Success with Hybrid Cloud: Getting Deep –Hyper-V Recovery Manager
Earlier in this series, I looked at four common Hybrid Cloud scenarios, including disaster recovery. In this post, I’ll look at the technology behind Microsoft’s disaster recovery (DR) solutions (in...
View ArticleIntroducing Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Starter Kit (VDI SK) v1.0 Preview...
Hi again, its Jeff Buller and Victor Arzate. This is Part 2 on introducing the Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Starter Kit (VDI SK) v1.0 Preview. This post will provide more details about VDI SK, how to...
View Article“My Apps” SSO App Launcher for iOS now available!
Howdy folks, More fun news to share. Our SSO app launcher ( http://myapps.microsoft.com ) is now available for iOS! One of the things you've told us is that accessing resources from mobile devices is...
View ArticleMy Daily Hyper-V Status Email–Part 4 of 5
Now that I have talked about displaying event log information and virtual machine health information; the next part of my status email is storage health information.In my experience – the most common...
View ArticleAutomation–The New World of Tenant Provisioning with Windows Azure Pack (Part...
Hello Readers!Yes, it’s only been a couple minutes since Charles published parts 1 to 4 for this series, and maybe you thought we would rest a bit and take a breath before publishing new content… Well,...
View ArticleRevisiting SBS 2011 Standard Migrations
We have been experiencing some good amount of volume around SBS 2011 Standard migrations recently. If you are stuck on one of such migration issues please start by following these outstanding...
View ArticleConfiguring WSUS 6.x for Network Load Balancing (NLB)
Some content in this section was written by Marta Barillas, a SDET on the WSUS engineering team. This blog post applies to Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2. For instructions using WSUS...
View ArticleConsiderations for multiple WSUS instances sharing a content database when...
When you use System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) to manage updates, SCCM causes clients not to use WSUS servers directly for all operations (such as reporting). In this configuration, it is...
View ArticleUpdated Reporting and Analytics Capabilities
Howdy folks, In a blog post last November I introduced some new reporting capabilities. Since then we've been hard at work enhancing this set of features. Our goal with this work is to enable you to...
View ArticleBecoming an Xperf Xpert Part 9: Where’s My Network? (With Stack Walk)
Hi everyone Randolph (Randy) Reyes with another SBSL blog post. In this particular engagement we went onsite to deliver a workshop in how to utilize the Windows Performance Toolkit (XPERF) to detect...
View ArticleWindows XP support ending April 8, 2014
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 on moving...
View ArticleMicrosoft Releases Security Advisory 2953095
Today we released Security Advisory 2953095 to notify customers of a vulnerability in Microsoft Word. At this time, we are aware of limited, targeted attacks directed at Microsoft Word 2010. An...
View ArticleHyper-V Networking–DHCP Guard
If you start digging into the advanced settings section of a virtual network adapter – there is a lot of interesting stuff to look at. Today I’m going to talk about the DHCP guard setting:This setting...
View ArticleFailover Clustering and Active Directory Integration
My name is Ram Malkani and I am a Support Escalation Engineer on Microsoft’s Windows Core team. I am writing to discuss how Failover Clustering is integrated with Active Directory on Windows...
View ArticleContoso Labs-Network Purchasing (Device Types)
Contoso Labs Series - Table of ContentsNow that Cisco has been chosen as the vendor for our network, we need to identify the layers of our network fabric, and the devices to be used in those roles....
View ArticleConfiguration Manager Servicing Update
Author: Brian Huneycutt With seven Cumulative Updates (CU’s) for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager and System Center 2012 Configuration Manager SP1 released to date, and more on the way, we...
View ArticleConfiguration Manager Servicing Update
Author: Brian Huneycutt With seven Cumulative Updates (CU’s) for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager and System Center 2012 Configuration Manager SP1 released to date, and more on the way, we...
View ArticleHow to apply Task Sequence Prestaged Media on multi-partitioned disks for...
The TechNet documentation for System Configuration Manager contains instructions for creating Prestaged Media at the below links: System Center Configuration Manager 2007 How to Create Task Sequence...
View ArticleTop Support Solutions for IIS
Here are the top Microsoft Support solutions for the most common issues experienced when using IIS.1. Solutions related to Getting Started:What's New in IIS 7What's New in IIS 8.5What's New in IIS...
View ArticleVideo - Storage Space et Storage Tiering avec Windows Server 2012 R2
Découvrez en 21 minutes une vidéo d’introduction (co-animée avec Arnaud) à quelques unes des nombreuses nouveautés en terme de stockage dans Windows Server 2012 R2 :Storage Space et Storage Tiering...
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