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Premium Preview for Windows Azure SQL Database Now Live!
On July 8, 2013, at the Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) in Houston, Texas, Satya Nadella, Server and Tools President announced a new Premium service for Windows Azure SQL Database that delivers more...
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Quick note on installing System Center 2012 Service Manager setups silently
When installing System Center 2012 Service Manager via Configuration Manager (i.e. unattended), it is important to do it while suppressing any dialog. While the following article provides examples of...
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Windows Azure July Updates: SQL Database, Traffic Manager, AutoScale, Virtual...
This morning we released some great updates to Windows Azure. These new enhancements include:SQL Databases: Support for Automated SQL Export and a New Premium Tier SQL Database option Traffic Manager:...
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Speed up LightSwitch Development with “Edit & Refresh” (Sudhanshu Kulkarni)
In this post I’d like to discuss a feature of LightSwitch that helps speed up your development of HTML client applications. We first released this feature in Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 with the...
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Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 Service Pack 2 available
Today, we released Service Pack 2 (SP2) for the Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 set of products. SP2 provides key updates and fixes across our servers, services and applications including security,...
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Cross-Post: Windows Azure July Updates: SQL Database, Traffic Manager,...
This morning we released some great updates to Windows Azure. These new enhancements include:SQL Databases: Support for Automated SQL Export and a New Premium Tier SQL Database optionTraffic Manager:...
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SP2 for Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 officially released
Learn where to find the new Office 2010 SP2 download, a list of fixes, the latest admin templates, and the Visio Compatibility Pack.Service Pack 2 (SP2) for Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 is...
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Using Buddy with Windows Phone 8
This guest post is authored by Shawn Burke VP of Engineering at Buddy. Buddy offers cloud infrastructure with high level services ready to use with your mobile apps. The Buddy offering was featured...
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Update Rollup 3 for System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 is now available
Update Rollup 3 (UR3) for System Center 2012 SP1 has been released and is now available for download. This update rollup contains fixes for System Center App Controller, Data Protection Manager,...
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Update Rollup 3 for DPM 2012 Service Pack 1 is now available
UR3 for System Center 2012 Data Protection Manager SP1 has been released and is now available for download. This update rollup contains fixes for the following issues:Issue 1When you use a tape library...
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Update Rollup 3 for System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager SP1 is now...
UR3 for VMM 2012 Service Pack 1 has been released and is now available for download. This update rollup contains fixes for a variety of both App Controller and Virtual Machine Manager issues. You can...
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Update Rollup 3 for System Center 2012 Operations Manager Service Pack 1 is...
UR3 for OpsMgr 2012 SP1 has been released and is available for download. This update rollup contains fixes for a variety of both Operations Manager as well as UNIX and Linux monitoring issues. You can...
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Get started with some basic TFBuild Scripts
You want to run some of your business logic during your TFBuild process. Maybe before, or maybe after Team Foundation Build (TFBuild) compiles or tests your code. For example, before you compile, you...
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Control whether PDFs open in Word Web App or the default PDF reader
Use Windows PowerShell commands to adjust settings so that PDFs open in the program you want.When users open a PDF file from a SharePoint document library that uses Office Web Apps Server, the default...
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Enabling Linux Support on Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V
This post is a part of the nine-part “What’s New in Windows Server & System Center 2012 R2” series that is featured on Brad Anderson’s In the Cloud blog. Today’s blog post covers Linux Support on...
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Extending Inventory on Linux and UNIX computers using Open Management...
This post is a part of the nine-part “ What’s New in Windows Server & System Center 2012 R2 ” series that is featured on Brad Anderson’s In the Cloud blog. Today’s blog post discusses how you can...
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Proximity in Windows Phone 8
At the recent Build developer conference in San Francisco I presented a session on networking in Windows Phone 8. Part of the session was about HTTP networking using the new HttpClient portable...
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Support Tip: VM does not boot following P2V or Disk2VHD in Virtual Machine...
Microsoft’s own Jonathan Jordan has a great blog post on how to troubleshoot boot problems you may encounter after doing a P2V or Disk2VHD in Virtual Machine Manager. If you haven’t seen it yet you’ll...
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The impact of a compliment
This is the beginning of a great compliment. Here, the President is speaking about the Attorney General of California:You have to be careful to, first of all, say she is brilliant and she is dedicated...
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Adding Stored Procs to your LightSwitch Intrinsic Database
When you build a LightSwitch application the very first question you are asked is whether you want to connect to an existing data source or if you want to create a new one. If you choose to create new,...
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