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OpsMgr Customer-Product team meet up at TechEd 2014
We would like to invite you to join us for a discussion on the future of System Center Operations Manager. This is an opportunity for you to meet the OpsMgr leadership team and influence the direction...
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Understanding Maximum Dynamic Memory from inside a VM
Dynamic memory is a great feature that allows Hyper-V administrators to get better utilization of their physical memory. But it can be hard to tell what is going on from inside of a virtual machine....
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Announcing the Microsoft Azure Automation Preview
Today, a lot of IT Pros are looking to move some of their on-prem workloads to Microsoft Azure to take advantage of the public cloud. Despite the public cloud benefits, some of these IT Pros have...
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Configuring Windows Azure Pack with Load Balancers and ADFS using PowerShell
Hi readers! Today we’ve a guest blogger. Peter Heese is a Solution Architect at the Datacenter CoE here in Microsoft and he will walk us through a guide and a script he wrote to automate the...
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Solution to KB2919355 preventing interaction with WSUS 3.2 over SSL
A fix is now available from Microsoft that resolves the issue where some computers that have the KB 2919355 update for Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2 installed stop scanning against Windows...
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Windows Server 2012 R2 Update: Availability of WSUS fix and revised servicing...
Following our announcement from last week, we have now released the fix through Windows Update for theissue with Windows Server 2012 R2 Update communicating with WSUS 3.2 servers in certain non-default...
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Support Tip: Data Warehouse synchronization failures following restore of the...
~ Brian McDermottHow did we get into this mess?So some change in your environment resulted in problems so severe for Operations Manager that you decide it is time to reach for the backups and to...
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Collecting the Output of Remoting Commands
One question we often get around PowerShell Remoting is "How do I collect the output of remoting commands into a different file for each computer?" For example, you want to invoke a remote command...
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A World of Scripts at your Fingertips – Introducing Script Browser
To reuse script samples on the Internet, the following steps seem quite familiar to IT Pros: wandering through different script galleries, forums and blogs, switching back and forth between webpages...
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Hyper-V Networking–NIC Teaming
If you look at the advanced features of a network adapter in Hyper-V, you may have noticed the NIC Teaming option below:And wondered what this was about.In most deployments you will enabled network...
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An Update about the Windows 8.1 Update
Hi everyone, David here. Today over at the Springboard series blog we announced some important news that applies to anyone who has been trying to roll out the Windows 8.1 update in an enterprise...
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Exporting a Virtual Machine Checkpoint
Something neat that you can do in Windows Server 2012 / Windows 8 or later is to export a virtual machine checkpoint. You can do this by either:Selecting the checkpoint in the UI and selecting Export...
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Support Tip: Set-SCOMRunAsProfile may fail on OpsMgr 2012 R2 upgraded from...
~ Brian McDermottIf you were using the Operations Manager command shell to automate Run As Account Administration then you may encounter the error below following an upgrade from System Center 2012...
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New Web Site Promotes Third-Party Extensions to Microsoft System Center
Houston, Texas, USA (January 30, 2014) – A global group of companies that provide solutions that extend Microsoft System Center have joined together in a new initiative to collaborate on the marketing...
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Protection metrics trends – First quarter 2014 results
It's been a few months since our last post on our metrics. I wanted to give you an update on families that are declining, new ones that are moving in, and on the way we're calculating our protection...
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Azure Active Directory and DocuSign
Howdy folks, For those of you who follow our blog, you know that recently we've recently been doing a lot of work to improve our support creating iOS and Android applications using OAuth and OpenID...
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Working with the Windows Azure Pack SQL Server Resource Provider : Dedicating...
Windows Azure Pack (WAP) includes a SQL Server resource provider that allows tenants to deploy and manage databases on a shared SQL Server fabric.Out of the box, and in the spirit of a Platform as a...
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PowerShell tips for building objects with custom properties and special...
I’ve been building a number of scripts that query information using PowerShell. To create those, I used some PowerShell tricks to make the output look just like I wanted. This post is a compilation of...
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Introduction to Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) AlternateLoginID...
With all of this great talk on the Windows 8.1 Client Update we here at ASKPFEPLAT didn’t want to leave out one important Active Directory Federation Server (AD FS) feature released with the Windows...
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What’s New in Windows Servicing: Service Stack Improvements: Part 3
Servicing Stack improvements in KB2821895 for Windows 8, and How its assists the upgrade to 8.1?My name is Aditya and I am a Sr. Support Escalation Engineer for Microsoft on the Windows Core Team. This...
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