KB: Event 4001 in the Operations Manager log during SQL Server 2012 monitoring
Here’s a quick note on a new KB article we published:When you are monitoring a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 computer that has the System Center 2012 Operations Manager agent installed, you notice that...
View ArticleTop Support Solutions for Microsoft Exchange Server 2013
These are the top Microsoft Support solutions for the most common issues experienced when using Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 (updated quarterly).Support ended for Office 2003 products on April 8,...
View ArticleTop Support Solutions for SQL Server 2008
This is a collection of the top Microsoft Support solutions for the most common issues experienced when using Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 and SQL Server 2008 (updated quarterly).1. Solutions related...
View ArticleTop Support Solutions for SQL Server 2012
This is a collection of the top Microsoft Support solutions for the most common issues experienced when using Microsoft SQL Server 2012 (updated quarterly). Note that some content that applies to...
View ArticleTop Support Solutions for Azure SQL Database
These are the top Microsoft Support solutions for the most common issues experienced when using Azure SQL Database (updated quarterly).1. Solutions related to performance and time-outs:Troubleshoot and...
View ArticleHyper-V Replica trouble-shooting wiki
We are happy to announce the availability of Hyper-V Replica trouble-shooting Wiki here:http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/21948.hyper-v-replica-troubleshooting-guide.aspxThis...
View ArticleCome meet us at TechEd 2014
My original blog post on the OpsMgr Customer-Product team meet up at TechEd had some issues with the outlook meeting invite as reported by some of you. I update the meeting invite below to reflect the...
View ArticleDell expands support for Storage Spaces in Windows Server with PowerVault...
A few months ago this blog covered Dell’s announcement of support for Storage Spaces in Windows Server with their PowerVault MD1200 and MD1220 storage enclosures. Today, Dell has expanded that support...
View ArticlePaul Smith sets the trend in business agility with a new hybrid cloud solution
In business for more than 40 years, Nottingham-based Paul Smith is a preeminent British designer. The company has 14 different collections—produced in England and Italy—under the global Paul Smith...
View ArticleMSRT May 2014 - Miuref
Two new families were added to the Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT) this month: Win32/Filcout and Win32/Miuref.We first detected Filcout in April 2014 after we observed it installing...
View ArticleThe May 2014 Security Updates
Today, we released eight security bulletins – two rated Critical and six rated Important – to address 13 Common Vulnerability & Exposures (CVEs) in .NET Framework, Office, SharePoint, Internet...
View ArticleHow to Clean up the WinSxS Directory and Free Up Disk Space on Windows Server...
It’s finally here! After pages and pages of comments from you requesting the ability to clean up the WinSxS directory and component store on Windows Server 2008 R2, an update is...
View ArticleAutomation–MVP Spotlight Series–SharePoint: DFS Share Creation Request...
Okay Readers – we are back!Here is the second of six posts in the MVP Spotlight Series for the Automation Track…–MVP Spotlight Series–SharePoint: DFS Share Creation Request Walkthrough (Part 1)by Mike...
View ArticleAutomation-Service Management Automation-Reusing Event Data when Developing...
Hello readers!A quick disclaimer: This post assumes you already are fairly comfortable with SMA, PowerShell Workflow, and external authoring tools for PowerShell. If that’s not true, I highly...
View ArticleReplication Health Mailer
One of our Engineers, Sangeeth, has come up with a nifty PowerShell script which mails the replication health in a host or in a cluster in a nice dashboard format. We thought it would be of help to...
View Article‘Tip of the Day’ Top Tips for February
The following links are for the top five tips from the 'Tip of the Day' blog during the month of February.Tip of the Day: Good Bye VDS, Hello SMAPITip of the Day: Failover DHCPTip of the Day:...
View ArticleAutomation–Channel 9 Interview–Windows Azure Pack Automation!
Hello Readers and Viewers!Guess what I have for you today?An actual VIDEO.And this time, it is not hosted on my YouTube Channel, nor is it 8 minutes, but I do think it will be something you are...
View ArticleJust Enough Administration, Step by Step
It is a special honor for the Building Clouds Blog to showcase a new solution announced today at TechEd North America 2014, Windows PowerShell Just Enough Administration, or JEA.Note from Michael – as...
View ArticleUpcoming Preview of 'Disaster Recovery to Azure' Functionality in Hyper-V...
In the coming weeks, we will Preview functionality within Hyper-V Recovery Manager to enable Microsoft Azure as a Disaster Recovery point for virtualized workloads. The new functionality will add...
View ArticleUpcoming Preview of 'Disaster Recovery to Azure' Functionality in Hyper-V...
In the coming weeks, we will Preview functionality within Hyper-V Recovery Manager to enable Microsoft Azure as a Disaster Recovery point for virtualized workloads. The new functionality will add...
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