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Content Distribution Priorities
Author: Prasanna Kumar Jayapal, Senior Development Lead Introduction Have you ever wondered if there is a way to force a package to get to a distribution point soon? Or wanted to get the package to a...
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Content Distribution Priorities
Author: Prasanna Kumar Jayapal, Senior Development Lead Introduction Have you ever wondered if there is a way to force a package to get to a distribution point soon? Or wanted to get the package to a...
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Cloud based Identity and Access Management for every user on every device
Howdy folks! We're happy to announce that the Azure Active Directory (AD) Premium service will reach general availability (GA) in April 2014. Azure AD Premium is an identity and access management...
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Service Management Automation overview on Channel 9
I recently got an opportunity to talk about Service Management Automation on our Channel 9 show so if you are looking for an overview and prefer to watch a video before you read through all of the...
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Contoso Labs-Rack Design - Part 1
Contoso Labs Series - Table of ContentsNow that we have all of our equipment, we need to figure out what our deployment footprint looks like. It’s worth noting that while we’re discussing this like it...
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HOTFIX: Update to the Software Requirements UI for Mac software distribution...
Just a quick FYI that we released a hotfix to add Mac OS X 10.9 to the Software Requirements user interface (UI) for Mac software distribution in Microsoft System Center 2012 Configuration Manager...
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Top Support Solutions for Windows Small Business Server 2011 Standard
Here are the top Microsoft Support solutions for the most common issues experienced when using Windows Small Business Server 2011 Standard. To view more solutions related to this product, visit The...
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Migration - MAT4SHIFT 1.6.1 Release to Web
Today we published the latest version of the Migration Automation Toolkit, MAT4SHIFT v1.6.1. This is largely a maintenance release but does include a few new features.If you are looking at this...
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Support Tip: Task Sequence in ConfigMgr 2012 fails at "Resolving Task...
~ Prabhat JoshiHi everyone, Prabhat Joshi here again with another Configuration Manager support tip for you. The issue today is one where a Task Sequence in System Center 2012 Configuration Manager...
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KB: Custom port settings are not added to boot media in System Center 2012...
Boot media that is created at a central administration site (CAS) server in a Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2012 (ConfigMgr 2012) or System Center Configuration Manager 2012 R2...
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Enterprise Mobility for Every Business and Every Device
Earlier today in San Francisco, Satya spoke about the wide-ranging work Microsoft is doing to deliver a cloud for everyone and every device. Satya’s remarks certainly covered a lot of ground –...
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Hybrid Identity, Mobile Device Management, and the Enterprise Mobility Suite
Today, Brad Anderson, Corporate Vice President, Windows Server & System Center, blogged about our Enterprise Mobility Suite (EMS) that helps organizations embrace Consumerization of IT and “BYO”...
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Authoring SMA Runbooks in the PowerShell ISE
While Service Management Automation (SMA) provides a cool web-based runbook authoring experience in the Windows Azure Pack, many folks are more comfortable using a good old-fashioned tool they’re...
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What’s New in Windows Servicing: Reduction of Windows Footprint : Part 2
My name is Aditya and I am a Sr. Support Escalation Engineer for Microsoft on the Windows Core Team. This blog is a continuation of the previous Servicing Part 1. So to understand this blog better, it...
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FEP and SCEP anti-malware protection support after OSes reach end-of-life
Author: Minfang Lv , Software Development Engineer in Test, Configuration Manager Sustained Engineering Applies to: FEP 2010 SU1, SCEP 2012 SP1, SCEP 2012 R2 The platform update released on April 8,...
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Anti-malware platform updates for Forefront Endpoint Protection/System Center...
Author: Minfang Lv , Software Development Engineer in Test, Configuration Manager Sustained Engineering Applies to: FEP 2010 SU1, SCEP 2012 SP1, SCEP 2012 R2 Starting April 8 th , Microsoft will...
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Anti-malware platform updates for Forefront Endpoint Protection/System Center...
Author: Minfang Lv , Software Development Engineer in Test, Configuration Manager Sustained Engineering Applies to: FEP 2010 SU1, SCEP 2012 SP1, SCEP 2012 R2 Starting April 8 th , Microsoft will...
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FEP and SCEP anti-malware protection support after OSes reach end-of-life
Author: Minfang Lv , Software Development Engineer in Test, Configuration Manager Sustained Engineering Applies to: FEP 2010 SU1, SCEP 2012 SP1, SCEP 2012 R2 The platform update released on April 8,...
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DSC Resource Kit Wave 3
In September, Microsoft released PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) with twelve built in resources. Three months later (December), we added eight more resources with Wave One of the DSC...
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Reduce your WSUS Server Footprint by Selectively Importing Drivers
Some content in this article was written by Marta Barillas, a SDET on the WSUS team. Did you know that 80% of the content in Microsoft Update (MU) is drivers? Drivers represent a huge amount of...
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