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Options for Managing Go to Desktop or Start after Sign in in Windows 8.1
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8 months ago
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Kaushik Ainapure [MSFT]
Hi, David here. Over the past year we’ve gotten a lot of feedback from our customers about the pain of changing from older versions of Windows over to Windows 8 and Windows 8.1. While it’s a great OS with a lot of compelling features, it’s
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Removing .NET Framework 4.5/4.5.1 removes Windows 2012/2012R2 UI and other features
Posted
8 months ago
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Kaushik Ainapure [MSFT]
This is Vimal Shekar and Krishnan Ayyer from the Windows Support team. Today in this blog, we will be discussing about an issue that we are seeing increasingly being reported in support. We will look at the effects of removing .Net Framework from a Windows
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Top Support Solutions for Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2
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7 months ago
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Kaushik Ainapure [MSFT]
This is a collection of the top Microsoft Support solutions for the most common issues experienced when using Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2 (updated quarterly). Note that some content that applies to earlier versions of Windows Server
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Top Support Solutions for Microsoft Unified Access Gateway (UAG)
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7 months ago
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Kaushik Ainapure [MSFT]
We’ve gathered the top Microsoft Support solutions for the most common issues experienced when using Microsoft Unified Access Gateway (UAG) 2010 (updated quarterly). 1. Solutions related to Outlook Web Access (OWA) Managing the Microsoft
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Top Support Solutions for System Center 2012 Service Manager
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7 months ago
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Kaushik Ainapure [MSFT]
We’ve gathered the top Microsoft Support solutions for the most common issues experienced when using System Center 2012 Service Manager (updated quarterly). 1. Solutions related to extract, transform, and load job: Troubleshooting System
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How to identify a driver that calls a Windows API leading to a pool leak on behalf of NT Kernel?
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3 months ago
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Kaushik Ainapure [MSFT]
Hello my name is Gurpreet Singh Jutla and I would like to share information on how we can trace the caller which ends up allocating “Se “ Pool tag. When we use the Windows debugger and investigate the pool allocation and the binary associated with
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How DCs are Located Across Forest-Trusts: Part Two
Posted
7 months ago
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Kaushik Ainapure [MSFT]
Tom Moser here again. Sometime last year, I wrote a post around cross-forest DCLocator and how it works. I promised a sequel and then I got busy learning 2012 R2 stuff, VMM, ADFS, Hyper-V Network Virtualization, Forza 5, Ryse, Dead Rising, etc. After
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How to use the File Server Capacity Tool (FSCT) on Server 2012 R2
Posted
8 months ago
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Kaushik Ainapure [MSFT]
Hi, my name is Tom Ausburne and I recently wrote an article simplifying the instructions to use the ADTest tool and verifying that it will work on newer operating systems. The logical follow up to that article deals with another testing tool from Microsoft
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"Microsoft Top Solutions" App Released for Developers and IT Pros
Posted
7 months ago
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Kaushik Ainapure [MSFT]
Two Microsoft employees have developed an app that allows you to sort posts by product on the Top Solutions from Microsoft Support blog. A handy reference tool for all Developer or IT pros, the "Microsoft Top Solutions" app is available for
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WMI: Repository Corruption, or Not?
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4 months ago
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Kaushik Ainapure [MSFT]
Scenario Windows Management Instrumentation failing due to repository being corrupted The WMI Repository (%windir%System32\Wbem\Repository ) is the database that stores meta-information and definitions for WMI classes; in some cases the repository also
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PSA: Incorrect MTU size causes connectivity issues with Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2
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29 days ago
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Kaushik Ainapure [MSFT]
Greg Jaworski here to make readers aware of a support issue where network interface drivers may set an overly large MTU value of 1514 bytes. Problems arise when such large packets cannot be passed by the underlying network infrastructure. As this blog
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How to Build Your ADFS Lab Part4: Upgrading to Server 2012 R2
Posted
9 months ago
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Kaushik Ainapure [MSFT]
Hey y’all Mark and Tom back again with part 4 in our most likely never ending ADFS series. It’s going to end up being as long as Game of Thrones when it’s all said and done, I can feel it. At this point you should have an ADFS server , an ADFS Proxy and
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We Are Hiring Windows Escalation Engineers in Charlotte, Dallas, and Redmond
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4 months ago
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Kaushik Ainapure [MSFT]
Would you like to join the world’s best and most elite debuggers to enable the success of Microsoft solutions? As a trusted advisor to our top customers you will be working with to the most experienced IT professionals and developers in the industry
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How to Configure MSDTC to Use a Specific Port in Windows Server 2012/2012R2
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8 months ago
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Kaushik Ainapure [MSFT]
My name is Steven Graves and I am a Senior Support Escalation Engineer on the Windows Core Team. In this blog, I will discuss how to configure MSDTC to use a specific port on Windows Server 2012/2012R2 as this has slightly changed from the way it is configured
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Remove Lingering Objects that cause AD Replication error 8606 and friends
Posted
3 months ago
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Kaushik Ainapure [MSFT]
Introducing the Lingering Object Liquidator Hi all, Justin Turner here ---it's been a while since my last update . The goal of this post is to discuss what causes lingering objects and show you how to download, and then use the new GUI-based Lingering
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Managing the Store app pin to the Taskbar added in the Windows 8.1 Update
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8 months ago
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Kaushik Ainapure [MSFT]
Warren here, posting with more news regarding the Windows 8.1 Update. Among the many features added by Windows 8.1 Update is that the Store icon will be pinned to the users taskbar when users first logon after updating their PC with Windows 8.1 Update
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Lingering Object Liquidator for Active Directory is now live
Posted
3 months ago
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Kaushik Ainapure [MSFT]
Hey y’all, Mark back with some news about a new tool you might want to take a look at. Up until today, there hasn’t been a really easy way to scan for and remove lingering objects. Friend of the blog and all around Active Directory expert Justin Turner
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How to Use The Same External Ethernet Adapter For Multiple SCCM OSD
Posted
5 months ago
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Kaushik Ainapure [MSFT]
Hey, did you miss me? This is Joao Botto again, this time in collaboration with Configuration Manager PFE Neil Potter. You may have noticed that when Platforms PFEs talk about deployment the deployment scenarios are usually illustrated with MDT examples
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ADFS Deep-Dive: Primer
Posted
4 months ago
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Kaushik Ainapure [MSFT]
Disclaimer: Some concepts have been simplified until I’m ready to cover them in more detail. This is Dave Gregory, back from a blogging hiatus. :) This blog series will be an on-going work in progress as I will be adding new sections over
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Introduction to Network Trace Analysis Using Microsoft Message Analyzer: Part 1
Posted
4 months ago
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Kaushik Ainapure [MSFT]
Hi folks, Lakshman Hariharan here again with the first of what my peers and I intend to be a new series of posts introducing how to read network traces using Microsoft Message Analyzer (henceforth referred to as MA) to go along with our Real World Example
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Software-Defined Networking with Windows Server and System Center Jump Start
Posted
5 months ago
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Kaushik Ainapure [MSFT]
Free online event with live Q&A with the WAP team: http://aka.ms/WAPIaaS Two half-days – Wednesday July 16 th & Thursday July 17 th – 9am-1pm PST IT Pros, you know that enterprises desire the flexibility and affordability of
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Troubleshooting KMS with Process Monitor (ProcMon)
Posted
3 months ago
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Kaushik Ainapure [MSFT]
Dougga here with a short and simple post. I wanted to share an issue that was resolved using tools from SysInternals. Recently I helped discover an odd issue with some KMS servers losing their KMS Server Key and becoming a KMS Client. So where to start
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Deploy Windows to Surface Pro 3 using Microsoft Deployment Toolkit
Posted
5 months ago
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Kaushik Ainapure [MSFT]
Hi, my name is Scott McArthur and I am Senior Support Escalation Engineer on the Deployment/Devices team. In today’s blog I am going to go over the steps to deploy Windows 8.1 Enterprise X64 Update to a Surface Pro 3. In this example I will be using
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Six Audit Mistakes Everyone Seems To Make With Windows Server
Posted
3 months ago
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Kaushik Ainapure [MSFT]
Hi, this is Richard Sasser 'Rick', MCM, Red shirted dude (security guy). This might seem like old data, but you’d be surprised how many people looked at Security Auditing in Windows Server 2008 and 2008R2, saw that the old policies applied, and
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It turns out that weird things can happen when you mix Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2012 R2 domain controllers
Posted
5 months ago
by
Kaushik Ainapure [MSFT]
We have been getting quite a few calls lately where Kerberos authentication fails intermittently and users are unable to log on. By itself, that’s a type of call that we’re used to and we help our customers with all the time. Most experienced AD admins
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