March, 2013

The IT Pro Evangelism team, Microsoft Learning and the Microsoft Virtual Academy are pleased to announce the next FREE & PUBLIC event Live Q&A: Introduction to Hyper-V on Wednesday April 3 rd , from 8:30 am – 10:00am PST with virtualization...

Hello Debug community this is Karim Elsaid again.  Today I’m going to discuss a recent interesting case where intermittently the server is losing access to the network.  No communication (even pings) can be done from / to the server when the...

Hello Everyone,  Today we are going to talk about Processor changes in Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V servers. Hyper-V in Windows Server® 2012 supports significantly larger configurations of virtual and physical components than in previous releases...

Hey Folks, one of our peeps on AskPFEplat posted a great blog on Troubleshooting Performance issues using the Windows Performance Recorder app.  This tool allows you to easily capture XPERF traces on your *machines.  Go check it out! Troubleshooting...

Hello, my name is Fred Jeng from the Global Escalation Services team. For today’s post, I want to go over how Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 load file system mini-filters in a mixed environment when legacy filters are also present. I recently came...

This blog has been a long time coming. There is a bit of confusion about the subject of alternate data streams (ADS) and no small amount of suspicion. So I want to take a few minutes to set the record straight on ADS. A couple years ago I wrote a blog...

In today’s blog I am going to discuss how to create a multi-partition bootable USB drive for use UEFI based computers. It is common to create bootable USB flash drives or hard drives so you can boot from them to do various tasks such as Boot Windows PE...

Hello, Today’s blog will walk you through installing the Volume Activation services role on Windows Server 2012 so you can configure Active Directory Based Activation (ADBA). Initial Configuration of Active Directory Based Activation 1. After installing...

Hi, Today’s blog will walk you through installing the Volume Activation services role on Windows Server 2012 so you can setup a new Windows Server 2012 KMS host. Initial Configuration of a new Windows Server 2012 KMS host 1. After installing Windows Server...

Hi, Today’s blog will cover the options available if you are deploying Windows 8 and/or Windows Server 2012 to an existing KMS activation configuration. It references two other blogs Installing the Volume Activation Services Role in Windows Server 2012...

Recently, I was contacted by a customer who was advised by an ISV to set a registry value under one of the sub keys in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\.  Let's call it UseQuantumComputing = 1 (value name has been...

In a previous blog , it was discussed on where you can get a list of the Failover Clustering and Hyper-V hotfixes for Windows Server 2008 R2. Looking for Windows Server 2008 R2 Cluster and Hyper-V Hotfixes? http://blogs.technet.com/b/askcore/archive...

  While working on Windows 8/Windows Server 2012, I have been tied up with other content creation projects and as such have not had time to write for AskCore. However, I’ve had a number of blog ideas rattling around in my head. Today I finally found...