“The Elway Gazette”

Hi Community, here is my compilation of the most interesting technical blog posts written by members of the Microsoft MVP Community. The number of MVPs is growing well, I hope you enjoy their posts. @all MVPs If you’d like me to add your blog posts to my weekly compilation, please send me an email (flo@cloud.klafox.rocks) or reach out to me via Twitter (@FloKlaffenbach). Thanks!

Featured Posts of the Week!

Establish Connection on Private Cloud to Windows Azure Using Point to Site VPN by Lai Yoong Seng

Windows Azure Pack with ADFS and Windows Azure Multi-Factor Authentication – Part 2 by Marc van Eijk

Definitive Guide to Hyper-V R2 Network Architectures by Hans Vredevoort

Reporting Cluster Shared Volume (CSV) disk space utilization by Ravikanth Chaganti

Azure 

3 node Cluster in Azure contains “weak event was created” in FCM after install of KB2750149 #azure #templates #winserv #SQL by Robert Smit

Windows Azure Pack–Mystery of the Missing Memory by Hans Vredevoort

Windows Azure Pack Update Rollup 1 – MgmtSvc Operators in German by Daniel Neumann

Establish Connection on Private Cloud to Windows Azure Using Point to Site VPN by Lai Yoong Seng

Windows Azure Pack with ADFS and Windows Azure Multi-Factor Authentication – Part 2 by Marc van Eijk

Windows Azure Pack Update 1 Breaks Usage Metering by Hans Vredevoort

Creating a Virtualized Read Only Active Directory in Windows Azure by Lai Yoong Seng

I Like #WindowsAzure Friday : Scott Guthries explains SQL Databases in Azure #Cloud by James van den Berg

Windows Azure Virtual Machine Readiness Tool by Lai Yoong Seng

Exchange

Load Balancing Office Web Apps 2013 by Jaap Wesselius

Command Logging in Exchange 2013 SP1 by Jaap Wesselius

MapiHttp in Exchange 2013 SP1 by Jaap Wesselius

Exchange 2013 SP1 SSL Offloading by Jaap Wesselius

Events

“The Hyper-V Amigos” Episode 1: Who we are by Carsten Rachfahl & Didier van Hoye

Hyper-V

#PSTip Controlling traffic of a VM network adapter in Hyper-V by Shay Levy

HYPER-V OVER SMB: SET SMB CONSTRAINED DELEGATION VIA POWERSHELL by Thomas Maurer

Converting Hyper-V virtual machine disks from VHD to VHDX by Shay Levy

Hyper-V 2012 R2: Import von 2008-R2-VMs schlägt fehl in German by Nils Kaczenski

#PSTip Hyper-V VM Connection Authorization by Shay Levy

#PSTip How to identify Hyper-V virtual machines by Shay Levy

Definitive Guide to Hyper-V R2 Network Architectures by Hans Vredevoort

Network Virtualization – Troubleshooting and FAQ by Kristian Nese

Private Cloud Virtualization and Storage Diagrams by John Policelli

Lync Server

Lync 2013 Technical Diagrams by John Policelli

Office 

Office 365

PowerShell

#PSTip Editing your hosts file by Shay Levy

#PSTip Monitoring Cluster Shared Volume (CSV) availability by Ravikanth Chaganti

Using PowerShell and Web Platform Installer to install Azure PowerShell cmdlets by Ravikanth Chaganti

WMI Query Language via PowerShell available on Kindle by Ravikanth Chaganti

Reporting Cluster Shared Volume (CSV) disk space utilization by Ravikanth Chaganti

Sharepoint 

System Center Core

System Center App Controller

System Center Avisor

System Center Configuration Manager

System Center Dataprotection Manager

System Center Operations Manager

System Center Orchestrator

System Center Service Manager

System Center Virtual Machine Manager

Configuring Metrics and Static Routes for your virtualization gateways by Kristian Nese

Why are my Hyper-V hosts in VMM reporting “Needs Attention”? by Niklas Akerlund

SQL Server

Windows Intune

Windows Intune–add your custom enrollment address for your mobile device management by Martina Grom

Die eigene Domain in Windows Intune zum Mobilen Device Management verwenden in German by Martina Grom

Windows Client

Windows 8.1 ENTERPRISE To Be Available For Purchase by Aidan Finn

Windows Server

Computerkonten auf allen DCs löschen in German by Matthias Wolf

Creating a Windows Server 2012 R2 Cluster Shared Volume by Aidan Finn

RDMA Over RoCE With DCB Requires Tagged Non Default VLANs by Didier van Hoye

Mein erstes Dell Storage Space Projekt (auf zertifizierte Hardware) in German by Carsten Rachfahl

Windows Server 2012 R2 SOFS with tiering require some disks.. by Niklas Akerlund

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“The Elway Gazette”

Hi Community, here is my compilation of the most interesting technical blog posts written by members of the Microsoft MVP Community. The number of MVPs is growing well, I hope you enjoy their posts. @all MVPs If you’d like me to add your blog posts to my weekly compilation, please send me an email (flo@cloud.klafox.rocks) or reach out to me via Twitter (@FloKlaffenbach). Thanks!

Featured Posts of the Week!

Download Now Microsoft #WindowsAzure Symbol/Icon Set #sysctr #MVPBUZZ by James van den Berg

We Need Your Opinion On This Strategy, Vision, Management Issue … by Didier van Hoye

Connecting to Azure with MPLS by Damian Flynn

Lync 2013 client logging by Jaap Wesselius

Azure 

Download Now Microsoft #WindowsAzure Symbol/Icon Set #sysctr #MVPBUZZ by James van den Berg

Connecting to Azure with MPLS by Damian Flynn

Upload a Virtual Machine to Windows Azure by Lai Yoong Seng

Exchange

Events

Hyper-V

#HyperV Network Virtualization technical details and Gateway Architecture #SCVMM #Cloud #SDN by James van den Berg

OpenStack Havana 2013.2.2 Hyper-V compute installer released! by Alessandro Pilotti

#PSTip How to prevent rogue DHCP servers in Hyper-V by Shay Levy

#PSTip How to prevent a VM from becoming a Router by Shay Levy

Script To Convert Hyper-V Virtual Machine From VHD To VHDX by Aidan Finn

Lync Server

Lync 2013 client logging by Jaap Wesselius

New Lync Server 2013 White Papers Released by John Policelli

Office 

Office 365

Office 365 und Office 2013 Vergleich in German by Kerstin Rachfahl

Hierarchical Address Book Functionality Added to Office 365 by John Policelli

Himmlische-IT Podcast Folge 31: Office 365 das umfassende Handbuch in German by Kerstin Rachfahl

PowerShell

#PSTip How to enable Web Deploy automatic backups using PowerShell by Shay Levy

#PSTip How to get the number of IIS current client connections by Shay Levy

#Microsoft Windows #PowerShell Networking Guide for #ITPRO #MVPBUZZ by James van den Berg

FRIDAY FUN: THE MEASURE OF A FOLDER by Jeffery Hicks

ADD LOGON AS SERVICE RIGHT WITH POWERSHELL by Jeffery Hicks

Sharepoint 

System Center Core

System Center App Controller

System Center Avisor

System Center Configuration Manager

How to remove machines from ConfigMgr Collection by David O’Brien

Enable Deduplication with Powershell for ConfigMgr exclusions by David O’Brien

System Center Dataprotection Manager

System Center Operations Manager

System Center Orchestrator

Orchestrator – Delete Collection Rule activity by David O’Brien

System Center Service Manager

System Center Virtual Machine Manager

SQL Server

Windows Intune

Windows Client

Windows Server

How Do I Create My Own Desired State Configuration (DSC) Resource? by Damian Flynn

Where Do I Add the Code for My Desired State Configuration (DSC) Module? by Damian Flynn

Windows Server 2012 R2 Products and Edition Comparison by Lai Yoong Seng

Windows Server Failover Clustering: Why Cluster Quorum Matters by Aidan Finn

KB2913766 bringt neue PowerShell CmdLets für Storage Enclosure in German by Carsten Rachfahl

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“The Elway Gazette”

Hi Community, here is my compilation of the most interesting technical blog posts written by members of the Microsoft MVP Community. The number of MVPs is growing well, I hope you enjoy their posts. @all MVPs If you’d like me to add your blog posts to my weekly compilation, please send me an email (flo@cloud.klafox.rocks) or reach out to me via Twitter (@FloKlaffenbach). Thanks!

Featured Posts of the Week!

Migrating A Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V Cluster To Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V Cluster In Another Active Directory Domain – PART 1 by Didier van Hoye

Resources for Performance Tuning Guidelines for Windows Server 2012 R2 #WS2012R2 #hyperv by James van den Berg

Dell & Microsoft Announce Support For WS2012 R2 Storage Spaces by Aidan Finn

CONFIGURE CSV CACHE IN WINDOWS SERVER 2012 R2 by Thomas Maurer

Azure 

Why is my SMA Runbook not executed? by Hans Vredevoort

Virtual Machine Availability in Windows Azure by Lai Yoong Seng

Exchange

Events

Hyper-V

Hyper-V Cluster for the Lab – Part 1 by Romeo Mlinar

Hyper-V Cluster for the Lab – Part 2 by Romeo Mlinar

Migrating A Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V Cluster To Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V Cluster In Another Active Directory Domain – PART 1 by Didier van Hoye

Migrating A Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V Cluster To Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V Cluster In Another Active Directory Domain – PART 2 by Didier van Hoye

KB2928127 – Supported File Paths For Hyper-V Virtual Machine Storage by Aidan Finn

Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V Automatic Virtual Machine Activation by Aidan Finn

Virtual Networking Problems With Emulex NICs And Windows Server 2012 R2 by Aidan Finn

KB2929766 – Configuring Paging File In Hyper-V VM’s SCSI Drive Fails by Aidan Finn

Separate VM in Hyper-V virtual machines using anti-affinity #winserv #hyperv #DRS by Robert Smit

#PSTip VM Port mirroring in Hyper-V by Shay Levy

Gelöst: Kompatibilitätsprobleme bei Cross Version Live Migration in German by Benedict Berger

Lync Server

Office 

Office 365

Microsoft enables Multi-Factor Authentication for Office 365 Users by John Policelli

Comparing Multi-Factor Authentication in Office 365 and Azure by John Policelli

PowerShell

Using Community Desired State Configuration Resources by Damian Flynn

Using the PowerShell CIM Explorer by Jeffery Hicks

CONVERT TEXT TO OBJECT WITH POWERSHELL AND REGULAR EXPRESSIONS by Jeffery Hicks

Get remote Best Practice Analyzer results through PowerShell by Jeff Wouters

What is Project Possessod? by Jeff Wouters

GET POWERSHELL PARAMETER ALIASES by  Jeffery Hicks

FRIDAY FUN: THE MEASURE OF A FILE by  Jeffery Hicks

ANOTHER POWERSHELL VALENTINE by  Jeffery Hicks

Sharepoint 

System Center Core

UPDATE ROLLUP 1 FOR SYSTEM CENTER 2012 R2 SPF by Stanislav Zhelyazkov

Great WhitePaper #SQL and System Center from MVP Paul Keely #sysctr #MVPBUZZ by James van den Berg

System Center App Controller

System Center Avisor

System Center Configuration Manager

How to cancel Distribution of Content to ConfigMgr DP by David O’Brien

How to find the ConfigMgr SMS Provider Location by David O’Brien

System Center Dataprotection Manager

System Center Operations Manager

QUICK LOOK AT SYSTEM CENTER SERVICE MANAGEMENT AUTOMATION MANAGEMENT PACK by Stanislav Zhelyazkov

QUICK LOOK AT WINDOWS AZURE PACK MANAGEMENT PACK by Stanislav Zhelyazkov

System Center Orchestrator

System Center Service Manager

System Center Virtual Machine Manager

What is a Management Stamp? by Kristian Nese

System Center 2012 R2 VMM Library – ODX Support in German by Daniel Neumann

SQL Server

SQL 2012 AND SYSTEM CENTER 2012 R2 GUIDE by Stanislav Zhelyazkov

Der Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0-Provider fehlt in German by Toni Pohl

Windows Intune

Windows Client

Windows Server

Windows Server Failover Cluster Validation by Aidan Finn

Resources for Performance Tuning Guidelines for Windows Server 2012 R2 #WS2012R2 #hyperv by James van den Berg

Dell & Microsoft Announce Support For WS2012 R2 Storage Spaces by Aidan Finn

Wenn (und warum) nslookup unerwartete Ergebnisse zeigt in German by Nils Kaczenski

HOTFIX : Windows Server 2012 R2 NVGRE Gateway #SCVMM #NVGRE by James van den Berg

KB2919393 – Update Rollup For WS2012 by Aidan Finn

KB2919394 – Update Rollup For WS2012 R2 by Aidan Finn

KB2908243 – WS2012 Computer With NIC Teaming Loses Network Connectivity by Aidan Finn

KB2913766 – Improving JBOD Management For WS2012 R2 Storage Spaces by Aidan Finn

KB2920193 – Virtual Hard Disk Can’t Be Created On WS2012 SMB Share Without Resiliency by Aidan Finn

CONFIGURE CSV CACHE IN WINDOWS SERVER 2012 R2 by Thomas Maurer

How to Participate in the Desired State Configuration (DSC) Community by Damian Flynn

Changing Quorum disk in Windows server 2012R2 No downtime #winserv #iscsi by Robert Smit

AD-Testuser mit Details und lustigen Namen (reloaded) in German by Nils Kaczenski

Windows Server 2012 Scheduled Cluster Tasks by Aidan Finn

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“The Elway Gazette”

Hi Community, here is my compilation of the most interesting technical blog posts written by members of the Microsoft MVP Community. The number of MVPs is growing well, I hope you enjoy their posts. @all MVPs If you’d like me to add your blog posts to my weekly compilation, please send me an email (flo@cloud.klafox.rocks) or reach out to me via Twitter (@FloKlaffenbach). Thanks!

Featured Posts of the Week!

Common Cluster Mistakes – You can only use this disk Once #winserv by Robert Smit

Live Migration over SMB Direct leaves more CPU cycles for Virtual RSS (vRSS) in Windows Server 2012 R2 by Didier van Hoye

Top Performance Tuning Tips for Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V by Aidan Finn

Microsoft Virtualisierungs Podcast Folge 35: ODX, RDMA und CSV in German by Carsten Rachfahl

Azure 

Configuring Remote Console for Windows Azure Pack by Kristian Nese

Deploying the #WindowsAzure Rights Management Connector #Cloud by James van den Berg

Exchange

Exchange ActiveSync Guided Walkthrough Released by John Policelli

Events

Hyper-V

Hyper-V and Jumbo Frames in 3 steps by Alessandro Cardoso

Top Performance Tuning Tips for Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V by Aidan Finn

Live Migration over SMB Direct leaves more CPU cycles for Virtual RSS (vRSS) in Windows Server 2012 R2 by Didier van Hoye

Can I Run VM Created on Intel Processor on AMD Server? by Lai Yoong Seng

Microsoft Virtualisierungs Podcast Folge 35: ODX, RDMA und CSV in German by Carsten Rachfahl

Wait! Are you going to migrate your old legacy VM´s? by Niklas Akerlund

Lync Server

Automated Deployments by Jaap Wesselius

Office 

THIS IS WHY ONENOTE IS AWESOME by Thomas Maurer

Office 365

New Office 365 Partner Admin Center by John Policelli

Hidden Features of Office 365: easy self-creation of detailed Exchange Online reports  by Martina Grom

Neues Design der Web Apps in Office 365 in German by Kerstin Rachfahl

PowerShell

#PSTip Test if a download can be suspended and resumed by Ravikanth Chaganti

Sharepoint 

Pluralsight’s SharePoint 2013 Workflow – Web Services by Andrew Connell

System Center Core

System Center App Controller

System Center Avisor

System Center Configuration Manager

System Center Dataprotection Manager

System Center Operations Manager

System Center Orchestrator

System Center Service Manager

System Center Virtual Machine Manager

UPDATE on Microsoft NVGRE Gateway in #SCVMM 2012 R2 : Adding a New Private #Cloud and Tenant by James van den Berg

SQL Server

Windows Intune

Windows Client

#PSTip Setting keyboard layout in Windows 8 and Server 2012 by Ravikanth Chaganti

Windows Server

Common Cluster Mistakes – You can only use this disk Once #winserv by Robert Smit

What Can I Configure Using Desired State Configuration? by Damian Flynn

How Do I Create a Desired State Configuration? by Damian Flynn

Naming Standards in a Window Server Cluster by Aidan Finn

How to Publish a Desired State Configuration by Damian Flynn

Windows Server 2012 R2 Products and Editions Overview #Winserv #WS2012R2 #Hyperv by James van den Berg

Desired State Configuration (DSC) Resource Kit Wave-2 by Ravikanth Chaganti

Tools

AD-Dokumentation: José 3.5 ist da in German by Nils Kaczenski

“The Elway Gazette”

Hi Community, here is my compilation of the most interesting technical blog posts written by members of the Microsoft MVP Community. The number of MVPs is growing well, I hope you enjoy their posts. @all MVPs If you’d like me to add your blog posts to my weekly compilation, please send me an email (flo@cloud.klafox.rocks) or reach out to me via Twitter (@FloKlaffenbach). Thanks!

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Featured Posts of the Week!

Active Directory from on-premises to the #cloud – #WindowsAzure AD whitepapers by James van den Berg

Unable to retrieve all data needed to run the wizard. Error details: “Cannot retrieve information from server “Node A”. Error occurred during enumeration of SMB shares: The WinRM protocol operation failed due to the following error: The WinRM client sent a request to an HTTP server and got a response saying the requested HTTP URL was not available. This is usually returned by a HTTP server that does not support the WS-Management protocol. by Didier van Hoye

CREATING CIM SCRIPTS WITHOUT SCRIPTING by Jeffery Hicks

Strange directories in Exchange 2013 on D-drive by Jaap Wesselius

Azure 

Active Directory from on-premises to the #cloud – #WindowsAzure AD whitepapers by James van den Berg

Windows Azure Pack Troubleshooting Guide in German by Daniel Neumann

WINDOWS AZURE FOR YOUR DATACENTER by Thomas Maurer

Troubleshooting Windows Azure Pack – Re-register a Resource Provider by Kristian Nese

Windows Azure Active Directory & ASP.NET Tooling: Ein Blick hinter die Kulissen in German by Robert Mühsig

Einstieg in SignalR 2.0 & Azure Website Websockets in German by Robert Mühsig

Windows Azure Active Directory – CRUD für Users und Groups in German by Robert Mühsig

Cloud OS Community – Windows Azure Pack 2013 Introduction by Damian Flynn

Techdays Berlin 2013 – Deliver Your Cloud Like a Hoster by Damian Flynn

WINDOWS AZURE PACK UPDATE 1 by Stanislav Zhelyazkov

Umzug auf Windows Azure – VMs, WordPress Migration, DNS Änderungen in German by Robert Mühsig

Exchange

Strange directories in Exchange 2013 on D-drive by Jaap Wesselius

Events

Hyper-V

Unable to retrieve all data needed to run the wizard. Error details: “Cannot retrieve information from server “Node A”. Error occurred during enumeration of SMB shares: The WinRM protocol operation failed due to the following error: The WinRM client sent a request to an HTTP server and got a response saying the requested HTTP URL was not available. This is usually returned by a HTTP server that does not support the WS-Management protocol. by Didier van Hoye

#Microsoft Platform Ready Test Tool 4.6 for Windows Server 2012 R2 #WS2012R2 #Hyperv by James van den Berg

KB2925727 – Unknown Device (VMBUS) In Device Manager In Virtual Machine For WS2012 R2 AVMA by Aidan Finn

KB2846340 – Duplicate Friendly Names Of NICs Displayed In Windows by Aidan Finn

Antivirus on a Hyper-V Host: Do You Need It? by Aidan Finn

Force removal of virtual machine from HYPER-V cluster by Susantha Silva

Lync Server

Office 

Office 365

Delegate365 version 2 by Toni Pohl

Office 365 Needs to Treat the UX as an API if Our Customizations are to Stay Off the Server by Andrew Connell

PowerShell

Write-Host – The gremlin of PowerShell by Jeff Wouters

Compare installed updates and hotfixes by Jeff Wouters

A PowerShell function to get the installed software by Jeff Wouters

A PowerShell function to compare installed software by Jeff Wouters

YOUR FUTURE IN POWERSHELL by Jeffery Hicks

POWERSHELL ESSENTIALS WEBINAR by Jeffery Hicks

CREATING CIM SCRIPTS WITHOUT SCRIPTING by Jeffery Hicks

FRIDAY FUN: MESSAGEBOX WRITER by Jeffery Hicks

Sharepoint 

InfoPath is dead (soon) by Toni Pohl

System Center Core

UR1 For System Center 2012 R2 Is Available – Be Careful by Aidan Finn

Capacity Planning for Hyper-V Using System Center by Lai Yoong Seng

System Center App Controller

System Center Avisor

System Center Configuration Manager

UPDATE: How this Inventory Script makes your ConfigMgr life easier by David O’Brien

System Center Dataprotection Manager

Backup and Recovery : Integration Between SCOM 2012 R2 and SCDPM 2012 R2 by Lai Yoong Seng

System Center Operations Manager

System Center 2012 Operations Manager. How to quickly become more efficient by Alessandro Cardoso

System Center Orchestrator

FROM ORCHESTRATOR TO SERVICE MANAGEMENT AUTOMATION: MIGRATION SCENARIOS by Stanislav Zhelyazkov

System Center Service Manager

INSTALLING SYSTEM CENTER SERVICE MANAGEMENT AUTOMATION WORKER ROLE FAILS WITH MSI ERROR 1603 by Stanislav Zhelyazkov

System Center Virtual Machine Manager

Monitoring: Integration Between SCVMM 2012 R2 and SCOM 2012 R2 by Lai Yoong Seng

Installation des UR1 für System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager in German by Daniel Neumann

Steps for Updating SCVMM 2012 R2 to Update Rollup 1 by Rob McShinsky

How to update SCVMM 2012 R2 to Update Rollup 1 #SCVMM by James van den Berg

System Center 2012 R2 VMM – KB-Artikel Archiv in German by Daniel Neumann

SQL Server

Windows Intune

Windows Client

Windows Server

Desired State Configuration and Local Configuration Manager by Damian Flynn

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