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Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 7.0

For people that don’t know about MAP it is an free solution accelerator from Microsoft, it offersan inventory and assessment of your infrastructure. You can download it for free from here –>http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/solutionaccelerators/dd537566.aspxYou can use this data to see if you meet the requirements(software wise and hardware) needed to migrate, to for instance Windows 8. And […]

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Microsoft Message Analyzer

Microsoft did today actually release a beta of the new Message Analyzer.This is actually the new Network Monitor, so its build up from scratch and includes more features. As you can see it no longer primarily focused on network monitoring, but actually analyze everything!From USB connection, RPC, LAN, WLAN, SMB shares and you have the

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Windows Server 2012 Hyper-v And Vsphere 5.1

A lot of fuzz is going on regarding virtualization these days, and the primary topic is Hyper-V vs VMware vSphere. And of course there going to be some arguments regarding which one is better, and which of them has the more features and who is the most enterprise ready so on and so forth. Just

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Changes to Forefront Product

Today Microsoft released the following news, The following Forefront products are being discontinued ◦Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server (FPE) ◦Forefront Protection 2010 for SharePoint (FPSP) ◦Forefront Security for Office Communications Server (FSOCS) ◦Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010 (TMG) ◦Forefront Threat Management Gateway Web Protection Services (TMG WPS) You can read more about it here

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Windows Server 2012 Storage redefined part 1

With Windows Server 2012, Microsoft has added loads of new features and functionality and I’m going to take a walkthrough of the new stuff. Data Deduplication Is the technology that allows you to eliminating duplicate copies of repeating data, so instead of storing the data twice you would just have a flag which points to

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ConfigMgr 2012 Service Pack 1 Beta

Microsoft just released the beta of service pack 1 for System Center 2012. And for ConfigMgr that includes: Deployment and management of Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 Distribution point for Windows Azure to help reduce infrastructure costs Automation of administrative tasks through PowerShell support Management of Mac OS X clients and Linux and UNIX

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Operations Manager and service monitoring

With SCOM 2007 you have the ability to monitor a service within your infrastructure with Distributed Applications.Distributed Applications are basically made up of different components that make your service.For instance let’s think of a web shop. Which are typically made up of 1x Webserver1x Database server1x File Serverand/or a authentication service like ADAll these components

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Backup site servers in SCCM 2012

A bit hidden in SCCM 2012 is the ability to backup site servers in Configuration Manager with a schedule, open the console go to administration –> site configuration –> sites –> settings –> Site Maintance From there you choose “Backup Sites Servers” and now you choose a backup location and set a schedule –> If

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Beta of System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 released!

This update includes the following:The Beta of System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 (“SP1”) enables System Center customers to jointly evaluate System Center 2012 with Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8. The Beta is for evaluation purposes only and not to be used in production as described in the EULAs associated with the product. No

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Certifications on track!

So far this year it has been quite busy!But for my own sake I’m trying to learn as much as I can, and therefore I had laid some plans regarding certifications test ahead. Since Microsoft has released Windows Server 2012 and has reintroduced MSCE and MSCA titles I have a whole lot to deal with

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