If you are a partner of Microsoft, please feel free to register for these sessions and improve your readiness on the latest Microsoft Core Platform technologies. In case you are a customer, you can get in touch with your partner and they would be able...

Mountaineer of the A-Team, Bhuwan, again takes the rope and explains us the step by step Installation of Self Service Portal for Service Manager 2012. Self Service Portal Server installation is bit tricky and requires configuration of certificate...

Partner Consultants in Microsoft Partner Services Organization have created a few Solution based On-demand videos for the Online Partner community to consume. Partners can take a look at these videos from the Partner Learning Central links below and...

If you are a partner of Microsoft, please feel free to register for these sessions and improve your readiness on the latest and super cool technologies. In case you are a customer, you can get in touch with your partner and they would be able to deliver...

Publishing RemoteApps and Remote Session in Remote Desktop Services 2012 The newest member in the A-Team, Ahmed Moseb, along with Yash , helps us with a neat customization that can be done in Remote Desktop Services (RDS) in Windows Server 2012...

The veteran of the A-Team, Anurag , along with Yash , takes us through the steps to configure a Windows 7 Thin PC with single sign on (SSO), in Windows Server 2012 Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) environment. The steps to configure it are shown...

  Wishing you all a very Happy and Prosperous New Year 2013! This is the first of a series of articles which we have planned to publish every month. This article contains the list of 1:Many sessions and Practice Accelerator workshops which we have...

Newest member in the A-Team, Aman Sahota, gives us insights on some simple, yet important steps in Active Directory management. In Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2012, you can lower the Forest and Domain functional level from 2012 to 2008...

MDOP 2012 is now available with an upgrade on all the products present in the suite. The download for the product suite can be found here . The most popular product in MDOP suite is App-V, and with MDOP 2012, App-V 5.0 is getting released. It has undergone...

New features in System Center 2012 SP1 (Part 2 of 2) Continuing from the previous post, Nikunj completes the feature description in this post for the remaining 3 products, SCVMM, SCOM, App Controller. The link for the first part can be found...

New features in System Center 2012 SP1 (Part 1 of 2) Today the A-team will like to discuss the new features of System Center 2012 SP1 which is in Beta right now. Nikunj Kansara , takes the responsibility of taking us through the SC2012 SP1 products...

The Solution Accelerators team has announced Data Classification Toolkit for Windows Server 2012. This toolkit allows you to s treamline your compliance efforts with new features from the Data Classification Toolkit for Windows Server 2012. Identify,...

  Configuration Manager 2012 SP1 Beta is now available for download on the Microsoft Download center. This is one of the most awaited update as this brings in enhancement on multi-platform support , Windows 8 support and many other features. Configuration...

  Transition from Small Business Server to Standard Windows Server SBS Queen of A-Team, Bonoshri Sarkar takes us through one of the most common scenarios that IT administrators face while dealing with Small Business Server. In this blog  post...

Nokia today, released 2 Windows Phone 8, Nokia 820 and 920. Some of the amazing features of these phones are ClearBlack technology, Carl Zeiss lens, PureView and PureMotion HD+. Check out the Windows Phone Team Blog here . Check out the Nokia...

The biggest change in the Server Operating System history is ready for launch. And it is on September 4th. Be a part of it by registering at the following location: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/new.aspx Be a part of this event...

Understanding Windows 8 Client Hyper-V   The Windows guy in the team, Yash Tolia , will be our guy for the discussions on the new Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012. Here, he is going to discuss the new features of Windows 8, starting with Client...

Step-by-Step installation of Exchange Connector 3.0 RC for System Center 2012 Service Manager The mountaineer of the A-Team, Bhuwan Upadhyay , takes the baton and discusses a common scenario observed with System Center 2012 Service Manager. The...

Forefront online protection for Exchange (FOPE) encryption and Zero download Manager The Security Specialist of our A-Team, Mohamed Rafeeq , takes on the challenge to give an insight on the important segments of E-mail hosted solution from Microsoft...

Chalk Talks on Active Directory and Windows® PowerShell Chalk Talk is a direct collaboration event with Microsoft experts. The A-Team has taken up the difficult task to address partner queries, solution discussions and gotchas through Chalk Talks...

This is in continuation of the Part I on this same topic written by our very own Anil Malekani , if you haven’t read it already, you can read it here First you can download the Application Approval Workflow Solution Accelerator along with Print...

Application Approval Workflow in System Center 2012 When and How to use it (Part I) The following blog is about the experience of one of the A-Team members, Anil Malekani , while working with the partner. He was configuring Application Approval Workflow...

Upcoming Engagements for Partners in Core Infrastructure “We’re building a cloud where you decide where and how you want to go to the cloud. As long as you have Active Directory completely deployed, and System Center completely deployed...

The Who: “ Voila! In view humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the “vox populi” now vacant, vanished. However...