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- What is the Windows Server Network Controller?<\/a> A post I wrote for Petri.com.<\/li>\n
- Virtual Machine Compute Resiliency in Windows Server 2016<\/a>: Dealing with transient cluster failures and keeping VMs online.<\/li>\n
- NEW RDS deployment model – Personal Session Desktops<\/a>: A VDI scenario without using a client OS. In Windows Server 2016 additional improvements have been added to the Desktop Experience feature to make the Server OS look even more as a (Windows 10) Client OS. You will “\u2026 essentially be able to do \u201cVDI\u201d in Azure where every user will have a fully persistent desktop with options to allow user installed applications or maybe even local admin privileges”.<\/li>\n
- Script – Image Factory for Hyper-V<\/a>: A handy solution from Ben Armstrong.<\/li>\n
- Handy Tool for Converting KVM \/ VMware Images to Hyper-V<\/a>: A solution for V2V conversions from KVM to Hyper-V for when you’ve realised that your boss was an idiot.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Windows Server<\/h2>\n
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- DNS Server Startup Time Improvements in Windows Server 2012 R2<\/a>: Tuning for those people running HUGE DNS databases (40,000 to 50 million records!).<\/li>\n
- PowerShell Script to build your Nano Server Image<\/a>: Deploying Nano Server<\/li>\n
- How to use WDS to PxE Boot a Nano Server VHD<\/a>: Do a network boot with Nano Server – How UNIX-y!<\/li>\n
- Microsoft Support for Secure Shell (SSH)<\/a>: Light on details: ” the PowerShell team will support and contribute to the OpenSSH community”.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Windows Client<\/h2>\n
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- Most IT Pros Expect To Deploy Windows 10 Within 2 Years<\/a>: “40 percent of IT pro participants were planning to deploy Windows 10 within the first year of release \u2026 [another] 33 percent were planning Windows 10 deployments within two years”.<\/li>\n
- Windows 10 – What’s next for Microsoft’s Insider testers<\/a>: Microsoft gets it “right” on the 3rd attempt. Maybe.<\/li>\n
- Azure AD, Microsoft Intune and Windows 10 \u2013 Using the cloud to modernize enterprise mobility<\/a>: Azure AD is the glue (a common theme).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nAzure<\/h2>\n
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- Azure RemoteApp – User Connection Error<\/a>: For “With VPN” or hybrid deployments, sort out your UPNs to ensure that the AAD and the LAD user accounts match up. First a user signs into AAD via the RemoteApp client, and then they sign into AAD using Remote Desktop.<\/li>\n
- Azure RemoteApp – App-V Support Part 1<\/a>: Deliver apps to RemoteApp using virtualization. App-V Standalone.<\/li>\n
- Azure RemoteApp – App-V Support Part 2<\/a>: Full App-V infrastructure.<\/li>\n
- Step through creating a Resource Manager-based Azure Virtual Machine with PowerShell<\/a>: A LOT of code is required, but once you have it, it’s quicker to create VMs using PoSH than via the GUI.<\/li>\n
- Container Apps now available in the Azure Marketplace<\/a>: It’s Docker time!<\/li>\n
- Troubleshoot Secure Shell (SSH) Connections to a Linux-based Azure Virtual Machine<\/a>: Steps to fix this complex scenario.<\/li>\n
- Sync Azure RemoteApp Collection Membership with Azure Automation<\/a>: A clever solution to populate an App Collection with the members of an AD group.<\/li>\n
- How to Create and Validate a Microsoft Azure Active Directory Domain<\/a>: A post I wrote for Petri.com.<\/li>\n
- How To Upload Files to Microsoft Azure<\/a>: A post I wrote for Petri.com.<\/li>\n
- Wormhole Area Networking and Microsoft Azure<\/a>: Pending patent – a post I wrote for Petri.com.<\/li>\n
- Easier Azure VM Deployment with the Custom Script Extension<\/a>: A post I wrote for Petri.com.<\/li>\n
- Using the Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer Tools<\/a>: A post I wrote for Petri.com.<\/li>\n
- Sharing Files in the Cloud using Azure Files<\/a>: How to use the Storage Accounts Files service between VMs.<\/li>\n
- Improving Microsoft Azure File Server Performance with BranchCache<\/a>: A post I wrote for Petri.com.<\/li>\n
- Enable Distributed BranchCache on a Microsoft Azure File Server<\/a>: A post I wrote for Petri.com.<\/li>\n
- Does Azure Backup Work?<\/a> A post I wrote for Petri.com.<\/li>\n
- Microsoft Launches New Microsoft Azure VM Pricing Tool<\/a>: A post I wrote for Petri.com.<\/li>\n
- Key Vault is now generally available<\/a>: This HSM in the cloud offering is now GA. Example usage: central SSL cert storage and VM full disk encryption (coming soon).<\/li>\n
- Azure Active Directory Premium reporting now detects leaked credentials<\/a>: Detect when your users have lost control of their usernames and passwords.<\/li>\n
- DevOps Basics – Infrastructure as Code<\/a>: Deploying VMs using ARM templates via the Ibiza portal.<\/li>\n
- DevOps Basics – Infrastructure as Code \u2013 The PowerShell Method<\/a>: An alternative to the previous.<\/li>\n
- Azure AD Conditional Access preview update – More apps and blocking access for users not at work<\/a>: Note conditional access to Azure RemoteApp.<\/li>\n
- May updates to Azure RemoteApp<\/a>: What changed?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Office 365<\/h2>\n
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- Announcing auto-expanding, highly scalable archives for Office 365 email<\/a>: To accommodate customers who require very, very large archiving storage, Microsoft announced new auto-expanding, highly scalable archiving.<\/li>\n
- Exchange Online Advanced Threat Protection is now available<\/a>: A new subscription service for unknown malware, real-time protection against malicious URLs, and reporting.<\/li>\n
- 7 new Exchange Online Protection enhancements<\/a>: Improving the basic service.<\/li>\n
- What\u2019s new – May 2015<\/a>: A summary of O365 improvements.<\/li>\n
- Introducing Compliance Search in Office 365<\/a>: A faster and more lightweight way of searching within your organization\u2019s data in Office 365.<\/li>\n
- Rights Management Service departmental templates comes to Office 2013<\/a>: A feature that allows organizations to define different policies that will be deployed to different departments (or roles) for their use in documents and emails, now natively supported in Office 2013.<\/li>\n
- New Intune capabilities for Outlook on iOS and Android<\/a>: Customers using Outlook for iOS and Android can now use built-in MDM for Office 365 or Microsoft Intune to secure email data on mobile devices within their organization.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
EMS<\/h2>\n
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- New features coming to Intune over the next week<\/a>: Starting June 22 and ending July 2.<\/li>\n
- Microsoft adds Advanced Threat Analytics to its Enterprise Mobility Suite<\/a>: More security coming to EMS (cloud) and ECS (on-prem).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Misc<\/h2>\n
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- Samsung Accused of Blocking Security Updates in its PCs<\/a>: Are OEMs stupid, ignorant, or do they just not care? IMO, this one is a grey area.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nTechnorati Tags: Microsoft<\/a>,Hyper-V<\/a>,Windows Server 2016<\/a>,Windows Server 2012 R2<\/a>,DNS<\/a>,Virtualisation<\/a>,PowerShell<\/a>,Deployment<\/a>,Remote Desktop Services<\/a>,Scripting<\/a>,Linux<\/a>,Failover Clustering<\/a>,Windows 10<\/a>,Azure<\/a>,Cloud<\/a>,Cloud Computing<\/a>,Hybrid Cloud<\/a>,Networking<\/a>,Security<\/a>,Backup<\/a>,Active Directory<\/a>,Office 365<\/a>,Intune<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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- Microsoft adds Advanced Threat Analytics to its Enterprise Mobility Suite<\/a>: More security coming to EMS (cloud) and ECS (on-prem).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
- Exchange Online Advanced Threat Protection is now available<\/a>: A new subscription service for unknown malware, real-time protection against malicious URLs, and reporting.<\/li>\n
- Azure RemoteApp – App-V Support Part 1<\/a>: Deliver apps to RemoteApp using virtualization. App-V Standalone.<\/li>\n
- Windows 10 – What’s next for Microsoft’s Insider testers<\/a>: Microsoft gets it “right” on the 3rd attempt. Maybe.<\/li>\n
- PowerShell Script to build your Nano Server Image<\/a>: Deploying Nano Server<\/li>\n
- Virtual Machine Compute Resiliency in Windows Server 2016<\/a>: Dealing with transient cluster failures and keeping VMs online.<\/li>\n