Improving experience for VPN profiles for ConfigMgr and Hybrid MDM
Starting in the System Center Configuration Manager 1709 Technical Preview, we’re making it easier to determine which VPN profile settings are supported on each platform – like the changes we’ve made...
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Failover Cluster File Share Storage Access Status is “Questionable”
Welcome everyone. This is Chuck Timon back this time to discuss a minor ‘annoyance’ in System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 R2. Those of you that have worked with System Center Virtual Machine...
View ArticleInfrastructure + Security: Noteworthy News (Ignite Edition)
Hi there! Stanislav Belov here to bring you an out-of-band Microsoft Ignite edition of the Infrastructure + Security: Noteworthy News series! As a reminder, the Noteworthy News series covers various...
View ArticleFrequently Asked Questions About HGS Certificates
The Host Guardian Service uses public key cryptography extensively to protect shielded VMs from attackers. Any time certificates with public-private key pairs come into play, there are bound to be many...
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Introducing Lingering Object Liquidator v2
Greetings again AskDS! Ryan Ries here. Got something exciting to talk about. You might be familiar with the original Lingering Object Liquidator tool that was released a few years ago. Today, we’re...
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Using ConfigMgr With Windows 10 WUfB Deferral Policies
Important: Configuration Manager current branch version 1706 is needed for any ConfigMgr environment using WUfB deferral policies. ConfigMgr client version 1702 will periodically delete all WUfB...
View ArticleAsk Microsoft Anything about Project “Honolulu”
At Microsoft Ignite, we unveiled the next step in our journey for Windows Server graphical management experiences — the technical preview release of Project “Honolulu,” a flexible, locally-deployed,...
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Privileged Access Workstation(PAW)
At Ignite conference last month, Dean and I presented a session on PAW. Originally we were planning to just talk about the concept of PAW and how it is deployed in Microsoft. A week before the...
View ArticleAMA: Co-management with Microsoft Intune and System Center Configuration Manager
Hello Everyone! We are having another Ask Microsoft Anything with the Configuration Manager team. This time we are focusing on a specific topic: co-management with Microsoft Intune and System Center...
View ArticlePolaris – simple Microservices using only PowerShell
Polaris – Simple Microservices using only PowerShell Polaris is a cross-platform, minimalist web framework for PowerShell Core 6. With 6 lines of code, you have your very own webserver running and...
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Windows PowerShell and DSC on Linux in Microsoft Azure
Hello everyone! I’m Preston K. Parsard, Platforms PFE and I’d like to talk about running PowerShell and Desired State Configuration (DSC) on Linux in Microsoft Azure. Just in case you haven’t heard...
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Azure Log Analytics workspace upgrades in progress
Many of you are currently using Azure Log Analytics to monitor your environments for availability and performance. We want to let you know that we're rolling out new enhancements and changes for Log...
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Conditional Access policies for Azure Information Protection
Hopefully, you saw at Ignite the awesome new set of capabilities that are coming with Azure Information Protection. Following up from the announcement that we would have a public preview of Conditional...
View ArticleWindows Server, version 1709 available for download!
What a great day! Back in June, we announced Windows Server was joining the Semi-Annual Channel release cadence to deliver innovation at a faster pace. Two weeks ago at Ignite, we announced Windows...
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PAW host buildout
Continuing with the PAW series, in this blog post, I'd like to share the details of what we are planning to configure the host. I'd love to hear your thoughts, feedback about the design. For a recap on...
View ArticleContainer Images are now out for Windows Server version 1709!
With the release of Windows Server version 1709 also come Windows Server Core and Nano Server base OS container images. It is important to note that while older versions of the base OS container images...
View ArticleNavigate Azure Resources Just Like a File System
At Microsoft Ignite (around 8:15 min), we announced the Public Preview of PowerShell in Azure Cloud Shell. A unique feature of PowerShell experience in Azure Cloud Shell is navigation of Azure...
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Require License Acceptance Support in PowerShellGet
PowerShellGet version 1.5.0 has added support for module publishers to require explicit license acceptance from users before installing a module. This feature has been requested by several of our...
View ArticleDefending Against PowerShell Attacks
The security industry is ablaze with news about how PowerShell is being used by both commodity malware and attackers alike. Surely there’s got to be a way to defend yourself against these attacks!...
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Configuring a Hyper-V Host with PowerShell DSC (Part 1)
Hello, my name is Michael Godfrey and I am a Platform’s Premier Field Engineer (PFE) at Microsoft. I have been a Fabric Administrator for the past few years and have made it a habit of building quite a...
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