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Now Available: The System Center 2012 Management Pack for Java Application...
The preview version of Java Application Performance Monitoring (aka Java APM) is now available download. This builds upon the previous release (available here:...
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New Windows Server 2012 R2 Innovations – Download Now
Windows Server 2012 R2 is in preview right now and ready for your evaluation. We have been rolling out detailed information on our Cloud OS vision though Brad Anderson’s What’s New in 2012 R2 blog...
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Top Picks from TechEd 2013: Combo on Windows 8 Security
When we started this series, we planned to do one episode a week and highlight a single session. However, if we did that it would take us well into the fall season and there is some risk the content...
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Making it easier to get started with Windows Phone App Studio beta,...
I’m pleased to announce a number of new tools and capabilities that further expand opportunity and enhance productivity for Windows Phone developers. New tools for first-time developersWe’ve heard from...
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Everyone can build an app – introducing Windows Phone App Studio beta
Today Todd Brix outlined several new programs to make it easier for more developers to get started with the Windows Phone platform. In this post, I’d like to tell you a bit more about one of them,...
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Insider's guide to custom reporting in (and out of!) Telemetry Dashboard
Learn how to create custom PivotTable reports using Office Telemetry data in Excel 2013—without using Telemetry Dashboard.Customers often ask us if it’s possible to set up a separate Excel workbook for...
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Announcement: Configuration Manager Documentation Library Update for July 2013
The Documentation Library for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager and the Configuration Manager 2007 Documentation Library have been updated on the web and the latest content has Updated: July 1,...
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Developing world-ready apps in XAML (part 1)
The market for apps is global. For example, the Windows Store is available in 230 international markets and more than 106 languages, but only approximately 7% of apps are localized to more than one...
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Meiji Yasuda: One of Japan’s Biggest Life Insurance Companies Moves 30,000 XP...
Meiji Yasuda, one of the largest and most well-known insurance companies in Japan, is teaming up with Microsoft Japan and Fujitsu to upgrade 30,000 insurance sales personnel from Windows XP to Windows...
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Bing apps arrive on Windows Phone 8
[This is a guest post from Bing program manager Steve Chang, cross-posted from the Bing Blogs.]Back in October we launched a collection of Bing Apps for Windows 8 including News, Finance, Weather,...
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Database Availability Groups and Windows Azure
At TechEd North America 2013, we announced that we had begun testing and validation of a new configuration for a database availability group (DAG) that would enable automatic site resilience when two...
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Choice List improvements (Amr Altahlawi)
Choice List improvementsOne of the new LightSwitch features in the Visual Studio 2013 Preview is the ability to import a list of name/value pairs to the Choice List dialog from either a file or from...
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Support Tip: The data in statusreportingctrl.ct0 may be reset if recovering...
~ Winds Wu | Support EngineerWe recently came across an issue related to restoring the site database in System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Service Pack 1 (ConfigMgr 2012 SP1) and we wanted to...
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Dell and Windows Partner To Create Inspiration #Inspirehouse
Over the past two weekends (August 2-4), Dell created and showed off the Dell Inspire House in the Hamptons. The house hosted cool, creative people from a range of industries and interests who...
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How to deploy Office 365 ProPlus from an on-premises web portal
Learn how to use the Office Deployment Tool and a self-extracting .exe file to enable users to install Office 365 ProPlus from an internal company portal. (Today's post is courtesy of Curtis Sawin,...
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New Test Lab Guide content for SharePoint 2013
Check out these new Test Lab Guide (TLG) documents and innovations for SharePoint 2013: Test Lab Guide: Configure a Highly Available SharePoint Server 2013 Search Topology This TLG sets up nine...
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How Memory-Optimized Database Technology is Integrated into SQL Server 2014
SQL Server 2014 takes an integrated approach to in-memory database technology. In-Memory OLTP, which optimizes performance of OLTP workloads, is fully integrated in the core SQL Server relational...
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Q & A with our Explorer intern Aaron Malveaux
The Explorer program allows college students to experience different disciplines at Microsoft. Aaron Malveaux joins us from Howard University in Washington, D.C., where he studies computer science and...
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Availability Group Listener in Windows Azure Now Supported! (And Scripts for...
If you haven't noticed, AlwaysOn Availability Groups in Windows Azure now supports availability group (AG) listeners. Configuring the AG listener in Windows Azure is a multi-step process that...
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HOTFIX: An Alternate Content Provider does not work in a task sequence for a...
Consider the following scenario: - You configure an application that takes advantage of the Alternate Content Provider (ACP) to distribute packages in a Microsoft System Center 2012 Configuration...
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