Microsoft Senior Sales Excellence Manager – Eric Ligman posted a list of almost 300 FREE Microsoft eBooks. You can download them all from hos blog at the following address:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mssmallbiz/archive/2014/07/07/largest-collection-of-free-microsoft-ebooks-ever-including-windows-8-1-windows-8-windows-7-office-2013-office-365-office-2010-sharepoint-2013-dynamics-crm-powershell-exchange-server-lync-2013-system-center-azure-cloud-sql.aspx
Publishing of older posts
I have decided to publish some of my older posts that I held private as they was mostly ment as a collection of good links for my own use. Most of them are related to System Center 2012 but other areas are included as well.
SPN settings in SCOM 2012
SCOM 2012 Agent Discovery Fails
System Center 2012 Operations Manager Survival Guide
Operations Manager 2012 Sizing Helper Tool
How to become an expert
Monitoring Text and CSV log files in System Center Operations Manager
Visio and SharePoint extensions for System Center 2012
WS-Management/SMASH in SCOM 2012
Script to backup MPs
Regular expressions in SCOM
Remote Server Administration Toolkit for Windows 8
How to Create Your Own Windows Azure Publish Settings File
SCOM Remote Maintenance Mode Scheduler 2.0
Understanding Operations Manager Maintenance Mode
How to make Operations Manager 2012 (SCOM 2012) Fault Tolerant
Pass the hash solved or not?
Microsoft released KB2871997 to address the “Pass the hash” vulnerability, but according to the following blog post pass the hash is still possible using the local Administrator account (SID 500):
http://www.pwnag3.com/2014/05/what-did-microsoft-just-break-with.html
Use PowerShell to Find Service Accounts
I was looking for a way to find service accounts using PowerShell and found the following post on the “Hey, Scripting Guy! Blog”:
To summarize, you can use the Get-WmiObject cmdlet to retrieve information about service accounts as in the following example:
Get-WmiObject win32_service | format-table Name, StartName
Remote Server Administration Toolkit for Windows 8
Remote Server Administration Toolkit enables management of roles and features of your servers running Windows Server 2012 from a single workstation. You can download RSAT from the following location:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=28972
Windows 8 Enterprise available
Windows 8 Enterprise is now available for download from Microsoft at the following sites:
MSDN Subscription:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/subscriptions/securedownloads/hh442898
Microsoft Partner Network:
https://mspartner.microsoft.com/en/us/Pages/Solutions/windows-8.aspx
TechNet Professional Subscription:
https://technet.microsoft.com/subscriptions/securedownloads/hh442904
Microsoft Volume Licensing/Software Assurance:
http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9675329
You can also download an evaluation version at the following site:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/jj554510.aspx
Windows 8 Consumer Preview
Windows 8 Consumer Preview is now available for download, http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-8
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