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Windows Phone + Our Blog = New App
Is there an app for that? Not sure if you asked, but we do have an app for our blog that allows you to enjoy and read the content on your Windows Phone (WP7 or WP8). It's a basic blog reader app that...
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Portable Compression and HttpClient Working Together
Today we’re happy to announce that we released two NuGet packages:A brand new Microsoft.Bcl.Compression (Beta). A portable compression library that supports stream based compression (gzip, deflate) as...
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AlwaysOn Availability Groups Troubleshooting and Monitoring Guide published!
AlwaysOn Availability Groups Troubleshooting and Monitoring Guide provides information on troubleshooting the common AlwaysOn Availability Groups issues and monitoring the availability group health. We...
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Temple Run: Brave for Windows Phone 8 is here
Lace up your shoes, Temple Run fans. The Brave-themed version of the megahit endless running game just arrived for Windows Phone 8. Price: $0.99. Buy it hereIn Temple Run: Brave,you play Merida,...
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Join the Game On Virtual Event
Games are a key class of apps in the Windows Store. If you’re looking to build a Windows Store game, we’d like to help you with this virtual game building event. The event is free and open to both new...
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OneNote is hiring, come join the team!
Do you love OneNote? Do you love working with super cool people? Good news: OneNote is hiring Developers and Testers for the OneNote team in the Seattle area. If you are interested in working on a...
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App roundup: 5 Windows apps for my dad
In my blog post for Mother’s Day, I wrote about apps related to my super-cool mom, Laurie. Since Father’s Day is coming up, I thought I’d write about some apps for dads, and take the opportunity to...
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Lenovo opens PC manufacturing line in the U.S.
Lenovo passed this along to me earlier today and thought it was worth a quick blog post. Lenovo recently just held a grand opening ceremony for its very first U.S.-based PC production facility in...
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Managing Your HDInsight Cluster with PowerShell
This blog post provides a mechanism for managing an HDInsight cluster using a local management console through the use of Windows PowerShell. The goal is to outline how to configure the local...
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Ignite Webcast - Exchange Online Protection
To sign up for this webcast please download and save the attached calendar invite below where you will find the Webcast Meeting information. Ignite Webcasts are online sessions led by Microsoft Office...
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Pie in the Sky (June 7, 2013)
TechEd NorthAmerica 2013 is over, on to WWDC next week! Yes, it's that crazy time when there's one interesting tech conference after another. Hopefully you'll be able to find time to checkout today's...
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SharePoint on IaaS
SharePoint FarmsConfigure, and deploy a SharePoint farm on a set of Virtual Machines in this tutorial. Create a set of Virtual Machines using images from the gallery including Windows Server 2012, SQL...
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GP MVP Activity
We already talked about Darren's tool to investigate Group Policy performance, so here's what some other GP MVPs are up to: Jeremy Moskowitz blogs about how to use his product, PolicyPak, to disable...
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CSI: Visual Studio - Unable to translate Unicode character at index X to...
A customer emailed me a weird one. I tend to have a sense for when something is up and when an obscure thing will turn into something interesting. The person says:...mysteriously most of my projects...
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Portable Compression and HttpClient Working Together
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Replay: The TechEd 2013 Day 1 Keynote
This week’s podcast is preempted by events at TechEd 2013, but, in case you haven't had a chance to see it yet, my Day 1 keynote is included below in its entirety (including the opening video with...
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Make Yammer your default social network in Office 365
Christophe Fiessinger (@cfiessinger) is a product marketing manager in the Microsoft Office Division, focused on enterprise social across Yammer, Office 365, and SharePoint.Starting today, you can make...
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KB: Patching a passive cluster node using a Configuration Manager 2007...
Just a quick FYI on a new Knowledge Base article we published today. This one talks about an issue where using ConfigMgr 2007 to patch the passive node of a cluster fails with exit code -2068578304....
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Now in the Store: MapQuest for Windows Phone 8
It’s always nice to have options—and now there’s a new one to help you get from A to Z. MapQuest, one of the original web-based mapping services, released it’s first Windows Phone app this morning. The...
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Excuse me sir, your cow is stuck in the mud
I try to share some of the funnier and stranger stories from my life. Unfortunately, I don’t always remember to share them.I’m working from home today because I’ve got an all day phone call with...
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