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As a follow up to his last article on how to automate the creation of App-V 5.0 debug command prompts, Microsoft’s Dave Falkus has another great post that explains how to automate the creation of App-V 5.0 connection group debug commands. As with his last article, if this is something you’ve struggled with or just want an easier way to do it, this is one you won’t want to miss.

As previously reported on this site, the Operations Manager support team identified a regression in a Windows update where installing 2775511 on Operations Manager Management Servers can cause agents or servers to deadlock. Once in deadlock, Management Servers will generate HeartBeat failures and will go into a “grayed out” state, thus devices managed by these Management Servers will also go into a “greyed out” or “not monitored state.”

You may discover that you cannot select the "Use the dedicated instance of SQL Server" option when you upgrade to Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2012 (DPM 2012) because the option is unavailable. When you point the installer to an existing local installation of DPM, you receive the following error message:

Today we released Security Advisory 2914486 regarding a local elevation of privilege (EoP) issue that affects customers using Microsoft Windows XP and Server 2003. Windows Vista and later are not affected by this local EoP issue. A member of the Microsoft Active Protections Program (MAPP) found this issue being used on systems compromised by a third-party remote code execution vulnerability. These limited, targeted attacks require users to open a malicious PDF file. The issues described by the advisory cannot be used to gain access to a remote system alone.

​Last month we introduced our monthly protection metrics and talked about our September results. Today, we’d like to talk about our results from October. If you want a refresh on the definition of the metrics we use in our monthly results, see our prior post: Our protection metrics – September results.

As the proliferation of devices continues to capture the imagination of consumers, and has ignited what is referred to as bring your own device (BYOD) revolution, many IT departments across the globe are now facing increased security considerations. While organizations encourage BYOD for cost savings and productivity, it is also important to have robust security policies supporting BYOD.