Access 2010 Beta (to be retired) announcements

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  Forum Change Announcement
  Nina Ruchirat Tuesday, April 27, 2010 3:15 AM

  This forum will be retired in May 2010. All existing threads in this forum will be moved to the general Microsoft Office 2010 Beta forum. Please direct all questions and discussions about Microsoft Access 2010 Beta going forward to the Microsoft Office 2010 Beta forum.

Active Directory Federation Services announcements

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  Active Directory Federation Services forum will be migrating to a new home on Microsoft Q&A (Preview)!
  Sandra Aldana - MSFT Monday, February 24, 2020 6:49 PM

  We’ve listened to your feedback on how we can enhance the forum experience. Microsoft Q&A (Preview) allows us to add new functionality and enables easier access to all the technical resources most useful to you, like Microsoft Docs and Microsoft Learn.

  Now until March 15, 2020

  • You can post any new questions on Microsoft Q&A (Preview) or here.

  From March 15, 2020 until March 30, 2020:

  • New posts – Post any new questions in the Active Directory Federation Services forum’s new home on Microsoft Q&A (Preview). The current forum will not allow any new questions.
  • Existing posts – Interact here with existing content, answer questions, provide comments, etc.

  March 30, 2020 onwards:

  • This forum will be closed to all new and existing posts and all interactions will be in Microsoft Q&A (Preview).

  We are excited about moving to Microsoft Q&A (Preview) and seeing you there.

  Learn More

Active Directory Rights Management Service(On premise) announcements

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  A note about forum support
  Brad Mahugh - (Microsoft) Thursday, April 25, 2013 7:01 PM

  Hi folks,

  Just a reminder, TechNet Forums support is intended to offer limited support for common and known issues. Here is where forum support works well and how it was intended to help:

  • If the issue you are experiencing is related to RMS technologies (anything will be moved or possibly deleted)
  • If the issue you are experiencing is one that is well known to community members
  • If the issue you are experiencing has documented solutions or potential solutions for it available through content published on Microsoft Web sites.
  • If the community volunteers (who have a very limited amount of their time to assist other users) can answer your question in a reasonable amount of time.

  Forum users should be aware they will be advised to contact Microsoft product support if any one of the following holds true.

  • If the configuration details they are involved in are wide-ranging and complex.
  • Initial guidance from the forum is unsatisfactory or unable to help you resolve your issue
  • You need urgent or specific support for your support incident.

  Thanks for your cooperation in using the forums.

  Thanks,

  Your RMS Forum moderator(s)

  
  
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  Welcome to the RMS forum!
  Brad Mahugh - (Microsoft) Friday, June 18, 2010 4:54 PM

  Welcome to the Rights Management Services discussion forum. Here you can discuss all matters relating to Windows Rights Management Services (RMS on Windows Server 2003) and Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS) in Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2012. We’re providing this forum to give you a place to post questions you might have about RMS, to give you the opportunity to share your valuable experience with others, and to receive your feedback about RMS.

  Because this forum is specifically focused on Rights Management Services in Windows Server, posts that are about other issues will be referred to more appropriate forums and possibly removed altogether. If you’re not sure if this is the right forum for your question, please go to http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/default.mspx to see if there’s a forum that more closely matches your needs.

  Thanks!

  
  
  

App Controller - General announcements

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  Resources for App Controller
  Richard Rundle Wednesday, October 26, 2011 11:44 PM

  Welcome to the discussion forum for App Controller.

  System Center 2012 - App Controller empowers application owners to easily build, configure, deploy and manage new services through a common self-service experience across private and public clouds by:

  • Presenting a customized view of private and public cloud resources based on the user’s role
  • Offering application owners service-centric administration, including service design and visualization, deployment and configuration.
  • Enabling application owners to deploy and manage services on private clouds and Windows Azure.

  The following additional resources are available to help you with App Controller: 

  • Online Help, including installation guide and release notes.
  • System Center download (registration required)
  • Taking a walk through App Controller (video)
  • Announcement of System Center self service solutions
  • Private Cloud evaluation program
  • Technet home page
  • More links...

App-V 4.5 Beta (Retired) announcements

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  App-V 4.5 Beta forum is now read-only
  Anthony_Mann Tuesday, February 12, 2013 4:00 PM

  This forum is now read-only. If you want to participate in conversations for the released App-V 4.5 product, please visit the App-V forum.

App-V Add-ons announcements

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  How to ask a question efficiently in the TechNet forums
  Aaron.Parker Friday, November 18, 2011 10:53 PM

  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 Wednesday, February 17, 2010 10:58 PM

  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.

App-V Clients announcements

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  How to ask a question efficiently in the TechNet forums
  Aaron.Parker Friday, November 18, 2011 10:52 PM

  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 Friday, November 18, 2011 10:52 PM

  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 General Sequencing announcements

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  How to ask a question efficiently in the TechNet forums
  Aaron.Parker Friday, November 18, 2011 10:50 PM

  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 Sequencing Recipes announcements

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  Rate the Recipes you are reviewing!
  karrial Tuesday, June 29, 2010 6:58 AM

  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 Monday, April 5, 2010 3:53 PM

  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 Monday, April 5, 2010 3:45 PM

  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 Friday, April 2, 2010 6:59 PM

  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.

App-V Server and Management announcements

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  The Great App-V Survey Project
  Tim Mangan Monday, June 4, 2012 10:19 PM

  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

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  How to ask a question efficiently in the TechNet forums
  Aaron.Parker Friday, November 18, 2011 10:51 PM

  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.

AutoRuns announcements

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  The Autoruns forum will be migrating to a new home on Microsoft Q&A!
  Luke Kim (Microsoft) Sunday, November 22, 2020 11:55 PM

  This forum will be closed to all new and existing posts and all interactions will be in Microsoft Q&A.

AVICode 5.7 announcements

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  Welcome to the AVIcode forum
  Justin Incarnato [MSFT] Tuesday, January 11, 2011 8:00 PM

  Avicode: Collection of blogs and articles to jump-start your AVIcode journey

  http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/en/us/avicode.aspx

  http://www.systemcentercentral.com/BlogDetails/tabid/143/IndexID/83808/Default.aspx 

Azure Active Directory announcements

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  AADSync is available as a customer technology preview (CTP)
  Markus Vilcinskas Friday, April 18, 2014 7:09 PM

  For more details, click here.

  Cheers,
  Markus

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  Introduction to the Wiki Toolbox
  Markus Vilcinskas Tuesday, February 18, 2014 2:28 AM

  Link

  Cheers,
  Markus

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  Who should use this Windows Azure AD forum?
  Nick Pierson [MSFT] Tuesday, October 23, 2012 11:58 PM

  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!
  
  
  
  

Backup – Windows and Windows Server announcements

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  Old Threads
  Sushil.Baid [MSFT] Friday, July 2, 2010 1:16 PM

  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 Thursday, June 4, 2009 8:45 PM

  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 Monday, September 8, 2008 11:51 PM

  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

BgInfo announcements

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  The BgInfo forum will be migrating to a new home on Microsoft Q&A!
  Luke Kim (Microsoft) Sunday, November 22, 2020 11:56 PM

  This forum will be closed to all new and existing posts and all interactions will be in Microsoft Q&A. 

BizTalk Server Host Integration Server announcements

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  Host Integration Server 2013 Cumulative Update 4 is available
  Valerie Robb (Microsoft) Wednesday, September 13, 2017 5:12 PM

  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) Friday, June 2, 2017 11:02 PM

  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:

  • For MSDN subscribers:
    • HIS 2016 Enterprise: https://aka.ms/his2016msdnent
    • HIS 2016 Developer: https://aka.ms/his2016msdndev

  • HIS 2016 180 day Evaluation for the public:
    • https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/evaluate-host-integration-server-2016

  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 Wednesday, May 31, 2017 9:08 PM

  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 Monday, May 15, 2017 6:19 PM

  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) Monday, October 31, 2016 11:27 PM

  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 Thursday, October 27, 2016 6:47 PM

  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 Tuesday, June 28, 2016 4:35 PM

  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 Thursday, March 31, 2016 5:52 PM

  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 Tuesday, August 27, 2013 6:25 PM

  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.

  • Release notes with list of new features and installation guide with list of supported IBM products are available on the Microsoft Download Center.
  • On-line documentation is available on MSDN and TechNet.
  • Evaluation copy is available on the Microsoft Download Center.
  • Enterprise edition is available on MSDN and TechNet.

  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 Tuesday, December 4, 2012 4:34 PM

  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 Wednesday, June 6, 2012 1:04 AM

  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 Monday, May 3, 2010 3:10 PM

  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