A Month with the Toshiba KIRAbook
Over the last month, I have had the privilege of taking the Toshiba KIRAbook for an extended test drive. We have been through a lot together like many meetings at Microsoft, a weeklong trip to Taipei...
View ArticlePowerShell Sessions, Slides and Demos from TechEd 2013
We presented following sessions at this year’s edition of TechEd(s). At TechEd, we announced the newest feature in Windows PowerShell 4.0 – Desired State Configuration, so do check out the attached...
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View ArticleNow Available: Updated Release of Exchange 2013 RTM CU2
On July 12th, we announced that Exchange Server 2013 RTM CU2 contained an issue that could result in the loss of public folder permissions when the public folder mailbox is moved between Exchange 2013...
View ArticleOne year of news!
It wasn’t until after I posted my “news” post this morning and I was perusing our news site that I realized that the first news post was almost exactly 1 year ago on August 6th 2012. These are...
View ArticleSQL Server Data-Tier Application Framework (July 2013) Available
What’s new?This update to the Data-Tier Application Framework (DACFx) addresses a high-priority customer reported issue causing potential corruption of DAC package artifacts, including pre- and...
View ArticleTech Tuesday Live Twitter Chat: Windows Chip-In: Buy One, Give One #winchat
For those of you unfamiliar with Windows Chip-In, it is a crowdsourcing platform launched in June to help parents and students fund their new PCs. When students visit the Windows Chip-In website, they...
View ArticleWindows Phone app building tools you might not know about
This blog post was authored by Andrew Byrne, a Senior Content Developer on the Windows Phone Developer Content team.- AdamToday I’m going to share some of the tools I use to help me build and ship...
View ArticleUpdate Rollup KB2855336 released for Windows Server 2012
Products which belong to Essentials and Small Business Server family might crash if virtualized on Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V host in the event that the host crashes or loses power. The active...
View ArticleDownload Visual Studio 2013 while your feedback still matters
Lots of stuff is happening at MSFT right now. Windows 8.1 is around the corner (did you download the 8.1 Preview?) and development is still happening on Visual Studio 2013. The ASP.NET and Web Tools...
View ArticleMicrosoft Presents “Enabling Consumerization without Compromising Compliance”...
BriForum kicks off today in Chicago. BriForum 2013 is the only technical virtualization conference that is 100% dedicated to desktop virtualization, VDI, application virtualization, Remote Desktop...
View ArticleNow available: Refresh of Office 2013 and SharePoint 2013 developer training
The developer training for Office and SharePoint 2013 now contains updated information about new features and capabilities for Office and SharePoint developers. In this post, learn about the 20...
View ArticleJoin us for IE’s #CakeOut in San Francisco on Tuesday, July 30th
And now, to relay a message from the IE Interns…It’s a #CakeOut! The IE11 Developer Preview is now available for Windows 7 and to celebrate, Internet Explorer is delivering Kara’s Cupcakes to San...
View ArticleManage your spreadsheets with Data Validation in the Excel Web App (aka an...
If you've ever wanted to leverage the power of Data Validation in Excel combined with the flexibility of Web Excel, now you can! In this post we walk through an example of how easy it is to collect...
View ArticleSQL Server 2014 In-Memory OLTP – bwin Migration and Production Experience
As part of our SQL Server 2014 In-Memory OLTP blog series we asked early adopter RickKutschera from bwin.party, to blog about his solution experience with SQL Server 2014 In-Memory OLTP. Read on below...
View ArticleStart your Windows 8.1 deployment planning
As announced today on the Windows for Your Business Blog, the Windows 8.1 Enterprise Preview is now available for all IT pros to download. We encourage you to leverage this preview release to get a...
View ArticleWindows 8.1 Enterprise Preview Now Available
Today, I’m excited to announce that Windows 8.1 Enterprise Preview is now available for download for customers to start testing the operating system in their environments. Windows 8.1 Enterprise...
View ArticleA reminder on real life performance impact of Windows SNP features
I think we are due for a reminder on best practices related to Windows features collectively known as “Microsoft Scalable Networking Pack (SNP)”, as it seems difficult to counter some of the “tribal...
View ArticleKB: Operations Manager 2007 R2 Data Warehouse Update Script
In System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 environments you may see the following:- The Data warehouse size grows, and upon investigation you discover that partitions are not being dropped/optimized...
View ArticleTop Picks from TechEd 2013: Hacker Tools You Should Know and Worry About
If you look at the most popular sessions from TechEd Europe and TechEd North America, security is still top of mind for IT Pros. It should not come as shock that one of the most highly rated and...
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