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FREE online event: Virtualizing Your Data Center with Hyper-V and System Center
Virtualizing Your Data Center with Hyper-V and System CenterFree online event with live Q&A: http://aka.ms/virtDCWednesday, February 19th from 9am – 5pm PSTWhat: Fast-paced live virtual session...
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RAP as a Service (RaaS) from Microsoft Services Premier Support
In this post, I’m excited to discuss a new Premier Support offering called Risk Assessment Program (RAP) as a Service (or RaaS for short).For those that are not familiar with RAP, it is a Microsoft...
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What’s New in Windows Servicing: Part 1
My name is Aditya and I am a Senior Support Escalation Engineer for Microsoft on the Windows Core Team. I am writing today to shed some light on a the new changes that have been made to the Windows...
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What's New in Defrag for Windows Server 2012/2012R2
Hello everyone, I am Palash Acharyya, Support Escalation Engineer with the Microsoft Platforms Core team. In the past decade, we have come a long way from Windows Server 2003 to all the way to Windows...
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LIVE: Microsoft Virtual Federal Forum
For the first time, the 2014 Virtual Federal Forum, will be streamed LIVE from the Reagan Center in Washington, DC! This online digital experience will be completely hybrid, focused on Real Impact for...
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Configuring Windows Failover Cluster Networks
In this blog, I will discuss the overall general practices to be considered when configuring networks in Failover Clusters.Avoid single points of failure:Identifying single points of failure and...
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Nodes being removed from Failover Cluster membership on VMWare ESX?
Welcome to the AskCore blog. Today, we are going to talk about nodes being removed from active Failover Cluster membership when the nodes are hosted on VMWare ESX. I have documented node membership...
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What’s New in Windows Servicing: Part 1
My name is Aditya and I am a Senior Support Escalation Engineer for Microsoft on the Windows Core Team. I am writing today to shed some light on a the new changes that have been made to the Windows...
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Windows XP support ending April 8, 2014
I’m sure you already know this, but if you don’t, XP Support Ends on April 8th, 2014. That is 15 days from this post. Below are a couple of links that will give you more information on moving...
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Failover Clustering and Active Directory Integration
My name is Ram Malkani and I am a Support Escalation Engineer on Microsoft’s Windows Core team. I am writing to discuss how Failover Clustering is integrated with Active Directory on Windows...
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What’s New in Windows Servicing: Reduction of Windows Footprint : Part 2
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 Part 1. So to understand this blog better, it...
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What’s New in Windows Servicing: Service Stack Improvements: Part 3
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...
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Removing .NET Framework 4.5/4.5.1 removes Windows 2012/2012R2 UI and other...
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...
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How to Configure MSDTC to Use a Specific Port in Windows Server 2012/2012R2
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...
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Introducing Script Browser - A world of scripts at your fingertips
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...
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‘Tip of the Day’ Top Tips for February
The following links are for the top five tips from the 'Tip of the Day' blog during the month of February.Tip of the Day: Good Bye VDS, Hello SMAPITip of the Day: Failover DHCPTip of the Day:...
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2012R2 iSCSI Target Settings for Configuring a Specific Network
Let's say you have a 2012R2 iSCSI Target Server with multiple networks configured. We all know that iSCSI traffic should be on a separate network. So how do you go by configuring iSCSI to use a...
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Is Offloaded Data Transfers (ODX) working?
Offloaded Data Transfers (ODX) is a new data transfer strategy that makes advancements in moving files. Only storage devices that comply with the SPC4 and SBC3 specifications will work with this...
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Windows Azure Pack: Infrastructure as a Service Jump Start
Free online event with live Q&A with the WAP team: http://aka.ms/WAPIaaSTwo half-days – Wednesday July 16th& Thursday July 17th– 9am-1pm PSTIT Pros, you know that enterprises desire the...
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Deploying Surface Pro 3 Pen and OneNote Tips
Hi, my name is Scott McArthur and I am Senior Support Escalation Engineer on the Deployment/Devices team. In today’s blog I am going to go over some tips for deploying Surface Pro 3 related to the Pen...
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