Virtual Machine Manager 2016 TP4 and Storage Quality of Service (QoS)
Hi everyone, Kiran Madnani here. I’m a Lead Program Manager here on the System Center team and today I’d like to talk about Storage Quality of Service (QoS) and Virtual Machine Manager 2016 TP4....
View ArticleARM concepts in Azure Stack for the WAP Administrator — Offers, Plans, and...
Hello Readers! This blog is part 3 of the series “ARM concepts in Azure Stack for the WAP Administrator.” In this post we’ll discuss how the plans, subscriptions, and add-ons concepts you are familiar...
View ArticleHow OMS and Azure reduce disaster recovery costs
Last week we began looking at disaster recovery in our continuing series guiding you through the rich feature set of Operations Management Suite (OMS). Azure Site Recovery (ASR) plays a key role in...
View ArticleControlling the Uncontrollable, Component 2: Application Deployment
In most organizations, the first app that needs to be enabled for mobile users is e-mail. It goes without saying (but here goes) that choosing which e-mail app/apps you’re going to enable and support...
View ArticleLocky malware, lucky to avoid it
You may have seen reports of the Locky malware circulating the web; we think this is a good time to discuss its distribution methods, and reiterate some best-practice methods that will help prevent...
View ArticleLunch Break / s2 e6 / Mark Templeton, former CEO, Citrix
This week’s episode is part 2 of my drive Mark Templeton, the recently retired CEO of Citrix.In this second half of our discussion, we talk about his history with Tesla Motors, what mobile device...
View ArticleNew security capabilities in Operations Management Suite
Microsoft Operations Management Suite (OMS) Log Analytics offers you the ability to derive deep and actionable insights across your IT environment, from the on-premises datacenter to the cloud. As part...
View ArticleNow Available: CU3 for System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager SP1 and...
Author: Brian Huneycutt, Software Engineer, Enterprise Client and MobilityCumulative Update 3 (CU3) for System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager SP1 and System Center 2012 Configuration Manager SP2...
View ArticleThe PowerShell Gallery Is Public
We are excited to announce that, as of today, the PowerShell Gallery has changed from Preview to Public.In July 2015, we announced and opened the PowerShell Gallery for public contributions. Since...
View ArticleBackup of Enterprise data made easier with System Center Data Protection Manager
System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2012 R2 UR9 went live on 26th Jan, 2016. In the previous release, we focused on stability – in this release, we have added a slew of features to optimize...
View ArticleTop Solutions for Azure Billing and Subscriptions
Azure Billing and Subscriptions Here is a list of top Microsoft Support solutions for the most common issues experienced with Azure billing, subscriptions and account management. BILLING 1. Azure...
View ArticleITcast épisode 27 du 26 février 2016 : Cloud, mobiles, et plus si affinités
Aujourd'hui Stanislas et Arnaud sont fidèles au poste pour commenter l'actualité, autour de deux événements. Tout d'abord, à quelques jours de l'ouverture de la RSA Conference 2016 , Microsoft...
View ArticleCumulative Update 3 for ConfigMgr 2012 SP2 and ConfigMgr 2012 R2 SP1 is now...
Hi everyone, Cumulative Update 3 (CU3) for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager SP2 and System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager SP1 is now available. There are a bunch of fixes in this release...
View ArticleARM DSC Extension Settings
OverviewThis is the schema for the settings portion of the Azure DSC extension in an ARM template.Fast Reference"settings": {"wmfVersion": "latest","configuration": {"url":...
View ArticleUpdated guide for deploying Gateway using Microsoft VMM Tech Preview 4
NOTE This guide is an updated version of the guide previously published here.=====IntroductionThis article helps you evaluate the Software Defined Networking (SDN) features in Windows Server 2016...
View ArticleUpdated guide for deploying Software Load Balancer using Microsoft VMM 2016...
NOTE This guide is an updated version of the guide previously published here.=====IntroductionThis article helps you evaluate the Software Defined Networking (SDN) features in Windows Server 2016...
View ArticleOur February Service Manager #LyncUp Call is Available for Download.
The February call covered, we had over 110 participants and a lively audience, as always.Chris Ross and Will Udovich as our special Partner guests and presented/demoed Cireson’s new Portal as well as...
View ArticleKB: Error when you open the VMM console after you install UR7 or UR8 for VMM...
Just a quick FYI on a KB article we recently published for VMM 2012 R2. After you install Update Rollup 7 or Update Rollup 8 for System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager (VMM 2012 R2), you may see...
View ArticleTroubleshooting Hangs Using Live Dump
In this blog post https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/clustering/2014/12/08/troubleshooting-cluster-shared-volume-auto-pauses-event-5120/ we discussed what a Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV) event ID 5120...
View ArticleA new home for the Hyper-V TLFS
With every release of Windows – we have released a matching “Hypervisor Top Level Functional Specification”. This document is some of the most detailed documentation we have on what the core...
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