Mailbag – Holiday 2015 Edition

Season's Greetings from the AskPFEPlat PFEs!

A solid Mailbag today with items from Paul Bergson, Rick Bergman, Matthew Walker, Mike Kline and Mike Hildebrand. Also an AskPFEPlat alum – Mark Morowczynski – has started making Permanent Waves over in Azure AD land (did you catch the Rush reference I snuck in there? J)

Let's roll…

First up, Paul B. brought this one to our attention and thought our readers would find this a welcome addition to our in-box NIC teaming:

• Update adds support for the "slow" timer in LACP in Windows Server 2012 R2
  • https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3109099

 

Next, Rick Bergman offered up a reminder about the "Taste of Premier" video series and called-out the most recent video where Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and GM of Microsoft's Cloud Platform Julia White discuss and demo cyber and operational security in the mobile-first, cloud-first world.

• https://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Taste-of-Premier/Satya-Nadella-on-Cybersecurity

Future Post Teaser: Jessica Payne has a video out there, too, about our local admin password management tools and very soon, she will have a blog on our site to compliment the video:

• https://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Taste-of-Premier/Taste-of-Premier-How-to-tackle-Local-Admin-Password-Problems-in-the-Enterprise-with-LAPS

 

Matthew Walker, one of our resident Hyper-V gurus sent over a post from Jake Oshins …

Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V will be supporting pass-through to more PCIE devices:

• https://blogs.technet.com/b/virtualization/archive/2015/11/19/discrete-device-assignment.aspx

 

Mike Kline had a couple of GREAT points and an oldie but goodie about on-prem AD:

• A SUPERB (and detailed) resource about setting up "Privileged Access Workstations" (PAW):
  • https://technet.microsoft.com/en-US/library/mt634654.aspx
• Advanced Threat Analytics (ATA) 1.5 was released this week:
  • https://blogs.technet.com/b/ata/archive/2015/12/17/advanced-threat-analytics-update-1-5-is-here.aspx
• A very useful KB for on-prem AD replication troubleshooting:
  • https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3108513

 

Finally, Hilde here with a few nuggets:

• Here is some solid info about WSUS support for Windows 10 updates/upgrades
  • https://blogs.technet.com/b/wsus/archive/2015/12/04/important-update-for-wsus-4-0-kb-3095113.aspx#pi47623=2
• Two EXCELLENT resource that cover a lot of depth information about Cloud in the context of IT Pros including examples/samples. These are GOLD!
  • https://technet.microsoft.com/library/dn919927.aspx
  • https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/virtual-machines-infrastructure-services-implementation-guidelines/
• Our old friend - and a familiar voice from this blog - Mark Morowczynski has started a 'mailbag' series about Azure AD topics
  • https://blogs.technet.com/b/ad/archive/2015/12/04/new-series-the-azure-ad-mailbag.aspx
  • https://blogs.technet.com/b/ad/archive/2015/12/11/azuread-mailbag-self-service-password-reset.aspx

 

Cheers!