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Performance Tuning For Windows Server 2012 R2, AV Exclusions and Windows 7 VDI Image Hot Fixes
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over 1 year ago
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Anonymous
Hey y’all, Mark here again with a quick post for you. There are three new articles that just came out that we wanted to make sure you folks didn’t miss. Performance Tuning Guidelines for Windows Server 2012 R2 - This one is something I get asked about
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IPv6 for the Windows Administrator: The 2002: (6to4 Tunnel) Address and its Impact
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over 1 year ago
by
Anonymous
Hello, this is Venkat Kalyanasundaram back with another IPv6 post for everyone. We discussed in my previous post IPv6 for the Windows Administrator: How Name Resolution Works in a Dual IPv4/IPv6 Scenario and talked about the behavior when using a private
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How to Save the DNS Cheese. Protect AD-Integrated DNS Zones from Accidental Deletions
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over 1 year ago
by
Anonymous
As a quick follow on to our recent post about DNS deletion auditing, here's an ounce of prevention for you - well actually about 3 tons worth - courtesy of Brent Whitlow, Bryan Zink and your blogger-de jure, Hilde. Our co-workers, peers and others
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Top Support Solutions for Microsoft Lync Server
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over 1 year ago
by
Kaushik Ainapure [MSFT]
Here are the top Microsoft Support solutions for the most common issues experienced when using Microsoft Lync Server. 1. Solutions related to Sign on and authentication - Internal user: Lync 2010 Client Authentication The New Lync Connectivity
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How To Split and Migrate Child Domain DNS Records To a Dedicated DNS Zone
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over 1 year ago
by
Anonymous
Hello, my name is Pierre Ricca, and I am a Premier Field Engineer focused on Active Directory and PowerShell scripting. I started working at Microsoft France as PFE in November 2010. An important part of my job consists of delivering health checks, risk
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Announcement……MDOP 2013 R2 Released!
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over 1 year ago
by
Anonymous
In a previous post , we mentioned how to create recovery images using DaRT 8.0 SP1. However, that version didn’t support creating recovery images for Windows 8.1. This week we released MDOP 2013 R2 which includes DaRT 8.1 that adds this functionality
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How to Build Your ADFS Lab on Server 2012 Part 1
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over 1 year ago
by
Anonymous
Hey y’all Mark and Tom here with a series we think you guys will dig. I feel like half of our blog posts are building a lab of some kind. We love our labs in PFE. That’s how most of us learn. Set up a lab, play around with the technology, and get it configured
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Hyper-V Management Pack Extensions 2012 / 2012R2 Available
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over 1 year ago
by
Anonymous
We have published the last release of the Hyper-V Management Pack Extensions with support for Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V. Please update your current HyperVMPE 2012 with this latest release from codeplex. Hyper-V Management Pack Extensions 2012
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An update for ADMT, and a few other things too.
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over 1 year ago
by
Anonymous
So, we’ve been quiet for a few months, which is extraordinarily embarrassing after I basically told everyone that we were going to not do that. The reality of what we do in support is that sometimes it’s “All Hands on Deck”, which
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Domain and DC Migrations: How To Monitor LDAP, Kerberos and NTLM Traffic To Your Domain Controllers
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over 1 year ago
by
Anonymous
Hi everyone Adrian Corona here, this time I’d like to talk about a scenario that I get asked about a lot: Domain / Domain Controller Migrations. A very (if not the most) important piece of a successful migration is to know when there’s
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Unable to launch Cluster Failover Manager on any node of a 2012/2012R2 Cluster
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over 1 year ago
by
Anonymous
When Failover Cluster Manager is opened to manage a Cluster, it will contact all the nodes and retrieve Cluster configuration information using WMI calls. If any one of the nodes in the Cluster does not have the cluster namespace "root\mscluster"
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Cannot Extend Simple Virtual Disk in Windows Server 2012 R2
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over 1 year ago
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Anonymous
I’m writing this blog to help shed some light on extending simple virtual disks in Windows Server 2012 R2. We have had questions from various customers that have been using simple virtual disk and need to add more space to them. Let’s say
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Free ebook: Introducing Microsoft System Center 2012 R2
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over 1 year ago
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Anonymous
If you work with Hyper-V, you very well also use System Center to manage it. If you do not use System Center, you should download this free ebook and give it a review. We’re happy to announce a new free ebook – Introducing Microsoft System
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Scale Out File Servers on Windows Server 2012
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over 1 year ago
by
Anonymous
Hey y’all Mark here with a quick post. We wanted to call attention to some fabulous work another Microsoft blogger has done. You may have heard of him. Ned ‘I’m famous on the internet’ Pyle. Old Ned use to be the editor in chief of AskDS until he left
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How to Build Your ADFS Lab on Server 2012, Part2: Web SSO
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over 1 year ago
by
Anonymous
Mark and Tom here again, continuing our series on ADFS. In this post, we'll show you how to use some sample-code to configure a web application for Web Single Sign-On (Web SSO) with ADFS. What's Web SSO? While Federated Web Single Sign-on
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Event ID 157 "Disk # has been surprise removed"
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over 1 year ago
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Anonymous
Hello my name is Bob Golding and I would like to share information on a new error you may see in the system event log. It is Event ID 157 "Disk <n> has been surprise removed" with Source: disk. This error indicates that the CLASSPNP
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Troubleshooting Adventure: A Real Life Memory Pool Leak
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over 1 year ago
by
Anonymous
Hi this is Jerry Devore with my first blog contribution. I am dedicated Premier Field Engineer specializing in Active Directory for a couple enterprise customers in the mid-west. Dedicated PFEs are generally embedded with Premier customer’s architects
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I/O Performance impact of running Start-DedupJob with –Priority High
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over 1 year ago
by
Anonymous
My name is Steven Andress and I am a Support Escalation Engineer with Microsoft’s Platforms Support Team. This is a short blog post to alert you to a condition you might encounter when running a deduplication job using the Start-DedupJob PowerShell
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Understanding Pool Corruption Part 3 – Special Pool for Double Frees
Posted
11 months ago
by
Anonymous
In Part 1 and Part 2 of this series we discussed pool corruption and how special pool can be used to identify the cause of such corruption. In today’s article we will use special pool to catch a double free of pool memory. A double free of
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The Most Popular Posts of 2013 and Belated Birthday
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11 months ago
by
Anonymous
Hey y’all, Mark back again for another year end recap. It has been an eventful year. We’ve added more bloggers to our team which is great, really increased our readership(it seems like you guys like us!) and have made it a full 2 years in existence on
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Microsoft PKI OCSP Responder Now JITC Certified and Lab Setup Guide
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11 months ago
by
Anonymous
Hello all, my name is Jesse Esquivel and I’m a platforms PFE with one of my specialty’s being security/PKI. I’ve been working with PKI in the Department of Defense (DoD) and Federal spaces for the last 7 years, designing, installing
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Quick Reference: Troubleshooting, Diagnosing, and Tuning MaxConcurrentApi Issues
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11 months ago
by
Anonymous
Hi this is Brandon Wilson again. In my newest “Quick Reference” (get the joke?), we will be narrowing the scope for troubleshooting and tuning MaxConcurrentApi issues. There is a lot of information out there on the net on this topic, but
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Debugging a Windows 8.1 Store App Crash Dump
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11 months ago
by
Anonymous
Quality reports on the App Summary page Microsoft provides triage dumps of your Windows Store application’s crashes and hangs through the Quality section of the App Summary page on the Dev Center - Windows Store apps portal. Back in June 2012,
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Popular new features in Windows 8.1
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11 months ago
by
Anonymous
We are very excited, as are many of you, about our latest OS. Windows 8.1 is readily available across the globe. We thought of listing some of the top/new features it brings to the table. Here is a small list of some of the more popular new features:
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Understanding the UserAccountControl Attribute in Active Directory
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11 months ago
by
Anonymous
Dougga here. Not a password policy blog post, I am finally off of that issue. But I couldn’t help myself and included something about passwords in this post <grin>. Users and Computers have and attribute called UserAccountControl that dictates
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