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Microsoft Planning Tools for Your Server Virtualization Projects

Posted over 4 years ago

by Baldwin Ng
- 2 Comments
Planning is a crucial part of every successful IT project. Unfortunately, who can ever find enough time to plan? Well, Microsoft has developed a set of planning tools (called Solution Accelerators) to help you. Whether you are considering Windows Server...
Microsoft Reduce Customer Effort Center

Error Code 0x80070424 with Windows Firewall and "Base Filtering Engine Service" Not available in services database list.

Posted over 2 years ago

by danma_
- 208 Comments
Recently, many customers reported the Windows Firewall issue. This seemed to be caused by a wide spread malicious application. Symptom: The error message "Windows Firewall can't change some of your settings. Error code 0x80070424" will pop up when...
Exchange Team Blog

Resource scheduling in Exchange Server 2007

Posted over 6 years ago

by The Exchange Team
- 24 Comments
Update 4/16/2009: We have corrected an incorrect permissions entry in this blog post. Heard of the term calendar concierge ? Look up http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2006/07/24/428390.aspx . In this post I'm going to talk about what happened to the...
John Howard - Senior Program Manager in the Hyper-V team at Microsoft

Part 1 - Hyper-V Remote Management: You do not have the required permission to complete this task. Contact the administrator of the authorization policy for the computer ‘COMPUTERNAME’

Posted over 5 years ago

by John Howard -MSFT
- 147 Comments
Update 14th Nov 2008 . I've just released a script which does all this configuration in one or two command lines: HVRemote Quick links to the all parts in the series: 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 and 5 After the many emails I’ve had about this, it seemed...
Maria Green

Vista CTP December

Posted over 8 years ago

by mariaj1
- 319 Comments
Idag är det årets mörkaste dag... men vad gör det när man har senast Vista-CTP:n att leka med :) Den kommer finnas för nedladdning den här veckan för er som har tillgång till CTP:er via olika program (TechNet, MSDN, TAP osv). Jag har ju vid det här laget...
The HD-DVD Insider

Moving "The HD DVD Insider" to On10.net

Posted over 7 years ago

by TechNet Archive
- 164 Comments
We’re happy to announce we’re moving the HD DVD blog to on10.net – you’ll find all the HD DVD Insiders content at www.on10.net/hddvd/ . On10 provides us a superior technological infrastructure to include video and audio. We’ve moved the posts from the...
Exchange Team Blog

Troubleshooting Exchange 2010 Management Tools startup issues

Posted over 3 years ago

by The Exchange Team
- 14 Comments
EDIT 12/7/2010: For additional help resolving those issues, please see our newer blog post Resolving WinRM errors and Exchange 2010 Management tools startup failures . In this blog post, we will be highlighting some of the most common errors that may...
Exchange Team Blog

Exchange 2007 lessons learned - generating a certificate with a 3rd party CA

Posted over 6 years ago

by The Exchange Team
- 17 Comments
As I developed the documentation for the Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Domain Security feature set, I used the self-signed certificates that are generated by the New-ExchangeCertificate cmdlet. For the import function, I used existing PFX (PKCS#12) certs...
Exchange Team Blog

Windows 2003 Scalable Networking pack and its possible effects on Exchange

Posted over 6 years ago

by The Exchange Team
- 29 Comments
Note: Please see this blog post for the most updated recommendations on this subject. EDIT: On 3/12/2008, we have posted a new blog post that talks about the hotfix that we have released for this problem: http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2008/03/12...
Microsoft Fix it BLOG

Uninstall Internet Explorer 8

Posted over 4 years ago

by bmahaf
- 118 Comments
Use this Microsoft Fix it automated soltion to remove IE8 if you need to. But if you are only having problems with certain Web sites, you might want to try Compatibility View first. Resetting Internet Explorer can also solve some problems and avoid uninstalling IE8....
Ask the Performance Team

Slow Large File Copy Issues

Posted over 6 years ago

by CC Hameed
- 59 Comments
From time to time, customers will call in to report "performance problems" that they are having when copying large files from one location to another. By "performance problems", they mean that the file isn't copying as fast as...
Office Global Experience

Using the New Mini Translator in Office 2010

Posted over 4 years ago

by the_gxp_professor
- 109 Comments
A Lesson by The Professor Using the New Mini Translator in Office 2010 Hello, Allow me to introduce myself. I have traveled far and taught at many universities. I have seen how people everywhere around the world use computers to reach their full...