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Date: 02/16/2016

KB2975719 is not installed as expected using MDT 2013

Problem:Customer uses (MDT) Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2013 to perform Windows 2012 R2 or Windows...

Date: 10/30/2014

Where did my volume label go?

I recently worked an interesting case where 3rd party application had a dependency on the label name...

Date: 08/24/2014

The Case of the Unexplained Boot Delay in Microsoft LiteTouch ISO

I was working with a customer recently who had noticed a significant increase in time required for...

Date: 08/13/2014

The Case of the Unexplained Windows Server 2012 Replica Kerberos Error : 0x8009030C 0x00002EFE

Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Replica is a new feature that replicates all changes on a virtual...

Date: 02/06/2013

Windows Server 2012 Continuous Availability File Server feature

General availability of Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8 is almost here! As a result, I have been...

Date: 10/21/2012

The Case of the ADAM/AD LDS error A referral was returned from the server

My customer uses ADAM/AD LDS for directory aware applications instead up extending schema for Active...

Date: 02/24/2012

The Case of the Strange Hyper-V Networking Issue

I received a call from a customer who said they were experiencing networking problems with virtual...

Date: 01/25/2012

The Case of the Unexplained High CPU Condition

Usually I start these posts with "One of my customers..." but in this instance this happened to me...

Date: 04/07/2011

DPM 2010 Backup Error 0x800423F4

A customer reported an issue that they could not protect virtual machines running various Microsoft...

Date: 02/03/2011

The case of the PSRemotingTransportException

The case of the PSRemotingTransportException I have a SCVMM 2008 R2\Hyper-V farm in which we use...

Date: 12/10/2010

How to change ownership of virtual machines via PowerShell with SCVMM 2008 R2

I recently spoke with a customer who owned roughly fifty virtual machines in his SCVMM environment...

Date: 10/01/2010

How to create a bootable ISO using tools from the WAIK

I encountered an issue where I needed to create a bootable ISO from a set of files. In my SCVMM...

Date: 08/17/2010

Using SCVMM Cmdlets to change VM startup and shutdown actions

I was recently contacted by a customer running VMM 2008 R2 managing a farm of virtual machines. This...

Date: 08/13/2010

SCVMM 2008 R2 Creating Template with Keyboard Layout

I recently saw a forum post asking for a procedure to deploy a sysprepped VM and have the keyboard...

Date: 08/06/2010

SCVMM R2 Deployments with customization under the hood

SCVMM R2 Deployments with customization under the hood SCVMM streamlines and simplifies operating...

Date: 07/21/2010

DPM 2010 Remote Agent Install (windows firewall settings)

I was recently tasked with setting up a DPM 2010 environment to troubleshoot a customer issue. When...

Date: 07/20/2010