HTML based Web Console
We have received feedback from customers like you to have an HTML-based web console and not Silverlight-based. We are happy to announce that we have transitioned to an HTML-based web console, with the...
View ArticleImproved UI responsiveness for System Center 2016 Operations Manager
Performance improvements have been made to State views and Diagram views in the System Center 2016 Operations Manager console to increase responsiveness. You will now see the following...
View ArticleAnnouncing SC DPM 2016 with Modern Backup Storage
System Center Data Protection Manager (SCDPM) is well recognized in the Industry for protection of Microsoft workloads and environments. It protects key Microsoft workloads such as SQL, SharePoint and...
View ArticleIntroducing DPM 2016 Modern Backup Storage
With DPM 2016, we announced Modern Backup Storage (MBS), delivering 50% storage savings, 3x faster backups, and efficient backup storage utilization with Workload Aware Storage.Data Protection Manager...
View ArticleSystem Center Operations Manager – Extensible Network Monitoring
Until System Center 2012 Operations Manager R2, you could get only basic monitoring for your network devices, such as “Availability Monitoring” and “Port/Interface Monitoring”. To get Extended...
View ArticleImprovements to Scheduling of Maintenance Mode (Client side via agent, and...
Before initiating the maintenance of IT infrastructure elements, one would want to initiate Maintenance Mode to suppress monitoring of infrastructure elements undergoing maintenance. This will prevent...
View ArticleOpen Survey – Tell us about your latest and greatest IT monitoring/ analytics...
We at Microsoft are committed towards understanding and solving the problems of our customers. Your response to this survey will aid us in that endeavor. With your inputs we will be able to make the...
View ArticleNew capabilities in System Center 2016 Service Management Automation
As you try out the new features in System Center 2016 that were made generally available earlier last month, here is a summary of things you can do with System Center 2016 Service Management...
View ArticleThe Microsoft security update for November 2016 has been released
Today we released security updates to provide additional protections against malicious attackers. As a best practice, we encourage customers to apply security updates as soon as they are released.More...
View ArticleEssential documentation and resources for Microsoft System Center 2016...
We’ve seen a tremendous amount of interest in System Center 2016 Operations Manager so I thought I’d take a minute and share a few resources that should help you get started on the right track. This...
View ArticleAnnouncing VMM SDN Express for VMM 2016
We are happy to announce the release of VMM SDN Express for Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2016 (VMM 2016)! Do you want a VMM solution that can deploy an entire SDN fabric without you...
View ArticleThe Microsoft security update for January 2017 has been released
Yesterday we released security updates to provide additional protections against malicious attackers. As a best practice, we encourage customers to apply security updates as soon as they are...
View ArticleSC 2016 DPM UR2: Protect Microsoft 2016 workloads to Cloud using Azure Backup
System Center Data Protection Manager (SC DPM) is an Enterprise backup solution, providing App Consistent backups to workloads as SQL, SharePoint, Exchange and File Servers, running in Physical or...
View ArticleWindows Management Framework (WMF) 5.1 now in Microsoft Update Catalog
The Windows Management Framework (WMF) 5.1 is now available in the Microsoft Update catalog for Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2, and Windows 8.1. These updates are listed in the catalog as...
View ArticleHow to Secure an ARM-based Windows Virtual Machine RDP access in Azure
Hi, Mark Rowe here, and I am the creator of Augmented Living, a Developer/Architect for Microsoft’s Modern Applications Solution Center as a senior consultant, and a long-time Microsoft fanboy and...
View ArticleWe’ve added 21 new 3rd party apps to the Azure AD App Gallery!
Howdy folks, Many of you probably associate Azure AD with Office 365 & Microsoft Azure. That makes a lot of sense. Those are the cloud services our customers use the most with Azure AD. But you...
View ArticleChange Block Tracking needs to be reset if another backup product has...
In this scenario, the VMWare HostVCenter server has successfully been connected in DPM. However, Replica creation, Consistency Checks, Recovery points fail with the noted error below (Some other...
View ArticleFive reasons to run SQL Server 2016 on Windows Server 2016, part 2
This is the second blog in a five-part series. Keep an eye out for upcoming posts and read the first post in the series,Five reasons to run SQL Server 2016 on Windows Server 2016, part 1. Imagine youve...
View ArticleAzure Information Protection Documentation Update for March 2017
Hi everybody Our technical writer, Carol Bailey, is letting you know whats new and hot in the docs for March. Reminders: Follow us on Twitter (@TheRMSGuy) and join in our peer community...
View ArticleMonitor Kubernetes Containers with OMS Insight & Analytics Container...
Hello, everyone. This is Keiko, program manager from the OMS team. We’ve heard many requests for supporting containers on Kubernetes. So, we have extended the support to Kubernetes, like we did with...
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