Office is a team player
It's amazing to think how far Microsoft Office has come since we first launched Microsoft Word 1.0 in 1983. Word has moved well beyond replacing simple typing functions to a rich set of tools that...
View ArticleJoin our ITPro Panel and influence future Microsoft Server Management and...
The Microsoft Server and Management Studios User Research team is looking for IT Professionals to join our customer panel. Your participation in this panel will help us understand customer...
View ArticleNew Series of Microsoft Virtual Academy Courses on System Center–Ask a System...
On May 21, Microsoft Virtual Academy (MVA) continues its monthly series of free Q&A sessions led by Microsoft technical evangelists. This month, we’re releasing several great System Center 2012 SP1...
View ArticleNew Book About Virtual Machine Manager!
One of our Microsoft MVPs, Alessandro Cardoso, wrote a great book on Virtual Machine Manager. Check it out! http://link.packtpub.com/POCsIQ
View ArticleWindows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #65)
Welcome to the newest edition of our weekly roundup of the latest community-driven news, content and conversations about cloud computing and Windows Azure.Here is what we pulled together for the past...
View ArticleRedirecting ASP.NET Legacy URLs to Extensionless with the IIS Rewrite Module
ASP.NET has included support for "friendly URLs" for a while now. ASP.NET MVC has always supported friendly URLs and more recently, so has Web Forms. That means if you don't want to have the .aspx...
View ArticleBrowser extension hijacks Facebook profiles
We have received reports about a wave of malicious browser extensions trying to hijack Facebook profiles. This threat was first discovered in Brazil. We detect it as Trojan:JS/Febipos.A. The malware...
View ArticleFriendly URLs with Office 365 - Grid User Post
The Grid is full of Office 365 experts that are brimming with great information. The Grid User Post blog series will expose some of The Grid's best content to the entire Office 365 Community. Are you...
View ArticleIntroducing a new Windows Dev Center experience
Since launching the Windows Dev Center in October, 2011, we’ve worked closely with developers and designers around the world to understand how we can provide the best guidance, inspiration, and samples...
View ArticleXamarin Evolve 2013 Talk Video - How C# Saved My Marriage
In case you haven't heard, Xamarin is a fabulous company was amazing products and their Evolve 2013 conference was absolutely smashing.I was fortunate enough to speak at Xamarin Evolve 2013 in Austin...
View ArticleKnown Issue and workaround for TFS 2012 Update 3 RC1
This post is to report a known issue with alerts in Team Foundation Server 2012 Update 3 RC1. There is a partial workaround below, which should be applied to the configuration database BEFORE upgrade...
View ArticleHOTFIX: A Management Point experiences high CPU usage or high memory...
We published a new hotfix today for ConfigMgr 2007 SP2 to correct the following issue:You have a Management Point installed on a site server in Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007...
View ArticleWCF Data Services 5.5.0 Prerelease
It’s that time again: yesterday we uploaded an RC for the upcoming 5.5.0 release. The 5.5.0 release will be another NuGet-only release.What is in the release:This release has two primary features: 1)...
View ArticleMVP Speaker Series Presentation on “Backup That Really Works”
Robert Hedblom, one of our Microsoft MVPs, gave a great presentation a few days ago on “Backup That Really Works” using multiple components of the System Center 2012 SP1 suite. If you would like to...
View ArticleMVP Speaker Series Presentation Tomorrow: Building Workstation and...
We are hosting another MVP Speaker Series session tomorrow (Thursday) morning at 8 A.M. Redmond time. The speaker will be Nate Lasnoski, one of the Windows Server/System Center MVPs, and one of the...
View ArticleThe new Office Garage Series: Automating User Provisioning in Office 365
This week our hosts, Jeremy Chapman and Yoni Kirsh, address one of the most visible changes to the new Office desktop apps: the sign in experience for the service. Jeremy and Yoni draw out the identity...
View ArticleEnabling seamless integration with Team Foundation Server, Microsoft Test...
Today I am happy to announce that in addition to the bi-direction synchronization between the HP ALM - TFS systems, OpsHub’s newest release v5.3 has added integration with test case management and...
View ArticleNew Workflow Manager 1.0 Getting Started Tutorial
A new Getting Started Tutorial for Workflow Manager 1.0 has been posted here:Workflow Manager 1.0 Getting Started TutorialThis is a 3 step tutorial which covers creating a custom activity, using it in...
View ArticleNew Windows Dev Center release
Yesterday we launched a new Windows Dev Center. You might ask “Why are you telling us about that, Brian?” Well, the answer is that my team is responsible for MSDN and much of the infrastructure...
View ArticleCreating a wizard-like experience for HTML client (Andy Kung)
If you have been playing with the new HTML client, you will know that LightSwitch provides a built-in screen template for creating data. It allows user to input data via a modal dialog. In some...
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