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Unattended Setup of Windows 8 to Surface Pro
In today’s blog I am going to explain how you can do an unattended setup of the default Windows 8 Enterprise X64 install.wim to a Surface Pro from a USB drive. Unattended setups are not new but when...
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Sessions from MMS 2013 Now Available
Greetings AskCore fans. I thought I would start creating a blog for a subset of the videos/sessions available at each of the conferences that Microsoft has throughout the year. These sessions will be...
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Two new Hyper-V Books available from Microsoft Press
Microsoft Press is releasing two new titles for IT pros who work with the Hyper-V virtualization platform:http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0790145383068.do...
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Tracing with Storport in Windows 2012 and Windows 8 with KB2819476 hotfix
Welcome back to the CORE Team Blog. Paul Reynolds here. I would like to let everyone know about changes on how to capture Storport traces in Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8.NOTE: The information...
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How to manage Out-of-Box Drivers with the use of Model Specific Driver Groups...
Hello. My name is Bill Spears and I am a Premier Field Engineer in the Windows/Platforms group at Microsoft. In today’s blog I will discuss the approach that I use to manage Out-Of-Box drivers within...
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Surface Pro Firmware and Driver Pack for Enterprise deployments
Today I am going to discuss the Surface Pro Firmware and Driver Pack. The Surface Pro Firmware and Driver Pack is a collection of drivers and firmware updates that Enterprise will need if they want to...
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MMS 2013 Hands On Labs Available
A few months ago we held the annual 2013 Microsoft Management Summit in Las Vegas. As in years past, the event sold out quickly and it was a very busy week. To everyone that attended, our sincere...
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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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TechEd 2013 Presentations and Videos Ask the Core Team favorites
Today’s blog is a listing of our favorite videos and presentations that recently occurred at TechEd 2013. I have gone through them and picked what we think are the most important to the technologies...
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FREE: Introduction to Hyper-V Training
The Microsoft Virtual Academy training portal offers quick and easy access to presentations, webcasts, whitepapers and other technical content about Microsoft’s Cloud technologies. It is public, free...
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FREE: Microsoft Virtualization for VMware Professionals Training
The Microsoft Virtual Academy training portal offers quick and easy access to presentations, webcasts, whitepapers and other technical content about Microsoft’s Cloud technologies. It is public, free...
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Where Did My Space Go?
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...
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Looking for Windows Server 2012 Clustering and Hyper-V Hotfixes?
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...
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Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 Recommendations for Activation
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 blogsInstalling the...
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Installing Volume Activation Services Role in Windows Server 2012 to setup a...
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...
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Installing Volume Activation Services Role in Windows Server 2012 to...
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...
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Creating bootable USB drive for UEFI computers
In today’s blog I am going to discuss how to handle booting from a USB drive on a UEFI system so you can deploy Windows. It is common to create bootable USB flash drives or hard drives so you can boot...
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Alternate Data Streams in NTFS
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...
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Logical Processor count changes after enabling Hyper-V role on Windows Server...
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...
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Live Customer Q&A with Virtualization Experts! (Microsoft Virtual Academy)
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 3rd,...
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