Announcement: 343

BizTalk Server General announcements

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    Updated product roadmap, start of new BizTalk Server vNext project
    Paul Larsen (Microsoft)

    We have some great news to share! We've updated our Microsoft Integration Product Roadmap. See our BizTalk Team Blog, at https://aka.ms/btsblog. We are starting our new BizTalk Server vNext project. Let us know what you want and need in BizTalk Server vNext.

    Paul Larsen [MS]
    Microsoft BizTalk Server Team

     

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    Updated product roadmap, start of new BizTalk Server vNext project
    Paul Larsen (Microsoft)

    We have some great news to share! We've updated our Microsoft Integration Product Roadmap. See our BizTalk Team Blog, at https://aka.ms/btsblog. We are starting our new BizTalk Server vNext project. Let us know what you want and need in BizTalk Server vNext.

    Paul Larsen [MS]
    Microsoft BizTalk Server Team

     

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    Announcing the availability of Microsoft BizTalk Server 2016 Feature Pack 3
    Paul Larsen (Microsoft)

    Available now is Microsoft BizTalk Server 2016 Feature Pack 3. This update to BizTalk Server 2016 contains new and improved capabilities for integrating BizTalk Server workloads with Office 365 Outlook Email, Calendar, and Contact resources.

    Office 365 Adapters

    Microsoft Office 365 is a cloud-based subscription service that brings together the best tools for the way people work today. By combining best-in-class apps like Excel and Outlook with powerful cloud services like OneDrive and Microsoft Teams, Office 365 lets anyone create and share anywhere on any device.

    Microsoft BizTalk Server Adapters for Office 365 enable IT professionals and enterprise developers to integrate Outlook mail, contacts, and schedules with new solutions based on BizTalk Server 2016.

    Office 365 Mail Adapter

    Using the BizTalk Adapter for Office 365 Mail, you can read, mark as read or delete, Outlook e-mail messages through one-way BizTalk Server receive locations. Using the Office 365 Mail Adapter, you can write e-mail message, including setting message priority, through one-way static or dynamic BizTalk Server send ports.

    Office 365 Calendar Adapter

    Using the BizTalk Adapter for Office 365 Calendar, you can get future calendar events through one-way BizTalk Server receive locations. Using the Office 365 Calendar Adapter, you can create calendar events, including specifying required and optional attendees, through one-way static or dynamic BizTalk Server send ports.

    Office 365 Contact Adapter

    Using the BizTalk Adapter for Office 365 Contact, you can create contacts, by specifying all settings, through one-way static or dynamic BizTalk Server send ports.

    Licensing

    • Microsoft customers with Software Assurance or Azure Enterprise Agreements are licensed to use Feature Pack 3.
    • BizTalk Server 2016 Feature Pack 3 can be installed on Enterprise and Developer editions only.

    Software

    • BizTalk Server 2016 Feature Pack 3 contains all the functionality of Feature Packs 1 and 2, plus all the fixes in Cumulative Update 5.
    • You can install Feature Pack 3 on BizTalk Server 2016 Enterprise and Developer Edition (retail, CU1, CU2, CU3, CU4, FP1, FP2).
    • Download the software now from the Microsoft Download Center.

    Documentation

    You can learn more about Feature Pack 3 by reading the documentation articles. Please contribute to improving our documentation, by joining our BizTalk Server community on GitHub.

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    Announcing the availability of BizTalk Server 2016 Cumulative Update 5
    Paul Larsen (Microsoft)
    Microsoft BizTalk Server product team has released Cumulative Update 5 for BizTalk Server 2016. For more information, see Microsoft Knowledgebase Article 4132957, posted to https://support.microsoft.com/help/4132957.
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    Announcing availability of BizTalk Server 2013 R2 Cumulative Update 8
    Paul Larsen (Microsoft)

    Microsoft BizTalk Server product team has released Cumulative Update 8 for BizTalk Server 2013 R2. For more information, see Microsoft Knowledgebase Article 4052527, posted to https://support.microsoft.com/help/4052527.

    Microsoft BizTalk Server Product Team

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    Microsoft BizTalk Server 2016 Feature Pack 2
    Paul Larsen (Microsoft)

    Available now is Microsoft BizTalk Server 2016 Feature Pack 2. This update to BizTalk Server 2016 contains new and improved capabilities for modernizing BizTalk Server workloads in the areas of deployment, runtime and analytics.

    Deployment and Administration

    • Application Lifecycle Management with VSTS
      • Using Visual Studio Team Services, you can define multi-server deployments of BizTalk Server 2016, and then maintain those systems throughout the application lifecycle.
    • Backup to Azure Blob Storage
      • When deploying BizTalk Server to Azure VMs, you can backup BizTalk Server databases to Azure blob storage.

    Server Runtime

    • Adapter for Service Bus v2
      • When using the Service Bus Adapter, you can utilize Azure Service Bus Premium for enterprise-scale workloads.
    • Transport Layer Security 1.2
      • Securely deploy BizTalk Server using industry-standard TLS 1.2 authentication and encryption.
    • API Management
      • Publish Orchestration endpoints using Azure API Management, enabling organizations to publish APIs to external, partner and internal developers to unlock the potential of their data and services.
    • Event Hubs
      • Using the new Event Hub Adapter, BizTalk Server can send and receive messages with Azure Event Hubs, where BizTalk Server can function as both an event publisher and subscriber, as part of a new Azure cloud-based event-driven application.

    Analytics and Reporting

    • Event Hubs
      • Send BizTalk Server tracking data to Azure Event Hubs, a hyper-scale telemetry ingestion service that collects, transforms, and stores millions of events.
    • Application Insights
      • When preparing BizTalk Server to send tracking data to Application Insights, released in FP1, you can use the new Azure sign-in dialog to simplify configuration and named instances of SQL Server.

    Licensing

    • Microsoft customers with Software Assurance or Azure Enterprise Agreements are licensed to use Feature Pack 2.
    • BizTalk Server 2016 Feature Pack 2 can be installed on Enterprise and Developer editions only.

    Software

    • BizTalk Server 2016 Feature Pack 2 contains all the functionality of Feature Pack 1, plus all the fixes in Cumulative Update 3.
    • You can install Feature Pack 2 on BizTalk Server 2016 Enterprise and Developer Edition (retail, CU1, CU2, CU3, FP1).
    • Download the software now from the Microsoft Download Center.

    Documentation

    You can learn more about FP2 by reading the documentation articles. Please contribute to improving our documentation, by joining our BizTalk Server community on GitHub.

    Feedback

    Contribute to the community by participating in our forum, reading our blog, following us on Twitter (@BizTalk_Server), as well as providing product input using our BizTalk User Voice.

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    Announcing availability of BizTalk Server 2013 R2 Cumulative Update 7
    Paul Larsen (Microsoft)
    Microsoft BizTalk Server product team has released Cumulative Update 7 for BizTalk Server 2013 R2. For more information, see Microsoft Knowledgebase Article 4038891, posted to https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4038891.

    BizTalk Server Team
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    Announcing availability of BizTalk Server 2016 Cumulative Update 3
    Paul Larsen (Microsoft)

    Microsoft BizTalk Server product team has released Cumulative Update 3 for BizTalk Server 2016. For more information, see https://support.microsoft.com/help/4039664.

    BizTalk Server Team

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    BizTalk SalesForce Integration: Login authentication
    Steef-Jan Wiggers
    Sample based on integration with SalesForce using SOAP is available in code gallery through this link.
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    List of Errors and Warnings, Causes and Solutions on TechNet Wiki
    Sandro Pereira

    This article is intended to be a knowledge base of all Errors and Warnings, Causes and Solutions documented, by community members, in all stages/components of BizTalk: different stages of development, deployment, adapters, runtime, setup and configuration… Read more here

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    BizTalk Server Resources on the TechNet Wiki
    Steef-Jan Wiggers
    You will find many BizTalk Server related article on TechNet Wiki. Best entry point is BizTalk Server Resources on the TechNet Wiki.
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    BizTalk Server 2010 - Tools Wiki Article
    Steef-Jan Wiggers
    Through the internet you can find numerous tools that can help you for instance in automating deployment, analyze your BizTalk environment or identify performance issues. You will find these tools on Operating System, Codeplex or Microsoft Download Center. Read more here.

BizTalk Server Adapters and Adapter Pack announcements

BizTalk Server EDI and AS2 announcements

BizTalk Server Host Integration Server announcements

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    Host Integration Server 2013 Cumulative Update 4 is available
    Valerie Robb (Microsoft)

    We are happy to announce the release of Microsoft Host Integration Server 2013 Cumulative Update 4.

    This cumulative update package contains hotfixes for issues that were resolved after the release of Host Integration Server 2013.

    We recommend that you test the cumulative update before you deploy it in a production environment. Because the builds are cumulative, each new update release contains all the hotfixes and all the security updates that were included in the previous Host Integration Server 2013 cumulative updates. We recommend that you consider applying the most recent Host Integration Server 2013 Cumulative Update to remain current with the product.

    Cumulative update package 4 for Microsoft Host Integration Server 2013:

    • Application Integration - 6 customer issues fixed
    • Data Integration - -12 customer issues fixed
    • Message Integration - 6 customer issues fixed
    • Network Integration - 10 customer issues fixed
    • Session Integration - 10 customer issues fixed

    Information regarding how to download the package and details regarding the specific fixes can be found in the KB article here.

    We encourage you to actively engage with us and propose new features for all BizTalk offerings, including Host Integration Server, through our BizTalk User Voice Page.

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    The SDK for Host Integration Server 2016 has been released
    Valerie Robb (Microsoft)

    The Host Integration Server 2016 SDK has been released.

    It can be downloaded at https://aka.ms/his2016sdk

    The SDK has been updated with current samples for all features of the product – Network Integration, Data Integration, Application Integration, and MQ Integration. Included with this SDK is a host simulator that allows several of the Application Integration samples to run via TCP/IP and HTTP without the need for a backend host system.

    This SDK can be installed without having HIS 2016 installed in order to view the sample code, however, HIS 2016 must be installed for the samples to run.

    Helpful links to get started with Host Integration Server:

    HIS 2016 RTM downloads:

    HIS 2016 Cumulative Update 1: https://aka.ms/his2016cu1

    CU1 KB Article: https://support.microsoft.com/help/3216544

    Documentation for Installing HIS 2016: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt736402.aspx

    HIS Blog: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/hostintegrationserver/

    Additional HIS Information: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/biztalk/biztalk-hisoverview.aspx

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    Host Integration Server 2016 Cumulative Update 1 has been released
    Charles Ezzell

    Host Integration Server 2016 Cumulative Update 1 has been released. This Cumulative Update addresses multiple issues found since the release of Host Integration Server 2016.

    The Knowledge Base article can be found here. https://support.microsoft.com/help/3216544

    You can also download Cumulative Update 1 from here:  https://aka.ms/his2016cu1

     Thank You.

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    Microsoft Host Integration Server Product Feedback survey
    Charles Ezzell

    We want to hear from you!

    Microsoft HIS Team is looking for product feedback. Please take time to complete the Microsoft Host Integration Server Product Feedback survey, posted to https://aka.ms/hisfeedback. Tell us what you are using, how you like it, and what new technologies and tools you want.

    Thank you!

    HIS Team

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    HIS 2016 Available to MSDN Subscribers
    Valerie Robb (Microsoft)

    The RTM version of HIS 2016 is now available to MSDN Subscribers -

    HIS 2016 Enterprise Edition

    HIS 2016 Developer Edition

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    Announcing release of Host Integration Server 2016
    Charles Ezzell

    We are pleased to announce the release to manufacturing of Microsoft Host Integration Server 2016.

    This release confirms our commitment to Microsoft enterprise customers and partners, by delivering a set of new technologies, tools, and improvements.

    New Microsoft Client for MQ connecting .NET Framework and BizTalk Server applications to IBM MQ message processing systems, providing simplified administration and improved performance.

    Expanded platform support for latest Microsoft operating systems and development tools, plus support for most popular IBM systems versions, permitting the broadest application support lifecycle for upgraded and new solutions.

    Improved installation and configuration assisting IT administrators to efficiently deploy new clients and servers, reducing operating expenses and total cost of ownership.

    New telemetry for improving technologies and tools, by monitoring and reporting connections, operations, and exceptions.

    New Microsoft Client for DRDA connecting .NET Framework and BizTalk Server applications to IBM DB2 and Informix relational database systems, delivering increased functionality, with improved performance and scalability.

    To get started, visit the Microsoft Developer Network to read more about what’s new and improved in Host Integration Server 2016.

    Host Integration Server Team

    Microsoft Corporation

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    Announcing Host Integration Server 2016 Community Technology Preview 2
    Charles Ezzell

    We are pleased to announce our public Community Technology Preview 2 (CTP2) for Host Integration Server 2016.

    HIS 2016 offers technologies and tools enabling enterprise IT organizations to efficiently and securely integrate existing IBM host systems, programs, messages and data with new Azure and Windows applications. This release allows you to preview the many new and improved technologies and tools, when compared to HIS 2013, including:

    • Improved installation and configuration assisting IT administrators to efficiently deploy new clients and servers, reducing operating expenses      and total cost of ownership.
    • Expanded platform support for latest Microsoft operating systems and development tools, plus support for most popular IBM systems versions,      permitting the broadest application support lifecycle for upgraded and new solutions.
    • New Microsoft Client for MQ connecting .NET Framework and BizTalk Server applications to IBM MQ message processing systems, providing      simplified administration and improved performance.
    • New telemetry for improving technologies and tools, by monitoring and reporting connections, operations, and exceptions.
    • New Microsoft Client for DRDA connecting .NET Framework and BizTalk Server applications to IBM DB2 and Informix relational database systems,      delivering increased functionality, with improved performance and scalability.

    Join the HIS community to explore, try and learn more about HIS 2016 CTP2. Download, install and configure HIS 2016 CTP today!

    To get started, we invite you to visit the HIS 2016 preview page (https://aka.ms/his2016ctp2) on the Microsoft TechNet Evaluation Center.

    Host Integration Server Team
    Microsoft Corporation

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    Microsoft Host Integration Server 2016 CTP1
    Charles Ezzell

    Microsoft HIS team has released Host Integration Server 2016 Community Technology Preview 1.

     

    HIS 2016 CTP1 provides professionals and enterprise developers with technologies and tools to deliver a new set of integration solutions. Here are a few of the new capabilities and improvements in HIS 2016 CTP1.

    • Support for Windows Server 10, Windows Server 2016, SQL Server 2016, BizTalk Server 2016, Visual Studio 2013, and .NET Framework 4.6
    • Support for IBM i 7.2, z/OS 2.2, CICS 5.2, IBM MQ 8.0, and DB2 11
    • New Microsoft .NET Client for MQ
    • New ADO.NET provider and BizTalk adapter for Informix
    • Improved data providers and BizTalk adapter for DB2
    • New Telemetry for improving HIS technologies

     

    See full list of improvements and new platforms posted to MSDN, at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=780628.

     

    To distribute the software, we are utilizing the BizTalk Server 2016 CTP1 program on Microsoft Connect. Please go to Connect and register your Microsoft account, at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=784997.

     

    We look forward to your participation in HIS 2016 CTP1.

     

    Host Integration Server Team

    Microsoft Corporation

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    Host Integration Server 2013 is released to manufactioning
    Stephen_R_Jackson

    We are pleased to announce that Host Integration Server 2013 is released to manufacturing!

    Microsoft Host Integration Server 2013 enables enterprise organizations to integrate existing IBM host systems, programs, messages, and data with Microsoft class leading suite of server applications.

    HIS 2013 is the ninth release and includes these improvements.

    • Deploy on new platforms
      • Windows 8.1, Windows 8, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2012,
      • Visual Studio 2012, SQL Server 2012, .NET 4
      • IBM z/OS V1.13, i5/OS V7R1, MQ V7.5, CICS V5.1, IMS V12.1, Informix IDS V12.1, DB2 V10
    • Use latest protocols and formats
      • DB2 client connectivity to SQL Server (DRDA Service)
      • Windows client connectivity to Informix server (OLE DB Provider)
    • Increase enterprise dev and IT pro productivity
      • Transaction Integrator Configuration Tool and Visual Studio code snippets
      • DRDA Service and TI PowerShell modules, XML schemas for app.config and web.config files
      • Managed encoder and trace
      • TN3270 emulator and Host File Transfer Utility
    • Improve performance and scalability
      • Transaction Integrator, MQ channel and host files managed runtimes
      • DB2 client transaction load balancing, bulk copy and bulk insert

    Here are links to the technology and documentation.

    The HIS 2013 BPA (Best Practice Analyzer) and SCOM Management Pack will be available in September.

    The HIS 2013 Enterprise edition will be available for purchase on 1st September, licensed as supplemental technology to BizTalk Server 2013. See the BizTalk website for more information on BTS 2013 licensing.

    The Host Integration Server Team

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    Host Integration Server 2010 Cumulative Update 6 (CU6) is available
    Stephen_R_Jackson

    The Host Integration Server Product Team has just released the sixth Cumulative Update (CU) for HIS 2010. The cumulative update model is used to package and release product fixes on a more consistent schedule.

    HIS 2010 CU6 includes fixes for HIS 2010 that were fixed after the release of HIS 2010, including all the fixes that are in the previous HIS 2010 cumulative updates. Details on the included fixes can be found in the following Knowledge Base article:

    2752426    Cumulative update package 6 for Host Integration Server 2010   
    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2752426/EN-US

    You can download HIS 2010 CU6 via the Hotfix Download Available link You would need to download the CU6 package that matches the HIS 2010 version (x86 or x64) that you have installed.

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    Host Integration Server 2009 Cumulative Update 4 (CU4) is available
    Stephen_R_Jackson

    The Host Integration Server Product Team has just released the fourth Cumulative Update (CU) for HIS 2009. The cumulative update model is used to package and release product fixes on a more consistent schedule.

    HIS 2009 CU4 includes fixes for HIS 2009 that were fixed after the release of HIS 2009, including all the fixes that are in the previous HIS 2009 cumulative updates. Details on the included fixes can be found in the following Knowledge Base article:

    2765212 Cumulative update package 4 for Host Integration Server 2009

    You can download HIS 2009 CU4 via the Hotfix Download Available link in the KB article. You would need to download the CU4 package that matches the HIS 2009 version (x86 or x64) that you have installed.

    Thanks…


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    Welcome to the Host Integration Server forum
    Stephen_R_Jackson

    Hello and welcome to the Host Integration Server forum!

     

    The Host Integration Server (HIS) forum provide you an opportunity to join a community of Host Integration Server customers where you can share knowledge, get questions answered, and learn from others with IT environments similar to yours. Start by posting Host Integration Server related questions in the forum corresponding to your topic of interest and leverage the knowledge available in your new forum community.

     

    If you have any suggestions or feedbacks to Windows Server products, please feel free to post in our forums.

    Stephen Jackson - MSFT

App-V Sequencing Recipes announcements

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    Rate the Recipes you are reviewing!
    karrial

    As you are viewing and using the recipes provided by your community experts please make sure to mark the "VOTE AS HELPFUL" link on the upper left corner of the recipe.  This will help us gauge that the recipe is useful beyond just viewing it.

    Thanks for contributing!

    Karri

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    Guidelines to write efficient prescriptive guidance (recipe) for the applications
    Manita Sharma

    App-V Recipe Template

    The Application Virtualization team has listed down some basic details which should be comprised while authoring a recipe for an application. 

    Please ensure to capture the following data while authoring a recipe for an application. The maximum limit is up to 60,000 characters with html markup.

    *If you are not a Microsoft employee you must identify your name and company affiliation which will be published with the recipe.

    Click on ‘Ask a question’ and select ‘Start a discussion’ to post a recipe

    Title: <Ideas: Give a short description about the application name>

    Body: <Include these fields in your recipe>

    Application Name:

    Application Version:

    Company Name: <Who produces the software>

    Sequencer Version:

    App-V Client Version Tested On: <List the versions of the App-V, you have tested on>

    Operating System Sequenced On: <Enter the operating system>

    Pre-requisites: <List the pre-requisites for the sequencer machine: ex. Install WDS 4.0, .NET 3.0>

    Client Operating Systems Successfully Deployed To: <List the operating systems the application was successfully deployed to>

    Posted by Microsoft Employee: <Please provide your name>

    *Posted by non-Microsoft Employee: <Please provide your name and company affiliation>

    If Posted by Microsoft Employee, the Corresponding KB Article Reference: <Please insert the URL if known or available, or N/A if not posted by Microsoft Employee>

    Steps to Sequence the Application:

    <Step1…>

    <Step2…>

    <Step3…>

    Known Issues/Limitations: <Ex. Application dependencies, Client Operating Systems that this package will not work on with: Windows 7 Client, 32-bit; Windows 7 Client, 64-bit; Windows Vista SP1, 64-bit; Windows Vista SP2, 32-bit; Windows Vista SP2, 64-bit; Windows XP, SP3, 32-bit; Windows Server 2008 R2; Windows Server 2008, 32-bit; Windows Server 2008, 64-bit; Windows Server 2003 R2, 32-bit; Windows Server 2003 R2, 64-bit; Windows Server 2003, 32-bit; Other>                                  

    Approximate Sequencing Time:

    Other (Optional fields)

    App-V friendly copy protection scheme?  <Yes/No: This information is helpful for the packager to virtualize the application>

    Additional Notes/Links: <Reference to additional data, if any>

    Custom scripts to assist in the process: <Reference to scripts, if any>

    Descriptive Tags:

    ·         Applying tags to a thread makes it possible for users to find the thread by using the tag cloud.

    ·         Clicking a tag in the tag cloud returns all threads containing that tag.

    ·         While entering tags, use commas to separate tags.

     

    Remember – This is a public forum so never post private information such as e-mail or phone numbers!

    If you have any questions, please contact the team at appvsite@microsoft.com.

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    Welcome to the App-V Sequencing forum!
    Manita Sharma

    Most applications can be sequenced using App-V Sequencer without requiring any special steps. However, there are some third-party and Microsoft applications that require special steps in order to be properly sequenced and work with App-V.

     

    In the past, members of the product team would regularly post instructions for sequencing particularly for the difficult applications. Recently we have been receiving requests from our customers to have one common community forum for sharing information.

     

    We’re listening and we are glad that you are talking!  Based on the enormous feedback, we are extremely pleased to announce the launch of a new community driven Recipe Forum on Microsoft TechNet. This forum is intended for App-V IT Pros within the App-V community to share their best practice recipes in an effort to grow everyone’s knowledge, expertise and save each other time by learning together.   This allows our new members to ramp faster and our experts to shine and show their depth of knowledge!

     

    You can now view prescriptive sequencing recipes for more than X applications that have been provided by a few experienced packagers from the App-V community. The Community is only successful if all members are contributing.  We have responded to your request, now we need you to respond to ours!  PLEASE CONTRIBUTE YOUR RECIPES TO THE COMMUNITY!   We hope that even more App-V users will contribute and use the content on the forum to sequence more applications! 

    If you have any questions, please contact the team at appvsite@microsoft.com.
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    Content posted on this site is provided as-is. You bear the risk of using it. Microsoft gives no express or implied warranties or guarantees. Content contributed by the community has not been tested by Microsoft unless otherwise noted.
    Manita Sharma

    Content posted on this site is provided as-is. You bear the risk of using it. Microsoft gives no express or implied warranties or guarantees.  Content contributed by the community has not been tested by Microsoft unless otherwise noted.

Surface 1.0 Hardware, Platform and Applications announcements

Surface 2.0 Platform and Applications announcements

Windows Embedded POSReady announcements

MDOP Asset Inventory Service - Announcements announcements

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    Important information About Your AIS Agent Installation Package
    Paul Bourgeau

    Overview

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    Every Asset Inventory Service (AIS) agent installation package contains a certificate that identifies the account of the AIS subscriber. This certificate is used to ensure that inventory reported by an agent is associated with the correct account when it is received at the AIS web service.

    This certificate has a lifetime of 3 years. After this time, the installation package cannot be used to successfully enroll new agents, although existing agents will continue to function just fine. A notification will be displayed in the console for those accounts that are approaching the 3 year threshold (approximately 60 days before the certificate expires). The systems administrator of the AIS account should then download their new agent installation package which is available from the normal download page in the AIS console.

    The AIS service supports multiple agent installation packages per account. This means that the original package and the new package can both be used to install new agents. This allows a transition period where an organization can change their procedures to use the new installation package. Eventually, however, the certificate in the original installation package will expire, after which time only the new package should be used.

    Frequently Asked Questions

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    What do I do if I see the following announcement on my home page:

    “Your original AIS agent installation package expires on <expiry date>. Please download your new agent installation package and use it for all future installations. [Computers that had the original agent installation package installed before <expiry date> do not have to be updated.]”

    This means that your original agent installation package is going to expire soon, and you need to download a new one and use that for agent installations. The message will typically be shown 60 days before the package expires. You can continue using the original installation package until the date in the announcement but it is recommended that you start using the new one as soon as possible.

    When I go to the client deployment area, there’s no option to download a new installation package

    If you see the expiry announcement on the home page, the service will have generated a new installation package for your account. You download it the same way you downloaded the original package by visiting the Client Deployment area of the Management and Support workspace and click on the link that says “Download Client Here”. You can verify that you have downloaded the latest package by viewing the properties of downloaded file as follows:

    ·         Select the file and display the property page

    ·         Select the Digital Signatures Tab and view Signature List

    ·         Locate “Microsoft Corporation” in the list and double-click it

    ·         The Signing Time on the displayed property page should be Nov 2010.

    What happens if I carry on using the original installation package?

    If the announcement is shown on the home page and you continue to use the original installation package after the date shown in the message, you will not be able to successfully enroll agents into the AIS service. The installation will be successful, but when the agent attempts to enroll in the service, it will be rejected. The only way to correct this situation is to download the new installation package from the service and install that on the affected machines. [see below: How do I correct a failed installation?]

    What do I do if I see the following announcement on my home page?

    “Your original AIS agent installation package expired on <expiry date>. Please download your new agent installation package and use it for all future installations. [Computers that had the original agent installation package installed before <expiry date> do not have to be updated.]”

    This means that your original agent installation package has expired. If you obtained a new installation package and phased out using the old package before the date of expiry, then you have no further actions. If, however, you have been attempting to deploy agents using your original agent installation package then you need to take the following action:

    -          Stop using the original installation package

    -          Download a new agent installation package from the AIS console by visiting the Client Deployment area of the Management and Support workspace and click on the link that says “Download Client Here”

    -          Start using the new installation package for all future installations

    -          Identify the machines where an attempt was made to install the AIS agent with the expired installation package.

    o   These will be machines where the agent was recently installed, but are not displayed in the console.

    o   For these machines, re-run the install with the new package [see below: How do I correct a failed installation?]

    How do I correct a failed installation?

    If you identify a machine where an attempt was made to install an AIS agent, but the enrollment failed because the agent installation package had expired, proceed as follows:

    -          Option #1

    o   Uninstall the AIS agent

    §   Asset Inventory Service Tips and Troubleshooting

    ·         Tip: How to remove the AIS client software

    o   Run the installation using the new agent installation package

     

    -          Option #2

    o   Run the installation using the following MSI flags: REINSTALLMODE=vomus

    §  For example:  msiexec /I  <path to new .msi file> REINSTALLMODE=vomus

    Note: if you simply run the new agent install on the failed machine (without following either of these options) it will not successfully update the agent configuration and enroll with the service.

    How do I know when my agent installation package will expire?

    The following steps describe how to determine when an agent installation package was signed. If the current date is less than 3 years from this date, the package can still be used to install and enroll an agent :

    ·         Locate the agent installation package

    ·         Select the installation package file and display the property page

    ·         Select the Digital Signatures Tab and view Signature List

    ·         Locate “Microsoft Corporation” in the list and double-click it

    ·         If the Signing Time on the displayed property page is less than 3 years ago, then the package can still be used to install and enroll an agent.

    Why does the certificate in the agent installation package expire after 3 years?

    Certificates have an expiry date to reduce the time period available to an attacker. Three years was adopted as a reasonable balance between renewing the agent installation packages and providing acceptable security for user accounts.

     

Power View announcements

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    Welcome to the Power View Forum!
    Sandy Rivas

    We are happy to announce that Power View for Office / Office 365 has it's own forum!  Power View allows you to analyze and create stunning interactive visualizations that uncover hidden insights to share and collaborate from anywhere, on any device!  As you do that - you may have questions / feedback / tips to share.  Please utilize this forum to share/gain knowledge and expertise in Power View.

    We look forward to hearing how you are using Power View and what challenges and suggestions you may have. The more you share, the more the forum can help you get the most out of Power View now and you can influence the next version!

    The Power View Team

Forums Redesign - Q&A / Discussions announcements

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    How to share your feedback on the new design
    Bryant Hawthorne - MSFT

    Thank you everyone who has provided feedback into this forum so far. We appreciate the feedback and are actively prioritizing it accordingly. We are monitoring the suggestions and bugs and are currently working to make improvements based on feedback that has already been provided.

    In order to help us make further improvements to this new design, please take the following action:

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    • If you have additional questions or comments about the redesign, this forum is the place to post.

    Again, thank you for your feedback and know that your voice is being heard.

App-V General Sequencing announcements

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    How to ask a question efficiently in the TechNet forums
    Aaron.Parker
    Thank you for posting in TechNet forum. Online problem solving can be relatively time consuming because it may demand several messages back and force to fully understand the symptom and background, especially at the very beginning. Here are a few suggestions that can help you get the best answer to your question as quickly as possible.
     
    When You Ask
    1. Selecting a good title which summarizes the specific problem you have. It will be the one of the main driving forces for others to want to actually read your item. Choosing a badly-formatted title will drive people away, thinking that since the title is so badly written, so must be the information and the question within the thread.
    2. Provide all the necessary information in your initial post. The following information would be very helpful:
    - Symptom description: Detailed description of the problem. If you receive any error messages, please let us know the exact error WORD BY WORD.
    - Environment: The system environment, such as your OS/application version, your network topology, and your domain environment, etc.
    - Any recent relevant configuration change(s): If the issue started to occur after installing any application/updates or changing the configuration, please let us know.
    - Any additional information. Tell what you have done prior to asking your question. This will help us understand that you've done so far.
    3. Write in a clear language. Avoiding spelling mistakes or grammatical errors. Don't type IN ALL CAPS, which in most cases is read as shouting and considered rude.
    4. Keep within the same thread. Do not refer to a post you made last year, and above all, Please come back. There are hundreds and thousands of posts where we have seen people given great and wonderfully long answers yet no reply from the original poster.
    5. Be courteous to reply, even if it's to say. "I've given up" or thanks that worked. (This helps the whole community when you do this, and gives the people who donate their time, warm and fuzzies.)
     
    When answered
    Give Positive Feedback. Once you've received a correct answer to your question, either from a Microsoft employee, an MVP, or the community in general, pleases replies that the issue or question has been answered. And if possible mark the solution as answered: This step is important, since it lets other people benefit from your posts.
    Please remember to click “Mark as Answer” on the post that helps you, and to click “Unmark as Answer” if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.

Windows Vista IE announcements

App-V Server and Management announcements

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    The Great App-V Survey Project
    Tim Mangan

    I am asking for some help here in filling our an anonumous survey about App-V usage.

    Traditionally, Microsoft is the only one that has any information regarding App-V usage out there, and basically Microsoft doesn't share that info (unless someone is bragging).  So I am trying to gather some information to share with the community using an un-scientific survey.  The survey is very short (10 questions), and does not ask you to identify yourself or your company.  You can see all of the questions before you even start.  It is just some basic questions to "get a feel" for what people are doing. 

    Let me be clear that this is not a Microsoft santioned survery and they have nothing to do with it.  My company is requesting this information and will only use it to provide information back to the technical community. Any information gathered will only be used in aggregate form.

    Please fill out the survey at this link: http://www.tmurgent.com/AppVSurvey.aspx

    Thank You!

    Tim Mangan

  • Link
    How to ask a question efficiently in the TechNet forums
    Aaron.Parker
    Thank you for posting in TechNet forum. Online problem solving can be relatively time consuming because it may demand several messages back and force to fully understand the symptom and background, especially at the very beginning. Here are a few suggestions that can help you get the best answer to your question as quickly as possible.
     
    When You Ask
    1. Selecting a good title which summarizes the specific problem you have. It will be the one of the main driving forces for others to want to actually read your item. Choosing a badly-formatted title will drive people away, thinking that since the title is so badly written, so must be the information and the question within the thread.
    2. Provide all the necessary information in your initial post. The following information would be very helpful:
    - Symptom description: Detailed description of the problem. If you receive any error messages, please let us know the exact error WORD BY WORD.
    - Environment: The system environment, such as your OS/application version, your network topology, and your domain environment, etc.
    - Any recent relevant configuration change(s): If the issue started to occur after installing any application/updates or changing the configuration, please let us know.
    - Any additional information. Tell what you have done prior to asking your question. This will help us understand that you've done so far.
    3. Write in a clear language. Avoiding spelling mistakes or grammatical errors. Don't type IN ALL CAPS, which in most cases is read as shouting and considered rude.
    4. Keep within the same thread. Do not refer to a post you made last year, and above all, Please come back. There are hundreds and thousands of posts where we have seen people given great and wonderfully long answers yet no reply from the original poster.
    5. Be courteous to reply, even if it's to say. "I've given up" or thanks that worked. (This helps the whole community when you do this, and gives the people who donate their time, warm and fuzzies.)
     
    When answered
    Give Positive Feedback. Once you've received a correct answer to your question, either from a Microsoft employee, an MVP, or the community in general, pleases replies that the issue or question has been answered. And if possible mark the solution as answered: This step is important, since it lets other people benefit from your posts.
    Please remember to click “Mark as Answer” on the post that helps you, and to click “Unmark as Answer” if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.

Surface Hardware Units announcements

Learning Manager Bugs and Feedback announcements

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    Please read before posting questions to this forum.
    FJ2008
    Dear Forum User:

    This forum is dedicated only to customers who are using Microsoft E-Learning products. So please post questions only which are related to Microsoft E-Learning Products/issues/information request only.
    Thanks,
    Sidharth lala
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    Report a Learning Manager Bug
    Alicia Cales

    Did you find a Bug in Learning Manager? Log it here!

    In your post, please include:

    • Course name or number of where the issue is occurring with
    • URL where you are experiencing the problem/issue
    • Detailed reproduction steps of what you did in order to get the problem/problem. If there is an error message, please obtain a copy of the error message.



Surface Applications announcements

App-V Clients announcements

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    How to ask a question efficiently in the TechNet forums
    Aaron.Parker
    Thank you for posting in TechNet forum. Online problem solving can be relatively time consuming because it may demand several messages back and force to fully understand the symptom and background, especially at the very beginning. Here are a few suggestions that can help you get the best answer to your question as quickly as possible.
     
    When You Ask
    1. Selecting a good title which summarizes the specific problem you have. It will be the one of the main driving forces for others to want to actually read your item. Choosing a badly-formatted title will drive people away, thinking that since the title is so badly written, so must be the information and the question within the thread.
    2. Provide all the necessary information in your initial post. The following information would be very helpful:
    - Symptom description: Detailed description of the problem. If you receive any error messages, please let us know the exact error WORD BY WORD.
    - Environment: The system environment, such as your OS/application version, your network topology, and your domain environment, etc.
    - Any recent relevant configuration change(s): If the issue started to occur after installing any application/updates or changing the configuration, please let us know.
    - Any additional information. Tell what you have done prior to asking your question. This will help us understand that you've done so far.
    3. Write in a clear language. Avoiding spelling mistakes or grammatical errors. Don't type IN ALL CAPS, which in most cases is read as shouting and considered rude.
    4. Keep within the same thread. Do not refer to a post you made last year, and above all, Please come back. There are hundreds and thousands of posts where we have seen people given great and wonderfully long answers yet no reply from the original poster.
    5. Be courteous to reply, even if it's to say. "I've given up" or thanks that worked. (This helps the whole community when you do this, and gives the people who donate their time, warm and fuzzies.)
     
    When answered
    Give Positive Feedback. Once you've received a correct answer to your question, either from a Microsoft employee, an MVP, or the community in general, pleases replies that the issue or question has been answered. And if possible mark the solution as answered: This step is important, since it lets other people benefit from your posts.
    Please remember to click “Mark as Answer” on the post that helps you, and to click “Unmark as Answer” if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.

App-V Documentation announcements

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    How to ask a question efficiently in the TechNet forums
    Aaron.Parker
    Thank you for posting in TechNet forum. Online problem solving can be relatively time consuming because it may demand several messages back and force to fully understand the symptom and background, especially at the very beginning. Here are a few suggestions that can help you get the best answer to your question as quickly as possible.
     
    When You Ask
    1. Selecting a good title which summarizes the specific problem you have. It will be the one of the main driving forces for others to want to actually read your item. Choosing a badly-formatted title will drive people away, thinking that since the title is so badly written, so must be the information and the question within the thread.
    2. Provide all the necessary information in your initial post. The following information would be very helpful:
    - Symptom description: Detailed description of the problem. If you receive any error messages, please let us know the exact error WORD BY WORD.
    - Environment: The system environment, such as your OS/application version, your network topology, and your domain environment, etc.
    - Any recent relevant configuration change(s): If the issue started to occur after installing any application/updates or changing the configuration, please let us know.
    - Any additional information. Tell what you have done prior to asking your question. This will help us understand that you've done so far.
    3. Write in a clear language. Avoiding spelling mistakes or grammatical errors. Don't type IN ALL CAPS, which in most cases is read as shouting and considered rude.
    4. Keep within the same thread. Do not refer to a post you made last year, and above all, Please come back. There are hundreds and thousands of posts where we have seen people given great and wonderfully long answers yet no reply from the original poster.
    5. Be courteous to reply, even if it's to say. "I've given up" or thanks that worked. (This helps the whole community when you do this, and gives the people who donate their time, warm and fuzzies.)
     
    When answered
    Give Positive Feedback. Once you've received a correct answer to your question, either from a Microsoft employee, an MVP, or the community in general, pleases replies that the issue or question has been answered. And if possible mark the solution as answered: This step is important, since it lets other people benefit from your posts.
    Please remember to click “Mark as Answer” on the post that helps you, and to click “Unmark as Answer” if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.

App-V Add-ons announcements

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    How to ask a question efficiently in the TechNet forums
    Aaron.Parker
    Thank you for posting in TechNet forum. Online problem solving can be relatively time consuming because it may demand several messages back and force to fully understand the symptom and background, especially at the very beginning. Here are a few suggestions that can help you get the best answer to your question as quickly as possible.
     
    When You Ask
    1. Selecting a good title which summarizes the specific problem you have. It will be the one of the main driving forces for others to want to actually read your item. Choosing a badly-formatted title will drive people away, thinking that since the title is so badly written, so must be the information and the question within the thread.
    2. Provide all the necessary information in your initial post. The following information would be very helpful:
    - Symptom description: Detailed description of the problem. If you receive any error messages, please let us know the exact error WORD BY WORD.
    - Environment: The system environment, such as your OS/application version, your network topology, and your domain environment, etc.
    - Any recent relevant configuration change(s): If the issue started to occur after installing any application/updates or changing the configuration, please let us know.
    - Any additional information. Tell what you have done prior to asking your question. This will help us understand that you've done so far.
    3. Write in a clear language. Avoiding spelling mistakes or grammatical errors. Don't type IN ALL CAPS, which in most cases is read as shouting and considered rude.
    4. Keep within the same thread. Do not refer to a post you made last year, and above all, Please come back. There are hundreds and thousands of posts where we have seen people given great and wonderfully long answers yet no reply from the original poster.
    5. Be courteous to reply, even if it's to say. "I've given up" or thanks that worked. (This helps the whole community when you do this, and gives the people who donate their time, warm and fuzzies.)
     
    When answered
    Give Positive Feedback. Once you've received a correct answer to your question, either from a Microsoft employee, an MVP, or the community in general, pleases replies that the issue or question has been answered. And if possible mark the solution as answered: This step is important, since it lets other people benefit from your posts.
    Please remember to click “Mark as Answer” on the post that helps you, and to click “Unmark as Answer” if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.
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    Welcome to the AppV Add-Ons forum
    Cholione

    Hello and welcome to the Application Virtualization Add-Ons forum

     

    This forum provides you an avenue where you can share knowledge, get questions answered, and learn from others with IT environments similar to yours who use the Resource Kit tools and other Add-ons to get the most out of their AppV deployments.

     

    If you have any suggestions or feedback to the AppV product Add-ons like the resource kit tools, ADM template and so on, please feel free to post in this forum.

Power BI Dashboard Preview announcements

SQL Server 2012 Setup and Installation (Pre-Release) announcements

Azure Active Directory announcements

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    AADSync is available as a customer technology preview (CTP)
    Markus Vilcinskas

    For more details, click here.

    Cheers,
    Markus

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    Introduction to the Wiki Toolbox
    Markus Vilcinskas

    Link

    Cheers,
    Markus

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    Who should use this Windows Azure AD forum?
    Nick Pierson [MSFT]

    This Windows Azure Active Directory (Windows Azure AD) TechNet forum is intended to provide community support for IT Professionals who use the Windows Azure AD Portal or that manage and/or troubleshoot identity-related issues with any of the following Microsoft cloud services:

    • Office 365
    • Windows Azure
    • Windows Intune

    Members from the Windows Azure AD team will occasionally monitor this forum to help answer questions. However, participation by identity MVPs and other IT Pro community members is strongly encouraged to provide quick replies to those who need answers.

    If you are a Developer looking for support related to Windows Azure AD, please use the Windows Azure AD MSDN forum instead.

    Thanks!

    Nick Pierson

    Windows Azure AD - Senior Writer

    Looking for Windows Azure AD content but not sure where to start? Check out the new Windows Azure AD Content Map wiki page to find helpful links to Azure AD content that may reside anywhere on the Internet. Please contribute to this page and add links!



SQL Server 2012 PowerPivot for Excel (Pre-Release) announcements

SQL Server 2012 Integration Services (Pre-Release) announcements

Windows 7 Optimized Desktop Deployment Proof of Concept announcements

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    PoC 2.0 released
    Anthony_Mann

    The Desktop POC Kit v2.0 is a customer focused offering available as free download via the Microsoft download center (http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9728107). The kit enables customers to drive an accelerated desktop deployment by providing a ready to run deployment server with the full suite of Microsoft desktop deployment tools installed and ready to use.

    The Desktop POC Kit v2.0 provides enhancements and new products to the POC kit. This version of the POC kit introduces 2 new technical modules. These new modules are “Managing Desktop Policies” which features the Security Compliance Manager tool and product security baselines to drive rapid implementation of Microsoft recommended group policy settings. The other new module is the “Zero Touch Deployment” module which features deployment using the zero touch deployment method using System Center Configuration Manager.

    The updated version of the POC also brings additional products to the deployed desktops. The following products are now included in the POC kit:

    ·         Visio Premium 2010

    ·         Forefront

    ·         Project Professional 2010

    The kit provides new features increasing the value of the kit. These features include:

    ·         Visio deployment dashboard – single view of all deployment tools and deployment progress

    ·         Office 365 Readiness – the deployed image requires the required elements to prepare the deployed desktop for connection to the Office 365 beta services

    ·         Expanded image build & customization

    The existing Desktop POC v2 content has been updated to provide increased understanding of the deployment process. This includes improvements in the technical execution guidance providing deeper explanations and providing improved explanations of why the actions are required. The technical tools are also updated to the latest available versions.

    The following recaps what is delivered on the POC deployment server:

    ·         Assessment/Compat Tools

    o   Microsoft Assessment & Planning Toolkit 5.5

    o   Application Compatibility Toolkit 5.6

    o   Office Migration Planning Manager 2010 Update 1 Beta

    o   Office Environment Assessment Tool 2010 Update 1 Beta

    o   Office Compatibility Code Inspector 2010 Update 1 Beta

    ·         Image Build

    o    Security Compliance Manager

    o   Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010 Update 1

    o   Office Customization Tool & Config.xml

    ·         Image Deployment

    o   Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010 Update 1

    o   System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R3

    ·         Supporting products

    o   Windows Server 2008 R2

    o   SQL Server 2008 R2

    o   Forefront Server

    o   Microsoft Office 2010

    o   Visio Premium 2010

    o   Custom Visio deployment dashboard

    ·         The Desktop POC provides and is ready to the deploy the following components to connected clients in the POC environment

    ·         Windows 7 Enterprise

    o   Language Packs

    o   Custom drivers

    ·         Office Pro Plus 2010

    o   Customized feature installation

    o   Custom help solution template

    o   Customized ribbon

    o   Office 365 required updates

    ·         App-V 4.6

    o   Office 2010 sequenced package

    o   DSC Office Add-ins: PowerPivot

    ·         Visio Premium 2010

    o   Deployment dashboard

    ·         Project Professional 2010

    ·         Forefront client security

    ·         Microsoft Online Services Sign-in Assistant (365 Readiness)

    ·         Silverlight

    ·         Office 2010 Interactive Ribbon guide: Word

    ·         Office Excel Add-in: PowerPivot

    The Desktop POC v2 delivers enhanced technical guidance divided into 14 technical modules. These modules include:

    1.  Setup Guide

    2.  Benefits of an Optimized Desktop

    3.  Justify the Upgrade

    4.  Evaluate Hardware Readiness

    5.  Windows Compat

    6.  Office Compat

    7.  Application Virtualization

    8.  Manage Desktop Policies

    9.  Image Build

    10.  Deploy: Lite Touch

    11.  Deploy: Zero Touch

    12.  Test Windows

    13.  Test Office

    14.  Next Steps

Service Pack 1 RC for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 announcements

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    This forum is now read-only
    Anthony_Mann
    Now that Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 has been released, this forum is now marked read-only. This enables users to search, but not post. If you have any questions, please ask your questions in the other Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 forums.

SQL Server 2012 High Availability and Disaster Recovery (Pre-Release) announcements

SQL Server 2012 Spatial (Pre-Release) announcements

SQL Server 2012 Analysis Services (Pre-Release) announcements

SQL Server 2012 PowerPivot for SharePoint (Pre-Release) announcements

SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services (Pre-Release) announcements

SQL Server 2012 Master Data Services (Pre-Release) announcements

Read Only - Forefront Threat Management Gateway announcements

Windows Server 2008 R2 General - Read Only announcements

Windows Server 2008 R2 Remote Desktop Services - Read Only announcements

Windows Server 2008 R2 Networking - Read Only announcements

Windows Server 2008 R2 Management - Read Only announcements

Windows Server 2008 R2 Web Technologies - Read Only announcements

Live Meeting - Rollout/Deployment Programs announcements

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    Welcome to Office Live Meeting Forums
    IrfanS - msft

    Welcome to Office Live Meeting forums.   This is home to comprehensive set of forums designed to cover various aspects of Microsoft Office Live Meeting. I am starting with few forums but will be adding some more as we go along. 

    Detailed technical topics should be posted into their respective forums if one is available. Other post can be done in the General section.  Please note however, it is important for a topic to be posted to the correct forum because different groups e.g. Support and Product Group teams and MVPs monitor different forums.  As moderators review the posts they may also move posts to another topic area per relevance.  Our ultimate goal here is to provide a useful response to every question within a reasonable amount of time.  We are targeting 2-3 business days, however being new initiative we are ramping up, so please bear with us on delays.

    Please also consider the following :

    This posting on forums is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

    These forums are not an official channel for product support. If you have an urgent or business critical issue, you should contact Microsoft Support Services

    Live Meeting Support for Technical and Billing Issues:
           Web Ticket: http://www.livemeeting.com/ask  

    Phone 1-866-493-2835 toll free (US and Canada Only) or refer to  http://support.microsoft.com/kb/939099/en-us  for additional support options.

     

    While much thought and planning was put into the creation of the forums, there is always room for improvement. I encourage you to please post your ideas and feedback in "General Discussion" forum or email them directly to me Irfan.Soomro@microsoft.com.

    Thank you for being a part of the Live Meeting community.

    Irfan Soomro
    Senior Program Manager

    Microsoft Office Live Meeting

Opalis v5 / v6 General announcements

AVICode 5.7 announcements

Microsoft Office 2010 Volume Activation (to be retired) announcements

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    Welcome to the Volume Activation forum!
    Ted Way

    This forum is for questions, feedback, or anything else related to volume activation for Microsoft Office 2010.  Volume products include the Office 2010 Professional Plus suite, and the volume editions of Microsoft Project and Microsoft Visio.

    Please visit the Office 2010 volume activation resource center:

    http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/ee691939.aspx

    If you have any questions, please feel free to post!

    Ted Way [MSFT]
    Program Manager, Microsoft Office PLEX
    Enterprise Licensing, Group Policy, and 64-bit Office

Active Directory Federation Services announcements

Opalis v4 General announcements

Opalis Quick Integration Kit announcements

Opalis Integrations announcements

Security announcements

SQL Server PowerPivot for SharePoint announcements

Hybrid Auditing announcements

Networking announcements

Virtual Machine Manager (VMware) announcements

Azure SQL Database announcements

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    New service update available for SQL Data Sync!
    Shirley Wang [ADF]

    While it has been 3+ years since we last announced an update to SQL Data Sync service, we have been continuously deploying updates to the backend service to address top customer issues.  We are listening to your feedback, and today we are happy to announce the latest update which includes both service changes and a new SQL Data Sync agent install.  This update includes two main enhancements:

    1. Support for synchronizing tables that have column collations:
      • If the selected sync schema tables do not already exist in your hub or member databases, upon deploying the sync group, SQL Data Sync will automatically create corresponding tables and columns in the empty database with the same collation settings as the select sync schema.
      • If the tables to-be-synced are already created in both hub and member databases, SQL Data Sync requires the primary key columns have the same collation between hub/member databases to successfully deploy the sync group.  There is no collation restriction on the non-primary key columns.
    2. Improvements to performance and resilience:
      • We enhanced batch transfer of serialized changes from source to destination, so you should see faster sync throughput.
      • We improved transient error handling logic when reading from the source or writing to the destination.

    The new version of SQL Data Sync agent in the download center.  Please follow the step-by-step instructions here to install a new Data Sync agent.  If you have an existing agent, you can refer to this MSDN article for detailed upgrade procedures.  A previous version of Data Sync agent will continue to work until it expires on 8/18/2015.

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    Understand Azure SQL Database and SQL Server in Azure VM
    Vinod Ramakrishna

    Microsoft Azure provides you two options when hosting your SQL Server-based data: Azure SQL Database and SQL Server in Azure Virtual Machine. This new article explains how each option fits into the big picture in Microsoft’s Data Platform, and then discusses the common business motivations that might affect your choice. Please take a look at it!

    http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/data-management-azure-sql-database-and-sql-server-iaas/

    Selcin Turkarslan

Azure Storage announcements

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    Azure Ultra disks GA
    DiegoRamirez-MSFT

    With general availability of Microsoft Azure Ultra Disks Storage today, we are delivering the next generation of our highly performant Azure Managed Disk, for data intensive workloads migrating to or running in the cloud. Azure Ultra Disk will help you get maximum extremely scalable performance and sub-millisecond latency for applications and databases like SAP HANA, Microsoft SQL Server, MongoDB, Cassandra, Oracle DB, Postgre SQL, NoSQL, MySQL and many more.

    Azure Ultra Disks will give you access to the best in class IOPS, throughput and latency in the cloud. You can now:

    • Choose from a range of different disks sizes ranging from 4 GiB up to 64 TiB with granular increments
    • Scale performance up to 160K IOPS and 2 GB/s per disk with zero downtime using our flexible innovative design
    • Achieve the optimal performance you need per disk even at low storage capacities 

    Our preview customers have benefited by achieving new levels of performance and scale on Azure for their Virtual Machine and Container workloads. Get started today with Azure Ultra Disk Storage.  Please refer to our how-to-guidefor a deep dive and learn more at https://aka.ms/UltraDiskBlog.


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    Archived Windows Azure Storage Forum Content
    Brad Calder

    When the forums moved into specialized areas, the original forum content for Windows Azure was left archived at this link:

     

    http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-GB/windowsazure/

     

     

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    Windows Azure Storage Team Blog
    Brad Calder

    Please see the Windows Azure Storage Team Blog for more information on Windows Azure Storage

     

    http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazurestorage/

     

Cloud Services (Web and Worker Roles) announcements

Windows Multipoint Server announcements

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    Forum closed
    Sandra Aldana - MSFT
    This forum is now closed. Thank you for your participation.
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    What to do when Dashboard cannot be used in WS 2016?
    Eva Seydl

    If you are running into an issue where the WMS Dashboard is in an unusable state the security certificate might be expired which the Dashboard needs to connect to the webservice on the Server. Please use the following steps to identify if you are running into the same issue and apply the solution provided in this article: 

    1. Run "c:\Program Files\Windows MultiPoint Server\LogCollector.exe".  Click "Collect Data" and then "View Logs" in MultiPoint Log Collector 
    2. "View Logs" will open a folder with some zip files.  Open the latest zip file, and then open "Microsoft-Windows-WMS-Trace.csv" from inside the zip file (use notepad)
    3. Search for SecurityNegotiationException in the logs.

     

    If you see this error to run the following command in PowerShell as administrator:

    net stop wms; $hostname = (Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_ComputerSystem -Property Name).Name; Get-ChildItem -Path 'Cert:\localmachine\MultiPoint Services Certificates\' | ForEach-Object {if ($_.Subject -like ('*'+$hostname+'*')) {Write-Host ('Removing '+$_.Thumbprint); Remove-Item -Path ('Cert:\localmachine\MultiPoint Services Certificates\'+$_.Thumbprint)}}; net start wms

    The certificate can also be manually deleted but the process to do that is complex, so either way should work.

    If you want to try to manually remove the certificate, follow these steps:

    1. You will need your local host name.  If you don't know that, you can run the command "hostname" from a command prompt and it will tell you the computer's host name.
    2. From a command prompt run “Net stop wms”.  You will need to be running in an elevated command prompt as an administrator.
    3. From a command prompt run “mmc.exe”.  You will also need to be running in an elevated command prompt as an administrator.
    4. CTRL+M to add a new snap-in
    5. From the list of available snap-ins on the left, choose certificates, then add it to the list.  There will be a popup dialog.  Choose computer account from the three options, then choose local computer
    6. Find “MultiPoint Services Certificates” in the list of  certificates for the local computer.  Delete all the certificates where “Issued By” is the local host name.
    7. Now run “net start wms”.  When the MultiPoint service starts, it will create a new certificate for you.  This should fix the problem.

    An update is work in progress and will be shipped in one of the upcoming releases.

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    Testdrive MultiPoint Services Role as part of Windows Server 2016
    Eva Seydl

    Download the latest technical preview for Windows Server 2016 and test-drive Multipoint Services role: https://aka.ms/ws2016-eval 

    If you are running into issues let us know here on the TechNet forum.

    Are you missing features? Let us know on UserVoice: aka.ms/uservoice-wms

Streaming Media Services announcements

Microsoft Online: Announcements announcements

MDOP Asset Inventory Service - General Discussion announcements

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    AIS Discussion Forums - Important Notice
    Paul Bourgeau
     

    Welcome to The Asset Inventory Service technical forums, brought to you by the System Center Online team!

    These forums are a venue for you to post questions, comments, and feedback about your experiences with the Asset Inventory Service.  The goal of these forums is to promote discussion among users of AIS, and foster a community of AIS users.

    Before posting a technical question, be sure to review our technical documentation and troubleshooting guides. They contain important information that may help you resolve your issue.  If you don’t find the information you need in the documentation, please post your issue. It is easier for us to give correct guidance if your log files are included.

    The log collection tool is used to gather the following information:

    ·         SCOnlineClient.log from %Windir%

    ·         System Event Logs

    ·         System Center Online Registry Settings

    ·         System Center Online Scheduled Tasks

     

    To run the log collector tool, navigate via command line to c:\program files\Microsoft System Center Online Client\Diagnostic Tools and run "cscript logcollector.vbs"

    After the Log Collection Tool script is complete, the resulting set of files is located in the same directory.

     

    Please note: The log collector files may contain personally identifiable information.  You may choose to review the contents of these files and alter them file to hide any information before posting it in these forums.

     

    We welcome your input and participation!

Systems Management Server 2003 announcements

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    Welcome to the SMS 2003 Forum!
    Wally (no longer at Microsoft)

    Welcome to the SMS 2003 forum. As you have heard, Microsoft is moving from the public newsgroups to forums. This is the one location for you to ask questions on SMS 2003.

    Please do not ask questions on Configuration Manager here (there are other forums specifically for Configuration Manager at: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/configurationmanager/). And please don't ask SMS 2003 questions on the Configuration Manager forums :-)

    There will be community presence here to help you with your questions on SMS 2003, however, be aware, that just like in the newsgroups, responses/answers are never guaranteed. You may need to go to Customer Support Services (CSS) to have questions resolved. We'll do our best to help here when possible.

    Thanks, and enjoy,

    Wally

Configuration Manager (Current Branch) – Mobile Device Management announcements

Configuration Manager Servicing announcements

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    Cumulative Update 1 Now Available
    Brian Huneycutt [MSFT]

    We are pleased to announce that Cumulative Update 1 for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager is now available for download via KB 2717295.

    For additional information on the cumulative update model, see our team blog. Installation instructions are covered in the “Update System Center 2012 Configuration Manager” documentation on TechNet.

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    Welcome to the Configuration Manager Servicing Forum
    Yvette O'Meally

    The Servicing forum is for discussing the servicing releases for the Configuration Manager family of products and sharing community knowledge about keeping Configuration Manager environments updated.  This includes questions about hotfixes, cumulative updates/rollups, service packs and serviceability best practices.  Questions on or troubleshooting for other product features should still take place in the appropriate forum for the feature.

    For an overview of hotfix installation for Configuration Manager 2007 please see the following article:

    KB 2477182 System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Hotfix Installation Guidance

    Before posting we would ask that you check for solutions that have already been published or posted:

    ·In posts already in the forums - often someone has already hit your issue and posted a solution (see searching below)

    ·In the documentation library HERE

    ·On other Technet resources or blogs – links below


    Tips for keyword searches:
    Sometimes it's just a difference in a keyword, but you can find a lot of answers with the correct ones.
    Search in Technet or your favorite search engine:
    Keywords: always use 'Configuration Manager' then narrow to specific terms that you find in error messages, component names or logs.
    You might be surprised how often the answer is in the top 10 results returned.

    Still didn't find what you are looking for?
    Great, create a post and provide enough information so you can get a useful answer quickly. The more information you provide, the faster someone can recognize your issue and get you the best solution.

    ·        Look through the forums to locate the category that most closely matches the feature or operation you are attempting.

    ·        Include the version of the product - Config Mgr 2007 SP1, SP2 or R2 and the KB number of the hotfix if applicable.

    ·        Describe relevant details about your environment (operating systems, SQL, AD, accounts, site settings) and what you are attempting to accomplish.

    ·        If there is an error or problem, include sections of relevant logs and/or exact error messages.

    ·        Describe what remedies you have tried already.

    ·        Check back on your post often, many are answered the same day!

    Other Useful Links:

    System Center Configuration Manager

    Main Product Page

    Community Page

    Product Team Blog

    Support Team Blog

    Configuration Manager 2012 Documentation Library

    Configuration Manager 2007 Documentation Library

    Configuration Manager 2007 Lifecycle Dates

    Configuration Manager Support Announcements


     

    Systems Management Server 2003

    TechCenter

    System Management Server 2003 Lifecycle Dates

Configuration Manager 2007 General announcements

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    All ConfigMgr 2007 forums are consolidated
    Kerim Hanif [MSFT]

    We consolidated and merged all threads of the Configuration Manager 2007 forums to Configuration Manager 2007 General.

    Please post all of your questions regarding ConfigMgr 2007 (no matter which area) to Configuration Manager 2007 General.

    Thank you.

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    ConfigMgr 2007 Superflows
    Robert Marshall - MVP

    Check out the Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Superflows

    The SuperFlow interactive content model provides a structured and interactive interface for viewing documentation. Each SuperFlow includes comprehensive information about a specific Configuration Manager 2007 dataflow, workflow, or process. Depending on the focus of the SuperFlow, you will find overview information, steps that include detailed information, procedures, sample log entries, best practices, real-world scenarios, troubleshooting information, security information, animations, and more. Each SuperFlow also includes links to relevant resources, such as Web sites or local files that are copied to your computer when you install the SuperFlow.

    http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff385001.aspx

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    Reporting forum is now live
    Stan White [MSFT]

    This is the home for reporting related questions including using SQL Reporting Services with Configuration Manager.

    Existing posts related to reporting are being moved there.

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    !!! Read before posting to the Configuration Manager forums !!!
    Stan White [MSFT]

    Welcome to the Configuration Manager community!

    The Configuration Manager forums are a great way to get expert help when you are not finding what you need in documentation or other online publications or if you have further clarifying questions.  There are lots of feature experts from the community ready to help - people like you who work with the product every day and have to solve the very same issues you are working though, and of course some of the folks from Microsoft that design, build, test and support the product. 

    First of all these forums are for System Center Configuration Manager 2007 releases only. 
    For the latest information see our Product Page
    Posts about other products will be moved or deleted to keep the search indexing accurate.
    For help with SMS 2003 please see the ‘other links’ at the bottom of this announcement.
    For help on Beta products use the Connect site at https://connect.microsoft.com/


    Before posting we would ask that you make a reasonable effort to find a solution that has already been published or posted:

    ·          In posts already in the forums - often someone has already hit your issue and posted a solution (see searching below)

    ·          In the documentation library HERE

    ·          On other Technet resources or blogs – links below


    Tips for keyword searches:
    Sometimes it's just a difference in a keyword, but you can find a lot of answers with the correct ones.
    Search in Technet or your favorite search engine:
    Keywords:  always use  'Configuration Manager'  then narrow to specific terms that you find in error messages, component names or logs.
    You might be surprised how often the answer is in the top 10 results returned.

    Still didn't find what you are looking for? 
    Great, create a post and provide enough information so you can get a useful answer quickly.  The more information you provide, the faster someone can recognize your issue and get you the best solution.

    ·          Look through the forums to locate the category that most closely matches the feature or operation you are attempting.

    ·          Include the version of the product - Config Mgr 2007 SP1, SP2 or R2.

    ·          Describe relevant details about your environment (operating systems, SQL, AD, accounts, site settings) and what you are attempting to accomplish.

    ·          If there is an error or problem include sections of relevant logs and/or exact error messages.

    ·          Describe what remedies you have tried already.

    ·          Check back on your post often, many are answered the same day!

     

    Other Useful Links:

     

    System Center Configuration Manager 2007

    Main Product Page

    Community Page

    Product Team Blog

    Support Team Blog

     

     

    Systems Management Server  2003

     

    TechCenter

     

    Community Support Newsgroups

    SMS Admin

    SMS Installer

    SMS Inventory

    SMS Miscellaneous

    SMS Setup

    SMS Site Communications

    SMS Software Distribution

    SMS Tools

    SMS Software Update Services

Microsoft Intune announcements

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    New MDM Forum in the Configuration Manager TechNet forums
    Shakti Prasad Mishra

    Hi Intune Admins,

    We would like to share a new resource for admins using System Center Configuration Manager with Microsoft Intune on TechNet.

    http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/systemcenter/en-us/home?forum=configmanagermdm

    If you have questions about Mobile Device Management with System Center Configuration Manager + Microsoft Intune please feel free to post questions in either forum.

    Thanks,

    The Microsoft Intune Team

Office 2016 for Mac announcements

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    Welcome !
    Matt Seybold

    Office 2016 for Mac is available for Office 365 and Volume Licensing customers. The new versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and OneNote provide the best of both worlds for Mac users: the familiar Office experience paired with the best of Mac. Volume License customers can download it from their Volume Licensing Service Center starting today, August 5, 2015.

    Thank you.

Visio General Questions and Answers for IT Professionals announcements

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    About the Visio 2010 forum
    Fred Diggs

    Welcome to the Visio 2010 Forum. This forum provides a place for you to discuss all topics related to Visio such as questions you may have about the product or tips & tricks you have learned and want to share with others.

Backup – Windows and Windows Server announcements

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    Old Threads
    Sushil.Baid [MSFT]
    Folks - Some of the old threads has been marked as general discussion based on inactivity on them for a longer duration. If the issue is not resolved, please start a new thread.
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    Vista Backup and Recovery - common causes and solution
    Christine Fok
    We've created a solution table on our blog for some issues we've seen while troubleshooting Vista backup\recovery (including System Restore) issues with some customers. We encourage you to visit the blog and see if it addresses your issue.

    http://blogs.technet.com/filecab/archive/2008/03/12/common-causes-and-solutions-to-backup-system-restore-and-complete-pc-backup-problems-updated.aspx

    Regards,
    Christine
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    Welcome to Windows and Windows Server Backup Forums!
    Malu Menezes

    Windows Backup forums provide you an opportunity to join a community of Windows customers where you can share knowledge on windows backup, get questions answered, and learn from others with backup needs similar to yours. Start by posting Windows Backup related questions and leverage the knowledge available in your new forum community.

     

    This forum supports Backup questions for Windows and Windows Server.

     

    Also, visit our blog for fresh information on Microsoft Storage and Windows Backup:

    http://blogs.technet.com/filecab

Remote Desktop clients announcements

High Availability (Clustering) announcements

Windows Server 2012 Essentials announcements

File Services and Storage announcements

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    New white paper providing guidance for sizing NTFS volumes
    JoseBarreto

    Microsoft released a new white paper, available here, discussing best practices and guidance for sizing NTFS volumes and some details on CHKDSK execution times on Windows Server 2008 R2. When planning Windows Server deployments, we are often asked questions such as “How large can I make my volumes?” or “How long will it take to repair a volume?”. This white paper helps answer these questions.

Hyper-V announcements

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    How to ask a question efficiently in TechNet forum
    BrianEh

    Thank you for posting in TechNet forum. The online problem solving can be relatively time consuming because it may demand several messages back and force to fully understand the symptom and background, especially at the very beginning. Here are a few suggestions that help you get the best answer to your question as quickly as possible.

     

    When You Ask

    1. Selecting a good title which summarizes the specific problem you have. It will be the one of the main driving forces for others to want to actually read your item. Choosing a badly-formatted title will drive people away, thinking that since the title is so badly written, so must be the information and the question within the thread.

    2. Provide all the necessary information in your initial post. The following information would be very helpful:

    - Symptom description: Detailed description of the problem. If you receive any error messages, please let us know the exact error WORD BY WORD.

    - Environment: The system environment, such as your OS/application version, your network topology, and your domain environment, etc.

    - Any recent relevant configuration change(s): If the issue started to occur after installing any application/updates or changing the configuration, please let us know.

    - Any additional information. Tell what you have done prior to asking your question. This will help us understand that you've done so far.

    3. Write in a clear language. Avoiding spelling mistakes or grammatical errors. Don't type IN ALL CAPS, which in most cases is read as shouting and considered rude.

    4. Keep with the same thread. Do not refer to a post you made last year, and above all, Please come back. There are hundreds and thousands of posts where we have seen people given great and wonderfully long answers yet no reply from the original poster.

    5. Be courteous to reply, even if it's to say. "I've given up" or thanks that worked. (This helps the whole community when you do this, and makes the people who donate time, warm and fuzzies.)

     

    When answered

    Give Positive Feedback. Once you've received a correct answer to your question, either from a Microsoft employee, an MVP, or the community in general, pleases replies that the issue or question has been answered. And if possible mark the solution as answered: This step is important, since it lets other people benefit from your posts.

    The content of this post was borrowed from: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/33d4bcfd-9a20-437c-8a5a-26d0deb01131/how-to-ask-a-question-efficiently-in-technet-forum?forum=winservergen

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    Managing Server 2012 Hyper-V Remotely
    BrianEh

    This has been a popular question lately, here are the details:

    Remote Server Admin Tools: 

    (please note that there is a client and server combination here.  AFAIK there is not (yet) a tool release to manage Server 2012 from Win 7 clients)

    Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 8: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=28972

    http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/2202.remote-server-administration-tools-rsat-for-windows-vista-windows-7-windows-8-windows-server-2008-windows-server-2008-r2-and-windows-server-2012-dsforum2wiki.aspx

    Manage Hyper-V Server 2012 Remotely:

    http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj647785.aspx

    (there are domain member and non-domain member instructions in there)

IPAM, DHCP, DNS announcements

Network Access Protection announcements

Setup Deployment announcements

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    Known Issue: After applying KB 953230 WDS stops working
    Jez Sadler - MS
    On  7/8/2008, a security patch was released for DNS by Microsoft and other DNS server vendors. The Microsoft patch was tracked as KB953230 - the documentation on it is here.

    As part of the patch, DNS now reserves 2500 UDP ports - including the ports from 64000 to 65000 that WDS uses by default. Because of this, if DNS and WDS are running on the same server, WDS cannot access those ports and so is unable to perform TFTP (required for PXE boot) or Multicast.

    To work around this, open the WDS MMC, select your server, and go to Server Properties from the right-click menu or the Action menu. Then on the Network Settings page, set a different range of UDP ports. The best range to choose will depend on what else you are running on your server - you want to pick ports that other server roles and applications are not using. The dynamically allocated ports start from 49152, so your Start port should be at least that.

Remote Desktop Services (Terminal Services) announcements

Windows PowerShell announcements

Small Business Server announcements

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    Looking for the Windows Server 2012 Essentials Beta Forums?
    Cris Hanna
    http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winserveressentials/threads
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    SBS Best Practices Analyzer
    Kevin Weilbacher [SBS MVP]

    In troubleshooting SBS issues, we will often ask whether you have run the SBS (2003/2008) Best Practices Analyzer (BPA).

    BPA examines a server that is running Windows Small Business Server and then presents a list of information and errors, which are sorted by severity, that you should review. The list describes each issue, and it provides a recommendation about what you should do to resolve the issue. The recommendations are developed by the product support organization for Windows SBS.

    Download SBS 2003 BPA

    Download SBS 2008 BPA

     

    Edit by Nick Whittome 04/09/2011
    For SBS 2011, there is a requirement to install

    the Microsoft Baseline Configuration Analyzer 2.0 and then the Windows Server Solutions Best Practices Analyzer 1.0

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    How to use your own NNTP News Reader instead of the web, to access SBS Forum:
    Russ Grover - SBITS.Biz

    For any of you struggling with the Web interface, and
    users who prefer to use an NNTP (newsgroup) reader to participate in the
    newsgroups community.

    Microsoft has developed a solution called the NNTP Bridge
    which allows a user to connect a variety of supported NNTP readers to the
    forums they would like to participate in and continue having the NTTP reader
    functionality.  You can find instructions on how to download and set up the

    Microsoft NNTP Bridge
    http://connect.microsoft.com/MicrosoftForums


    Another "Non Microsoft" supported NNTP Bridge can be found here
    http://communitybridge.codeplex.com/

    This SBS Forum is group: Technet.en-US.smallbusinessserver

    Note: The drawback to using these NNTP Bridges are that you are not able to VOTE posts as Helpfull or mark your post as Answered.
    (We still urge you to reply to if the solution worked for  you however, this benefits everyone.)

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    How to Successfully Post a Question to SBS Forum:
    Russ Grover - SBITS.Biz

    Here are a few suggestions that make it sure you get the best answer to your question as quickly as possible:

    1. Search the Forum for your question  -- Quite possibly  someone may have already answered your question, and you won't have to spend time waiting for it to be answered again.

    2. If Possible Run SBS Best Practices Analyzer. (It often can help you fix problems on your own.)

    SBS2011     Best Practices Analyzer     Standard download from Here Link http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=15556
    Note In addition for SBS2011 y    ou'll also need to download Microsoft Baseline Configuration Analyzer 2.0 Here Link     http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=16475  

    SBS2008     Best Practices Analyzer     Download from Here Link     http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=130639

    SBS2003     Best Practices Analyzer     Download from Here     Link http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=3874527A-DE19-49BB-800F-352F3B6F2922&displaylang=en

    3. Make sure your posting Subject or  "title" summarizes the specific problem you have -- 
    A question with a title of "Urgent! Help needed!" is not as likely to get
    answered as quickly a question with a title of "How to configure my firewall to open port 80". 
    A more specific, detailed title is far more likely to get a better response than a general one.

    4. Post what version of SBS you have. and service Packs, This helps people know where you are at.
    We can tell what version of Exchange you are using etc and sharepoint. (If different please tell.)
    (Not all details are necessary, but try to include any relevant information.)

    5. Avoid if possible "Me Too" Posts!  I'm guilty of this also, but unless it's exactly the same thing and you have some "Added information" you distract from the original post.  If you question if your issue is different Please make a new post. 

    6. Keep with the same thread. do not refer to a post you made last year, and above all, Please come back. There are hundreds and thousands of posts where I've seen people given great and wonderfully long answers yet no reply from the original poster.

    7. If you do post a question, be courteous to reply even if it's to say. "I've given up" or thanks that worked.
    (This helps the whole community when you do this, and makes the people who donate time, warm and fuzzies.)

    8. Give details about your problem --  rather than " It won't work, please  help!", provide some details like Error Codes, statements like, "Program starts, it gets to a part to install xxx and 2/3rds of the way and then does this.",  Links to Screen Shots and images also help.  Also search for any error
    messages in logs etc.  Other basic things like it was working before I did this, or it stopped working after I installed this. also helps.

    9. Give Positive FeedBack: Once you've received a correct answer to your question, either from a Microsoft employee, an MVP, or the community in general, please reply that the issue or question  has been answered. And if possible mark the solution as answered:  This step is important, since it lets other people benefit from your posts.

    In addition Please Vote as "helpful" replies that contribute to the answer or lead to resolution of the issue. 

    Reminder most answers are from volunteers. MVP's do not get paid by Microsoft.
    Many of them have REAL jobs and answer questions for FREE!

    Thank You and I hope you take the pay it forward philosophy that has made this forum a success.

    Russ Grover  SBSMVP July 2009 - July 2011

     

     

Small Business Server 2011 Essentials and Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials announcements

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    Welcome to the forum for Small Business Server 2011 Essentials and Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials!
    Ning Kuang

    Welcome to the forum for SBS 2011 Essentials and Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials!

     

    SBS 2011 Essentials and WSS 2008 R2 Essentials are both build on top of Windows Server 2008 R2 platform, and share the technologies from Windows Server Solutions product family.

    Customers will benefit from enhanced technical expertise when the two communities are combined together.

    Note, there are still major differences between these two products, It will be helpful to call out the product name when ask questions, following are some of the examples:

    1. SBS 2011 Essentials must be a Domain Controller; WSS 2008 R2 Essentials can be a standalone server.

    2. SBS 2011 Essentials does not include Media Feature.

    3. WSS 2008 R2 Essentials are offered via OEM channel as devices,  the “headless recovery” method for server recovery is used, where a server recovery DVD and a USB key are needed. For details, refer to the OEM manufactory’s user manual.

    For manuafactory related quesions and issues, you can reference your manuafactory's support and community site, for example: http://community.wdc.com/t5/WD-Sentinel-DX4000/bd-p/sentinel

  • Link
    How to use your own NNTP News Reader instead of the web, to access SBS Essentials Forum:
    Russ Grover - SBITS.Biz

    For any of you struggling with the Web interface, and
    users who prefer to use an NNTP (newsgroup) reader to participate in the
    newsgroups community.

    Microsoft has developed a solution called the NNTP Bridge
    which allows a user to connect a variety of supported NNTP readers to the
    forums they would like to participate in and continue having the NTTP reader
    functionality.  You can find instructions on how to download and set up the

    Microsoft NNTP Bridge
    http://connect.microsoft.com/MicrosoftForums/

    Another "Non Microsoft" supported NNTP Bridge can be found here
    http://communitybridge.codeplex.com/

    This SBS Essentails Forum is group: Technet.en-US.smallbusinessserver2011essentials

    Note: The drawback to using these NNTP Bridges are that you are not able to VOTE posts as Helpfull or mark your post as Answered.
    (We still urge you to reply to if the solution worked for  you however, this benefits everyone.)

    Remember to pay it forward, your knowledge is great for the community :)

    Thank You
    Russ Grover - SBS MVP

     

  • Link
    How to Successfully Post a Question to SBS Essentials Forum:
    Russ Grover - SBITS.Biz

    Here are a few suggestions that make it sure you get the best answer to your question as quickly as possible:

    1. Search the Forum for your question  -- Quite possibly  someone may have already answered your question, and you won't have to spend time waiting for it to be answered again.

    2. Make sure your posting Subject or  "title" summarizes the specific problem you have -- 
    A question with a title of "Urgent! Help needed!" is not as likely to get
    answered as quickly a question with a title of "How to configure my firewall to open port 80". 
    A more specific, detailed title is far more likely to get a better response than a general one.

    3. Post what service Packs or additional programs you have added, This helps people know where you are at.
    (Not all details are necessary, but try to include any relevant information, but if you think it may be an AV related issue mention what AV you are using.)

    5. Avoid if possible "Me Too" Posts!  I'm guilty of this also, but unless it's "Exactly" the same thing
    and you have some "Added information" you distract from the original post. 
    If you question if your issue is different, Please make a new post. 

    6. Keep with the same thread. Do not refer to a post you made last year, and above all, 
    Please come back. There are hundreds and thousands of posts where I've seen people given great and wonderfully long answers yet no reply from the original poster.

    7. If you do post a question, be courteous to reply even if it's to say. "I've given up" or thanks that worked.
    (This helps the whole community when you do this, and makes the people who donate time, warm and fuzzies.)

    8. Give details about your problem --  rather than " It won't work, please  help!", provide some details like Error Codes, statements like, "Program starts, it gets to a part to install xxx and 2/3rds of the way and then does this.",  Links to Screen Shots and images also help.  Also search for any error
    messages in logs etc.  Other basic things like it was working before I did this, or it stopped working after I installed this. also helps.

    9. Give Positive FeedBack: Once you've received a correct answer to your question, either from a Microsoft employee, an MVP, or the community in general, please reply that the issue or question  has been answered. And if possible mark the solution as answered:  This step is important, since it lets other people benefit from your posts.

    Lastly Please Vote as "helpful" replies that contribute to the answer or lead to resolution of the issue. 

    Reminder most answers are from volunteers. MVP's do not get paid by Microsoft.
    Many of them have REAL jobs and answer questions for FREE!

    Thank You and I hope you take the pay it forward philosophy that has made this forum a success.

    Russ Grover  SBSMVP July 2009 - July 2011

Configuration Manager (Current Branch) – Application Management announcements

Configuration Manager (Current Branch) – General announcements

Configuration Manager (Current Branch) – Operating System Deployment announcements

Configuration Manager (Current Branch) – Security, Updates and Compliance announcements

Configuration Manager (Current Branch) – Site and Client Deployment announcements

Configuration Manager (Current Branch) – Migration announcements

Configuration Manager (Current Branch) – SDK and PowerShell announcements

Service Manager - Customization Using the SDK and Authoring Tool announcements

Database Design announcements

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    Database Design Resources
    Arnie Rowland

    The following list of database design resources is not intended to be exhaustive or ‘the correct list’. Items are included simply because one of the Moderators knew the material and offered it as a suggestion. If you wish to offer suggestions for inclusion, please do so.

     

    Books

     

    A Developer's Guide to Data Modeling for SQL Server: Covering SQL Server 2005 and 2008

    Eric Johnson and Joshua Jones

    An Introduction to Database Systems

    Chris Date

    Applied Mathematics for Database Professionals

    Lex de Haan, Toon Koppelaars

    Architecting Regulatory-Compliant Architectures
    Mike Walker, Microsoft

    Data Modeling Essential

    Graeme Simsion and Graham Witt

    Database Modeling and Design: Logical Design

    Toby Teorey

    Information Modeling and Relational Databases

    Terry Halpin

    Practical Issues in Database Management: A Reference for the Thinking Practitioner

    Fabian Pascal

    Pro SQL Server 2008 Relational Database Design and Implementation

    Louis Davidson, Kevin Kline, et al

     

    Online Resources

     

    A Simple Guide to Five Normal forms and Relational Database Theory
    http://www.bkent.net/Doc/simple5.htm

    Data Modeling vs. Database Design
    http://www.aisintl.com/case/library/R-Theory_vs_ER/r-theory_vs_er.html

    Data Models
    http://www.databaseanswers.org/data_models/index.htm

    Database Design - Ten Common Database Design Mistakes, Louis Davidson
    http://www.simple-talk.com/sql/database-administration/ten-common-database-design-mistakes/

    Database Design Issues -EAV Model Discussion (Querying an EAV Table)
    http://tinyurl.com/yks8hu

    Database Design Issues –EAV and OTLT
    http://tonyandrews.blogspot.com/2004/10/otlt-and-eav-two-big-design-mistakes.html

    Database Design ROI by Paul Nielsen
    http://www.sqlserverbible.com/files/databasedesignroi.pdf

    Introduction to the Unified Dimensional Model (UDM)
    http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms345143(SQL.90).aspx

    Library of database models
    http://www.databaseanswers.org/data_models/

    On Normalization and Repeating Groups by Fabian Pascal
    http://www.dbdebunk.com/page/page/622318.htm

    ORM white paper
    http://www.orm.net/pdf/ORMwhitePaper.pdf

    Overview of the Relational Model
    http://www.utexas.edu/its/archive/windows/database/datamodeling/rm/overview.html   

    Understanding Data Model Quality, Graeme Simsion
    http://www.tdan.com/view-articles/5100

     

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Service Manager - Data Warehouse, Reporting and Dashboards announcements

Microsoft Advanced Threat Analytics announcements

Lync 2010 and OCS - Mobility announcements

Lync 2010 and OCS - Planning and Deployment announcements

Operations Manager - Authoring announcements

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    Justin Incarnato [MSFT]

    System Center Operations Manager forums provide you an opportunity to join a community of Operations Manager customers where you can share knowledge, get questions answered, and learn from others with IT environments similar to yours. Start by posting Operations Manager related questions in the forum corresponding to your topic of interest and leverage the knowledge available in your new forum community.

    If you have any suggestions or feedback on the System Center Operations Manager product, please feel free to post in our forums.

Operations Manager - Deployment announcements

Operations Manager - Extensibility announcements

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    Justin Incarnato [MSFT]

    System Center Operations Manager forums provide you an opportunity to join a community of Operations Manager customers where you can share knowledge, get questions answered, and learn from others with IT environments similar to yours. Start by posting Operations Manager related questions in the forum corresponding to your topic of interest and leverage the knowledge available in your new forum community.

    If you have any suggestions or feedback on the System Center Operations Manager product, please feel free to post in our forums.

Operations Manager - General announcements

Operations Manager - Management Packs announcements

Operations Manager - Reporting announcements

Operations Manager - Unix and Linux announcements

System Center Orchestrator - Third-Party Integrations announcements

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    Robert_Hearn
    Welcome to the System Center Orchestrator forum! This forum is designed to help you find answers to questions about System Center Orchestrator (formerly Opalis Integration Server).

    Please note that this forum relates only System Center Orchestrator 2012.

    If you have questions about Opalis, please visit the Opalis forums here:     http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/scinterop


    Q: Where can I find more information about the products, technical information and troubleshooting?

    A: You can find a number of Orchestrator-related resources from Microsoft and the community on the Opalis / Orchestrator team blog:
    http://blogs.technet.com/b/opalis/p/opalis_resources.aspx
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    A:     We typically respond to new questions within 24-48 hours (excluding weekends and holidays) depending on when the post occurred. If you need faster response or you have a critical issue, please contact Microsoft Support (http://support.microsoft.com/).

System Center Orchestrator - General announcements

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    Robert_Hearn
    Welcome to the System Center Orchestrator forum! This forum is designed to help you find answers to questions about System Center Orchestrator (formerly Opalis Integration Server).

    Please note that this forum relates only System Center Orchestrator 2012.

    If you have questions about Opalis, please visit the Opalis forums here:     http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/scinterop



    Q: Where can I find more information about the products, technical information and troubleshooting?

    A: You can find a number of Orchestrator-related resources from Microsoft and the community on the Opalis / Orchestrator team blog:
    http://blogs.technet.com/b/opalis/p/opalis_resources.aspx
    Q: Why are some threads locked?

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    Q: How long should I expect to wait for an reply?

    A:     We typically respond to new questions within 24-48 hours (excluding weekends and holidays) depending on when the post occurred. If you need faster response or you have a critical issue, please contact Microsoft Support (http://support.microsoft.com/).

System Center Orchestrator - Quick Integration Kit / SDK Development announcements

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    Robert_Hearn
    Welcome to the System Center Orchestrator forum! This forum is designed to help you find answers to questions about System Center Orchestrator (formerly Opalis Integration Server).

    Please note that this forum relates only System Center Orchestrator 2012.

    If you have questions about Opalis, please visit the Opalis forums here:     http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/scinterop


    Q: Where can I find more information about the products, technical information and troubleshooting?

    A: You can find a number of Orchestrator-related resources from Microsoft and the community on the Opalis / Orchestrator team blog:
    http://blogs.technet.com/b/opalis/p/opalis_resources.aspx
     
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    A: When a thread is marked as answered or was not replied to for a long period of time, new posts in that thread may not get recognized and may not get a response. To ensure that new posts get the visbility they need, we lock threads that are marked as answered or where we cannot get a response from the poster within a reasonable period of time, so that any new replies will be done in a new thread and gain immediate attention.

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    A:     We typically respond to new questions within 24-48 hours (excluding weekends and holidays) depending on when the post occurred. If you need faster response or you have a critical issue, please contact Microsoft Support (http://support.microsoft.com/).

System Center Orchestrator - System Center Integrations announcements

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    Robert_Hearn
    Welcome to the System Center Orchestrator forum! This forum is designed to help you find answers to questions about System Center Orchestrator (formerly Opalis Integration Server).

    Please note that this forum relates only System Center Orchestrator 2012.

    If you have questions about Opalis, please visit the Opalis forums here:     http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/scinterop


    Q: Where can I find more information about the products, technical information and troubleshooting?

    A: You can find a number of Orchestrator-related resources from Microsoft and the community on the Opalis / Orchestrator team blog:
    http://blogs.technet.com/b/opalis/p/opalis_resources.aspx
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Virtual Machine Manager - Self-Service Portal 2.0 announcements

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    Now Available - System Center Virtual Machine Manager Self-Service Portal 2.0 SP1
    mlbriggs

    Using the System Center Virtual Machine Manager Self-Service Portal 2.0 SP1, you can respond more effectively—and at a lower cost—to the rapidly changing needs of your organization. Built on Windows Server 2008 R2, Hyper-V technology, and System Center Virtual Machine Manager, the VMMSSP enables you to offer infrastructure as a service.

    The VMMSSP includes a pre-built, role-based self-service portal for both the datacenter managers and business unit IT consumers to provision infrastructures for their applications and services. The VMMSSP is now localized in three languages: Japanese, Traditional Chinese, and Simplified Chinese. This dynamic self-service portal provides automated workflows to on-board business unit IT departments, and enables partners to expose their unique hardware capabilities through familiar Microsoft scripting technologies.

     

    This new version provides localization for Chinese and Japanese and lets users import virtual machines created outside the self-service portal but managed by VMM and additionally to re-import virtual machines previously removed. Fully supported by Microsoft, the System Center Virtual Machine Manager Self-Service Portal 2.0 SP1 is a partner-extensible solution that enables customers to dynamically pool, allocate, and manage their computer, network, and storage resources to deliver a private cloud platform inside their datacenter.

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    System Center Virtual Machine Manager Self-Service Portal 2.0 SP1 features:

    • Import virtual machines. Allows DCIT administrators to re-import virtual machines that were removed from the self-service portal and also import virtual machines created outside the portal but managed by VMM.
    • Set virtual machine expiration dates. This feature lets users set an expiration date for the virtual machines that are being created or imported so that the virtual machines auto-delete after the set date. This feature also provides users the flexibility (through role-based access) to set or change the expiration date for the virtual machine.
    • Define and use custom virtual machine actions. A datacenter administrator can now create up to five custom virtual machine actions and make them available to users on the Virtual Machines tab of the self-service portal. For example, a database administrator can create a Create Checkpoint action and add it to the list of actions on the Virtual Machines tab.
    • Use Opalis policies in virtual machine actions. In a datacenter that includes a deployment of Opalis Integration Server, a datacenter administrator can customize tasks in virtual machine actions to trigger Opalis policies instead of running scripts.
    • Define and use custom virtual machine properties. A datacenter administrator can define custom properties to collect information from users in the Create Virtual Machine wizard, and use these properties in the tasks of the CreateVM virtual machine action. For example, if a datacenter administrator creates the properties RAM and CPU Count, the Create Virtual Machine wizard includes fields for RAM and CPU Count. When a user finishes the wizard, the wizard passes the RAM and CPU Count values that the user entered to the tasks in the CreateVM virtual machine action.
    • Notify administrators. This feature provides functionality to notify BUIT or DCIT administrators via email about various events in the system (for example, Submit request, Approve request, and so on).
    • Move infrastructures between business units. This feature allows DCIT administrators to move an infrastructure from one business unit to another when the system is in Maintenance Mode.
    • VMMSSP Management Pack. This feature allows DCIT administrators to monitor the health of the self-service portal components. Download VMMSSP Management pack.
    • Localization. The VMMSSP is now localized in three languages: Japanese, Traditional Chinese, and Simplified Chinese.
    • Manage virtual machine DVD drives and media. When working with virtual machines that have DVD drives, users can attach media such as ISO images to the virtual machines.
    • Connect to VMware virtual machines. Users can now use the VMMSSP to manage and connect to virtual machines hosted by VMware host servers.
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    Hello!

    This forum is dedicated to questions about Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 Self-Service Portal 2.0 (VMMSSP). Please use good judgment to post your question to the relevant subforums.

    If your question is not about this product, please find the correct forum here: http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/default.aspx?SiteID=17

     

    When posting a question or an issue, it is helpful to include the product version that you have a question about, your VMM environment, the steps you tried, and any specific error messages you observed.

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    Welcome to the VMMSSP v2 TechNet forum
    mlbriggs

    Hello and welcome to the Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 Self-Service Portal 2.0 forum!

     

    The VMMSSP forum provides you with an opportunity to join a community of VMM 2008 R2 customers where you can share knowledge, get questions answered, and learn from others with IT environments similar to yours. Start by posting questions related to VMMSSP in the forum corresponding to your topic of interest, and leverage the knowledge available in your new forum community.

    If you have any suggestions or feedback regarding VMMSSP, please feel free to post in our forums.

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    mlbriggs

    VMMSSP (also referred to as the self-service portal) is a fully supported, partner-extensible solution built on top of Windows Server 2008 R2, Hyper-V, and System Center VMM. You can use it to pool, allocate, and manage resources to offer infrastructure as a service and to deliver the foundation for a private cloud platform inside your datacenter. VMMSSP includes a pre-built web-based user interface that has sectionsfor both the datacenter managers and the business unit IT consumers, with role-based access control. VMMSSP also includes a dynamic provisioning engine. VMMSSP reduces the time needed to provision infrastructures and their components by offering business unit “on-boarding,” infrastructure request and change management. The VMMSSP package also includes detailed guidance on how to implement VMMSSP inside your environment.

    Prerequisites:

    ·         Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition or Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter Edition.

    ·         Windows Server Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0

    ·         Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2.

    ·         SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition or Standard Edition.

    ·         .Net Framework 3.5 SP1

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