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Top Support Solutions for Windows 8 and Windows 8.1
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8 months ago
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Kaushik Ainapure [MSFT]
Here are the top Microsoft Support solutions for the most common issues IT Pros experience when using or deploying Windows 8 or 8.1 (updated quarterly). 1. Solutions related to installing or upgrading Windows: Windows 8.1 or Windows RT 8.1 upgrade
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Introducing Script Browser - A world of scripts at your fingertips
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8 months ago
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Kaushik Ainapure [MSFT]
To reuse script samples on the Internet, the following steps seem quite familiar to IT Pros: wandering through different script galleries, forums and blogs, switching back and forth between webpages and scripting environment, and countless download, copy
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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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How to use the File Server Capacity Tool (FSCT) on Server 2012 R2
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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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Removing .NET Framework 4.5/4.5.1 removes Windows 2012/2012R2 UI and other features
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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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What’s New in Windows Servicing: Service Stack Improvements: Part 3
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8 months ago
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Kaushik Ainapure [MSFT]
Servicing Stack improvements in KB2821895 for Windows 8, and How its assists the upgrade to 8.1? My name is Aditya and I am a Sr. Support Escalation Engineer for Microsoft on the Windows Core Team. This blog is a continuation of the previous Servicing
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Introduction to Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) AlternateLoginID Feature
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8 months ago
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Kaushik Ainapure [MSFT]
With all of this great talk on the Windows 8.1 Client Update we here at ASKPFEPLAT didn’t want to leave out one important Active Directory Federation Server (AD FS) feature released with the Windows Server 2012 R2 Update. My Name is Keith Brewer
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An Update about the Windows 8.1 Update
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8 months ago
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Kaushik Ainapure [MSFT]
Hi everyone, David here. Today over at the Springboard series blog we announced some important news that applies to anyone who has been trying to roll out the Windows 8.1 update in an enterprise environment. We don’t usually do announcements about
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How LastLogonTimeStamp is Updated with Kerberos S4u2Self
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8 months ago
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Kaushik Ainapure [MSFT]
Introduction Hi! My name is Richard Sasser, or Rick, as I prefer, and I’m a Microsoft Certified Master for Active Directory and I work on the Platforms DSE team. I do a lot of security related work, and consult frequently on Public Key Infrastructures
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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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What's New in the Windows 8.1 Update
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8 months ago
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Kaushik Ainapure [MSFT]
Hello AskPerf Readers! Henry Chen here from the Devices & Deployment team. Today, I would like to spend some time highlighting some of the user experience changes in the shell for Windows 8.1 Update. Windows 8.1 Update introduces numerous enhancements
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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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Exploring Windows 8.1 Update – Start Screen, Desktop and Other Enhancements
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8 months ago
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Kaushik Ainapure [MSFT]
Welcome to Ask PFE Plat's coverage of the next chapter in Microsoft's on-going refinement of Windows. As with 8.1, we continue to evolve and improve the OS and last week, at the Build 2014 conference, we released "Windows 8.1 Update"
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