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The March 2014 anti-malware platform update for Endpoint Protection clients...
The KB article below describes an anti-malware platform update package for the following clients: - Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager Endpoint Protection clients - Microsoft System...
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Advance Notification Service for the April 2014 Security Bulletin Release
Today we provide advance notification for the release of four bulletins, two rated Critical and two rated Important in severity. These updates address issues in Microsoft Windows, Office and Internet...
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KB: "Needs Attention" host status in VMM 2012 after you rebuild the WMI...
After you rebuild the WMI repository for a host that is running Windows Server 2012 or Windows Server 2012 R2, Microsoft System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager reports a Needs Attention status for...
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Adware: A new approach
Here at the Microsoft Malware Protection Center (MMPC) we understand advertising is part of the modern computing experience. However, we want to give our customers choice and control regarding what...
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Announcing Microsoft Azure Automation Preview
Today Microsoft announced the preview of Azure Automation. Proudly built by the System Center team, Azure Automation enables customers to automate the creation, deployment, monitoring, and maintenance...
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Understanding the Windows ADK for Windows 8.1 Update and Configuration...
Author: Aaron Czechowski, Senior Program Manager This post applies to customers using System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager, or customers using System Center 2012 Configuration Manager SP1 that...
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Understanding the Windows ADK for Windows 8.1 Update and Configuration...
Author: Aaron Czechowski, Senior Program Manager This post applies to customers using System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager, or customers using System Center 2012 Configuration Manager SP1 that...
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Configuring an Azure VM using PowerShell DSC
At the //build/ conference today, Jeffery Snover demonstrated bringing up an Azure virtual machine and configuring it using DSC and the Custom Script VM extension. We are sharing the scripts he used...
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Retaining IP Address after failover using Hyper-V Recovery Manager
When administrators are planning to deploy a disaster recovery solution, one of the key questions in their mind is that how the virtual machine would be reachable after the failover is completed. Using...
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Azure RMS now in Azure management portal !
Howdy folks, Today I have the privilege of letting you know that we've just added Azure Rights Management (which is built here in the AD team) to the list of services which you can manage from the...
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Windows Management Framework V5 Preview
The Windows Management Framework V5 Preview is out! Check out Jeffrey Snover's announcement here. The preview contains updates to PowerShell Desired State Configuration, as well as two new features:...
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Exploring Windows 8.1 Update – Start Screen, Desktop and Other Enhancements
Welcome to Ask PFE Plat's coverage of the next chapter in Microsoft's on-going refinement of Windows. As with 8.1, we continue to evolve and improve the OS and last week, at the Build 2014 conference,...
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Azure AD Delegated Group Management: Feature walk through
Howdy folks, As you probably already know, last week we released the GA version of Azure AD Premium. That release included some really great new delegated group management capabilities for end users....
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MP Blog – Listen and respond….
A wise man once said your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning and he was not wrong. The ability for any company to listen to feedback and more importantly respond appropriately...
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KB: Description of Windows PowerShell changes in Cumulative Update 1 for...
We just published a new Knowledge Base article that describes the Windows PowerShell issues that are fixed in Cumulative Update 1 (CU1) for Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager. Other...
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Options for Managing Go to Desktop or Start after Sign in in Windows 8.1
Hi, David here. Over the past year we’ve gotten a lot of feedback from our customers about the pain of changing from older versions of Windows over to Windows 8 and Windows 8.1. While it’s a great OS...
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What’s in a name? Using prefixes in PowerShell.
We’ve talked about this in the past but it’s time for a reminder. PowerShell uses prefixes in front of nouns to avoid name collisions. Imagine how many collisions there would be if people used the...
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What's New in the Windows 8.1 Update
Hello AskPerf Readers! Henry Chen here from the Devices & Deployment team. Today, I would like to spend some time highlighting some of the user experience changes in the shell for Windows 8.1...
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Deployment–Minor PDT update 2.64.2608 now available
I just posted an updated PDT 2.64.2608 to the TechNet Gallery here.This update resolves a few bugs, and adds:Installer.ps1Supports extensions to Workflow.xml via Extender*.xml filesNew switch option...
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Available now: The Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter 2.0
Today we are releasing the Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter (MVMC) 2.0, a supported, freely available solution for converting VMware-based virtual machines and virtual disks to Hyper-V-based virtual...
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