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A Windows PowerShell Cmdlet to get configs, health, and backlogs
Hi folks, Ned here again. Rudolf Vesley has provided everyone with great community tool for DFSR. Quoting time:I decided to write Windows PowerShell Cmdlet (Advanced Function) to get report of...
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Rolling up all the Storage Replica videos in TP2
Hi folks, Ned here again. Below are all the videos I created for Storage Replica on Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview 2 in my recent series. Yes, this is one of those boring "all my links" blog...
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Microsoft a Leader in 2015 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Client Management Tools
I am very excited to announce that, for the eleventh consecutive year, Gartner has recognized Microsoft as a Leader in the 2015 Magic Quadrant for Client Management Tools (previously called Magic...
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Great Feedback & Great Products
One of the biggest assets we have when building great software is the direct feedback we gather from the people using our technology every day. While building Azure RemoteApp, we had a site dedicated...
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Architecture Matters: The Service Fabric of Our Lives
With all due respect to cotton, the fabric of our lives (or at least our careers in IT) is Service Fabric. In my last post, I touched on the use of Azure Service Fabric as the underlying substrate of...
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Script: Image Factory for Hyper-V
Summer has come to Seattle - which means that it is time for me to get going on some overdue Summer projects.The first one - that I have been working on for the last two weeks attempts to solve a...
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Azure DSC Extension v2.0 released
NOTE: For information on OS support, and other features, please refer to our release history. Today we are releasing version 2.0 of the Azure DSC Extension, with improvements for DSC configurations...
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Survey: Connecting remotely back to your PC
I’m Haley Rowland, a member of the Remote Desktop team working on improving your remote desktop experience. We know that having remote access to the resources you need is important to you, so we want...
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How to Create a (Mostly) Seamless Logon Experience For Your Remote Desktop...
Kristin Griffin, RDS MVP, wrote a great article answering one of the most often asked questions from RDS customers, “How do I provide access to my RD Session Host Session Collection(s) with the least...
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DNS Server Startup Time Improvements in Windows Server 2012 R2
Issue Sum mary With the advent of cloud computing, there are more apps, more domains and more web services than ever. Every business needs its footprint on the world wide web. This led to a burst in...
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DFSR Cloning: Attribute Recompute Causes Redistribute, Requiring Troubleshoot
Hi folks, Ned here again. We created DFSR Cloning in Windows Server 2012 R2 to make initial synchronization faster. Today I talk about file attributes, how they sneak inefficiency into your cloning...
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Handy Tool for Converting KVM / VMware Images to Hyper-V
I was recently involved in a conversation where people needed to convert a handful of KVM virtual machine images to Hyper-V. Now, the QEMU project already includes the necessary tools to do this – but...
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Want to write a DSC resource where only a single instance can be configured?
I've heard from a few DSC resource authors that they need a method to implement a resource that has a single instance; a singleton. The problem they encountered is a DSC resource must define a Key...
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Building a Daily Ubuntu image for Hyper-V
After getting my Windows Image Factory up and running – the next thing I started to look at was how to create an “always up-to-date Ubuntu image”. To solve this problem I ended up taking a very...
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DSC Resource Kit flourishes as open source
We are excited to announce the recent updates which were made to DSC Resource Kit since open sourcing it on GitHub! We were working hard on improving coverage and robustness of DSC as well as saw...
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Why moving Microsoft Dynamics into the Cloud+Enterprise division makes...
This post was written by James Staten, Chief Strategist, Cloud + EnterpriseLast week our CEO Satya Nadella announced a reorganization of our engineering groups that combined our client hardware and...
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Architecture Matters: The Service Fabric of Our Lives
With all due respect to cotton, the fabric of our lives (or at least our careers in IT) is Service Fabric. In my last post, I touched on the use of Azure Service Fabric as the underlying substrate of...
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Zoom Windows 10 Remote Desktop connections to older versions of Windows to...
Hello, my name is Ravi Ashok and I work on the Remote Desktop team. I am writing today about a new feature in the Remote Desktop (RD) client on Windows 10 that one of our MVPs, Freek Berson, recently...
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Microsoft delivers new hybrid cloud management innovation
Customers today are embracing cloud at a rapid pace and many of them are turning to a hybrid cloud strategy. The journey to the cloud is unique for each customer as they choose the right mix of...
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