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CROSSPOST: New Server Management Tool: Project Name “Honolulu”
This is a cross post from my blog to help increase visibility of a new tool that is coming. I wanted...
Date: 09/14/2017
High CPU/High Memory in WSUS following Update Tuesdays
Updated 8/24/2017 - Hotfix information added. Recently, we’ve seen an increase in the number of high...
Date: 08/18/2017
Enabling Surface Laptop keyboard during MDT deployment
Hi, my name is Scott McArthur and I am Supportability PM with commercial Surface. Today’s blog will...
Date: 08/18/2017
Deploy Windows from USB drive to Surface Studio
Hi, my name is Scott McArthur and I am Supportability Program Manager in Surface. Today I am going...
Date: 06/14/2017
Deploy Surface Studio using MDT
Hi, my name is Scott McArthur and I am Supportability Program Manager in Surface. Today I am going...
Date: 06/14/2017
Hyper-V authentication in Windows Server 2016 for managing remote Hyper-V servers through RSAT
Hello, my name is Ayushie Bhat and I’m a Support Engineer with the Windows Core team. Today, I’m...
Date: 05/17/2017
Known Lock Screen issues with Creator’s Update (1703)
One of our regular contributors, Kim Johnson, has written a blog titled "Known Lock Screen issues...
Date: 05/05/2017
Uninstalling and reinstalling the Windows 2012R2 Failover Clustering feature
In some cases, it may be necessary to uninstall and reinstall the Windows Failover Clustering...
Date: 04/04/2017
Building a KMS Host on Windows 8
Support Lifecycle: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle?C2=16796 This blog post is part of...
Date: 03/23/2017
Building a KMS Host on Windows Server 2008 R2
Support Lifecycle: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle?p1=14134 This blog post is part of...
Date: 03/22/2017
Error Adding Windows Server 2016 and Windows 10 2016 LTSB Product Keys to VAMT 3.1
My name is Shannon Gowen and I am a Serviceability Support Escalation Engineer for Windows Client...
Date: 03/22/2017
Cluster Networks in Windows Failover Clustering
Welcome to the Ask the Core Team blog. My name is Eriq Stern and today we are going to discuss...
Date: 02/03/2017
Why Bitlocker takes longer to complete the encryption in Windows 10 as compared to Windows 7
Hello, my name is Ritesh Sinha and I am a Support Escalation Engineer on the Windows team. Today’s...
Date: 01/03/2017
Options for Installing and Maintaining Windows Applications
Starting with the Windows 1607 release, MSN News and MSN Finance are no longer included with the...
Date: 11/11/2016
Adobe Flash support on Windows Server 2016
With the changes that have occurred to further align the Windows Server and Client desktop...
Date: 11/08/2016
Windows Server 2016 Volume Activation Tips
Hi, This is Scott McArthur, a Supportability Program Manager for Windows and Surface. With the...
Date: 10/19/2016
Building a KMS host on Windows 7
Windows 7 with SP1 Support Lifecycle: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle?C2=14019 This...
Date: 10/14/2016
New Office Update to address some of the scaling issues with Skype for Business 2016 and PowerPoint 2016
Hi Everyone, This is Kim Johnson from the Windows 10 client supportability team. I wanted to share...
Date: 10/14/2016
Surface Ethernet Drivers
Hi, My name is Scott McArthur and I am a Supportability Program Manager for Surface. Today I have a...
Date: 08/18/2016
Display Scaling changes for the Windows 10 Anniversary Update
Today we have guest author for this blog. Peter Felts is a Senior Program Manager in the developer...
Date: 08/16/2016
Establishing Network Connectivity to a Share in the Windows Recovery Environment
Hi there! My name is Neil Dsouza and I’m a Support Escalation Engineer with the Windows Core team....
Date: 06/10/2016
FREE EBOOK: Introducing Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview
The Introducing Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview book from Microsoft Press is now available....
Date: 04/27/2016
Customizing the recovery partition after upgrading the OS from Windows 8.1 to Windows 10
Hi Everyone, my name is Suganya and I am from the Windows Devices and Deployment Team. I would like...
Date: 04/26/2016
Behavior of Dynamic Witness on Windows Server 2012 R2 Failover Clustering
With Failover Clustering on Windows Server 2012 R2, we introduced the concept of Dynamic Witness and...
Date: 03/21/2016
Windows 10 Deployment Links
Hi, my name is Scott McArthur and I am the Supportability Program Manager for Commercial Surface and...
Date: 03/08/2016
New Guided Walkthrough for troubleshooting problems relating to Event ID 1135 in a Failover Clustering environment
I wanted to post about a new walkthrough that we have to help in troubleshooting an Event 1135 on a...
Date: 01/21/2016
Failover Cluster Node Startup Order in Windows Server 2012 R2
In this blog, my Colleague, JP, and I would like to talk about how to start a Cluster without the...
Date: 01/21/2016
Using the Windows 10 Compatibility Reports to understand upgrade issues
This blog discusses on how to obtain and review the Compatibility Reports to troubleshoot Windows 10...
Date: 01/21/2016
Users can't access the desktop and other resources through Quick Access in Windows 10
If you use copyprofile when customizing your Windows 10 profiles, you may encounter a scenario where...
Date: 12/21/2015
Display Scaling in Windows 10
Hope everyone is having a good day. Today, we have a guest among us. Steve Wright is a Senior...
Date: 12/08/2015
Troubleshooting Activation Issues
Today, Henry Chen and I are going to talk about troubleshooting some activation issues that we often...
Date: 11/23/2015
Errors Retrieving File Shares on Windows Failover Cluster
Hi AskCore, Chinmoy here again. In today’s blog, I would like to share one more scenario in...
Date: 11/23/2015
How to convert Windows 10 Pro to Windows 10 Enterprise using ICD
Windows 10 makes life easier and brings a lot of benefits in the enterprise world. Converting...
Date: 11/23/2015
Setting up Data Recovery Agent for Bitlocker
You might have already read on TechNet and one of the other AskCore Blogson how to setup Data...
Date: 10/16/2015
So what exactly is the CLIUSR account?
From time to time, people stumble across the local user account called CLIUSR and wonder what it is,...
Date: 10/02/2015
CROSS POST: How Shared VHDX Works on Server 2012 R2
In the not far back point in time, there was a blog done by Matthew Walker that we felt needed to...
Date: 09/28/2015
CROSS POST: Windows 10, WindowsUpdate.log and how to view it with PowerShell or Tracefmt.exe
In the not far back point in time, there was a blog done by Charles Allen that we felt needed to...
Date: 09/28/2015
Windows 10 Volume Activation Tips
Hi, Today’s blog is going to cover some tips around preparing your organization for activating...
Date: 09/15/2015
Unable to add file shares in a Windows 2012 R2 Failover Cluster
My name is Chinmoy Joshi and I am a Support Escalation Engineer with the Windows Core team....
Date: 09/14/2015
The New and Improved CheckSUR
One of the most used and arguably most efficient tools that we utilize when troubleshooting...
Date: 07/23/2015
Building Windows Server Failover Cluster on Azure IAAS VM – Part 2 (Network and Creation)
Hello, cluster fans. In my previous blog, Part 1, I talked about how to work around the storage...
Date: 06/24/2015
Windows Server Failover Cluster on Azure IAAS VM – Part 1 (Storage)
Hello, cluster fans. This is Mario Liu and I am a Support Escalation Engineer on the Windows High...
Date: 06/24/2015
Invitation to provide feedback through UserVoice
I am not sure if everyone is aware of UserVoice but I am here to tell you about it. UserVoice is...
Date: 05/20/2015
Microsoft Ignite sessions dealing with what we do in AskCore
Early in the month of May, Microsoft held it's Ignite Conference (formally known as TechEd) in...
Date: 05/20/2015
KB 3046555: End-to-end guide for Deploying MBAM 2.5 in a stand-alone configuration
This guide provides step-by-step instructions for installing Microsoft BitLocker Administration and...
Date: 03/31/2015
Tips & Tricks with MBAM 2.5 - Part 1: Domain Controller and Group Policy Management
We have periodically received requests on some of the Tips and Tricks regarding Microsoft BitLocker...
Date: 03/31/2015
Manually modifying IIS bindings to use SSL for MBAM services
Microsoft BitLocker Administration and Monitoring (MBAM) needs web services no matter what topology...
Date: 03/29/2015