New validated Windows Server Software Defined solutions from our partners
We are pleased to announce a new set of validated software-defined datacenter solutions are now available from our Windows Server partners, including DataON, Fujitsu, HPE, Lenovo, QCT, and Supermicro....
View ArticleDatacenter efficiency gets easier with new Windows Server Software Defined...
The island of Bora Bora. The finish line at a marathon. A software defined datacenter. What do they have in common? Being there is easy getting there is the hard part. However in the latter case, at...
View ArticleCopying Files into a Hyper-V VM with Vagrant
A couple of weeks ago, I published a blog with tips and tricks for getting started with Vagrant on Hyper-V. My fifth tip was to “Enable Nifty Hyper-V Features,” where I briefly mentioned stuff like...
View ArticleViewing Memory in PowerShell
Hello there, this is Benjamin Morgan, and I’m a Premier Field Engineer covering Active Directory and Platforms related topics. This is my first blog post I hope you are all as excited about this as I...
View ArticleWindows Server 2016 NTFS sparse file/Data Deduplication users: please install...
Hi folks, KB4025334 prevents a critical data corruption issue with NTFS sparse files in Windows Server 2016. This helps avoid data corruptions that may occur when using Data Deduplication in Windows...
View ArticlePartners: Thanks for joining us at Microsoft Inspire!
Last week in Washington D.C., we held Microsoft Inspire, our premier annual partner event. This years event was a huge success, with over 17,000 attendees joining us from 140 countries. A big thank you...
View ArticleSecuring RDP with IPSec
Hi Everyone, this is Jerry Devore back with a follow-up topic from my previous post on Privileged Administrative Workstations (PAW) which is a hardened device configuration used to protect privileged...
View ArticleHyper-V virtual machine gallery and networking improvements
In January, we added Quick Create to Hyper-V manager in Windows 10. Quick Create is a single-page wizard for fast, easy, virtual machine creation. Starting in the latest fast-track Windows Insider...
View ArticleIntroducing Microsoft Advanced Threat Analytics v1.8!
We are pleased to announce the general availability of Microsoft Advanced Threat Analytics (ATA) v1.8. This is a key release for our customers with several new features and improvements. Cyberattacks...
View ArticleActive Directory Experts: apply within
Hi all! Justin Turner here from the Directory Services team with a brief announcement: We are hiring! Would you like to join the U.S. Directory Services team and work on the most technically...
View ArticleOur Obsession with Usage and Customer Experience
One of the most impactfuiml changes we have made at Microsoft is to focus our engineering teams solely on usage and the customer experience of our services . In all my years leading product teams, I...
View ArticleBuild an infrastructure monitoring solution with Service Map
Have you ever been responsible for a flaky application, and wanted to set up an automatic notification when a server, process, or connection isn't there when it should be? Me too! And by using OMS...
View ArticleUpdate 1707 for Configuration Manager Technical Preview Branch – Available Now!
Hello everyone! We are happy to let you know that update 1707 for the Technical Preview Branch of System Center Configuration Manager has been released. Technical Preview Branch releases give you an...
View ArticleUpdate 1707 for Configuration Manager Technical Preview released
We are happy to let you know that update 1707 for the Technical Preview Branch of System Center Configuration Manager has been released. Technical Preview Branch releases give you an opportunity to try...
View ArticleHotfix: Client update for System Center Configuration Manager current branch,...
We have released a client update that fixes the following two issues: Software update download failures from Microsoft Update Content distribution failure if the SMS Agent Host service or the client...
View ArticlePowerShell Documentation Migration
Hi, I’m Zach Alexander and I’m a PM on the PowerShell Team working on documentation. I wanted to let you know that there will be a brief downtime for online PowerShell documentation. This downtime...
View ArticleNow Available: Update 1706 for System Center Configuration Manager
Happy Friday! We are delighted to announce that we have released version 1706 for the Current Branch (CB) of System Center Configuration Manager that includes new features and product enhancements!...
View ArticleUpdate 1706 for Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager is now available
Happy Friday! We are delighted to announce that we have released version 1706 for the Current Branch (CB) of System Center Configuration Manager. To read about all of the great new features and...
View ArticleAzure Information Protection status update – July 2017
Hi Everyone, and welcome to this months posting from the AIP team to ensure you always know what we are working on, whats in the current releases of AIP, and any other information that we can include...
View ArticleRecently Published KB Articles for System Center Configuration Manager
Hello Everyone, we have recently published the following Knowledge Base (KB) articles. KB 4034393 Getting network captures from a task sequence in ConfigMgr This is a how-to article about capturing a...
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