VS 2012.4 (Update 4) will exist!
Sometime this spring, though for the life of me I can’t find it, I wrote a blog post where I said I thought Update 3 (VS/TFS 2012.3) would be the last update in the VS/TFS 2012 update line. I often...
View ArticleNew Features in for VS 2013 RTM
Introduction:Hi, I’m Brandon Jacobs, an intern on the Visual C++ Libraries team. For part of my internship, I was tasked with adding new features to Stephan T. Lavavej’s . It was certainly an honor to...
View ArticleImportant Update on DPM 2012 SP1 Update Rollup 3–Issues and Workarounds
The recently released Update Rollup 3 for System Center 2012 Data Protection Manager Service Pack 1 (DPM 2012 SP1) has 2 issues that impact protected server agent upgrade and the ability to modify...
View ArticleBasic networking support in Windows Phone
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 using the Proximity APIs to cover peer-to-peer scenarios...
View ArticleThe Garage Series: Office 365 versus the wild - enabling collaboration across...
Episode 5 out of a 6 part special filmed in New Orleans, host Jeremy Chapman is joined by collaboration expert Mark Kashman as they take a look at the expansion of collaboration scenarios with the new...
View ArticleDAL in Action: Introducing PCSV Cmdlets for Out-of-Band Management of Server...
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 Out-Of-Band...
View ArticleDAL in action: Managing Network switches using PowerShell and CIM
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 management of...
View ArticleWindows Server 2012 R2 Storage: Step-by-step with Storage Spaces, SMB...
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 Windows Server...
View ArticleOffice 365 subscribers get Office Mobile for Android phones
Last November, we delivered a brand new version of Office Mobile, preinstalled on all Windows Phone 8 devices. In June, we released Office Mobile for iPhone as a unique benefit for Office 365...
View ArticleRoaming Profile Compatibility - The Windows 7 to Windows 8 Challenge
[Editor's note: Everything Mark mentions for Windows 8 clients here is also true for Windows 8.1 clients. Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 clients use the same (v3) profile version, so the 8.1 upgrade will...
View ArticleHow to use Power Query for Excel to Query a SharePoint 2013 List - Grid User...
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 ArticleWhat’s New in 2012 R2: IaaS Innovations
Part 5 of a 9-part series. Today’s post has two sections; the second half will post tomorrow.One of the industry metrics that I follow closely every quarter is the sale of x86 servers around the...
View ArticleDrive up networking performance for your most demanding workloads with...
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 Virtual RSS and...
View ArticleHyper-V Extensible Switch Enhancements in Windows Server 2012 R2
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 Hyper-V...
View ArticleNew Networking Diagnostics with PowerShell in Windows Server R2
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 new diagnostic...
View ArticleSoftware Defined Networking (SDN): Double-Clicking into our Point of View
A couple of weeks ago we spoke about our approach to Software Defined Networking (SDN) - an approach that is open and extensible, driven by experience and most importantly, one that lets you leverage...
View ArticleWhat's New in 2012 R2: Microsoft IaaS Investments and Innovations
The move to a service provider model is one of the most significant shifts we are seeing in data centers around the world. This is occurring as two key developments are afoot: First, many...
View ArticleHow to backup and restore a Windows system disk in a Windows Azure Virtual...
Backup and Restore is critical to operate real world systems. For Windows Server in a Windows Azure Virtual Machine environment, you can choose a number of different tools or use a combination of these...
View ArticleUpdated Links on Windows Server 2012 R2 File Server and SMB 3.0
In this post, I'm providing a reference to the most relevant content related to Windows Server 2012 R2 that is related to the File Server, the SMB 3.0 features and its associated scenarios like Hyper-V...
View ArticleThe Improved Microsoft Developer Network
Today we launched the new Microsoft Developer Network site. As I've mentioned before, my team is responsible for much of the infrastructure and experience for MSDN. I’m very proud of what we have and...
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