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Announcing the availability of enabling Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials’...
In Windows Server Essentials 2012 R2, all of our online services integration features, including Azure Active Directory and Office 365, are supported only in environments that have a single domain...
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“Error applying Hard Drive changes” on Generation 2 VMs
A Microsoft employee recently contacted us with this issue:“When I try and attach a virtual hard disk to a generation 2 virtual machine – I get an error message that says ‘Error applying Hard Drive...
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Podcast Thursday: 3 Reasons IT Has a Very Bright Future
In this week’s episode (#14), we revisit a topic I wrote about following TechEd North America: The reasons I believe that the IT industry is changing in ways that really favor IT Pros.The discussion...
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Changing Ubuntu Screen Resolution in a Hyper-V VM
If you install Ubuntu 14.04 inside a Hyper-V virtual machine – you automatically get all the integration components and virtualized drivers. Including the Hyper-V video driver. However, if you try to...
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Storage Spaces Survival Guide (Links to presentations, articles, blogs, tools)
In this post, I'm sharing my favorite links related to Storage Spaces in Windows Server 2012 R2. This includes TechEd Presentations, TechNet articles, Blogs and tools related to Storage Spaces in...
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Success with Enterprise Mobility: Mobile Task Workers
When you think about how broad and diverse the scenarios for PC and mobility management have become, it is pretty amazing. These scenarios range from light-weight management (where the user is in...
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Best Practices for Windows Server 2003 End-of-Support Migration: Part 3
So we’re back with our 3rd blog post in our Windows Server 2003 EOS Migration Best Practices series. Today we’re going to be reviewing useful tools and solutions that can help you execute the...
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4 for 4: MSFT is the Only “Leader” in all Four Gartner MQ’s
Every year, during the Spring and Summer, there is a flurry of analysis released from the Gartner and some of the most anticipated insights come via what Gartner calls the Magic Quadrant (MQ). The MQ...
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How to use the Test-StorageHealth.ps1 PowerShell script with different...
If you’ve tried the Test-StorageHealth.ps1 PowerShell script, you noticed it assumes a verify specific Scale-Out File Server configuration:4 cluster nodes2 cluster networks33 cluster shared volumes16...
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Continuing the DSC Resource Kit Additions – Wave 7 is Live
The DSC Resource Kit Wave 7 update has been published, and is now available here. You can also find them by using PowerShellGet. This wave contains 4 newDSC Resources, which brings the total count of...
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Simple REST api for Executing PowerShell Scripts
There may be scenarios where you don’t need the full interactive experience of PowerShell remoting over PSRP (PowerShell Remoting Protocol), or have the need to execute some PowerShell scripts from a...
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Windows Server Essentials 2012/2012 R2 Log Files
[This post comes to us courtesy of Swapnil Ranefrom Commercial Technical Support]This post will reduce your efforts to identify which log to refer to and where to find it. This can be very useful when...
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An early look at the future of the datacenter from Microsoft
At a Microsoft event earlier today, the Windows team shared new information on the direction of Windows in the enterprise. Likewise, we in the Cloud + Enterprise team would like to start sharing the...
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New Levels of Security via Machine Learning & Combined Data Sets
I have always understood the value of bringing different data sets together, but it’s been only recently that I’ve fully appreciated the power of it. Looking back to high school, when I was asked about...
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5 Reasons You Can’t Miss This Year's TechEd Europe
Maybe you’ve heard some of the buzz surrounding TechEd Europe 2015. But is it right for you? If you’re an IT professional or an enterprise developer, joining us 28–31 October in Barcelona can have a...
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Announcing availability of Windows Server Technical Preview and System Center...
Following up on yesterday’s blog post, we’re happy to let you know that the Windows Server Technical Preview and System Center Technical Preview builds are now available. Below are some direct links...
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Hyper-V and the Windows Server Technical Preview
Today we released the Windows Server Technical Preview. You can read more about this, and how to get the bits yourself, over on the Server & Cloud Blog.Some other resources that are available...
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Podcast Thursday: Cloud-based Data Protection
In this episode of the ITC Podcast, I sit down with Alex Simons the Director of Program Management for Active Directory to talk about cloud-based data protection with Azure RMS.I’ve written about RMS...
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Azure Site Recovery Update - Recovery in Azure now Generally Available
When launched in January, Azure Site Recovery enabled customers to replicate and recover virtual machines between two of their own sites. In June, we began a preview of a new capability to replicate...
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Announcing the GA of Disaster Recovery to Azure using Azure Site Recovery
Back in June I announced the Preview of the Disaster Recovery to Azure functionality withAzure Site Recovery (ASR), and its promise to democratize DR is now beginning to have a tangible impact on how...
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