycutt With seven Cumulative Updates (CU’s) for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager and System Center 2012 Configuration Manager SP1 released to date, and more on the way, we...
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Configuration Manager Servicing Update
Author: Brian Huneycutt With seven Cumulative Updates (CU’s) for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager and System Center 2012 Configuration Manager SP1 released to date, and more on the way, we...
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How to apply Task Sequence Prestaged Media on multi-partitioned disks for...
The TechNet documentation for System Configuration Manager contains instructions for creating Prestaged Media at the below links: System Center Configuration Manager 2007 How to Create Task Sequence...
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Top Support Solutions for IIS
Here are the top Microsoft Support solutions for the most common issues experienced when using IIS.1. Solutions related to Getting Started:What's New in IIS 7What's New in IIS 8.5What's New in IIS...
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Hyper-V Networking–Router Guard
Router guard is another advanced networking feature that was added in Windows Server 2012:When you enable Router Guard Hyper-V switch will discard the following packets:ICMPv4 Type 5 (Redirect...
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HOTFIX: Application contents are duplicated in stand-alone media in System...
Issue: Application contents are duplicated in the client cache folder for every Install Application step that is used in a task sequence in Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager...
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Are you attending TechEd 2014? Interested in meeting with the OpsMgr Product...
We wanted to gauge our OpsMgr Customers interest in doing an informal round table discussion with OpsMgr product team to influence the future of this product. If you are planning to attend TechEd 2014...
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