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TechEd 2014: OpsMgr Breakout Sessions presented by Engineering Team
Below are the list of the System Center Operations Manager sessions at TechEd 2014 North America(Houston) where the product team will be presenting. Hope you can join us and we look forward to seeing...
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New sync capabilities in preview: Password Write Back, New AAD Sync and...
Howdy folks, It's a great day here in Redmond – The sun is out, it's not raining and we have some cool new identity synchronization features available in preview! Preview Self Service Password Reset...
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Update now available for the Virtual Machine Role Authoring Tool
Windows Azure Pack and System Center 2012 R2 introduced Virtual Machine Role gallery items which enable users to deploy and configure workloads such as SQL Server, SharePoint or a LAMP stack. What’s...
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Debug Mode in Desired State Configuration
The DSC engine caches resources implemented as a PowerShell module for efficiency purposes. This can sometimes turn out to be annoying, when you are authoring a resource and testing it simultaneously....
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KB: An upgrade from SCVMM 2012 SP1 to SCVMM 2012 R2 fails and returns a...
When you try to upgrade from Microsoft System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager (VMM 2012) Service Pack 1 (SP1) to System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager (VMM 2012 R2), the process fails and...
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MAT4Shift 1.6.2 Update
We have published an update for MAT4Shift. While this is a minor script change, we view the update as critical and would encourage everyone to discontinue use of 1.6.1. This work came directly from...
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Forefront Identity Manager futures
Howdy folks, Just a quick blog post today. As many of you know, we've publicly announced that we are targeting to release the next major release of Forefront Identity Manager (FIM) in H1 of CY'15. Over...
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Backup of a Replica VM
This blog post covers the scenarios and motivations that drive the backup of a Replica VM, and product guidance to administrators.Why backup a Replica VM?Ever since the advent of Hyper-V Replica in...
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Managing 3rd Party Systems with Service Management Automation
Service Management Automation (SMA) allows you to manage both Microsoft products and external systems. Whether you write your own PowerShell modules or use existing 3 rd party modules, you can easily...
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Removing .NET Framework 4.5/4.5.1 removes Windows 2012/2012R2 UI and other...
This is Vimal Shekar and Krishnan Ayyer from the Windows Support team. Today in this blog, we will be discussing about an issue that we are seeing increasingly being reported in support. We will look...
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Work Folders for Windows 7
OverviewWhen we introduced Work Folders in Windows Server 2012 R2, we included support for PCs running Windows 8.1 and Windows RT 8.1. However, we knew that we needed to continue releasing support for...
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Backing up of replica VMs using DPM
Ever since Hyper-V replication technology introduced in Windows 2012, many customers showed interest in leveraging DPM for backing up replica VMs instead of primary VMs. By backing up replica VMs,...
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Enhancing Azure MFA with Contextual IP Address Whitelisting
Howdy folks, Lots of cool stuff to blog about this week. Today I'd like to share the news that we've just turned on the public preview of our IP Whitelist functionality for Azure Multi-Factor...
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Why and How to Use Linux Integration Services
Regular readers of Linux Pro Magazine saw a really interesting article in the January 2014 issue about how to accelerate Linux VM’s with the Linux Integration Services (LIS) native to Hyper-V....
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Automation–Microsoft Azure Automation–The Evolution of Cloud Automation
Hello Readers!By now you have likely seen the announcements for Microsoft Azure Automation (currently in preview). If you haven’t, I strongly recommend you check it out. All it takes is a Microsoft...
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Desired State Configuration Blog Series – Part 1, Information about DSC
Over the next couple of months I plan to author a regular contribution to Building Clouds Blog focused on PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC). This is an important tool for the Microsoft...
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Understanding Import-DscResource Keyword in Desired State Configuration
Desired State Configuration resources are used to model and change the state of different components of the system. In an earlier blog post, we discussed details about deploying and discovering those...
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Microsoft releases Security Advisory 2963983
Today, we released Security Advisory 2963983 regarding an issue that impacts Internet Explorer. At this time, we are only aware of limited, targeted attacks. This issue allows remote code execution if...
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Building your schedule for TechEd 2014? Here are some Storage-related sessions!
TechEd NorthAmerica 2014 is just a few weeks away and it’s a sold-out event now.If you’re attending and you haven’t yet started building your schedule, you can consider yourself officially late. :-)If...
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How to use the File Server Capacity Tool (FSCT) on Server 2012 R2
Hi, my name is Tom Ausburne and I recently wrote an article simplifying the instructions to use the ADTest tool and verifying that it will work on newer operating systems. The logical follow up to that...
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