Verizon to sell Windows Phone 8 on Thursday. Plus: a cheat sheet for U.S....
Verizon Wireless had promised its new Windows Phones would arrive before Thanksgiving. Today, the company made good on its pact, announcing the Windows Phone 8X by HTC and the Nokia Lumia 822 will hit...
View ArticleWindows Server 2012 File Server Tip: Enable CSV Caching on Scale-Out File...
Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV) in Windows Server 2012 has a great new feature to allow using system memory as a write-through cache. Since Scale-Out File Server Clusters use CSV, enabling this CSV cache...
View ArticleWindows Server 2012 File Server Tip: Avoid loopback configurations for...
When deploying Hyper-V over SMB (storing your live configuration and live VHD/VHDX files on an SMB 3.0 file share), make sure you don’t use a loopback configuration. A loopback configuration means that...
View ArticlePFE Live Chat with Us!
Hey y’all, Mark here again. We thought we’d try something new with our readers. We write this blog for you guys, the community. We love hearing from you! We read all the comments, seriously we do. Not...
View ArticleSendEmail Solution for Service Requests
A few weeks ago I provided the source code to the SendEmail solution to one of our MVPs, Patrik Sundqvist, so that he could extend the solution to also work for Service Requests. You can read about...
View ArticlePut the power of Outlook 2013 behind your Outlook.com email
Outlook 2013 uses newly-added support for the rich Exchange Active Sync (EAS) protocol that has become the gold standard used by smartphones and other mobile devices. EAS will sync mail, calendar,...
View ArticleVMware (finally) admits that its costs are higher than Microsoft’s
Recently we came across the updated VMware cost per application calculator and discovered what our customers and partners have been telling us all along – VMware vSphere 5.1 costs more than Windows...
View ArticleNovember 2012 Security Bulletin Webcast, Q&A, and Slide Deck
Hello, Today we’re publishing the November 2012 Security Bulletin Webcast Questions & Answers page . During the webcast, we fielded ten questions focusing primarily Windows RT, Windows 8, and...
View ArticleGet a jump on development with Windows Store App Labs
It’s been an incredibly exciting year. Since last year’s //Build conference, nearly half a million developers, designers and entrepreneurs from more than 80 countries have started building great,...
View ArticleWhat Is StreamInsight? A Primer for Non-Programmers
Are you trying to figure out whether StreamInsight might be something you could use, but you’re having trouble sifting through all the programming jargon that’s used to describe it? StreamInsight is,...
View ArticleDownload Microsoft Project Professional 2013 and Project Server 2013!
Following last month’s announcement: The New Microsoft Project reaches RTM! , you can now download the following trials for the following languages: Arabic, English, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese...
View ArticleMicrosoft Acquires StorSimple
In October I shared that we had reached a definitive agreement to acquire StorSimple, a leader in the emerging category known as Cloud-integrated Storage (CiS). Today I am excited to announce we have...
View ArticleIE 9.0.11 Available via Windows Update
Microsoft Security Bulletin MS12-071 - CriticalThis security update resolves three privately reported vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer. The vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a...
View ArticleASP.NET WebForms Model Binding – Overview
This is the first post in the part of series around Model Binding. In this post I will introduce Model Binding integration in ASP.NET WebForms while focusing on history, benefits, principles and the...
View ArticleChart Styles in Office 2013
With Excel 2013, you now have a new default style and set of chart styles to apply to your chart. The new styles are designer quality and will make your chart beautiful in one click!...(read more)
View ArticleAdapting your WebKit-optimized site for Internet Explorer 10
Ensuring that your site works great on Windows Phone 8 is easier than ever, thanks to extensive HTML5 support in Internet Explorer 10. You might currently use WebKit on a site specifically optimized...
View ArticleWindows Server 2012 File Server Tip: Run the File Services Best Practices...
Windows Server 2012 includes a built-in mechanism called Best Practices Analyzer (BPA) to check your configuration and make sure everything is set to the proper values. These set of rules, which come...
View ArticleOctober 2012 Cumulative Updates for Office and related products are now...
You can now get the October 2012 Cumulative Updates (CUs) packages for Office 2010, and the 2007 Office system. The CUs also include Office servers and SharePoint products. In these knowledge base...
View ArticlePASS Summit 2012 Recap & a Look Back at SQL Server 2012
Last week marked the completion of a great week at PASS Summit 2012, the world’s largest technical training conference for SQL Server professionals and BI experts alike. During this year’s 3-day...
View ArticleFrom Data to Insight & Impact: Using Power View to Review Sales Performance
Welcome to our FromData to Insight & Impact series, where we invite you to take a closer look at Power View, the BI tool that is helping business leaders across every industry drive positive...
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