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Announcing the Data Explorer June Update
It’s a warm and sunny Monday afternoon in Redmond and that means a couple of things: mid-June Summer weather is here and it is about time to announce the Data Explorer June update.This update contains...
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Exchange Server 2013 Architecture Poster PDF Download Available
We just released a downloadable PDF version of the Exchange Server 2013 Architecture Poster. This is the poster that we handed out at the Office booth and in various Exchange 2013 breakout sessions...
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Remote Desktop Services at TechEd 2013
If you couldn't attend TechEd North America 2013 in person, we wanted to highlight some key sessions brought to you by the Remote Desktop Services (RDS) team and others:The session What’s New in...
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Managing Updates with Deadlines in an era of Automatic Maintenance
Until Windows 8, Windows Update used to manage its own internal scheduling for checking for, downloading, and installing updates. It required that the Windows Update Agent was always running in the...
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All about promises (for Windows Store apps written in JavaScript)
When writing Windows Store apps in JavaScript, you encounter these constructs called promisesas soon as you do anything that involves an asynchronous API. It also doesn’t take very long before writing...
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That’s a Wrap! TechEd North America 2013 Recap
TechEd North America 2013 took place last week in New Orleans, Louisiana. There were many announcements, sessions and other activities taking place around this wonderful conference. For those of you...
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Cleansing your customer data using Dun & Bradstreet DQS service
Starting today you can use SQL Server Data Quality Service (DQS) to cleanse data using Dun & Bradstreet (D&B) extensive business information data. This is done using DQS Reference Data Service...
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MVP Pro Speaker Series: Managing Windows Phone 8 & Windows RT devices with...
Panu Saukko gave a great presentation today on Managing Windows Phone 8 & Windows RT devices with Windows Intune and/or Configuration Manager 2012 SP1 . If you would like to view the presentation,...
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Improved cryptography infrastructure and the June 2013 bulletins
It was just over one year ago, May 28, 2012, to be exact, that I transitioned from running active MSRC cases and writing bulletins to my current role managing software security incidents. A lot has...
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ConfigMgr 2012 support tip: Clients never reboot even when required in a...
- Adeel Mohd | Configuration Manager Support EngineerI recently came across an interesting issue that I had never witnessed before in System Center Configuration Manager 2007 (ConfigMgr 2007) and while...
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Tech Tuesday Live Twitter Chat with Surface #winchat
This week we are excited to host our Tech Tuesday Live Twitter Chat with the Surface Team regarding their new offer. On May 31st, Surface announced that you will be able to get a free touch or type...
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This month’s Windows Phone Photo Challenge: summer nights #reinvented
We’ve been impressed by all your submissions to our past Windows Phone Photo Challenges. So we want to show them off even more.This month, we’re changing our Facebook cover photo to feature one of your...
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KB: Removing an Operations Manager server from the All Management Servers...
Just a quick FYI on a new Knowledge Base article we published today. This one talks about an issue where a management server turns gray after being removed from the All Management Servers resource pool...
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TechEd 2013 Presentations and Videos Ask the Core Team favorites
Today’s blog is a listing of our favorite videos and presentations that recently occurred at TechEd 2013. I have gone through them and picked what we think are the most important to the technologies...
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And The Winner Is…..
As per our blog post last month, we had a contest in the Windows booth co-sponsored by Toyota Racing Development (TRD) for a chance to win passes to a Nationwide Series Event. Thank you to all the...
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Part 3: Unit testing with Traits and code coverage in Visual Studio 2012...
The Unit Testing series by one of the ALM MVPs Terje Sandstrom has been some of the highest read posts on the ALM blog…In this post he shows how to easily provide unit Test Adapters from NuGet. Thanks...
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Understanding PowerShell's Type Conversion Magic
Type Conversion in PowerShell is, without question, one of the most useful ingredients in its "Magic Sauce" of administrator effectiveness. When you run a command with a specific parameter type (I.e.:...
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June 2013 Internet Explorer Updates
Microsoft Security Bulletin MS13-047 - CriticalThis security update resolves nineteen privately reported vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer. The most severe vulnerabilities could allow remote code...
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Windows Phone 8 Samples Update
This blog post was authored by Andrew Byrne (@AndrewJByrne), a Senior Content Developer on the Windows Phone Developer Content team.- AdamThe Windows Phone Developer Content team is continually adding...
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LightSwitch Community & Content Rollup– May 2013 (+more)
Last year I started posting a rollup of interesting community happenings, content, samples and extensions popping up around Visual Studio LightSwitch. If you missed those rollups you can check them all...
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