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How to Build Your ADFS Lab on Server 2012 Part 3: ADFS Proxy
Hey y’all Mark and Tom back after a small hiatus. We (well mostly Mark because this was his responsibility) got distracted by other things like “helping customers”, “the Olympics” and “I’m tired I’ll...
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Contoso Labs-Storage Purchasing (JBODs)
Today we're looping back to our first decision point: Storage. We already made our commitment to Storage Spaces on JBODs, now we had to find the right parts and vendors to fit our needs and build a...
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XP Support coming to an End soon…
Hello AskPerf! I’m sure you already know this, but if you don’t, XP Support Ends on April 8th, 2014. That is 21 days from this post. Below are a couple of links that will give you more information...
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Support Tip: SMSExec crashes after modifying the Maximum Number of Retries...
~ Clint KoenigHi everyone, Clint Koenig here with a quick support tip for you. We’ve seen this issue a few times now and it can be easy to hit so if any of you happen to run across it then this will...
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My Daily Hyper-V Status Email–Part 1 of 5
I have spent a fair amount of time creating a reliable and resilient Hyper-V deployment in my house. For the most part this system runs smoothly, however, the resiliency of the design leads to an...
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Support Tip: Operations Manager agents on Windows Server 2012 R2 show as...
~ Brian McDermottHi everyone, Brian McDermott here again with another OpsMgr 2012 R2 support tip for you. Recently we’ve had some customers contact us who have installed the System Center 2012 R2...
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Contoso Labs-Storage Purchasing (File Servers)
Contoso Labs Series - Table of ContentsNow that we have our JBOD's identified, we needed to decide what we were connecting them to. We seriously considered using some of our compute nodes as file...
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Video - Scale Out File Server pour Hyper-V et SQL Server avec Windows Server...
Découvrez en 16 minutes les évolutions du Scale Out File Server dans Windows Server 2012 R2 avec Pascal et moi.) Pour tester Windows Server 2012 R2, Hyper-V, System Center 2012 R2 vous pouvez...
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Success with Hybrid Cloud: Getting Deep – Hybrid Networking
In the previous four technical posts I’ve examined Virtualization & Templates, VMRoles & PaaS, Azure Active Directory, and Windows Azure Pack– now I want to look at the inner workings of the...
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My Daily Hyper-V Status Email–Part 2 of 5
Yesterday, I introduced my daily status email. Today I am going to talk about the first chunk of information that is included in this email: event logs.The primary goal of my status email is to let me...
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Monitoring and troubleshooting in Service Management Automation
This is a blog post that I hope you won’t have to leverage much; but as we all know there are times when our systems are not running as expected. When that happens we need to take some action to figure...
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Custom Branding extended to all sign-in scenarios
Howdy folks, Since we announced the Custom Branding preview back in December, we’ve been hard at work to address your feedback and get the feature ready for prime time. This effort is being driven by...
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HOTFIX: The vEthernet network adapter properties cannot be managed in SCVMM...
Just a quick note to let you know that we released a hotfix that addresses an issue where the vEthernet network adapter properties cannot be managed in VMM 2012 R2. When you upgrade from System Center...
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Timestamp difference in Windows Explorer FTP folder view
Good morning AskPerf! Anshuman here with a quick post on timestamp differences in Windows Explorer when accessing FTP sites. ScenarioOn Windows 7(SP1), Windows 8, and Windows 8.1, you access a folder...
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Announcement: Update for Configuration Manager Clients for Mac Computers
Author: Karan Daftary I am happy to announce the release of the following clients for Mac computers: Mac client for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager SP1. Mac client for System Center 2012 R2...
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Announcement: Update for Configuration Manager Clients for Mac Computers
Author: Karan Daftary I am happy to announce the release of the following clients for Mac computers: Mac client for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager SP1. Mac client for System Center 2012 R2...
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Support Announcements for March 2014
This article describes our supported configurations updates for the month of March. Author: Harini Muralidharan, Program Manager Configuration Manager Sustained Engineering System Center Configuration...
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Support Announcements for March 2014
This article describes our supported configurations updates for the month of March. Author: Harini Muralidharan, Program Manager Configuration Manager Sustained Engineering System Center Configuration...
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Improving AD Connector Performance
IntroductionOne of the longest standing asks on the Service Manager Team has been to improve the performance of the Active Directory (AD) Connector. The AD connector is the primary source for bringing...
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Contoso Labs-Storage Purchasing (SAS config)
Contoso Labs Series - Table of ContentsNow that we've got our JBODs and our file servers, we need to tackle an underappreciated aspect of this solution: The SAS connectivity itself.How Many?After...
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