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Learning from cloud: Don’t get stuck at the edge of tomorrow
Today we continue our blog series “Learning from Cloud”. If you missed our first post in the series “Learning from cloud: insights to inform your strategy”, we invite you to read it. In today’s post,...
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Microsoft releases Security Advisory 2974294
Today, we released Security Advisory 2974294 to inform global customers about an update for the Microsoft Malware Protection Engine. This update addresses a privately disclosed issue and fixes a...
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Update not available to Clients after approved by WSUS (Update Files failed...
Marta Barillas also wrote a significant portion of this blog posting. Some customers have indicated that some update files are not being downloaded by WSUS after approval, which results in those...
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“Your fault - core dumped”- Diving into the BSOD caused by Rovnix
Recently we have noticed some Win32/Rovnix samples (detected as TrojanDropper:Win32/Rovnix.K) causing the BSOD on Windows 7 machines. We spent some time investigating this situation and discovered an...
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Reaping the benefits of a hybrid cloud model
This is the third installment in our blog series “Learning from Cloud.” If you missed our first two posts: Insights to Inform Your Strategy and Don’t get stuck at the edge of tomorrow, we invite you...
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Announcing Data Classification Toolkit 2012 R2!
We are excited today to announce the release of the Data Classification Toolkit 2012 R2! The Data Classification Toolkit 2012 R2 is designed to help you to:Identify, classify, and protect data on file...
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Success with Enterprise Mobility: Our Plan to be Your Long Term Vendor of Choice
Any organization evaluating how to invest in their Enterprise Mobility strategy needs to approach each of the MDM vendors with a really simple question: “Why should we choose your company?” These...
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KB: Error message when you click "Edit" on the "Company Knowledge" tab in the...
Here’s some information on a new KB article we published. The issue is that when you click Edit on the Company Knowledge tab in the System Center 2012 Operations Manager (OpsMgr 2012) console, you...
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Azure Site Recovery Update – New Capability in Preview
We’ve talked generally this week about changing your IT strategy to take cloud resources into account. And last January, this blog reported that we had launched Hyper-V Recovery Manager – a simple,...
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Announcing the Preview of Disaster Recovery to Azure using Azure Site Recovery
If you’re an enterprise that has viewed previous cloud-based DR solutions with skepticism – brace yourselves for the details of this announcement. This is awesome. When we sat down to plan how to build...
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Hotfix: You cannot distribute a driver package to a package share on a...
When you try to distribute a driver package to a package share on a pull-distribution point in System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager, the driver package is not distributed and error messages that...
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KB: The Add Object Wizard in OpsMgr 2012 displays only 500 objects even if...
When you use the Add Groups or Add Object button while you're creating a report in Microsoft System Center 2012 Operations Manager (OpsMgr 2012), no more than 500 objects are displayed in the Add...
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How to get the best disk performance with Linux on Hyper-V
I was recently reading our documented Best Practices for running Linux on Hyper-V and noticed this section:Use I/O scheduler NOOP for better disk I/O performance.The Linux kernel has four different I/O...
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Configuring and Administrating Service Management Automation
In this post, I’ll discuss how to perform administrative tasks in Service Management Automation that will be useful to keep the service running well. I will cover how purging of data happens, the use...
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Azure Site Recovery Now Supports Disaster Recovery to Azure
Hyper-V Recovery Manager is now Azure Site Recovery and with that I am excited to announce the Preview of a new functionality that will enable Disaster Recovery to Azure. Our Enterprise and SMB...
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Disaster Recovery to Microsoft Azure
We are super excited to announce the availability of the preview bits of Azure Site Recovery (ASR) which enables you to replicate Hyper-V VMs to Microsoft Azure for business continuity and disaster...
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Windows Unplugged: Stephen Rose with Surface Pro 3
This is Dave Gregory and Rich Sheikh from the PFE Platforms blog. I wanted to take some time today to write a “short” blog about the Windows and Surface events with Stephen Rose that took place in LA...
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Disaster Recovery to Microsoft Azure – Part 2
Continuing from the previous blog - check out the recent TechEd NA 2014 talk @ https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2014/DCIM-B322 which includes a cool demo of this product. Love...
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LSASS Crashing, CNF Objects May Be the Cause
Hey y’all, Mark back with a rare but hard-to-troubleshoot problem where CNF or conflict mangled NTDS Settings objects cause LSASS to crash on Active Directory domain controllers. The goal of this...
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Driving a Collectively Stronger Security Community with Microsoft Interflow
Today, Microsoft is pleased to announce the private preview of Microsoft Interflow , a security and threat information exchange platform for analysts and researchers working in cybersecurity. Interflow...
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