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The Beta release of MS-MPI v5 is now available
We are happy to announce today the Beta release of the newest version of Microsoft MPI (MS-MPI).MS-MPI v5 Beta is the pre-release version for the successor to HPC Pack 2012 R2 MS-MPI Redistributable...
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“In the Cloud” Podcast: Behind the Scenes of the Enterprise Mobility Suite
In this episode we talk about the organizational changes, internal planning, and company-wide collaboration that went into creating the Enterprise Mobility Suite. There are a lot of different groups...
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Understanding the files collected by the Test-StorageHealth.ps1 PowerShell...
I recently published a PowerShell script to check the health and capacity of a Storage Cluster based on Windows Server 2012 R2 Scale-Out File Servers.You can find details about this script (including...
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Using file copy to measure storage performance – Why it’s not a good idea and...
1. IntroductionEvery once in a while I hear from someone that they believe they have a performance problem with their Scale-Out File Server. When I dig a little further, it’s very common to find that...
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Preview of 2012 R2 Update 1 and HPC Pack image in Azure and are now available
We are happy to announce the HPC Pack 2012 R2 Update 1 Preview and HPC Pack VM image in Microsoft Azure are now available.The HPC Pack VM image is available in Preview in the Azure VM image gallery....
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Gartner names Microsoft a leader in Four Magic Quadrants
Over the last couple of weeks, we’ve shared with you our vision for the software defined datacenter and talked about how our approach to hybrid cloud can help you transform your business into a more...
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Success with Enterprise Mobility: Desktop Virtualization
Desktop Virtualization is a fascinating topic, and it’s one that we take a lot of pride in here at Microsoft. Stretching back to 1989, we collaborated with Citrix to develop what eventually became its...
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DSC Resource Kit Wave 6 Is Here
The DSC Resource Kit Wave 6 Is AvailableThe DSC Resource Kit Wave 6 has been released!This wave contains 5 newDSC Resources, taking us up over 80 resources between the Resource Kit and what is shipping...
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Hate to see you go, but it’s time to move on to greener pastures. A farewell...
Hi all, Jason here. Long time reader, first time blogger. AzMan is Microsoft’s tool to manage authorization to applications based on a user’s role. AzMan has been around since 2003 and has had a good...
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How to enable verbose logging for Windows Server 2012/2012 R2 Essentials
[This post comes to us courtesy of Swapnil Rane and Rituraj Choudhary from Global Business Support]This post explains how to increase the logging level for the individual components of Server...
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Share your feedback!
Are you a System Administrator or Security Analyst? Would you like to influence the future of securing your virtualized infrastructure? If this sounds interesting to you, Microsoft Windows Server and...
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Best Practices for Windows Server 2003 End-of-Support Migration
“Windows Server 2003 End-of-Support is right around the corner In preparing for this moment, CIOs, IT Managers, Infrastructure Engineers, Application Managers, and Developers (Yes, I said Developers –...
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The Unofficial VMworld Recap
I watched the Day 2 keynote from the US VMworld 2014 earlier today, and I wanted to share a few of my thoughts about the focus of the keynotes with respect to end-user computing and enabling Enterprise...
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PowerShell Summit Europe 2014
If you hadn’t already heard, we are happy to announce that the community will hold the PowerShell Summit Europe 2014 from September 29th to October 1st in Amsterdam. As demonstrated by the successful...
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“In the Cloud” Podcast: Empowering SCCM Admins
Back in June, as a part of the ongoing Success with Enterprise Mobility series, I wrote a post that I felt was really important entitled, “Empowering SCCM Admins.”In that post I talked to a core part...
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Success with Enterprise Mobility: Azure RemoteApp
Azure RemoteApp was one of those pieces that was a long time coming, and today it is one of the coolest things we offer the IT community – and I believe it will play a big role in any mobility strategy...
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Don’t miss the SNIA Storage Developer Conference 2014
It must be September once again… We are only a couple of weeks away from the Storage Developer Conference (SDC) hosted by the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA). The even will happen in the...
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‘Unnamed VM’ could not initialize… The security ID structure is invalid...
While working on a system recently, I imported an old virtual machine – which then failed to start with this error message:What to do? Well – thankfully the solution is already documented here:...
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Azure Site Recovery: Data Security and Privacy
Microsoft is committed to ensuring the Privacy and Security of our customer’s data whenever it crosses on-premises boundaries and into Microsoft Azure. Azure Site Recovery, a cloud-based Disaster...
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Microsoft Remote Desktop Preview V8.1.4 update for Windows Phone 8.1...
My name is David Bélanger, and I’m a program manager on the Remote Desktop team working on Remote Desktop apps. September brings another update to the Microsoft Remote Desktop Preview app as we...
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