Windows Surface 2 RT comes already pre-setup with Bitlocker encryption, the user don't need to do anything to enable it or set/type a password to access the drive or wait for encryption time. This is very cool feature to protect and encrypt your data and files on the Surface. Its automatically enabled and turned on when users open the Surface for the first time, set it up and login with their Windows account (Outlook, Hotmail.....etc.)The Key thing to note is that the Recovery key is stored on your Skydrive as soon as you login on the surface with...
Tuesday, 7 January 2014
Wednesday, 18 December 2013
Yesterday Microsoft Announced officially that there will be no new future full version of Microsoft UAG. Server 2012 and 2012R2 will cover some of the UAG features as Direct Access and basic secure application publishing. This was quite expected especially after the TMG retirement and the new web application proxy that was introduced in Server 2012 R2.For more details on the latest changes to the Forefront family, please check the below articlehttp://blogs.technet.com/b/server-cloud/archive/2013/12/17/important-changes-to-the-forefront-product...
Friday, 13 December 2013
A lot of companies nowadays are trying to move all their clients from the old windows XP platform to either Windows 7 or Windows 8. By April 8, 2014 there will be no more support for Microsoft Windows XP, this includes windows updates, security updates, fixes and normal support. Although XP was a great product, Its highly recommended to move to a newer and more supported OS as Windows 7 or Windows 8.1. Its not recommended to run a 10 years old OS nowadays with all this new security challenges.Client migration is real problem but also the...
Saturday, 7 December 2013
While checking the WSUS Products and Classifications i noticed that some products as the System Center Service Manager is not listed, also i noticed that the System Center 2012 R2 Products are not listed at all even with the latest updates (I am running WSUS on Windows server 2012 R2).Upon checking the Microsoft Update Catalog on the Internet, i noticed that Service Manager is not listed/published on the Catalog as well, this explains why SCSM updates are not listed in the WSUS. For the current state WSUS is not designed to give SCSM under Products...
Friday, 6 December 2013
Aging and Scavenging is very crucial and important for Active Directory Integrated zone, it should be carefully planned and configured. We recently faced a problem when a System Admin reported to me having two DNS records having the same IP address in the DNS Active Directory Integrated zone.The first thing that came to my mind was to check the Scavenging settings however they both (Refresh and Non-Refresh) seem to be fine compared to the DHCP release...
Tuesday, 3 December 2013
A weird behavior was noticed on few Hyper-V host machines, these machines are mainly Dell Rack servers as the powerful R720 Model. These servers came with mix of Network adapters (based on your configuration) as the Broadcom built in adapters and extra Intel cards. The behavior noticed was that Virtual machines that are connected to the Broadcom NICs has poor performance and user login takes several minutes on these specific machines. VMs connected to the Intel Network card login normally and has better performance.When I moved the VMs connected...
Saturday, 30 November 2013
Microsoft Releases frequent Cumulative updates for Lync 2013 servers and Most of these updates requires updating the Lync 2013 SQL Backend database. In this article I will discuss how to update the SQL Express backend database after installing a new Lync 2013 Cumulative update or specific Rollup that requires DB version update.First to check the status of the Database after installing the cumulative update and whether you need an update, you need to run the below two commands from elevated Lync Power Shell.PS C:\> Test-CsDatabase -ConfiguredDatabases...
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