MDE Antivirus Configuration Common Mistakes and Best Practice
_______________________________________________________ John Barbare and Tan Tran Dear IT Pros, We discuss about Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Antivirus Configuration, Policy and exclusion list in detail to avoid making the common mistakes and to apply the best practice to it. Best Practices ... continue reading
OPS105: Virtualized and Hybrid Backup Deep Dive
Ben Armstrong explains the challenges and evolution of backups, from Windows Server to Hyper-V, Azure and Containers. Speaker: Ben Armstrong, Principal Program Manager Lead This session includes: 00:00 Introduction 02:30 Where's my data? 08:16 Then virtual machines came along … ... continue reading
Find the Hostname of a Hyper-V VM
If you are running a virtual machine (VM) on Hyper-V, sometimes you want to know on which Hyper-V host this VM is running. If you don't have access to the Hyper-V host, you need to find that information from within ... continue reading
Azure Arc Jumpstart – Azure Arc enabled server walk-through for hybrid & multi-cloud
Want to get started with Azure Arc, to get visibility & control of non-Azure resources within your Azure environment? The product group have released some scenarios and automation code to help you explore Azure Arc's capabilities, on the Azure Arc ... continue reading
WAC-Active Directory trust not established or broken. …
PROBLEM: I began configuring a Windows Server 2019 Storage Space Direct (S2D) cluster using 3 virtual machines running on a physical Windows 2019 Hyper-V server. I started the installation using Windows Admin Center (v2009 Bld: 1.2.2009.21002) Cluster Creation wizard. I ... continue reading
Modernize Windows Server Apps on Microsoft Azure using Containers with Windows Admin Center and AKS!
Today we are looking at how you can modernize Windows Server Apps on Microsoft Azure using Containers with Windows Admin Center and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). We will see how we can create a new custom Docker container image using ... continue reading
Are Your IaaS Domain Controllers Secured in Azure?
Hi Everyone, Zoheb here again with my colleague Tim Beasley. Today, we will be sharing some best practices to help ensure that your VMs (virtual machines) (including Domain Controllers) are secure in your Azure/Cloud environment. I would like to start ... continue reading
MSIX – Using the Bulk Conversion Scripts
Hello everyone, this is Ingmar Oosterhoff, a Modern Workplace Customer Engineer at Microsoft. In an earlier series of posts we set up our environment to do batch sequencing using App-V. In this blog I will explain how we can set ... continue reading
Domain Could Not Be Contacted…On SDN Virtual Network…It’s Not Your DNS
I ran into a problem that I would like to share with everyone in hopes that this will save you some time if you ever run into it. PROBLEM: I have recently been working with virtualized SDNv2 networks. I create ... continue reading

Why Is It So Ridiculously Slow To Remove My Query Resolution Policies!?
Hi Team, Eric Jansen here - I'm a Platforms Customer Engineer with some interesting scenarios that I'll be sharing over the coming months, mostly revolving around the topic of On-Premises DNS. Today's topic will be a very specific scenario regarding ... continue reading