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5 Windows Phone apps you can talk to
You might say it was a very Bing week for Windows Phone. On Monday we announced a bunch of improvements and new features coming to Bing search. Then yesterday Bing launched its four popular Windows 8...
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Friday Mailbag: Best practices for DFS-R on Domain Controllers
Greg Jaworski here again…After a lengthy conversation with one of our readers around migrating SYSVOL to DFS-R and some confusion around the various KBs I decided it was worth blogging some best...
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Windows Intune Walkthrough: Windows Phone 8 Management
Jon Lynn, Windows Intune Service Engineer, recently put together a step-by-step guide on how to set up Windows Phone 8 management for Windows Intune. In this detailed walkthrough, you will get...
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XAML Editor Improvements in Visual Studio 2013
While many of you like creating XAML using our visual tools, many prefer creating XAML in the code editor as well. Your feedback was heard loud and clear and we have taken a crack at the top XAML...
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SWAP space in Linux VM’s on Windows Azure – Part 2
This article was written by Piyush Ranjan (MSFT) from the Azure CAT team.In a previous post, SWAP space in Linux VM’s on Windows Azure Part 1, I discussed how by default the Linux VM’s provisioned in...
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3 apps for finding great new Windows Phone apps
Figuring out what apps are worth your time or money is one of toughest challenges faced by any smartphone owner. Even with the Windows Phone Store’s handy browsing filters (new, highly rated, popular)...
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Pie in the Sky (August 9th, 2012)
Happy weekend! Two days next week and I'm on vacation, so I may only have a few links for next week. But for this week, I've got a bunch:CloudArchitecture patterns for data upload to Windows Azure: A...
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What’s New in 2012 R2: Brad Anderson on Identity Management for Hybrid IT
Before the internet explosion, directories were important for grouping and managing principles. Principles came in the form of people, printers, email boxes and a number of other physical and logical...
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Saving and Retrieving Browser (and other) Passwords
The security balance is always user convenience vs. absolute security. You want security? Disconnect your computer from the internet. Don't save your passwords. Use multi-factor authentication. But...
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Work Folders Certificate Management
In the last blog post, I’ve provided the step by step guide to deploy Work Folders in a test lab environment, where the client is using unsecure connections to the server, which means the server...
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August update on the Office 365 service upgrade
As of now, 85% of our customers have either been upgraded to the new Office 365 experience, or have heard from us that they will be upgraded this month. For everyone who hasn’t heard from us yet, we...
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Becoming an Xperf Xpert Part 6: RIP Xperf. Time to Learn Windows Performance...
Hey y’all Mark here with a post we should have written a long time ago. I obviously will blame someone else. It’s probably Tom Moser’s fault. Anyway, for those that have been fighting the good fight...
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Cloud OS Video Series 5–Monitoring the Private Cloud
The Cloud OS Video series is a collection of videos that help you understand the technology, deployment, and management of the Cloud OS leveraging Windows Server 2012 and System Center 2012 SP1.Each...
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Focusing in on the New Windows Server 2012 R2 Innovations – Download Now
There are quite a few products that make up the Microsoft Cloud OS vision. Windows Server 2012 R2 is in preview right now and ready for your evaluation. If you are looking for information on R2, we...
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Join us for Tuesday’s webinar: Prepare for a waterfall of Office tips
Keyboard shortcuts have a lot more to offer than Ctrl+X for Cut and Ctrl+V for Paste. We're going to see how many nifty shortcuts and other timesavers in Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, and Word...
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Now available: Update Rollup 6 for System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager
Update Rollup 6 for System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager is now available for download. You can find out what’s been fixed and how to download UR6 for VMM 2012 at the following location:KB2861038...
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Deploying Modern Business Applications for Windows 8 Using System Center 2012...
Hello everyone,In this blog post I will walk you through the process of deploying modern applications for Windows 8 using System Center 2012 Configuration Manager and Windows Intune, including step by...
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Upgrading your LightSwitch projects (Raghuveer Gopalakrishnan)
IntroductionIn this blog post, we will look at how to upgrade your existing LightSwitch applications to Visual Studio 2013 Preview. In recent blog posts, we introduced some of the cool features...
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AlwaysOn Availability Groups Fully Supported on Windows Azure Infrastructure...
We’re excited to announce that AlwaysOn Availability Groups are now fully supported on Windows Azure Infrastructure Services. Today we updated our official documentation indicating that we now support...
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Windows Azure: General Availability of SQL Server Always On Support and...
This morning we released some major updates to Windows Azure. These new capabilities include:SQL Server AlwaysOn Support: General Availability support with Windows Azure Virtual Machines (enables both...
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