Today’s blog will discuss support for UEFI with Microsoft Deployment Toolkit and other deployment tools.  First we should discuss why this change is occurring.  Today’s BIOS has been around for a long time.  Some of the limitations include...

Cluster Shared Volumes is a new feature of Windows Server 2008 R2 Failover Clustering intended to enhance the capabilities of Highly Available Virtual Machines. It is recommended to utilize Cluster Shared Volumes if you intend to use the Live Migration...

We have updated the KB that deals with this error to include a new script to get users out of the 0xc0000034 condition and allows SP1 to install properly. This fix will only work for users who are currently in a 0xc0000034 state after applying Service...

I know that one of the workarounds everyone is using is editing the pending.xml file and rebooting the machine.  This is seemingly working for everyone that the SetupExecute registry value does not.  I wanted to give a brief rundown as to why...

I've seen several reports now of the following error (or something similar): !! 0xc0000034 !! 142/53007 (_0000000000000000.cdf-ms) Note If you restart the computer, you experience the same error message. If you're hitting one of these errors, you have...

Hello, my name is Manoj Sehgal. I am a Senior Support Escalation Engineer in the Windows group and today’s blog will cover “BitLocker Drive Encryption and Active Directory” BitLocker Recovery Information (msFVE-RecoveryInformation) can be backed up in...

Just one week after Microsoft Management Summit 2011 (MMS), Microsoft Learning will be hosting an exclusive three-day Jump Start class specially tailored for VMware and Microsoft virtualization technology pros.  Registration for “ Microsoft Virtualization...

Hi, My name is Kim and I’m a support engineer in the Core Performance team.  I recently joined this group about six months ago and noticed that there are a variety of ways to gather the same data. I’d thought I share some of the tricks I’ve learned...