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November 2012 Security Bulletin Webcast, Q&A, and Slide Deck
Hello, Today we’re publishing the November 2012 Security Bulletin Webcast Questions & Answers page . During the webcast, we fielded ten questions focusing primarily Windows RT, Windows 8, and...
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Windows Server 2012 File Server Tip: Run the File Services Best Practices...
Windows Server 2012 includes a built-in mechanism called Best Practices Analyzer (BPA) to check your configuration and make sure everything is set to the proper values. These set of rules, which come...
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Windows Server 2012 Essentials Health Report Add-in and Management Pack are...
[Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Ning Kuang from Sustained Engineering]We are excited to announce the RTM release of Health Report Add-in and Management Pack for Windows Server 2012 Essentials!...
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ARP Spoofing Prevention in Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V
Hi there! This is Thomas Roettinger with a new blog post onhow to implement ARP Spoofing protection in Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V. A longtime ago in August 2011 I published this blog post...
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HYPER-V 2008 R2 SP1 Best Practices (In Easy Checklist Form)
(dsymalla Posting on Behalf of Roger Osborne)Have you ever had someone – either a customer or colleague – build a mission critical server without taking time, up-front, to ensure they are following...
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Windows Server 2012 File Server Tip: Use PowerShell to find the free space on...
A while back, I showed how to use PowerShell V2 and our old SMB WMIv1 object to explain how to find the free space behind a file share (essentially the free space for the volume that contains the file...
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Hotfix Available for Invalid Software Updates
If you are a Configuration Manager 2007 customer, we recognize you might have concerns about the impact of recent changes to Microsoft Update. These changes were introduced by either the application of...
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Windows Server 2012 File Server Tip: New per-share SMB client performance...
Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8 include a new set of performance counters that can greatly help understand the performance of the SMB file protocol. These include new counters on both the server side...
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Support Tip: Optimized ILR feature of DPM 2012 for SharePoint recovery fails...
An attempt to use the new Optimized Item Level Recovery (ILR) feature of System Center 2012 Data Protection Manager (DPM) for SharePoint recovery with a clustered SQL server as the instance specified...
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Issue with System Center 2012 Update Rollup 3 (UR3) Memory Leak Fix for SCSM
In System Center 2012 Update Rollup 3, we had indicated that the console memory issues that had been reported were fixed. Unfortunately, there was a mix up in some of the binaries that were packaged...
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HOTFIX: Software updates are displayed as invalid in the Administrator...
If you are a Configuration Manager 2007 customer, we recognize you might have concerns about the impact of recent changes to Microsoft Update. These changes were introduced by either the application of...
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Did Your Active Directory Domain Time Just Jump To The Year 2000?
AskPFEPlat with a late night PSA. We are seeing some reports that some Active Directory Domains times reverting to November 2000. So what just happened? I thought the Mayans said this type of stuff...
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Server Posterpedia v2 available in the Windows Store!
In today’s post, Martin McClean and Brian Lich talk about their Windows Store app, Server Posterpedia. If you’re interested in learning how Microsoft technologies work—for example, Windows Server,...
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Fixing When Your Domain Traveled Back In Time, the Great System Time Rollback...
Hey y’all, Mark back again with some more detail around what to when the system time rollback to November 19th, caused Active Directory replication and other time-sensitive operations to fail in your...
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Group Policy in Windows Server 2012: Overview
Now that Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 have been released, we’d like to share with you some of the exciting enhancements that we’ve added for Group Policy.While we hear plenty of great things from...
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RemoteFX Features for Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012
Hi, I’m Shanmugam Kulandaivel, a senior program manager on the Remote Desktop Virtualization team. As most of you know, both the Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 operating systems are available in...
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Next Stops for the Windows Server 2012 Community Roadshow: United States,...
Hi, this isChrista Anderson, Community Lead for the Windows Server and System Center Group, back with this week’s updates on the next stops in the Windows Server 2012 Community Roadshow. This time, I’m...
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Stay tuned for a three part blog series on 3 new features in Windows Server...
Hey everyone,The Group Policy team has a series of blog posts lined up, Group Policy in Windows Server 2012: Overview to cover 3 new features in Windows Server 2012 that should make your life as a...
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PFE Live Chat – One Down, More to Follow
First, let me thank everyone who participated in our PFE Live Chat on Monday 26 November. It was a great opportunity to talk about technology and it’s impact in real-world cases, for real-world...
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Revenge of Y2K and Other News
Hello sports fans!So this has been a bit of a hectic time for us, as I'm sure you can imagine. Here's just some of the things that have been going on around here.Last week, thanks to a failure on the...
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