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    Export Management Pack Rules and Monitors from SCOM 2012

    While working on a recent System Center Operations Manager 2012 SP1 deployment (this method also works with SCOM 2012 RTM) I needed to export all of the Rules and Monitors from a specific management pack. This can be very useful when deciding what thresholds and overrides should be enabled for a particular environment. The process is similar…

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    Bug in NIC Teaming Wizard makes Duplicate Default Routes in Server 2012

    When I build Windows 2012 Servers, I am often using the (fantastic) in-box NIC Teaming feature. While it let’s me join multiple network adapters together and treat them like one logical adapter, I often will create a “team” that has only one member so that I can assign the network settings to the logical adapter…

    Concurrency, Inc.
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    Create a Shortcut to Remote PowerShell for Office 365 and Exchange Online

    Office 365 includes support for remote PowerShell for the management of users, the tenant itself, and Exchange Online (Lync Online PowerShell support should be coming soon).  PowerShell support makes administration of Office 365 much easier since a great deal of functionality is hidden in the Office 365 portal, but is exposed in PowerShell.  PowerShell’s ability…

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    Turn Off or Disable Active Directory Federation Services in Office 365

    There are two primary reasons to turn off AD FS in Office 365.  The first is because you want to use a new AD FS farm, possibly because your standalone AD FS server is not sufficient anymore.  You cannot transfer SSO responsibilities between two different farms in Office 365; first you have to turn SSO…

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    Attach a virtual hard disk (VHD) from external USB storage in Windows 8 Hyper-V

    Attach a virtual hard disk (VHD) from external USB storage in Windows 8 Hyper-V You should now be able to create a VM and attach a VHD file from an external USB storage device without receiving the permission error.

    Concurrency, Inc.
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    Manually Clearing Orchestrator Logs

    I was working on an implementation of Service Manager and Orchestrator where I was running a significant number of runbooks on a regular basis.  This eventually ended up creating logs for over 200,000 runbook executions.  What I noticed was that the nightly log purge job was not running correctly.  It was failing after several hours…

    Nathan Lasnoski
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    Seeing Red in Server Manager 2012?

    Does the Server Manager console in Windows Server 2012 always seem to show your Roles and Servers Groups in Red due to “Manageability” errors that say “Online – Cannot get BPA results” ? This seems to be a pretty common situation simply because the “Best Practice Analyzer” (BPA) scan has not been performed, and it…

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    Smart Sizing Exposed in Remote Desktop UI, at last!

    One of the coolest “little secret” features that has been in Windows since XP has been the ability for the RDP client to “smart size” or Scale the contents of the Remote Desktop to fit the boundary of the window as you drag the boarders around.  The problem is that there was no exposure in…

    Concurrency
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    RDS8 – Quick and Easy, RemoteApp on Windows Server 2012

    Read more Step-by-Step Guides on Remote Desktop Services in Windows Server 2012. I’ll show you how you can set up RemoteApp publishing using a single server in less time than it takes to watch an episode of your favorite drama! Honestly, you should be able to hammer this out in less than an hour if you…

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