The new Office is now available for business customers
Business customers around the world can now purchase the on-premises versions of the new Office products--including Office 2013, Exchange Server 2013, Lync Server 2013, SharePoint Server 2013, Project...
View ArticleGeoposition advanced tracking scenarios for Windows Phone 8
This blog post was authored by Daniel Estrada Alva, a software development engineer on the Windows Phone team.- AdamWindows Phone 8 offers a new model for tracking a device’s position, based on change...
View ArticleTechNet Radio: Delivering the Cloud OS
The Cloud OS is Microsoft’s vision for providing customers with a consistent platform for infrastructure, applications and data that spans their datacenter, service provider datacenters, and the...
View ArticleNew version of Partition Management Utility supports SQL2012, ColumnStore...
A new version of the Partition Management Utility for SQL Server is now available on Codeplex at http://sqlpartitionmgmt.codeplex.com/ . This is a tool that helps you create necessary staging tables...
View ArticleCreate Incident from Service Request and copy various attributes
This script will copy an existing Incident in Service Manager 2012 and create a new Service Request copying various attributes. After the copy, the Incident will be cancelled with a reference to the...
View ArticleExchange Server 2013 Reaches General Availability
Back in October, we announced that the Release to Manufacturing (RTM) build of Exchange Server 2013 was signed off. Since that time, we’ve been focusing our efforts on releasing the next version of...
View ArticleWindows Store holiday schedule
From December 22nd through January 1st, the Windows Store team will have fewer staff on-hand, as team members spend the holidays with their families. We’ll continue to review and certify your apps...
View ArticleWSFC Cluster Configuration on Windows Azure Virtual Machines
Windows Azure Virtual Machines (VMs) are currently in preview at www.windowsazure.com. SQL Server high availability and disaster recovery solutions are supported on Windows Azure VMs.For AlwaysOn...
View ArticleTech Tuesday Live Twitter Chat – Windows 8 apps - #winchat
We’ve been spending a lot of time lately talking about the new Windows 8 PCs available this holiday season. So, tomorrow we are going to switch things up a bit to talk about something we are all crazy...
View ArticleWindows Azure Powers Imagine Cup Experience
Today at the Social Innovation Summit in Silicon Valley, Microsoft announced the five winners of the second annual Imagine Cup Grant. We’re particularly excited as four of the winners developed their...
View ArticleSharePoint Server 2013 Test Lab Guide stack refreshed
The SharePoint Server 2013 Test Lab Guide (TLG) stack has been refreshed for the released version of SharePoint Server 2013. Here is the current stack diagram (click on it for a larger version):The...
View ArticleKB: Configuring antivirus exclusions in a System Center Service Manager...
Here’s a KB we just published that talks about the A/V exclusions you’ll want to configure in a System Center Service Manager environment:=====SummaryAntivirus exclusions need to be properly configured...
View ArticleCALL FOR SPEAKERS: PASS Business Analytics Conference
PASS invites you to help shape the PASS Business Analytics Conference educational program by submitting session abstracts that fall within the following topics and address the needs of our key...
View ArticleKB: Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter fails with error: Heads values must...
Here’s a KB we just published that talks about an issue where attempting to perform a virtual machine conversion using the Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter (MVMC) solution accelerator...
View ArticleDesigning a Simple and Secure App Package – APPX
When we started working on the new Windows 8 development platform one of the first questions we had was “how do you package an app into a simple yet secure format?” Before Windows 8 there were two...
View ArticleCasablanca : Give us your feedback!
Casablanca: a native library to access the cloud from C++ Take a quick 10 minute break and give us your feedback on Casablanca. The Casablanca team would love to hear what you have to say! We want to...
View ArticleMy next PC will be an Ultrabook
Darn it all. I didn't want to like this little computer. I've always been a "MOAR POWER" laptop user. For me, laptops are desktop replacements. It's less about the carrying and more about the "setting...
View ArticleImplementing Traits in custom Visual Studio Test Adapters
Terje Sandstrom has written two excellent blogs on using Traits in Visual Studio Test Explorer.How to manage unit tests in Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 : Part 1–Using Traits in the Unit Test...
View ArticleiOS Support with Windows Azure Mobile Services – now with Push Notifications
As few weeks ago I posted about a number of improvements to Windows Azure Mobile Services. One of these was the addition of an Objective-C client SDK that allows iOS developers to easily use Mobile...
View ArticleHappy Birthday to AskPFE Platforms Blog, We Are 1 Today !
Time really does fly when you are having fun. Today marks the day when we went up live last year. We set off with a modest goal to share our field and real world experience with you, to perhaps one day...
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