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Important Hyper-V Update–July 2013 rollup
The Windows Server 2012 July 2013 update rollup is an important one to install on Hyper-V servers. Specifically because of this update:2853952 Active Directory database becomes corrupted when a...
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Brad Anderson Examines People-centric IT in Action – End-to-End Scenarios...
When you upgrade a notebook computer or a smartphone device, do you really want to think about how that gets accomplished? Most users don’t but we know IT Professionals and Developers do, so we are...
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People-centric IT in Action: End-to-end Scenarios Across Products
Part 3 of a 9-part series. In today’s post, we tackle a common question I get from customers: “Why move to the cloud right now?” Recently, however, this question has changed a bit to, “What should I...
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Why does Hyper-V create a snapshot every time I apply a snapshot?
I was asked this question today. My first response was: “It doesn’t”. But after a bit of thought I realized what was going on for the user in question. Whenever you take a snapshot of a Hyper-V...
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TechNet Radio: Talking About PCIT and the ‘What’s New in 2012 R2’ Series
This week’s episode is a repost of an interview I did with TechNet Radio earlier this week. In this interview I talk with host Kevin Remde about the new 2012 R2 wave of products, and we talk about the...
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New support for Multipoint Server 2012 from NComputing
An important partner in the affordable client space has been NComputing, who just announced a new upgrade to its vSpace Virtualization Platform. vSpace Server 7.1 takes advantage of the user experience...
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What’s New in Windows Server 2012 R2 – End-to-End Scenarios Across Products
Although People-centric IT capabilities are great on Windows devices, these capabilities are not limited to Windows devices. We also put a lot of work into enabling first class support for...
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The Edge Show: Talking about “What’s New in 2012 R2” and PCIT
Check out my appearance on the latest episode of The Edge Show with Rick Claus.In this episode I talk about some of the behind-the-scenes elements in the “What’s New in 2012 R2” series, with an...
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Virtual Fibre Channel Design Guide - Get your I/O On
I still remember the magic of touching my first fibre HBA. Releasing the server form the shackles of SCSI chaining and throughput issues. It seems like a long time ago, but improvement continues to...
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Top Picks from TechEd 2013: What’s New with Storage Spaces in Windows Server...
Last week we published the first pick in our series on “Top Picks from TechEd 2013”. This week we cross the pond and select a session from TechEd Europe 2013. Bryan Mathew delivered “Storage Spaces:...
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Life's Little Adventures
Life can be an interesting ride. You never really know what path to take but you really aren’t living unless you jump in. Hopefully you won’t crash head first into a rock just below the surface. On...
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Office 2010 Admin Template files (ADM, ADMX/ADML) and Office Customization...
This download includes Group Policy Administrative Template files and Office Customization Tool files for use with Office 2010 applications. It also includes an \Admin folder with an Office...
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Mail Protection Reports for Office 365 - download now available
This reporting workbook provides you with a detailed view into the email protection data that is available in the Office 365 Reporting dashboard. This workbook is available to all Exchange Online and...
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Windows Server 2012 R2 Preview Test Lab Guide - available for download
The Microsoft Test Lab Guide (TLG) provides you with step-by-step instructions to create the Windows Base Configuration test lab, using computers running Windows 8.1 or Windows Server 2012 R2 Preview,...
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What’s New in 2012 R2: Open Source Platform Workloads and Management
Microsoft has become a strong platform company. Customers want interoperability and the flexibility to run work loads in new and interesting ways. We have challenged ourselves to support customer...
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Enabling Linux Support on Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V
This post is a part of the nine-part “What’s New in Windows Server & System Center 2012 R2” series that is featured on Brad Anderson’s In the Cloud blog. Today’s blog post covers Linux Support on...
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What’s New in 2012 R2: Enabling Open Source Software
Part 4 of a 9-part series.The Common Engineering Criteria (CEC) that I’ve talked about in previous posts have been instrumental in ensuring that the teams contributing to 2012 R2 met rigorous and...
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Advanced Tools and Scripting with PowerShell 3.0
Join our next Microsoft Virtual Academy (MVA) Jump Start free online training event on August 1, featuring Microsoft’s Jeffrey Snover, Distinguished Engineer and Lead Architect for the Windows Server...
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PowerShell Sessions, Slides and Demos from TechEd 2013
We presented following sessions at this year’s edition of TechEd(s). At TechEd, we announced the newest feature in Windows PowerShell 4.0 – Desired State Configuration, so do check out the attached...
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Big Compute @ Microsoft
Customers and partners have been asking us what the recent Microsoftorganization changes mean for HPC. What does it mean for HPC? The answer—fullsteam ahead. We call our workload “Big Compute.” Big...
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