Microsoft’s latest hybrid updates provide bottomless capacity for today’s...
Applications and data are at the heart of how organizations drive competitive value and improve efficiency. However, this digital transformation is resulting in an explosion of data. Enterprises have...
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Setting up Linux Operating System Clusters on Hyper-V (3 of 3)
Author: Dexuan CuiLink to Part 2: Setting up Linux Operating System Clusters on Hyper-VLink t0 Part 1: Setting up Linux Operating System Clusters on Hyper-V BackgroundThis blog post is the third in a...
View ArticleRecap: European Azure Tour & Cloud Roadshow
I just spent the last six days in Frankfurt (Azure Tour) and London (Cloud Roadshow) keynoting both events and meeting with over a dozen customers – and it was amazing.The customers I met with have...
View ArticleNew online guide for configuring and troubleshooting Software Update...
If you’re someone who ever does any work with software updates, either via WSUS or a Configuration Manager Software Update Point (SUP), we have a new guide that I think you’re really going to like.What...
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Walkthrough: Managing RHEL on Azure with OMS
Recently we announced the public availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) server images in a majority of Microsoft Azure regions. With the capability to deploy a Red Hat supported Virtual...
View ArticleHOTFIX: Windows PE boot images from WinADK fail to initialize and log error...
The Windows PE boot images that are included with the Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit (ADK) for Windows 10, version 1511, are missing information that’s required in order to configure network...
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Lunch Break / s2 e7 / Michael McBride, VP Strategy, Lookout
In this episode I hop in the car and talk with Michael McBride, the VP of Global Strategy at the really impressive mobile security company Lookout.Michael and I talk about how the number of people...
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Bringing System Center together with Operations Management Suite
A couple of weeks ago, we filmed a webinar on how you can make the most of your current on-premises investments in System Center by extending to the cloud. The capabilities of Operations Management...
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Move VMware, AWS, Hyper-V and physical servers to Azure with Azure Site Recovery
By contributing author, Abhishek Hemrajani, Senior Program Manager, Cloud + EnterpriseLast week, as part of our continuing series on the capabilities of Operations Management Suite (OMS), we looked at...
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DSC for the PFE: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly, and the Solution with...
Hi Folks, Platforms PFE Dan Cuomo here to chat about Desired State Configuration, AKA “the hotness.” DSC has a few value propositions and is different than general PowerShell scripting in that it’s...
View ArticleCROSS POST: LBFO Dynamic Teaming mode may drop send packets in Windows Server...
Here’s a blog done by Ajay Sarkaria that we felt needed to also be on the Networking site due to the nature and the popularity of the article. So we are going to cross post it here. LBFO Dynamic...
View ArticleDisable VMConsoleSupport???
In Windows 10 / Windows Server 2016 we have two, rather odd, new PowerShell cmdlets:Disable-VMConsoleSupport Enable-VMConsoleSupportThese cmdlets respectively remove and add the video adapter, mouse...
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Controlling the Uncontrollable, Component 3: Device Configuration Policies
The concept of applying policy to devices is not new or exciting – in fact, you’ve probably been using Group Policy or ConfigMgr to do this for your PC’s for years.The fact of the matter is that the...
View ArticleFinding Orphaned Domain Controllers in Active Directory Sites and Services
Hi all. Dougga here after a brief silence of not blogging. Not short on ideas, but writing to such an astute audience is a fun challenge. Your feedback and following is greatly appreciated. Enough of...
View ArticleMicrosoft .NET Framework version 4.5.2 is installed on ConfigMgr 1511 clients
Hi everyone, here’s a quick reminder about .NET Framework and the Configuration Manager build 1511 client that I want to be doubly sure you’re aware of. If you’re running Configuration Manager 1511 or...
View ArticleTyping a string on a virtual machine
This weekend I did a bunch of virtual machine automation – and wanted to share some code snippets. The first snippet is some code that will simply type a string on a virtual machine:$VMName = “Windows...
View ArticleAn Operations Management Suite tour: IT automation
In our ongoing tour through the capabilities of Microsoft Operations Management Suite, so far we have covered log analytics and disaster recovery. Starting today, we will continue the tour with a...
View ArticleFebruary updates to Azure RemoteApp
Within the month of February 2016, we released the following new features and capabilities for Azure RemoteApp:Gallery images were updated with Windows Administrative tools natively installed. Windows...
View ArticleAnnouncing the Underhanded PowerShell Contest
In an effort to improve the validation capability of PowerShell Script Analyzer, we are running a series of contests. We want you – the community members – to help us identify underhanded PowerShell...
View ArticleEnhanced disaster recovery for VMware with Azure Site Recovery
Last week, we looked at how Operations Management Suite (OMS) and Azure Site Recovery (ASR) let you move VMware, Hyper-V, Physical, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) workloads to Azure. ASR’s one-click,...
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